Science fiction

Anyone read "The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi? Read some froth about it being the SF debut of the year. Amazon reviews look intriguing but make it sound kind of daunting.

That sounds right up my street.

whenever I hear the word quantum, i reach for my revolver

...and end unwittingly causing a typhoon in South East Asia.

weird, i was looking at the reviews of Quantam Thief earlier as well! anyone?

I've bought a copy, and it seems genuinely interesting but I've only read one chapter so far.

I've been reading some Adam Roberts, he's pretty good. Not at all hard. Some real oddball concepts and fairly literary.

Also often very funny. He moonlights writing Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter spoofs, presumably for ££.

reading the new culture, am pretty into it

The Quantum Thief is pretty cool. It doesn't take any prisoners though. Rajaniemi is a String Theorist by trade; the weird, cutting-edge science stuff is laid on pretty thick and with no quarter given to those who might have no idea as to what on earth he might be talking about...

just finished the quantum thief - it was great. a lot left unexplained but it had enough of a 'human' (or post-human even) story underpinning the crazy stuff to keep me reading. the stuff abt the exomemory + 'gevulot' was particularly cool

i'm currently reading 'stories of your life and others' by ted chiang....wow

so are there any good SF novels of the endgame of climate change? I could google, but that's no fun.

the bacigalupi(?) thing, The Wind-up Girl touches on this. it's not about that, but is set in a post climate change, post GM crop disaster world. (i didn't like it tbh)

(wow, i spelt bacigalupi right!)

John Brunner "The Sheep Look Up"

I can think of a bunch of books that touch on it or use it as background (Robinson's Mars Trilogy, for example), but that's the only one springing to mind that uses it as the central focus

baccy-go-loopy is more about the exhaustion of resources than climate change maybe? but i did read ship-breaker first. i got the feeling that that was one of the coming areas in the genre, that and the neurological basis of consciousness

I can think of a bunch of books that touch on it or use it as background (Robinson's Mars Trilogy, for example

hm forgot Bruce Sterling's "Heavy Weather" uses some serious climate change/weather disruptions as its backdrop. it's not very good though.

haven't read KSR's latest but I wouldn't be surprised

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Late_the_Sweet_Birds_Sang

Early Ballard disaster novels? The Drowned World, The Burning World...I haven't read The Crystal World so I can't speak to that one.

http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/greenhouse/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausicaä_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_(manga)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air

Kim Stanley Robinson's 2013 is very very good (and has a load of stuff about climate change if Morbs is still checking this thread).

Haha, it's actually called 2312. 2013 is the year we are in.

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