On 7-Jun-06, at 2:15 PM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>> Nah. I have read the Cosmonaut Keep trilogy which I enjoyed.
>
> I keep on forgetting whether that's the first or the second trilogy --
> the Deeply Glasgow One.
second one, & not quite so deeply Glasgow.
>
>> And am wishing M Banks would get another out.
>
> I think +The Algebraist+ is the latest -- slightly disappointing, I
> thought.
ah, well, taste & all; I enjoyed it.
>
>> Also enjoy Reynolds (but he mayn't be Scottish)...
>
> ????
Alistair, so he could be; future history of sorts, & good I think, in
the same line....
>
> Have you read Kim Robinson? (I haven't.) His name came up when I was
> talking to someone about the paucity of left SF novelists.
Yeah, he is. And quite good, a really fine alternate history, The Years
of Rice and Salt, in which the plague totally wipes out Christian
Europe so Islam & China fight out the next 700 years. And a trilogy
he's working n right now set in the very near future of global warming
etc.... Always interesting characters....
>
> (And curse it, I still can't put my hand on a copy of +The Einstein
> Intersection+)
>
> Robin
>
>>> (PS -- read Ken Macleod's +Learning the World+ yet? I've started
>>> it, but find it heavy going. R.)
>
>
Keep looking for TEI! After all, Delany was one of the few SF authors
to read contemporary poetry, widely.
Doug
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