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Thank you. When I think of completely different takes, I think of “The Golden Oecumene” trilogy by John C. Wright: “The Golden Age”, “The Phoenix Exultant”, and “The Golden Transcendence”.

Also, these are not to be missed:

- “The Fall Revolution” tetralogy by Ken MacLeod: “The Star Fraction”, “The Stone Canal”, “The Cassini Division”, and “The Sky Road”

- “Void Star” by Zachary Mason

- “Singularity Sky” by Charles Stross

- “The Freeze-Frame Revolution” by Peter Watts

- “Perfekcyjna niedoskonałość” by Jacek Dukaj

- “A Fire Upon the Deep” and “A Deepness in the Sky” by Vernor Vinge

- “Gnomon” by Nick Harkaway

- the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks



I've read Singularity Sky, and Iron Sunrise. Also read http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/09/books-i-...

> My first two published SF novels, "Singularity Sky" and "Iron Sunrise", have a long and tangled history. And I figure it's probably worth (a) explaining why there won't be a third one in that particular series, and (b) spoilering the plot thread I had kicking around that would have been in the third Eschaton novel if I was going to write it.

Freeze Frame Revolution I've enjoyed - I need to read the rest of that universe. https://www.goodreads.com/series/168556-sunflower-cycle

I've read Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky - The Children of the Sky is also on my reading list.

In high school I read Consider Phlebas and I need to do a read of the entirety of the series in one go.

I'll put the others on my to read list.


Having just finished “Conventions of War”, I must say I am highly impressed with Walter Jon Williams. I wonder what he did before becoming a writer.




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