NP: Stephen Baxter

[Daniel Harper]

Altered Carbon is really good, in that really dark action-packed kind of
fast-moving action way. I couldn't get into Accelerando, put it down after
about 130 pages. I'm not a big fan of that whole Singularity thingie.

Of course, Accelerando is also available online.
http://www.accelerando.org/book/

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 3/8/08, Daniel Harper <daniel.e.harper at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Greg Egan is another writer who does Big Ideas well, although he focuses
> > more on nanotechnology, biochemistry, quantum mechanics rather than
> far-out
> > far-future cosmology. I really love _Quarantine_ and _Diaspora_.
>
> Started Diaspora, was interrupted, Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon as
> well, but am thinking maybe I'll also pick up that Accelerando by
> Charles Stross ...
>



-- 
...the insanely, endlessly diddling play of a chemist whose molecules are
words...
--Daniel Harper
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