I admire your discipline. I basically have a book buying illness, it's uncontrollable. I need one of the kids to move out so I can requisition more shelf space.
I suffer from the same illness, I just cant afford non essentials at the moment. In fact I'm still visiting thrift stores a couple times a week like always, eventually something will pop up that i cannot ignore 😆. I'm desperate for more shelf space as well, a year or two from now I'll have moved and i look forward to expanding!
Glad you enjoyed 'Tau Zero', have mentioned it on my channel a few times- one of the few Hard SF books I like, was my first Anderson SF novel and I've never read another by him that's better, though you may want to try 'Brain Wave': but his best book IMHO is 'The Broken Sword', his S&S singleton from the early 50s, brilliant. He was much better at Fantasy, but wrote comparatively little of it- he should have gone that way, as he's seminal on the Nordic stuff, being a Dane. Tell me, in the Sawyer books, do they speculate on the now proven interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens? Many people have a few percent Neanderthal DNA, except those with entirely sub-Saharan African ancestry. It's fascinating stuff. Nice to see you're still on the C L Moore too, by the way...
The Broken Sword and Brainwave are both the two I next most want to read, though with my haphazard way of choosing reads who knows if thats what ill read by him next. I have both though. The Sawyer books speculate on early interbreeding, and in fact the third one focuses on the two main characters planning a baby together, though with much genetic tampering to ensure it works.
@@sciencefictionreads You'll love him, Matt-especially since CLM co-wrote with him a lot. The classic Planetary Romance feel of CLM and LB is always a great pleasure for me- they took it further than Burroughs, who I like in small doses. When Jack Vance first started publishing, some people thought is was another Kuttner/Moore pseudonym, so you will probably like him too, not sure if you've read any?
I found tau zero one of the most interesting time dilation stories I’d ever read . Another good one is spin by Robert Charles Wilson . Worth a read for sure .Enjoying the channel 👍🏻
Great to hear your in a reading, what’s the opposite of slump, ummmm, zone. Like when a basketball player is in the zone or in the flow. Had to skip some of your Tau Zero review since I’m 60 pages in. Interesting scenario to put 25 men and 25 women into a potential colonization spaceship and expect them to pair up. Bit of soap opera to go with the hard SF space opera.
Yeah that idea was kind of silly after reading multiple Colony ship stories where there's a lot more thought put into relationships/gender dynamics. Or maybe its more believable, you need the best of the best on that ship, who reproduces with who is perhaps less important lol. I don't think you missed much by skimming my 'review' of it as a rarely get spoilerly. I'm just so pleased I finally read something by him that i loved.
Thanks for the mention! Glad you enjoyed Tau Zero. Btw, incase you didn’t check, Tau Zero lost the Hugo to Larry Nieven’s Ringworld. Nice line up of reads!
And thank you to you for helping me decide on my next read lol! Well that makes sense, I'd pick Ringworld over Tau Zero for the Hugo, even though i had issues with Ringworld and rated it lower than i did Tau Zero.
Just a little Video idea, Matt. Since you are a mood reader and as you say just look at your shelves at pick what you read next. Maybe the next time you do that, you could film it and go through your thought process and show us what you end up picking. I mean, we know how people choose a book to read off their shelves, but you have a mass sci-fi collection with mainstream and lesser know novels. If you did film it and pick up a book here and there and read the back to see if it interests you, it could be a fun little video. Just an idea because I do the exact same thing with my westerns. Only I also choose based on the condition of the book I have too haha
I love this idea! I may just do that! I wish I had yesterday when I decided on Star by C. I. Defontenay, an 1854 SF space opera (sort of). Very curious book.
I still want to make one, it just requires time. My memory is so poor I cant just talk about my favorites. I have to look them up, get reacquainted and write summaries to refer to while filming the video 😅. At least Jon at SciFiScavenger is doing top notch videos of that sort.@@Six-Shooter
@@sciencefictionreads yeah, I've praised him for those. Just nice to see science Fiction booktubers not slating the genre or ignoring it. Seems to be a big focus on True SF and Hard SF. That's what made me stop reading Science fiction in the first place, so it's nice to have some of the bigger channels talk about Space Opera for once
I feel the same way about Hominids, will probably still finish the trilogy at some point. I love Tau Zero, the hard SF plus being inside the astronauts heads, all in such a short book, so good. Great to see you burn through some books.
One of my favorite scenarios in SF is people in weird physics situations and watching them ruminate on or debate the situation. So this was a good book for that. I'm quite pleased to have read a decent amount in a short period. Hopefully I can keep it up!
I admire your discipline. I basically have a book buying illness, it's uncontrollable. I need one of the kids to move out so I can requisition more shelf space.
I suffer from the same illness, I just cant afford non essentials at the moment. In fact I'm still visiting thrift stores a couple times a week like always, eventually something will pop up that i cannot ignore 😆. I'm desperate for more shelf space as well, a year or two from now I'll have moved and i look forward to expanding!
Book buying is therapeutic. It's good for the soul!
Glad you enjoyed 'Tau Zero', have mentioned it on my channel a few times- one of the few Hard SF books I like, was my first Anderson SF novel and I've never read another by him that's better, though you may want to try 'Brain Wave': but his best book IMHO is 'The Broken Sword', his S&S singleton from the early 50s, brilliant. He was much better at Fantasy, but wrote comparatively little of it- he should have gone that way, as he's seminal on the Nordic stuff, being a Dane. Tell me, in the Sawyer books, do they speculate on the now proven interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens? Many people have a few percent Neanderthal DNA, except those with entirely sub-Saharan African ancestry. It's fascinating stuff. Nice to see you're still on the C L Moore too, by the way...
The Broken Sword and Brainwave are both the two I next most want to read, though with my haphazard way of choosing reads who knows if thats what ill read by him next. I have both though. The Sawyer books speculate on early interbreeding, and in fact the third one focuses on the two main characters planning a baby together, though with much genetic tampering to ensure it works.
I look forward to reading lots of Brackett and Moore over the years! And I'll check out Kuttner soon!
@@sciencefictionreads You'll love him, Matt-especially since CLM co-wrote with him a lot. The classic Planetary Romance feel of CLM and LB is always a great pleasure for me- they took it further than Burroughs, who I like in small doses. When Jack Vance first started publishing, some people thought is was another Kuttner/Moore pseudonym, so you will probably like him too, not sure if you've read any?
@@sciencefictionreads Interesting. I'm like you, a mood reader, utterly chaotic! LOL
I found tau zero one of the most interesting time dilation stories I’d ever read . Another good one is spin by Robert Charles Wilson . Worth a read for sure .Enjoying the channel 👍🏻
I read Spin earlier this year and loved it. In fact I read 7 or so of Wilson's books earlier this year. And thanks for watching!
Great to hear your in a reading, what’s the opposite of slump, ummmm, zone. Like when a basketball player is in the zone or in the flow. Had to skip some of your Tau Zero review since I’m 60 pages in. Interesting scenario to put 25 men and 25 women into a potential colonization spaceship and expect them to pair up. Bit of soap opera to go with the hard SF space opera.
Yeah that idea was kind of silly after reading multiple Colony ship stories where there's a lot more thought put into relationships/gender dynamics. Or maybe its more believable, you need the best of the best on that ship, who reproduces with who is perhaps less important lol. I don't think you missed much by skimming my 'review' of it as a rarely get spoilerly. I'm just so pleased I finally read something by him that i loved.
Thanks for the mention! Glad you enjoyed Tau Zero.
Btw, incase you didn’t check, Tau Zero lost the Hugo to Larry Nieven’s Ringworld.
Nice line up of reads!
And thank you to you for helping me decide on my next read lol! Well that makes sense, I'd pick Ringworld over Tau Zero for the Hugo, even though i had issues with Ringworld and rated it lower than i did Tau Zero.
@@sciencefictionreads Awesome! What’s your next read?
@@bartsbookspace Star by C. I. Defontenay, written in 1854!
Just a little Video idea, Matt. Since you are a mood reader and as you say just look at your shelves at pick what you read next. Maybe the next time you do that, you could film it and go through your thought process and show us what you end up picking. I mean, we know how people choose a book to read off their shelves, but you have a mass sci-fi collection with mainstream and lesser know novels. If you did film it and pick up a book here and there and read the back to see if it interests you, it could be a fun little video. Just an idea because I do the exact same thing with my westerns. Only I also choose based on the condition of the book I have too haha
I love this idea! I may just do that! I wish I had yesterday when I decided on Star by C. I. Defontenay, an 1854 SF space opera (sort of). Very curious book.
@@sciencefictionreads Still waiting on your Space Opera Vid, Matt, to get me back into reading scifi again 😉
I still want to make one, it just requires time. My memory is so poor I cant just talk about my favorites. I have to look them up, get reacquainted and write summaries to refer to while filming the video 😅. At least Jon at SciFiScavenger is doing top notch videos of that sort.@@Six-Shooter
@@sciencefictionreads yeah, I've praised him for those. Just nice to see science Fiction booktubers not slating the genre or ignoring it. Seems to be a big focus on True SF and Hard SF. That's what made me stop reading Science fiction in the first place, so it's nice to have some of the bigger channels talk about Space Opera for once
Tau Zero lost to Ringworld by Larry Niven.
That makes sense.
I feel the same way about Hominids, will probably still finish the trilogy at some point. I love Tau Zero, the hard SF plus being inside the astronauts heads, all in such a short book, so good. Great to see you burn through some books.
One of my favorite scenarios in SF is people in weird physics situations and watching them ruminate on or debate the situation. So this was a good book for that. I'm quite pleased to have read a decent amount in a short period. Hopefully I can keep it up!
@@sciencefictionreads Have you read some Hal Clement yet?
Yes! Mission of Gravity and some short stories.@@Seven-Planets-Sci-Fi-Tuber
Hominids will be coming up on the SF shed ladder next year, It's a decent book. Just recently finished the terminal experiment which was also ok
Looking forward to it! And Terminal Experiment sounds interesting, i don't think I'd looked that one up before.