• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      l read the book decades ago as it came out and still have some vivid images in my head of the described middle ages environment.

      Given that I usually forget the detailed contents of books I read after some weeks already, it means it must have been pretty good! :-)

      • stoy@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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        3 months ago

        It has been really good, yeah.

        I bought it and Airframe by the same author, and I had to drop Airframe as I found the general premise of the book too incorrect.

        To avoid spoilers I won’t go into detail of the specific issues I had with it.

        Before that I listened through Neuromancer and Dune.

        • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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          3 months ago

          Never read Dune, but Neuromancer was one of the first SF-books ever that I got to read, back in the late 80s.
          Needless to say that it adequately blew my mind…

          • stoy@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Dune is a weird story mixing sci-fi, fantasy and religion, it isn’t my favorite sci-fi work, but it is a great work.

            Neuromancer, the environment is fantastic, brilliant, but never got into the story.

            • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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              3 months ago

              As you seem not to be frightened by large books and also seem to like books with historic setting before scientific background, I would strongly recommend you the “Baroque” cycle by Neal Stephenson.
              Not sure if there is a good audiobook version of it though…