Fantasy and fantasy for two and a half years, almost a hundred good books

I was pushed into this post by the publication “Why I steal books, poor authors, and how to fix it,” namely, skepticism and objections to my comment that I don’t read bad books. I was offered to tell you how I choose books to read and what I read. So I fell for it.

Making the list was relatively simple, FBReader has kindly stored all downloaded books on GoogleDrive since this service appeared there. I bring to your attention a list of what I read in 2.5 years from the genres of fantasy and fantasy.



I will tell you a little about how I choose books for reading. There will be a bit of lyrics, if not interesting - scroll.



It began - just like everyone who was born in the USSR, the books were taken from friends, borrowed, changed and “got it” in different places, gradually replenishing the home library. Then came the computers. For quite a long time, I simply read familiar authors, having bought an “Electronic Library” disc with 650 megabytes of books in the .ha archives from the Moshkov Library and other collections. I even wrote my own DBMS on Delphi for it, for the convenience of searching and read marks. The process was quite simple: “What I have not read from Zelazny / Lem / Heinlein? And what kind of author, suddenly like it? ". The CD contained several lists of the “TOP 100 authors” type - so I discovered excellent Russian writers (writes in Russian - for me this means that the writer is Russian), such as Oldie, Dyachenka, and Lazarchuk, not to list them all.



At first I took with myself stacks of prints on office paper, I turned the pages in PageMaker in 4 columns and printed on both sides of the paper on a working printer, my vision allowed me to use 4-6 point size and was extremely compact. Then I bought a handheld for the HP iPaq 2210. He held on for a very long time, at first the pegs were peeled off, and then the side panels fell off, then the joypad button fell out, but one rainy day - when connected to the charging, smoke came out of it and his life ended there.



Subsequently, I read from push-button cell phones, from e-readers, from smartphones, monitors, etc., but there was a problem finding new books. By that time Librusek had turned into a “little shop”, Flibusta broke away from him, but the books could still be downloaded freely and in any quantity. At first, I was guided by people whose tastes coincided with mine, read their comments and looked at what they were writing reviews for.



But then 2005 came, and from that moment on Russian science fiction something broke. Part of this is to blame for a series of crises traditional for Russia, but mostly the publishers themselves have guessed, long and diligently chopping the bitches under themselves. They brought up a whole generation of readers of the creepy and cheap graphomania with alternative populans, who then happily piled on Samizdat, where everything could be read the same non-stop, free and legal, thereby sharply reducing the flow of money from selling paper books. I also had attempts to read Samlib, which ended very quickly with great bewilderment and incomprehension.



Gaining arrogance and pouring into the spider-jar gadget community the user community of Flibusta - I occasionally opened a topic on my blog with names like: “What to read?” And was guided by the recommendations of people reading about the same books. The result was constantly pleasing, many modern foreign authors were discovered, who were not knocked down by the Russian crises and Samlib, and the Russian publishing houses did not stop translating them. This topic was enough for six months or a year, then a new one was opened and another portion of writers and books was recorded in a notebook. Since then, I read almost exclusively modern foreign fiction. Periodic attempts to find good books among Russians — end sadly, but several very pleasant exceptions have been discovered.



And then I discovered Goodreads (maybe someone is interested - my profile ). Although this is a foreign service, there are no translations into Russian, but you can search for books and authors in English, and then watch whether they translated them into Russian. I carefully filled out my profile, set ratings, recalling those books that I didn’t like, in the end I placed more than one hundred ratings and started looking at the recommendations of the service. Since the question “What to read?” No longer arises, the service regularly prompts me to books of any genre and direction, both new and old. It is a little sad that not everyone translates and plans to study English to such an extent that it would read the originals, but even Russian translations alone are more than enough, there are many books in the queue for reading and this list is constantly growing.



Finally, go to the list. As I explained above, it covers two and a half years of FBReader statistics. Of course, not all the books I read during this time are in it, I threw out a few non-fiction from him, old books that I re-read in the mood, like the entire series about Amber and Chaos, all Harry Potter books, re-read for GPMRM , which I have already read three times, and in terms of the total volume, it can easily be counted as 8-10 regular books, as a result, the list was reduced by a factor of two, but nevertheless - there were almost a hundred books and a few dozen authors left in it.

I will warn you right away, there is one consideration that almost convinced me not to make this list and not to publish it, namely, it seemed to me that everyone following modern foreign fiction, and so read most of the above, because there is nothing in it New or original, but I decided to take a chance. If at least one person finds a pair of new books or one author in the list, then the post was not useless.



The list is sorted by author, book author - by cycle and alphabetically, if they are not in a cycle. Estimates are set subjective, like the entire selection of authors and genres; all this reflects only my personal taste and does not pretend to ultimate truth. I did not add annotations, book covers, biographies of the authors, limiting myself to just my own commentary, because all of the above can be easily found on the links. If the comment seems too meager - write here in the topic and I will answer in more detail.



Since I don’t want to advertise existing book stores or commercial portals that make money on advertising banners, affiliate programs or direct sales, all links to books lead to Flisland . I hope habraeffekt will not drop the website and the server will cope.



UPD

I want to note once again that many books and authors did not fall into this list, because I read them much earlier, and the list covers books from the end of 2014 to the present day.



UPD

Literally this morning, they posted a ready translation of the third book by Liu Cixin, added here links to the book and wrote a small announcement: Eternal Life of Death, Liu Cysin - the last volume of the trilogy “In Memory of the Earth’s Past”, the translation is completed .



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Finished reading the third volume of Liu Cysin - I update the commentary on the book. The next step is to update the commentary to the House of Dervish .



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Read the House of Dervish MacDonald, added a comment



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I finished reading Juno, added a comment

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Daniel Abraham

(5) Cycle Space (Expanse)

1. The Awakening of Leviathan , 2. The War of Caliban , 3. The Gate of Abaddon , 4. The Fire of Sibola

• Excellent kosmoopera "close sight". Everything is local, within the solar system, but this does not mean that reading is not interesting. Wonderful series.

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(3) Hunter's escape . Daniel Abraham co-authored with Gardner Dozua, George Martin.

• The authors have caused me a strong salivation and “Well, now it will be! These masters will give all the powder! ” As a result, I was very disappointed - a complete primitive, again to the longing and just not interested.

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Paolo Bachigalupi

(?) Clockwork

• In the plans

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(?) Shipbreaker

• In the plans

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Chris Beckett

(3-) In the darkness of Eden

• I began to read on the recommendation of one person, but our tastes totally do not coincide ... The book is quite teenage, almost childish.

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David breen

(2) Clay

• The lead on the book was rather peculiar. In the Lifetime Pacer - I had fun reading the bricks they postponed on the False Blindness of Watts, about what a bad and boring book, everything else, and among tons of bricks, he recommended this Clay: “This is interesting, I understand that!” . Until the end, I niasilil it, very weak, boring and predictable. Quit in the middle without any regret.

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(?) Leap into the sun. Star tide

• In the plans.

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Andy weir

(5-) Martian

• I do not think that we should talk about this book, for sure everyone was watching the Martian with Meth Damon. The book is more interesting, it has more details, much more logical and understandable, there is no outright hollywood - like Iron-man-in-space, the author has thrown out this absurd episode from the book.
  
  

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Vernor Vinge

(5) Keng Ho Cycle

1. Flame over the abyss , 2. Depth in the sky , 3. Children of the sky

• The cycle is well known to all lovers of science fiction and space operas. I reread the first and second books in order to refresh them in memory before reading the translation of the third part of the cycle. The second book is less global, describes the adventures of the legendary captain of the “slow zone”. The third book brings the reader back to the galactic era from the first book, to the “fast zones”, but mostly shows events on the other hand, about life on the planet Claws. Solid five.
  
  

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Victoria Vorobyova

(4+) Juno

• I have not read this book yet.
  
  Completely fresh Written in 2011, the debut for the writer, according to read - surprisingly good, not worse than modern Western fiction. “Production and space fiction of the near sight on the everyday life of the inhabitants of the Yunona orbital station.”
  
  I read the book, I really liked it. As written in one of the reviews on Flibusta, it seems as if you are reading high-quality foreign fiction. For the debut - great. At first glance - almost nothing to complain about. Only it is a pity that the characters are incomprehensible, the characters are almost absent, differ only in names, I would like more living people, more individuality.
  
  When reading, it seems that all this has already been read somewhere, but not in a bad sense of the secondary nature of the text and the idea, rather the recognition of the situation and mood. The intrigue is not a detective story, but it is interesting to read, I don’t want to quit or skip, the ending does not disappoint. The whole book, it’s a pity that I hadn’t come across it before, the author had to at least put it on Samizdat, then they would have gotten to it faster.
  
  

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William Ford Gibson

(5) Blue Ant Trilogy Cycle

1. Pattern Recognition , 2. Ghost Land , 3. Zero Dossier

• This is not a traditional Gibson genre, the series is not fantastic. The books describe the rather unusual events of people from big business and modern art. Some things there are actually predicted - augmented reality is developed according to the scenario of one of the books.
  
  
  
  The endings of the books of the series are a bit crumpled, it is rather funny to watch the “Russian episodes”. I really liked the series.
  
  

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(5) Peripherals

• A book about parallel universes. It is difficult to determine the genre. This is social fiction, and a little cyberpunk. Science fiction, in other words. The virtual reality theme is rising again.

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Dmitry Glukhovsky

(2+) Future

• I read this "Future" ... Through force.
  
  
  
  It starts very well, thirty percent of the book doesn’t even really strain the shoals and inconsistencies, a sort of rethinking of Huxley (and not at all Brabderie). But already 50% of the logical breaks start to enrage, the stupidity of the heroes and their cardboardness are annoying, the most tiring is the hysterical, but absolutely not sincere pathos, resembling the break of a shirt with a yard drunk “Well kill me !!”, it’s pitiful and depressing. After 70% began to scroll, because the endless pseudo-monopoly and strained suffering of the heroes frankly bored, logical inconsistencies become very glaring, and the actions of the heroes are completely stupid. Glavger is incredibly cool, he has everything to the max, if you fuck, then the queen, if he is an orphan, then he turns out to be the royal son, and the like.
  
  
  
  What ended - I don’t remember, because I’m not at all interesting, I read it only because I wanted to make an impression about the next masterpiece of Russian fiction recommended to me. Each time I spend less and less time and less enthusiastic time trying to find a new Russian author of fiction, a grade higher than third. I am less waiting for another recommendation. Sad trend ...

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Gray F. Green

(5-) Ketopolis: Whales and Armadillos

• The book refers to those few of Russian fiction, which over the past ten years can be read with pleasure, but not all, but only half of the stories from this collection. I liked the beginning very much, it was clearly written under the impression of Mievilsky New Crobuzon and Daughter of Suenvik, but the swing is one hundred rubles, and the blow is on the coin. If the authors tried, it would be very cool, because the described world is very bright and detailed, you believe him, he carries away. But this is not a novel and no story, in the collection there is neither a common plot, nor a protagonist. Could have turned out a new “Station of lost dreams”, but even Duke’s “Ice” did not work out, which I threw out of boredom after reading more than eighty percent, and “Ketopolis” read from one stubbornness.

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James dashner

The Maze Runner

(4, 3, 2) 1. Running in the labyrinth , 2. Through the furnace , 3. Healing by death

• Teen Fiction. I started reading on the recommendation of a friend, it would seem nice - but not a masterpiece. The reserve for the continuation of the series - killed the final of the first part. I started the second by inertia, I could not finish reading the third one and left it.
  
  

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Jacek Ducay

(3+) Ice

• The book describes an extremely interesting world, for its unusualness it can be compared with Ketopolis or with Mievil Station. The world is described very vividly and in detail, it is extremely interesting to observe. The memory comes the game of Syberia Benoit Sokal.
  
  
  
  Unfortunately, the unjustifiably prolonged narrative and the stupid linguistic quirks of the translator - they kill all this in the bud. I abandoned the book by 80%, it became completely uninteresting to me what it would all end up with, tired of it. And it’s a pity, maybe in another translation, I would read it to the end and with pleasure.

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Mikhail Elizarov

(3+) Librarian

• Copy here my review from Fantlaba
  A lot of text

  There is a difference between a good book written in good language and a bad book written in good language.
  
  Elizarov writes very well, masterful, excellent Russian, figurative. But the book is completely helpless, in all respects, from idea to construction.
  
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  The dumbest first part - in which the plot of the whole story is chewed in more detail. This technique is used only from complete powerlessness, when a frightened debutant who has not written even a short tale before — fears with all his strength that his book will be misunderstood correctly, that the world he has invented will be too complicated and everything must be extremely carefully described and described.
  
  That is, to do the most important thing: to immerse the reader in the world of narration - he is not capable. it looks very pitiful. Everything is written very boring.
  
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  The second part, where all the hero's ordeals are described in more detail - there is a banal autobiography, which coincides with the real biography to the details. What is her goal? How does this biography, from kindergarten to the second tower, affect the story? No That is, in general, and does not affect at all. His in the course of the action, only a couple of times asked about his past and education, briefly and in passing. So why was this boring and dull excursion into the past of the author necessary? Only for one thing - to create the image of the protagonist, to explain his way of thinking and the actions that follow from this. Without all this - the actions of the hero hang in emptiness, neither logic nor meaning.
  
  That is, from the second role, but not the least important task: to create a complete and convincing character of the hero - he failed.
  
  The most typical hit-and-go technique “from dirt to riches” adds despondency, such a useless thing lived, reveling in the water on the shore from its own worthlessness - and here you are, the king of animals. On top of that - the author’s bright concern for the poor and the lowered, in sight - the army he remembered very well, and on what roles he lived there - is also quite obvious. All this is even more pitiful and boring.
  
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  The third part is full {censored}. Take and open at the very beginning, the very first chapter - the whole result of the book! And what not to ask to make it at once in the publishing summary ?!
  
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  The plot itself is just a guard, likelihood is a complete zero. But this is not Pelevin's grotesque, this is not the outrageous Sorokin - this is his own inability to come up with a coherent story. These books are a banal and obvious projection of drug addiction. If you replace books with drugs - giving strength, euphoric memory, insensitivity to pain, willingness to kill for drugs, etc. - The plot does not change a drop. But the fantasy about mass drug addiction is no longer so interesting, it is impossible to build a fantastic totalitarian organization on it - because it will be a banal drug mafia. Looks like the author let the cool in Vienna, and maybe never stopped. Otherwise, where are such vivid and believable narcotic experiences?
  
  And this is not to mention the simple logical stupidity - that only a limited edition copy of the sovok printing house operates, and no more. The idea is primitively sewn with thick white ropes. These impossibilities of rewriting and copying are complete nonsense, it is completely implausible even in the realities of a story invented by the author, according to his own rules. As if typewriters in printing houses were never wrong, editors and censors didn’t shred products up and down, etc. There would have been some logic, if only the manuscripts had a narcotic effect, but books from the typographical circulation ?! I still beg you ...
  
  After that, his narcotic arrival about a “happy” memory, a “false memory” about what had never happened in his gray and dismal life.
  
  What was it? Ordinary, quite ordinary memories, the usual Soviet child. Because even in families of drunken drunks, there were practically all of those listed in the book, all these songs, round dances in the kindergarten, riding on his father’s shoulders, birthday gifts, colored pencils, a pond with fry - but in general everything, almost without exception. I even guess where it was necessary to live, so that everything listed in the spoiler was something awesomely happy and incredible. From birth in an orphanage and then in a juvenile facility?
  
  But the garbage is that the main character, on the basis of his long and detailed biography - in childhood everything was quite good for himself, the parent is not drug addicts and not drunken drunks, he did not live in the village, in an ordinary city, safely finished school, got two higher and it does not seem that his parents were kept in a black body, gave gifts every 10 years, and every day they were beaten from boredom.
  
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  Why was it necessary to arrange these longest excursions into the fictional world and the maturing of the protagonist? Could the author not have enough talent, to introduce the reader to the course of the matter - in the course of the story? Imagine the same book, but starting differently:
  
  - in the first chapter, a letter comes from the death of his uncle;
  
  - From the second paragraph of the hero leaves to settle matters;
  
  - at the end of the first chapter, potential buyers are being killed in front of his eyes.
  
  The reader does not know anything about books, about the uncle of the hero, about his childhood - absolutely nothing. Like the usual Russian city - and this is happening! Intrigue! What will happen next? Why is everything so strange ?!
  
  In my opinion - a great start. Everything turns out in the course of the action, the reader and the hero in equal positions, can only be tormented by conjectures, and the dizzying truth gradually emerges before them, in parts ...
  
  But the book has suffered differently - and this is its main weakness. The error is characteristic of the most complete amateur, who immediately swung at the large form and is very worried that his wonderful world will not be clear to everyone. It was possible to do even more stupid - to write a separate glossary at the end of the book, listing in turn all the terms, the persons involved and the scenery.
  
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  What ultimately remains from the book?
  
  Delicious and detailed inversion of the intestines, smearing of shit on the walls and vaginal discharge on the face. An alternative scoop - to the likelihood is dirty and nasty, but deceitful to nausea, which hurts anyone's eyes, that he lived at least a little while or even just heard from his parents. Everything that the author was able to write vividly and colorfully, the whole book breaks up into separate episodes from the category of blood-guts-races *** silt. all the rest is just boring stitches, somehow fastening together the scenes to-to-r, crawling right in your hands, like a pocket glue bag after the first reading.
  
  It is good that the author did not dare to raise (omit) the topic of sex in this book. But here he would have to quite obviously skopipast Sorokin - because only the old half-sex bang through a fresh hole in the skull would fit into the general mood, but since the electric rubles in the book aren’t involved, I would have to bang a hole through the rail pile with a scrape. And this is already so obvious a second time - that he would be instantly caught in plagiarism.
  
  Heroes are masterfully stamped primitives, but stamped really masterfully. A couple of epithets are enough, several details of the appearance and you are faced with a ready-made character, albeit stamped to cardboard inflexibility, possessing only one character trait and performing only one single function - but very lively and imaginative. The trouble is that the author produces them with the speed of demand and releases their guts even faster than the reader has time to remember them. The sophisticated complex of these disposable characters does not arouse the slightest sympathy.
  
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  And this is crowned by all - sovok Mother of God, saving a great empire from the usual universal enemy. Another helpless curtsy to the Soviet past, and a good find for the current political situation.
  
  And it deserves Russian Booker ?! Seeing really bad things in modern Russian literature ...
  
  A curtain

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Robert Ibatullin

(4+) Rose and Worm

• An amazing and pleasant exception to samizdat. The book, which can be put on a par with modern Western fiction. Despite the fact that there are many repetitions and borrowings in it, a lot of ideas are repeated and more than once read in foreign fiction, this does not make it worse.
  
  But it will be difficult for physicists, those who like to consider rivets - they will find many jambs in it :)

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Greg Egan

(4) Despair

• Like everything else, Egan has a good intrigue and plot, very science fiction, but the end is offended. It was interesting to read, but the end spoiled everything.

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(4) Teranesia

• The situation is repeated with his Despair and in general with all his books. It is very interesting to read, but it ends: “Is this all?!?!?! ??? It was possible and so, and so, such opportunities! And he ... Eh: (((" .

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(?) City Permutations

• In the plans.

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(?) Diaspora

• In the plans.

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Mike Carey

(3+) The Gifts of Pandora

• I read the book after watching the film on it. Nothing special, it was possible to not read at all, a passing thing.

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Ann Lecky

Cycle Empire Radch

(5, 4) 1. The servants of justice , 2. The servants of the sword

• Cosmo-operator of a new wave, with a very interesting linguistic experiment. It describes the way of thinking of people (and not only people) who do not have gender separation in their language. But the book is interesting not only this, but also a good dynamic plot. The distant future, the conquest of the worlds, huge space fleets and the incredibly developed claims of the ships. All this is present in the proper amount - justifying the genre. The second book is more local - everything happens on one planet, and this slightly smears the overall impression.

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Sergey Zharkovsky

(?) I, Hobo: Death Times

• In the plans.

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Jack McDevit

Cycle Alex Benedict

(3+) Military Talent

• It seems that a good space maker, a bunch of technologies, is not boring to read, but I did not know. The book is good, but this genre - cosmic Indiana Jones does not touch me.

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Ian macdonald

(5-) Dervish House

• Very bright and dynamic book, fiction near future. In it, as in the eastern bazaar, almost incompatible merged and mixed: nanotechnology and ancient Arab myths, antiques and the latest achievements of robotics. All this is brewed among Eastern families with huge pedigrees and dozens of relatives who decide the politics and history of the country, together with gas tycoons and ultramodern exchanges. The book cannot be called a cyberpunk, but in its mood it is similar to Gibson's early books, in terms of the richness and density of the story. It has several parallel-perpendicular storylines, which, like springs, with each page are increasingly tense and tightly tied into a knot - by the fate of people living in the old house of a dervish, that would explode at a rapid decoupling.
  
  He put a minus only for the fact that one of the key events was literally covered with a couple of words, and it was possible to arrange a dynamic cyberpunk chapter.
  Small spoiler about it

  The process of gas theft was completely ignored, and it would be possible to wind up the connection to the servers, hacking control commands, a bunch of well-coordinated work of several people in seconds, and so on.
  
  Plus - a very dubious story about the storage of information in the cells of organs. — , , . .
  
  

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Cycle Space of Revelation

(5) 1. Space of Revelation , 2. City of the Abyss , 3. Ark of Salvation , 4. The Abyss of Atonement . 5. Prefect

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  Fascinating and interesting, but a bit disappointing.

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Al robertson

(?) Hacked Heaven

• In the plans.

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Kim Stanley Robinson

Cycle Martian trilogy

(4+) Red Mars

• An interesting series of books, a production novel on the theme of the exploration of Mars. Later read continue, while this genre does not pull.
  
  
  
  Separate "merci" translator. On the one hand, he made it possible to read this book in Russian, on the other hand there are so many blunders ... “Half Pass” is not as cool as “mouse head over the fireplace” and “mouse is the most formidable gummy beast” - but also very “powerful”.

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Andrzej Sapkowski

(3+) Snake

• I read the book by inertia, for all the other books of Sapkowski. A strange genre, not the most interesting plot, in this book there is nothing that readers love for Andrzej. Not mine.

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(3) Thunderstorm season , the ninth of the well-known Witcher cycle

• Also read by inertia, since I read and reread the entire Witcher cycle, this one also had to be read. I can no longer remember what it is and there is no desire to re-read it, I didn’t catch it at all.

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Charles strauss

(?) Sky singularity

• In the plans.

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Peter Watts

Cycle Rifters

(5+) 1. Starfish , 2. Whirlpool , 3. Betamote

• The author needs no introduction. I re-read the first two books before reading the third, which was only published in translation by that time.
  
  Real hard sains fiction! Very dynamic and bright!

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False blindness

(5+) cycle 1. False blindness , 2. Echopraxia

• I read the first book before taking up Ekhopraksiya.
  
  This "true hard sains fiction"! Rich and dynamic action!

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(5+) On the Other Side of the Rift

• Watts' story collection in different genres, many of them are written in the spirit of Lem, some resemble Bradbury. Interesting and thought-provoking.

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Alexander Uralov

0 Long Watch

• I was recommended to this book on Flibuste as another “well, read samizdat, maybe you will like it”. It was enough to just start and almost immediately quit, predictable sludge.

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Michael Francis Flynn

Cycle Spiral Sleeve

(5) Dancer January

• Excellent kosmoopera new wave. It can be found in common with both the Vinge Depth and Reynolds Revelation. Be sure to read the sequels, when ripe for this genre.

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Vitaly Frolov

(2+) Ostrich Civilization

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Cycle Path Kefauchi

(5, 3+, 3-) 1. Light , 2. Emptiness , 3. Nova Swing

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  But if you read all the books in one fell swoop - maybe you will like it, I know people who exactly the story from the Picnic in the trilogy - I liked the most, but I did not know. On the fan.

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Liu Cysin

Cycle In memory of the Earth’s past

(5-, 4+, 4+) 1. The three-body task , 2. The dark forest , 3. The eternal life of death [without illustrations] 2.5 MB , or 3. The eternal life of death [full bar . with illustrations] 10 MB

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• I decided to re-read the whole Zelazny cycle about Amber and Chaos, not for the first time and - I feel, not the last. Something touches me this world ...
  
  
  
  Well, by inertia, after one of the mentions - I decided to read this craft too. Then he remembered that he had already read it once. Bullshit-garbage. Not worth the time spent.

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Stephen Erickson

Cycle Malazan's "Book of the Fallen"

(5) 1. Gardens of the Moon , 2. Gates of the Dead House , 3. Memory of Ice

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(5+) Harry Potter and Rational Thinking Techniques

• This book stands alone on my virtual shelf. In short - this is one of the best books in the last 10 years I have read.
  
  If not short ...
  
  
  
  A few facts: I read it three times and prepare for the fact that I am ripe to read it for the fourth time; and in the interim - I re-read all the books about this Harry, and reviewed all the films - only in order to more fully and objectively imagine Yadkovsky's banter over the source.
  
  
  
  The book is very ambiguous and multifaceted. It has at least two books. Cheerful fanfic on the theme of GP, with an absolutely incredible and grotesque character in the role of the GP himself. By its nature, it can be compared to Monday ABS - “a fairy tale for researchers, younger people”, an attempt to scientifically comprehend the magic of Rowling’s world and to combine it with technology. The second book is about “rational thinking”, in which the philosophy of the scientific method and scientific way of thinking, critical and rational, where only what can be tested without cognitive distortion and other self-deception is accepted, is not revealed in the simplest, but very entertaining way.
  
  
  
  In the book there is both Russell's Teapot, and Feynman, and the Stanford experiment, and much more from the methodology of the scientific method. What is missing is the Flying Spaghetti Monster! :)
  
  I strongly recommend to agree with Yudkovsky in the approach to reading - read at least up to 10 chapters and only then make a decision - read it further, or quit. Because not everyone likes the book and is perceived extremely polar - it evokes either “delight” or “disgust”, without semitones.
  
  
  
  From me a big thanks to the translators - the work was titanic, here is the Russian translation site: http://hpmor.ru/

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