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Just finished Theft of Fire, a hard scifi novel about a down on his luck asteroid miner being roped into a heist far above his paygrade. Good stuff, I was frankly surprised by the sheer overlap between both the setting of the story and the author's style and my own. Funnily enough, counting from the date of publication, my work precedes his.
I could critique things like writing a scifi story set a hundred years in the future where the state of the art in AI ignores how good ChatGPT was at the time of publication, but eh.
After barely recovering from the shock of finding out that China Mieville is a man, I've made it about a hundred pages into Perdido Street Station. I'd been meaning to getting around to reading his work eventually, as I've seen strongly positive sentiment. That being said, I'm not super impressed so far, he's one of those literary types who really leans into florid and slightly overwrought prose.
Maybe it's aimed for the rocketpunk audience?
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Are we going to start doing retrofuturism about how cute the predictions were in 2019 now?
Now I want to reread some of Robert J Sawyer's books. He wrote a few "day-after-tomorrow" science fiction stories in the early 21st century, and it would be interesting to see how well they've aged.
Theft of Fire came out at the end of 2023! I can cut anyone from the old, old days of 2019 slack haha.
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