Eversion

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1. CableNinjaJun 2026
   Eversion by Alistair Reynolds
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2. reidracDec 2025
   I read 14 books this year and my favourite was Eversion by Alastair Reynolds, followed closely by Pushing Ice by the same author. I "discovered" Cory Doctorow this year, reading 4 books (and I have another in my queue), being "Attack Surface" the one I liked most.

   The only technical book I read was Programming in Lua (4th edition), and still didn't work for me. I guess I don't like Lua, and that's OK.

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3. A_D_E_P_TOct 2023
   2022 books? Sure.

   "The Mountain in the Sea" by Ray Nayler.

   "Beyond the Burn Line" by Paul MacAuley.

   "Eversion" by Alastair Reynolds.

   "The Thousand Earths" by Stephen Baxter. (Who, surprisingly, has never won a Hugo. This fact alone reflects very poorly on the Hugos.)

   "How High We Go in the Dark" by Sequoia Nagamatsu.

   I feel that all of these books were better than any of the nominated ones.

   I like Ken MacLeod's Lightspeed Trilogy (thus far) too, but only one of them was published in 2022 and the series is still incomplete...

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4. 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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5. apiSep 2026
   Currently reading Eversion by Alastair Reynolds.

   Highlights from the past year or two:

   Revelator by Daryl Gregory - Appalachian weird fiction with a tinge of cosmic horror.

   The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias - Tragic story about the cartel underworld plus magic realism.

   The Expanse (all of them) by James S A Corey (pen name for two writers IRL) - Everyone probably knows this one. Books were better than the show in many ways the the prose quality was pleasantly good. Fun read.

   Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell - One of the best openings I have ever read and I’ll leave it at that.

   I like to read a wide variety of styles and genres, but the writing has to be good. I’ll drop a book if it’s got flat characters or clunky prose or cringey tropey stuff.

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6. kryptnDec 2025
   Lots of scifi.

   Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance, and Absolution of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series. https://www.goodreads.com/series/112239-southern-reach

   Reread books 1-4 of Dennis E Taylor's Bobiverse series to read #5 https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse

   John Scalzi's Interdependency Series https://www.goodreads.com/series/202297-the-interdependency

   Basically all of the Culture Series by Iain M Banks https://www.goodreads.com/series/49118-culture

   Of Peter F Hamilton:

   - The Salvation Sequence series https://www.goodreads.com/series/242882-salvation-sequence

   - The Void Series, a sequel-trilogy to the Commonwealth Universe series https://www.goodreads.com/series/43520-void

   Of Alastair Reynolds:

   - Pushing Ice https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48991704-pushing-ice

   - Eversion https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60097716-eversion

   Of Adrian Tchaikovsky:

   - Shroud https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230237860-shroud

   - Elder Race https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56815367-elder-race

   - Alien Clay https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199851460-alien-clay

   - Going through The Final Architecture now https://www.goodreads.com/series/305076-the-final-architectu...

   Also Upgrade, by Blake Crouch https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59439117-upgrade

   Also First, by Randy Brown https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196399619-first

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