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The latest installment of Linda Nagata's Inverted Frontier series, Needle, dropped last week, so of course I had to immediately move it to the top of the reading list. This is far future space opera, but with hard(ish) science fiction bent. Unlike typical space opera, there is no faster than light travel, so no galactic … Continue reading Needle (Inverted Frontier Book 3)
I just finished reading Linda Nagata's new book, Silver, which is the second book of her new Inverted Frontier series. It's a sequel to the first book, Edges, which I recommended earlier this year, and Memory, which I described and recommended a few weeks ago. Characters from both books feature heavily in the new story. … Continue reading Recommendation: Silver (Inverted Frontier Book 2)
I've noted before that I think science fiction author Linda Nagata is an underrated talent. She crafts mind bendingly imaginative tales. I've recommend several of her books, all in The Nanotech Succession series, which she has recently started adding to again with her latest book: Edges. (Technically the newer books are part of a new … Continue reading Recommendation: Memory
Okay, having already recommended two of Linda Nagata's books, Vast and Edges, I finally got around to reading the first and second book of her Nanotech Succession series. (I haven't read the "zeroeth" book so this recommendation doesn't include it.) The first book, The Bohr Maker, takes place a few centuries in the future on … Continue reading Recommendation: The Nanotech Succession
A few weeks ago I recommended Linda Nagata's novel, Vast, the final book of her Nanotech Succession series. Edges is both a sequel to that book, and the first episode in a new series, Inverted Frontier. As in Vast, this is a future where mind uploading and copying is possible, where multiple copies of someone's … Continue reading Recommendation: Edges (Inverted Frontier Book 1)
I have a bad habit of buying ebooks and then letting them sit in my Kindle account unread, sometimes for years. I'm sorry to say that the book that was in this state the longest was Linda Nagata's Vast. I picked it up back in 2011 based on Alastair Reynold's glowing recommendation. However, when I … Continue reading Recommendation: Vast
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