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More of the same......SF is terminal....

Wake Me Up - When the Ubik ends

I love the opening song.

Great review. This is going on my TBR, looks like this book was way ahead of its time.

Thank you very much for this review, I've just read this book and I wanted to know what other people thought of it! I mostly agree with your review, this book has a lot of great ideas and the main characters are interesting, but I also feel like it could have been a bit more fleshed out in terms of both worldbuilding and character development. I will say that I was a bit disappointed in the politics/gender aspects of it. Almost all the female characters are either love interests or relatives of the male characters (or both in the case of Ruby! haha), and I guess I expected the political commentary to be a bit more "incisive", it felt pretty hit or miss. For example, the sockets that are used by people to control machines "directly" with their bodies, are described as something that gave to people a meaning to the work that they were doing, which to me doesn't really makes sense ; I personally feel like it would be a step further in the dehumanization of workers who literally become "tools" or machines... But the "mandatory" nature of this technology, that excludes the people who do not want to adopt it from work/social life felt quite relevant, you could definitely draw parallels with some of our current technologies. I still felt like it was quite lacking in those areas, which I was surprised by given the author's reputation. However one major thing I really liked about the book was the "body horror" aspect of it that sometimes comes up. To me some of the most striking scenes were the fights and/or the description of the injuries of the characters. Since both medicine and technology are so much more advanced in their world, I found it fascinating to read about the type of "wounds" that the characters could still have and inflict on each other. The "fight" scenes were also described in very cinematographic ways, they could be visually incredible as an anime!

Have you read NOIR by K.W.Jeter ? It is Steamy, Electronic, Grotesquely Cyber Augmented😵‍💫🤕🤖 PUNK

Enjoying the AI videos in the background. Good list.

I would also recommend Hyperion just for Martins story hahaha

I also read Childhood's End with stratospheric expecations based on its coming so highly recommended. I liked it pretty well, but it never reached the specialness of my hopes

Another good one is "Sur" by the cherished Usrula LeGuin. I defy anyone to say they didn't come away from this story with a changed perspective of the story's major themes.

Banned books?? only in dysfunctional US!

Grrr wanted to watch a book review for this book and this rock spider’s video come up first. You tube take his videos down

Banned where, when and who?

Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany

Excellent! This is the first video review that actually talks about some of the stuff that makes this book just so much fun. The sheer constant inventiveness of it keeps it constantly entertaining.

The War’s Edge: Berserkers series is another great one.

I love, at around the 4 minute mark, Bunny appears behind you...wonderful. Great video.

I read Dhalgren while commuting from downtown Los Angeles to Westwood and back on the Wilshire bus. It's about 3.5 hours round trip. I would sometimes doze off and pick up where I had left off reading. Very hypnagogic experience. After watching review vids, I believe I had a great experience reading this book

I discovered Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children when I was 14, and he became my favorite author. His prose style is controversial; I find it technical and respectable, as well as emotionally resonant. A rare combination amongst sci fi writers, in my experience. Rest in peace, Greg Bear!

You should read Against All Odds by Jeffery H. Haskell.

Wole Talabi!!!

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Huh? I don't remember when I started reading this - it was a long time ago. I don't remember how many pages I managed - 200? 300? before I got distracted by vastly more interesting stuff to do. A year?, or two? later I tried again. Another 100? or 200? pages? That was a while ago. I am quite capable of ignoring sex - that stuff usually seems pointless to me. My experience of the book was that whatever was happening, even when there were some sort of action scenes, it was described in such a way as to be mind-numbingly... mind-numbing. It was like wading through treacle. I want to finish the bloody thing - because I am a completionist, and because I discovered it via a list of 162 Scifi and Fantasy Classics that I am working my way through these past 25 years, but it is going to be excruciatingly torturous. I was hoping I might find some help understanding what the fuck is the point, but I suppose no one will be willing to share "spoilers". Does it accurately describe some sort of psychiatric condition? Aaarggghhh.

I listened to the dispossessed right before this, i noticed multiple correlation in concepts

I love the intro song. May I know it’s title?

When I was reading Shadow of the Torturer the second time, or I think passed beyond it, I thought "This is Deus EX Machina" the book. But it really is an engrossing world. I still have trouble envisioning the lighting of the world - you know with a dimmer Sun and the Moon the way it is.

God sake, do not say “sci-fi.” It is so condescending.

Love the Brave New World 1st Ed T-Shirt! I used to have it and completely wore it out. But now I have the actual first (UK) edition of the book on my shelf ;)

Such a strange book. Nobody stopped to think if the aliens were dangerous? My takeaway…even the smartest religious people will ruin anything they touch.

Yes! Finally a list I can completely get behind! The only thing, I am not as high on Red Rising... But the rest is perfection!!! But it is missing Glen Cook representation...

Terrible book. A disgrace to three body and dark forest. The dark knight rises of the trilogy.

Thought there would be some interesting or controversial ones on the list, but these are all household name commercially available books, half of which I already own

I remember Card's first recognized materpiece, 'Lost Boys'. Then I read 'Ender's Game' and was left breathless. But it wasn't until 'Speaker For The Dead' that I fell in love with Ender Wiggin.

No, you don't have to police anybody (no: Not even kids!) when it comes to reading material! Seriously, what's wrong with you people! Censorship is always bad and it's parental responsibility to talk about what their kids experience, but trying to shelter children from the world will always end badly! No, I am not saying give 'Mein Kampf' to 5 year olds, but if a teenager wants to read it? Let them, but: Talk with them about it, explain why that ideolgy is evil etc.!

Hello, hope you don't mind, I used this video in my latest video. Thanks!

You do great reviews! You often mention things that were on my mind but I wasn’t able to put into words. I almost always agree with your points. Cheers.

0:32 that mech in the background isn’t from armor lol

Nice video! By the way, Dubois is pronounced, “doo-bwah”, as it is French.

Parable of the... Haha. I do find the slogan used by the far-right group in the story(-ies) interesting--especially since it's unlikely that anyone in politics has read Butler's work. 😂 But it's actually libs who are demonstrably trying to destroy America. They are allowing homeless camps to set up in front of private homes (cue the mass exodus from California over the past 2 years especially). They are literally attacking peaceful protestors. They are wantonly allowing criminals into the country via agreement with open border policies. No one's perfect...but the L has set it up so we *need* to arm ourselves (and I mean everyone does, not just righties). The gestapo-esque imagery for the R is hilarious given the current war on our minds, which is far more insidious--and invisible unless you're on your guard. So...I shall read Octavia Butler's work with mirth.

Armor is one of my favorite books, top five, top mil sci-fi…I am combat veteran and the sub text of how the military will use you until it breaks you is truth in the real world! War is a meat grinder that will always be feed is captured by this book!

Thank you for this neat breakdown. I didn't know there were this many cyberpunk books. The impact of Gibson tends to dazzle people to the point we don't realize there was proto cyberpubnk and other writers exploring this subgenre at the same time as Gibson.

Where did you get this t-shirt?

You know this guy got arrested for having child corn….. he’s a peodo

About the dislike 2. I think the idea was that their struggle feels human. That makes them much more relatable.

Love the way you describe each of these books!

Tactics of Mistake - Gordon R. Dickson Final Blackout - L. Ron Hubbard. Yes, I was shocked, too. Full disclosurre, though, this is alt-history pertaining to WWI.

Those books should be used as a public awareness or a reminder for our future understanding about the warnings of our failed society

I read story collections and popular science books by Poul Anderson, Asimov, Clarke, Niven, etc. in high school and college. The key novels I read in college were proto-cyberpunk and early cyberpunk (Neuromancer, Shockwave Rider, Blood Music, Alfred Bester's early novels). I read _The Nine Billion Names of God_ story collection when I was younger and I thought it was great.

Love the theme song 😂

Dude stop giving so many direct spoilers