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Trombone · 2914 days ago · link · · parent · post: What are your goals for 2017?

Yup, I've been trying to finish Red Mars for six months now. Time has not been kind to either of us it seems!

kleinbl00 · 2914 days ago · link ·

I'm finishing it out of spite at this point. It has become quite shit.

Greg Bear's Moving Mars, which came out nine months before, and which won the Nebula the year Red Mars didn't, kicks the ever-loving shit out of it. However, Greg Bear made his point and moved on to other things while Kim Stanley Robinson beat a dead horse for another three books.

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Trombone · 2914 days ago · link ·

Thanks for the recommendation. Once I finish RM I'll check that one out. Also picked up a copy of the Foundation trilogy the other day at a library sale so I'll be sinking my teeth into that.

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raisin · 2913 days ago · link ·

Oh, I have got to re-read Foundation, it was one of my favourite sci-fi series (granted, I haven't read that many).

Hope you enjoy it :)

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kleinbl00 · 2913 days ago · link ·

Foundation is a good read. Stick to the three core books.

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