Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks. Space opera at its best.
As a big fan of Farscape, your opinion is invalid.
Kidding aside, I realise it's an acquired taste.
When you say "non-political", what do you mean?
The movie is about national division. I find it strange that any movie could do that without having any politics in it.
84K by Claire North. It's a dystopian novel about corporatization of government.
At first glance that might sound generic, but she's an incredible writer, and really makes the world she created come alive.
Standard Ebooks is a wonderful resource, although they do sometimes go for more modern words or spelling. It's to help modern readers better understand old texts, but it means you won't get some of the cool and quaint wording and formatting.
Have to argue against What the bleep do we know.
It is neither science fiction, nor a movie (in the fiction sense). It is a documentary, and as for the science fiction, it isn't present, and not in the same way that it isn't present in some of the other movies.
It isn't there because it was not the intention to make a science fiction movie.
What the bleep do we know was meant as non fiction. You were meant to take it seriously, as usable information.
None of it is actually real, though, and it is filled with pseudoscience. But at its core, it is meant to be watched just like a any other documentary, not as a movie.
So do I, but I can see why someone would be put off the whole series after reading The Colour of Magic, so having some other books to recommend makes sense to me.
I think they meant this:
Absolutely! I haven't listened to anything by them from after Ironbound more than once.
Scumbags. Let them pay the wages of sin.
And no, not literally. We've progressed from biblical morality.
I'm nearing the end of Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb.
I really liked the Assassin trilogy, and this one is off to a great start for the Liveship series.
But damn, if she doesn't give her characters the short end of the stick in pretty much every case.
So no change from business as usual.
I love Kim Stanley Robinson’s books, and am reading (in some case re-reading) his books in order. At some point, I’m going to get to Green Earth, but since it’s a reworking of the Science in the Capitol trilogy, I wanted to find out just how much it adds/leaves out/changes.
Is the difference significant enough to merit a “re-read”? I'm particularly interested in characterization, but I'm also curious if the science itself has been significantly changed, with resulting plot changes.
Thanks!