Comments on: Greg Bear’s Quantico http://mark.madsenlab.org/2007/05/greg_bears_quan.html#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Scientia non habet inimicum nisi ignorantem Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:01:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Carl Lipo http://mark.madsenlab.org/2007/05/greg_bears_quan.html/comment-page-1#comment-1691 Carl Lipo Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://mark.madsenlab.org/?p=566#comment-1691 I dont know if you liked "Consider Phaebas" or not but Ian M. Banks new book "The Algebraist" is absolutely excellent - rich, detailed, complex.. a great summer read (and hefty enough to take more than a single sitting). Im reading it now and am having a hoot of a time. I just ordered Quantico - had seen it but was afraid of the "I am going to cash in on the terrorism" thing. http://www.amazon.com/Algebraist-Iain-M-Banks/ I dont know if you liked “Consider Phaebas” or not but Ian M. Banks new book “The Algebraist” is absolutely excellent – rich, detailed, complex.. a great summer read (and hefty enough to take more than a single sitting). Im reading it now and am having a hoot of a time. I just ordered Quantico – had seen it but was afraid of the “I am going to cash in on the terrorism” thing.

http://www.amazon.com/Algebraist-Iain-M-Banks/

]]> By: Mark http://mark.madsenlab.org/2007/05/greg_bears_quan.html/comment-page-1#comment-1692 Mark Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://mark.madsenlab.org/?p=566#comment-1692 I did like "Consider Phlebas" and keep meaning to figure out which book is next in the Culture series. I dunno what it is with me and Banks -- I loved the book once I got started but it was a bit slow getting started. I also just finished the second and third Polity books by Neal Asher, and I need to write a short post about that, because I completely revise my earlier opinion about Gridlinked -- I think by the second book Asher hit his stride and the series is superb. Ken MacLeod also has a new terrorism-related novel out, available in the UK at this point, called Execution Channel. I'm planning to read it after the Richard Morgan, which is excellent thus far, I'm about a quarter of the way in. Interestingly, the pacing is the exact opposite of "Quantico" -- the story unfolds slowly with lots of twists and plenty of progressive revealment of character backstory. I did like “Consider Phlebas” and keep meaning to figure out which book is next in the Culture series. I dunno what it is with me and Banks — I loved the book once I got started but it was a bit slow getting started.

I also just finished the second and third Polity books by Neal Asher, and I need to write a short post about that, because I completely revise my earlier opinion about Gridlinked — I think by the second book Asher hit his stride and the series is superb.

Ken MacLeod also has a new terrorism-related novel out, available in the UK at this point, called Execution Channel. I’m planning to read it after the Richard Morgan, which is excellent thus far, I’m about a quarter of the way in. Interestingly, the pacing is the exact opposite of “Quantico” — the story unfolds slowly with lots of twists and plenty of progressive revealment of character backstory.

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