Literary comeback

[elarbee]

When we drove a lot the weekend before last, we started listening to an audiobook, William Gibson's Zero History. We got more than halfway, but Andy decided that he doesn't care enough about it and I finished it on my own, in 20 minute bursts. I was getting a bit tired of NPR and my seldom-updated music collection, so I've decided to switch to audiobooks altogether. Even my retrograde technology has gotten far enough to make it easy to do in or out of the car - I've been using an older Androidphone. I really could have put it on my current phone, but marusja, you're right, its battery does suck.

Back to the pertinent subject: I am finally starting to read non-internets again! I liked Zero History, I just started Neal Stephenson's Anathem and I liked his The Diamond Age and Snow Crash.

What else should I read?
I like cyberpunk, space, aliens, near-future, apocalyptic and hard sci-fi.
I don't like supernatural, steampunk, horror, fantasy or romance.

Comments

[elarbee.livejournal.com]

I've read the Amazon reviews for Reamde and I'm not sure I'll put it at the top of my list, I don't want anything that's too close to my former life of intelligence analysis. I just had a nightmare about that last night.

I will look up the rest of these, thank you! I actually just encountered Vinge and Banks at my source, so they'll be in my queue.