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2002/5/20-21 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:24893 Activity:moderate
5/20    I just finished reading 3001 and I must say that it was a huge
        disappointment for me. I disliked the explanation of the nature
        of the monoliths (basically dumb robots, not even as intelligent
        as HAL) and their vulnerability to 20th/21st century computer
        viruses (deja vu ID4?). Did any of you read the book and like it?
        If so, what aspects did you like?
        \_ clarke is a hack.  get a clue.  -tom
           \_ 2001 and 2010 were pretty good. If clarke is such a hack
              what sci-fi authors do you recommend reading?
              \_ Gene Wolfe, Stanislaw Lem, Kage Baker.  --pld
              \_ Dan Simmons, "Hyperion"
                 Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon The Deep"
                 Connie Willis.
                 Iain M. Banks.
                 To some extent, Greg Bear and Kim Stanley Robinson.
                 Most decent sci-fi writers also write stuff other than
                 sci-fi.  -tom
              \_ if you don't want to read hacks, don't read sci-fi. -!tom
              \_ Clarke wasn't a hack in his earlier days (_2001_, _Childhood's
                 End_, etc.), but he's since taken to the senile dementia/"I
                 need the money" path trailblazed by other classic SF authors
                 (Azimov, Heinlein, et. al.) of cranking out low-to-no-quality
                 books, knowing that a certain group of people will buy them
                 just because they have his holy name on the cover.  As for
                 authors I'd recommend in the SF/F arena: Iain M. Banks, John
                 Brunner, Lois McMaster Bujold, Philip K. Dick, Barry Hughart,
                 Cyril Kornbluth, Johnathan Lethem, Tim Powers, Kim Stanley
                 Robinson, Clifford Simak, Neal Stephenson, Connie Willis,
                 and Vernor Vinge, for starters (these aren't entirely blanket
                 author recommendations, though; there are definitely some
                 works by the above-listed that you'd be better off
                 avoiding).  -- kahogan
                 \_ Heinlein doesn't need the money anymore....
                    \_ Libertarians keep score from beyond the grave.
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