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Thank you. Want to get my wife into the Gaunts Ghosts series lol 🎉🎉🎉

Shame about the Neuromancer sequel! I’ve yet to try Rivers of London but I’d highly recommend the Alex Verus series for urban fantasy set in London. It’s all about the mages who live fully separate from the regular humans so it doesn’t involve the human police forces at all.

Ted Chiang is a great short story sci-fi writer! I also enjoy the mix of religion and sci-fi

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Thank you so much for reading my debut! It means a ton that you took a chance on a brand new author. I'm thrilled you had a good time and I'm super looking forward to getting you book 2! Also, a whole month focused on Cyberpunk? Hell yeah! I still need to check out the Neuromancer sequels 😂😂

I just finished GEoDune today and I very much agree with your points. I thought to myself "am I too dumb for this?" because some of the conversations between Moneo and Leto were just not landing. I do really like Leto as a character, but everyone else just seemed boring. I also felt Duncan was annoying. All in all I might have just mistakenly expected too much of this book, I went in with high hopes and feel a bit let down.

Now I really can't wait to get to these books! Thanks for the great commentary 😊

Glad to have found your channel… had to skip ahead on ‘let the right one in’ because it’s in my tbr and I already know too much. Heart Shaped Box was fun!

Thank you for not playing dumb music or lofi beats while you’re talking. ♥️ it’s so distracting 🏆

From the top-10 list, I am familiar with 5. I read for enjoyment as well as learning about new worlds and ideas, so my top 2 from the list are Project Hail Mary and Altered Carbon. I couldn’t get through Dark Forest and Rendezvous with Rama. I skipped around to finish them, but they were dry. I couldn’t believe some of the science, and yet their technology seemed oddly limiting as well. Blindsight was pretty good and enjoyable. I read so many scifi books it’s hard to recommend just a few, but SnowCrash and Diamond Age were very enjoyable and memorable. Fall or Dodge in Hell, Seveneves, Old Man’s War, Forever War, The Word for World is Forest, and Diaspora are some other memorable books. A Good list, and I hope you do a longer list with more books next. 😊

Just finished this book, but there are so many questions, I wonder if anyone could help me to clarify these... 1. Wig claims that there was God in matrix around 13 yrs ago, back then there was no super AI(Wintermute/Neuromancer), who was the God? 2. Wig went to space around 11 yrs ago, Freeside still operating at the time, where did he go? 3. Wig retired in Cannes around 22 yrs old, Marly meet him after 15 yrs later, how come he is so old? 4. Who gave the ICE to Wig at first place? He upload the data into the core and then he sold the ICE to Finn, then Finn sold it to Beauvoir... 5. Case and Molly help freeing Wintermute around 8 yrs ago, how come those VooDoo Gods(seperate AI) could help Mitchell to get into Maas before that time? 6. When did Mitchell get the Biochip inside Angie's brain? After he went to Arizona or after he joined Maas in Swiss? 7. Why Maas gave the address of Boxmaker to Alain and asked him to trade with Marly? 8. Who hired the Lobe to rob Bobby, was that Maas? 9. How did Virek know the connection between Boxmaker and the AI at first place?

Im not a huge reader, so this particular series is my first "big" reading project ive undertaken and ive just discovered your channel today and im very glad youre enjoying the book so far! I started blue mars only a couple of days ago and its been great to hear someone else's (more insightful) thoughts about the book and its ideas. Without spoilers, still even in blue mars it doesnt shy away from discussing different sides of the political and ethical sides of the terraforming projects so there will be plenty more opportunities to delve into what you think will/should happen. This little series has also been great for me personally since i find myself struggling with remembering details that turn out to be important later on in the series, and its also great to recap on the earlier points in the story that ive forgotten. I sincerely hope you end up finishing the series! I'll be tuning in every fortnight for sure :)

‘Midshipman’s Hope” by David Feintuch is astounding. Interstellar travel intermingled with tragedies, gripping tension, plot twists, and an ending that causes you to hope for sequels.

So happy to see you're having a good time with FIO so far! I think a full cyberpunk month of reading sounds like a TON of fun. I would recommend Thrill Swith by Tim Hawken and 36 Streets by TR Napper. Both cyberpunk goodness 🦾

Looking forward to cyberpunk month! Snow Crash was my introduction to the genre and is still a personal favorite.

I tried out “Rivers of London “ a year ago but I couldn’t get into it for some reason. Thought I’d really like it. Maybe you’ll convince me to give it another go!

This was a great list I need to get back into reading Warhammer 40k. The first book I read was Death World by Steve Lyons and that book was weird as hell considering what was going on with the planet but also the Catachan Jungle Fighters are an interesting group for sure. Good one off book I think because it's just about this one squad of Jungle Fighters trying to complete their mission and deal with a strange planet.

Thank you Benjamin. This is such wonderful advice. Exactly what ive been looking for. Gotta get ready for Space Marine 2! Thanks for making this video

I haven't touched a warhammer model in real life, I'm just a lore guy

I was on the fence about this one, will skip it, maybe some other time...

Cool video and list mate. Gaunts Ghosts is absolute gold from book 3 onwards i felt. Great action, varied war zones, amazing characters and the further you go it packs an incredible emotional punch that you just wouldnt expect from "pulpy space war " novels 😂

Altered Carbon is a great television series.

Start with guard novels, space marine novels are trash.

Thanks for the video! At a used book store I found forges of mars, the 2 space wolf omnibus' and the first space marine omnibus. How'd i do? Atleast one was on the list😅

Best comprehensive description ever. 🤣

Might want to change it to "Where to start".

🎉🎉 100 views, thanks so much! Makes me so happy hitting 3 figures😅

100 views🎉🎉 thank you everyone for watching, this was a fun one to make, looking forward to picking up Ghost station later on this year (hopefully the paperback releases soon)

The shelves look fantastic! My vote is that you need to pick up the Expanse. I haven’t read it yet but I’ve heard really only positive things. It’s fun to hear you enjoyed Kings of the Wyld so much! I’ll have to bump it up my TBR

Your shelves look awesome! Especially that one shelf with you know what 😂 This video has convinced me that I need to read some Ted Chiang

Awesome review Benjamin! I’m surprised your copy didn’t have a map, mine did and I definitely referenced to it frequently. Hahaha you NEED to read WoT 😂

Neuromancer is the worst book i have ever read.

What ! no mention of Hyperion by Dan simmons I guess you haven’t read it if not read it Gray vid by the way

I originally read Neuromancer in the 2000's and was disappointed at the time. This year I reread the book and liked it much more, from a 5/10 it went to a 8/10 for me. I prefer Snow Crash, which I read before rereading Neuromancer during the same month. I had read other books and short stories by Gibson and none of them really blew my mind. But I finally decided to buy Count Zero and I hope I like it more than Neuromancer. I often hear that the second book is the best of the Sprawl trilogy.

Count Zero wasn't my favorite either right after reading it, because it's not like Neuromancer. Give Mona Lisa Overdrive a shot. I thought it tied the trilogy together quite nicely.

Count Zero is usually considered a better written book than Neuromancer.

I think the nonstop action and excitement actually hindered my enjoyment for this book (and the series as a whole). It's cool and all, but when we're constantly in battles it becomes dull and I lose interest. Mentioned it before and in a comment below, but the whole first person POV with the reveals/twists just really didn't work for me. Aside from that, though, I enjoyed the trilogy. High-adrenaline space opera with some neat world-building and fun characters. Think I'd give it an overall rating of 7/10. Definitely glad I read it, but not one of my absolute favorites.

Overall I enjoyed it, but not as much as I had hoped 7.5/10. Here are some of my opinions... - positives: Ragnar, Sevro, Victra, absolutely epic space battles, just an overall intensity that I don't think I've ever read before -negatives: the reveals (training with Lorn being one of them). I just find it really awkward when Brown tries to have an impactful reveal, which is so hard to do when the story is told first person. We get Darrows perspective and hear his thoughts ALMOST all the time, until it's convenient for us not too. Also, wish the pacing slowed a bit every once in a while for us to catch our breath and maybe get some little character moments. I also agree that it was pretty dumb for him to trust the Jackal when he had no reason to, and also Roque turning was foreshadowed way too heavily.

Great review! Dead silence really fell flat for me personally. I was pretty bored throughout. I felt like it started really well and then just fizzled out. I was sooooo hopeful for it too. Maybe that’s why it fell short was because my expectations were too high! I absolutely love sci-fi horror especially deep space. There is a novelization of event horizon that is supposed to be great. Recommendations I have are the reality bleed series books 1-4. They are kinda b-movie sci-fi horror but super fun. Also the awakening series by James Murray another b movie type. Amalgam by Mike duke which is a body horror alien first encounter. I’d also say the deep by Nick cutter for a deep sea claustrophobic type feel and the cavern by alister hodge. Sorry that’s a lot! I’m reading the novelization of the thing right now too and it’s awesome so far!

Read that series back in the 80's. My favorite books are his early Book of Swords series.

I always use immersion reading I find it particularly useful as someone with ADHD, where I get distracted constantly, in school I fell out of reading because I struggled to stayed focused, but having to read and listen keeps me engaged, I have found a new love for reading by utilising immersion reading. It is funny that you enjoyed Darrow as an Irish guy , this is one thing I disliked, because Darrow is so young but the voice is so much older 😂

i love seeing these videos! welcome to bingo and i hope you enjoy! i really love seeing people who really love certain squares. i just watched a bingo video where they were very worried about Space Opera, and here you are super hyped!

I really liked Dead Silence and look forward to reading Ghost Station. SA Barnes does things that I like even if they're not quite five stars for me. I was going to recommend The Luminous Dead but I'm pretty sure you've already read it. So weird. So good.

I've read The Grip Of It. It was fine. The ending has stuck with me though so it's got that.

Having read both Lies and Mistborn, I think you describe the difference in plot structure adequately. I probably enjoyed this book more than you because I didn’t mind the flashbacks at all. Once the first couple happened I accepted it as something that was going to continue happening. The two books that come after are not as good. Also, the flashbacks continue. If you want to read a fast paced book with dragons, I would suggest The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter.