The Kaiju Preservation Society

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1. trescenziDec 2024
   I don’t know what sort of not depressing you’re looking for but I’d recommend Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. It’s a fun short read. If you want harder sci-fi I’d recommend the Revelation Space series. It’s far future, somewhat negative in that there is war and conflict, but I wouldn’t at all describe it as dystopian.
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2. jandreseOct 2023
   I really like that he's not afraid to publish reasonably sized one-off novels. That is becoming so rare these days with so many other author wanting their first novel to be the first of a series of thousand page tomes absolutely chock full of wheel spinning and padding.

   You can pick up something like Starter Villain and read it in an afternoon and thoroughly enjoy it. Other novels to check out include Androids Dream, Agent to the Stars, Redshirts, and Kaiju Preservation Society.

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3. em-beeMay 2023
   my favorite so far is The Golden Age of the Solar Clipper series by Nathan Lowell.

   but the best thing i have done to get good book recommendations is to join a scifi book club where we pick a new title every month.

   here is what we read until now:

       Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary
       William Gibson: Neuromancer
       Theodore Sturgeon: More Than Human
       Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice
       Chen Qiufan and Kai-Fu Lee: AI 2041
       David Wellington: The Last Astronaut
       Nathan Lowell: Quarter Share
       Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built
       Octavia E Butler: Parable of the Talents
       John Scalzi: Kaiju Preservation Society
       David Brin: Kiln People
       Emma Straub: This Time Tomorrow
       Ursula K Le Guin: Left Hand of Darkness
       Dennis E Taylor: We are Legion
       Emily St John Mandel: Sea of Tranquility
       William Gibson: The Peripheral
       Dan Simmons: Hyperion
       Elisabet Moon: The Speed of Dark
       Alastair Reynolds: Eversion
       Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children Of Time
       Andromeda Romano-Lax: Plumb Rains
   

   everyone of these was selected by popular vote from a handful of nominations, which means each is endorsed by half a dozen or a dozen people.

   unfortunately i had to move and am no longer part of that club, and getting updates on their current selections is difficult.

   anyone know of a similar club running online? (telegram, matrix or a forum maybe)

   or is there interest in forming a club?

   we could have a monthly HN post with recommendations, making selections by upvotes/downvotes, and a jitsi meetup to discuss the book afterwards.

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4. em-beeAug 2022
   that is one good reason why i don't rush to buy a new computer.

   when i replaced my computer the last time, the old one was 10 years old. (and we were moving, so i dropped the old computer before and got the new computer after the move. that way i offset the work on the new computer with not having to bother moving the old one. (i kept the monitors though, and i took the disks with the data))

   i built the new one myself.

   technically i could have reused the case, but i wanted a smaller case anyways. (i really miss the pizzabox form factor. current cases are either to big, or they can only hold one disk (i need two for mirror raid))

   but now i am moving again, and this time i can't take the monitors with me. they are just to large, and shipping is not an option. i probably can take the case because it is a smaller one. but instead of buying new monitors, i am considering just getting a laptop instead. i'll need one anyways so i can travel for work. but that means external disks (2x5TB) if i don't take the case too. though choices.

   John Scalzi:

   i read redshirts some time ago and recently the kaiju preservation society. very enjoyable!

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5. drosanAug 2022
   I've enjoyed Interdependency trilogy immensely and now reading "Kaiju Preservation Society" and it is awesome too.
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