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<blockquote data-quote="Dakki" data-source="post: 105068" data-attributes="member: 1215"><p>Forgot to mention Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, both by Neal Stephenson. The only cyberpunk I've read I'd bother reading again.</p><p></p><p>Isaac Asimov edited this great series of books titled something like "The Best Science Fiction Short Stories of 19XX," "The Best Science Fiction Short Stories with Robots" and so on. They had them at my school library and maybe they spoiled SciFi for me by giving me unrealistic expectations. After reading through them the current stuff rarely measured up, not just in the quality of the writing but also in the sense that they informed my idea of what "real" SciFi should be like. The current stuff all seems to be "a war novel set in the future," "a hardboiled detective story set in the future" and so on rather than "real" SciFi, if that makes sense.</p><p></p><p>Sorry for the double post, the forum 404's when I try to edit my prev. post.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dakki, post: 105068, member: 1215"] Forgot to mention Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, both by Neal Stephenson. The only cyberpunk I've read I'd bother reading again. Isaac Asimov edited this great series of books titled something like "The Best Science Fiction Short Stories of 19XX," "The Best Science Fiction Short Stories with Robots" and so on. They had them at my school library and maybe they spoiled SciFi for me by giving me unrealistic expectations. After reading through them the current stuff rarely measured up, not just in the quality of the writing but also in the sense that they informed my idea of what "real" SciFi should be like. The current stuff all seems to be "a war novel set in the future," "a hardboiled detective story set in the future" and so on rather than "real" SciFi, if that makes sense. Sorry for the double post, the forum 404's when I try to edit my prev. post. [/QUOTE]
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