Firestar
It is the beginning of the twenty-first century and one woman is determined to bring America and the world back on track in the technological future. She has the strength, the intelligence, the money. It will be done. This is the story of the rebirth of innovative technological expansion on Earth and in space.
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2recommend
6mentions
4people
2007–2023years
50% recommend50% neutral
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- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Firestar, Michael Flynn
- Firestar by Michael Flynn. It's a little-know book by a little-known author, but it's the best near-term space sci fi I've ever read.
- Ender Series - Orson Scott Card
Rama Series - Arthur C Clarke
Firestar Series - Michael Flynn
1984 - George Orwell
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Some guys at MIT (I know it's technical, but couldn't resist, it's just too good)
Anything by Bret Easton Ellis, Greg Bear, Stephen Baxter, and the above mentioned authors.
- Read Firestar as a teenager and liked it, so I went to a meet-the-author event at a local bookshop where he was promoting the next book in that series. When he opened up for questions, he responded to mine by mocking my speech (I guess I had a nerdy voice like probably many of us here) and didn't even answer the question.
Really turned me off the author. And that was before I grew older and wiser and came to realize how that series was largely libertarian agitprop and stereotypes of various demographics -- like Poul Anderson's Harvest of Stars series from the same era, maybe it is something that only adolescents can really love.
- Shows up in Michael Flynn's "Firestar" series, as well. "The Boomer" is what they call it, I think. It was in the side of a mountain in South America, and it was filled with gas.
- I thought the nickname for aerogel given in Michael Flynn's Firestar series was better... Solid Smoke.
(The article in the Times linked to by Wired keeps calling it Frozen Smoke, which just isn't as catchy to me... in case you you were wondering why I was bringing this up.)
