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It reminded me a lot of the collection of scientists on The Space Beagle - except I actually found that group of scientists more entertaining and compelling, with their in-fighting leading to coups and open rebellion, as I recall. In Dark Orbit it w…
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Never heard of it or the author, but looks good.
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No, I normally only pin two at a time - the current month and the next. The schedule, such as we have it, is in the first post of this thread to April. After that it's up in the air. I made a G+ post that kind of summarizes the current discussion an…
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Also my first. I was expecting a younger author for some reason - even before I read the book. The bio at the back says she works for the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. Which might explain how she conceived of the Wenders …
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Yes. At one point Ashok say: "We're all corroborationists. We've all come here to confirm our preconceptions. Some of us want to confirm that analytical thinking is best. Others want to confirm theories about how life evolves. But you know what…
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I'm not getting at anything specific, just wondering if there's a connection between the two. If you can change something when you observe it, does that make the act of discovery itself both a strength and a weakness of humanity, for example? I agr…
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I kept thinking that Sara and Thora were largely the same - like two aspects of the same person. Thora revealed the themes of the book to us, Sara the plot. Was Thora Sara's subconscious? What role did Moth play, here? At one point in the book I was…
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I don't recall the Escher name being applied after people arrived, but may have missed that. It would make sense. Since gravity was unreliable in both places, and each place only made sense to the people from that place, and Escherites lived in a bo…
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True, but the name is Dark Orbit, and Dark Matter is kind of the crux of the planet. I was expecting a bit more thought put into that, I suppose. Or maybe the thought was there and I just missed it. Dark Matter has mass, right? Or at least, we assum…
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Good question! I didn't particularly notice the traveller/settler split, though I did notice that both locations had many similarities, and perhaps this was intentional to contrast them? On the matter of identity and teleportation, I didn't think t…
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Nice review - thanks @RichardAbbott !
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Looks great. Glancing through these early sections I'm struck by how many people we seemed to have lost along the way.
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Maybe start with chapter 2 then. ;-)
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When we first started this club we literally rolled initiative and each person nominated a book on their turn. That morphed into voting on a theme for a while, which was more like a bidding system. Then people seemed to prefer just being told what t…
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I'll start the discussion on Sunday or Monday. I just lost 5 hours of reading time after shoveling up two large snow storms in a row.
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(Quote) For my money it is.
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I quite liked Stranger, myself.
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Those are all good suggestions. I'll do any, but my order of preference would be: F : Moby Dick (Herman Melville) D : The first two Gormenghast books (Mervyn Peake) E : The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien) B : The Foundation series (Isaac Asimov) C : T…
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@dr_mitch Big yes to any of those from me. I haven't read any. But if we decide to do Asimov's foundation trilogy for the slow read, let's not double up on Asimov. Who (if anyone) is going to champion a slow read this year?
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I thought @Michael_S_Miller was set for February with Tombs and @rossum for March - meaning the discussion of Mission of Gravity would be at the end of march, so party on. Are you guys talking about other months for other books? Or for the Slow Read…
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The layout is very nice. I'd personally be inclined to drop all the +1s and moderator/owner tags. Actually, I also be in favour of just putting people's first names - Chris, Clash, Ray, Michael, Richard, etc. Do we have any instances where two first…
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(Quote) Filing under: I wish I'd thought of that.
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(Quote) Interesting - some respondents have suggested they didn't feel there was clear morality. I might have said the same.
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(Quote) Oh, no. I wasn't intending to propose these as reads so much as provoke a little discussion and/or share some upcoming novels. But maybe someone will be inspired to make nomination - who knows.
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I'm still early in the book, but see some interesting themes developing.
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@RichardAbbott Nice! And there's a blog post in your back pocket, too.
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@Akrasia Interpretation is probably a function of all kinds of things we read and absorb before hand. I seem to remember a debate we had around here about how important the reader is in determining the meaning of a text. @RichardAbbott was involved …
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Thanks, @Michael_S_Miller - looking forward to it!
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Fascinating. And yes, this is one of the higher-voted books on the to-read list. It seems to be available in kindle/kobo format, or in print as a used book. So we could do it as a club read. Do you want to lead a book this year?