After his first ever reading of the classic Joe Haldeman novel The Forever War, Luke manages to talk a surprisingly long time about such a short book.
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The Prefect is the second book and the first novel by Alastair Reynolds reviewed so far. While thinking he couldn’t talk so long about a story that has so many spoilers to avoid, Luke got a bit too enthusiastic and went on for almost 30 minutes!
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Moving Mars is a book by Greg Bear. It won a Nebula Award and all that… but did it move Luke?
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Luke read this book years before going to Antarctica… how well did Kim Stanley Robinson capture the feeling of the coldest, driest, highest and least populated continent? And is the novel any good?
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The first in the theme “Sci-fi novels about places Luke has lived” is Time Station Berlin, set in Luke’s home town. Luke explains why this book is such a big inspiration.
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Luke reviews this novel from 1984 and thinks about bobbling himself up, only to come back in future times when he can read all of Vernor Vinge’s books and not have to wait so long for the new ones.
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SFBRP #014 - Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson - Variable Star [23:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThis is first listener submitted book for Luke to review. Variable Star is a novel 51 years in the making. Question: if Heinlein was on a spaceship heading out at 97% of the speed of light for 17 years, and Spider Robinson stayed on Earth to pursue his own writing career, would it have been completed any faster? Also, due to time dilation, Luke managed to talk for 20 minutes about the book.
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Singularity Sky is book in a new genre that Luke would like to call “Technobabble Opera”. Charles Stross has loads of great ideas, but do good ideas make a good book?
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Luke is sorry for not updating this blog feed for a week… this episode is a review of Learning The World, a book with a blog where someone apologizes for not keeping up to date with their blog. After a week of tonsillitis, Luke gets back to the shorter length of podcast.
After reading Frank Herbert’s Dune, Luke had so much to say that this episode is less of a review, and more of a discussion on what makes it such a great novel. With so much to talk about, Luke stopped recording after almost 30 minutes.