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dsrtao_Rainbows End_, Vernor Vinge
_Conflict_ and _Resolution_, John Meaney
_Superman: Last Son of Krypton_, Elliot S! Maggin
To begin with the best: I wish Vinge would write faster. It's been seven years since _A Deepness In The Sky_, and I'd really like to read five or six more of his books... which means he needs to write them. _Rainbows End_ is all about the sort of future shock that occurs when a Singularity is right around the corner. Companies with five permanent employees are considered inflexible. I'm sure I haven't finished considering the ramifications, but they all feel realistic enough to be a situation we might find ourselves in...
Meaney's books are the middle and end of the Nulapeiron trilogy, in which The Truth is more or less revealed, the revolution takes a few more twists, the Real Bad Guys show up, and Good (or at least humanity) wins. While the initial book tells a reasonably complete story, these two can't stand without it.
_LSOK_ is a giant Superman saga with a curiously flat and flavorless take on the Man of Steel. Lex Luthor is the most fully developed character in it. Told in 36 comic-book sized installments on the web, it's good PDA or cell-web-browser fare.
_Conflict_ and _Resolution_, John Meaney
_Superman: Last Son of Krypton_, Elliot S! Maggin
To begin with the best: I wish Vinge would write faster. It's been seven years since _A Deepness In The Sky_, and I'd really like to read five or six more of his books... which means he needs to write them. _Rainbows End_ is all about the sort of future shock that occurs when a Singularity is right around the corner. Companies with five permanent employees are considered inflexible. I'm sure I haven't finished considering the ramifications, but they all feel realistic enough to be a situation we might find ourselves in...
Meaney's books are the middle and end of the Nulapeiron trilogy, in which The Truth is more or less revealed, the revolution takes a few more twists, the Real Bad Guys show up, and Good (or at least humanity) wins. While the initial book tells a reasonably complete story, these two can't stand without it.
_LSOK_ is a giant Superman saga with a curiously flat and flavorless take on the Man of Steel. Lex Luthor is the most fully developed character in it. Told in 36 comic-book sized installments on the web, it's good PDA or cell-web-browser fare.
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Date: 2006-05-23 12:25 am (UTC)LSOK was originally released at the time of the first Christopher Reeve movie, and formatted to appear as if it were a novelization thereof. It remains my favorite depiction of Lex Luthor ever. If you feel like more, there was a follow-up by Maggin, _Superman: Miracle Monday_.