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Not photography related but leisure reading. I am a long time Sci-Fi reader, it all started many years ago in the early 70s, secondary school they had a weekly lesson entitled 'Humanities' hmm, basically a wanabe social worker wanting us to get in touch with ourselves, so I sat at the back of the class and got in touch with the rack of books, one was by E.E. Doc Smith and part of his Lensman series. Not looked back although have matured in my reading choices - So, currently re-reading Iain M. Banks novels, you may know Iain Banks - 'The Wasp Factory' The Crow Road# a great tv adaptation his opening line - 'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach. ' - however he wrote serious Sci-Fi as Iain M Banks, his great creation was the 'Culture' just finished re-reading Surface Detail, in his Culture books its waaaaay into the future and a societe called the Culture includes 'spaceships' with Minds. not AI but whole unique personalities and part of the Culture is 'Special Circumstances' an order of operatives that 'fix' things that they morally think need fixing. If you like Sci-Fi and very much enjoy sarcasm, humour, distopia and 'justice' with a large dollop of simple bloody mindedness in the mix they are worth a read, but they do ask a lot of focus, they are not 'light' in any sense ! Anyone else reading them?
 
This is a good idea for a thread. I prefer to read non-fiction and learn something . Not knocking fiction atall.Infact, there are many stories built around real events. Alistaire MacLean did that.

Going on holiday soon so need some reading to take. Looking at "The Real Heroes of Telemark". A raid in Norway, by Norwegian commandoes on the Vemork heavy water plant in the mountains and a ferry carrying heavy water vessels to stop Hitler getting a Atomic bomb. There's another similar book called "Heroes of Telemark" based on the film which isn't wholly accurate as you'd expect for a film, even about a real event. I'm also keen on books about the SOE in occupied Europe.
 
If you like sci fi have you read any of the Andy Weir books? The Martian and The Hail Mary Project are both excellent…. both have been made into films as well.
 
I read sci-fi on my Kindle (M.R. Forbes; Skyler Ramirez, Nathan Hystad and Andy Weir amongst others).

In paper I just finished Martin Parr/Wendy Jones' ''Utterly lazy and inattentive' and 'Leonard and Hungry Paul' by Ronan Hession.
 
boogie man said:
If you like sci fi have you read any of the Andy Weir books? The Martian and The Hail Mary Project are both excellent…. both have been made into films as well.
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hmm, not a name I am familair with, research beckons :)
 
I have just started reading Sharpe's Storm by Bernard Cornwell. I have read all Bernard Cornwell's books to date and he does a lot of research to obtain historical accuracy but does confess where he may have strayed in order to make to the story entertain. I mainly read historical novels but I did read a lot of Science Fiction when I was a teenager (over 60 years ago). At that time I had a lot of ideas for Science Fiction and thought I would write books some time. The problem is, if I wrote down those ideas where? No chance of finding them now.

Dave
 
Reading some sci-fi junk, listening to (Librivox) a series of books by H Ryder Haggard.
Waiting for me is the complete works of Georg Ebers, just shy of 8000 pages of egyptology based fiction.
 
i am proper into sci fi and audio books
working through an enoumous internet download from a few years ago
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Mr Bump said:
i am proper into sci fi and audio books
working through an enoumous internet download from a few years ago
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nice, a few of my all time favourites in there - Phlip K Dick, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', the title helps to give the book its reason, when they made the film and invented the stupid 'bladerunner' title it took away a lot of what he was saying.
 
Rincewind said:
nice, a few of my all time favourites in there - Phlip K Dick, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', the title helps to give the book its reason, when they made the film and invented the stupid 'bladerunner' title it took away a lot of what he was saying.
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got a huge amount stored away
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Rincewind said:
...the title helps to give the book its reason, when they made the film and invented the stupid 'bladerunner' title it took away a lot of what he was saying.
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I've never liked any of Dick's writing and over the years I've tried a lot of it.

On the other hand Rutger Hauer's soliloquy towards the end of Bladerunner is one of my favourite movie scenes, rivalling some of the "golden age" stuff such as Vivien Leigh's "I'll Never Be Hungry Again!" or Humphrey Bogart's "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.".
 
my fave stuff recently has been some very old Isacc Asimov (spelling) the recordings i have are transfered from tapes so i needed to up my player just to do some tweaking, caves of steel was very good.
 
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Havene't read them all but "Excession" is one of my all-time favourie scifi novels and if I ever become a spaceship I will be called Serious Callers Only.


Currenly reading "I who have never known men" by Jacqueline Harpman, before that the first two "On the calculation of volume" novels from Solvej Balle (need to buy the third).
 
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