Big Dumb Objects
2010-Sep-22, Wednesday 23:18![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matgbRandom coincidences can be cool. I recently reread Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama for the first time since I was a kid, and read Niven's Ringworld for the first time ever. Today, I started to read Eric Brown's Helix. Then I twigged the common theme.
I don't normally go for BDO/megastructure themed stories, but have really enjoyed the first two; both are flawed and dated in some social attitudes, although Rama was surprisingly progressive in some areas. But apart from Orbitsville, which I reread a decade ago and decided not to do so again (always a risk when you re-encounter something you loved as a kid, Thundercats and Star Cops suffered really badly with this), I'm not aware of any other books/series specifically about BDOs, and while TVtropes mentions the Culture novels, they're not about the BDOs, they merely contain lots of them (and I think I've now read them all anyway).
So, given a) I'm a lazy git and b) it's a nice subject to talk about, what else should I be ordering from the library in order to read?
I don't normally go for BDO/megastructure themed stories, but have really enjoyed the first two; both are flawed and dated in some social attitudes, although Rama was surprisingly progressive in some areas. But apart from Orbitsville, which I reread a decade ago and decided not to do so again (always a risk when you re-encounter something you loved as a kid, Thundercats and Star Cops suffered really badly with this), I'm not aware of any other books/series specifically about BDOs, and while TVtropes mentions the Culture novels, they're not about the BDOs, they merely contain lots of them (and I think I've now read them all anyway).
So, given a) I'm a lazy git and b) it's a nice subject to talk about, what else should I be ordering from the library in order to read?
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Date: 2010-Sep-23, Thursday 08:31 (UTC)Specifically, I think the only Reynolds I haven't read is short stories not yet in his collections, and I own most of his books (bot not the recent stuff, which the library has).
And I was the first person to read the new library copy of the new laundry book, they ordered it for me before it was published. I like my library staff.