None of which interest me in the slightest. I have had a life goal for years, to read and understand Gravitation by Misner Thorne and Wheeler (http://bit.ly/3BSQk6h) the authoritative tome on general relativity, and far over my head; I thought I had many years left but suddenly I don't; a sequel to a book I found so disappointing is not in the stars, sorry.
REAMDE isn't a sequel to anything. Most of his stuff is standalone, other than the Baroque Cycle (and Cryptonomicon which is ostensibly a sorta kinda first book in that series). Mongoliad has 3 volumes (last I looked), but it's a collaboration.
Sonny Bunch was hoping for a sequel to Seveneves, that's what I was responding to. My disappointment with that book's ending was something I could feel in my viscera. I gave the guy another chance, he let me down hard. I managed to finish Cryptonomicon but I will never read it again; I couldn't stand Anathem. Just ... awful. Goo-goo about high finance has no appeal to me. I lived through the dotcoms and the condescending financial types I met revolted me. "What's the 'Periodic Table'?"
But hope springs eternal. It's hard to believe that someone who did work as fine as Snow and Diamond will never have another great book in him, so I bought the new one. But if it's another look-at-me letdown, it's the end.
I love REAMDE and it's only nominally about "video games"; really, it's about money and finances and the internationalization of commerce.
None of which interest me in the slightest. I have had a life goal for years, to read and understand Gravitation by Misner Thorne and Wheeler (http://bit.ly/3BSQk6h) the authoritative tome on general relativity, and far over my head; I thought I had many years left but suddenly I don't; a sequel to a book I found so disappointing is not in the stars, sorry.
REAMDE isn't a sequel to anything. Most of his stuff is standalone, other than the Baroque Cycle (and Cryptonomicon which is ostensibly a sorta kinda first book in that series). Mongoliad has 3 volumes (last I looked), but it's a collaboration.
Sonny Bunch was hoping for a sequel to Seveneves, that's what I was responding to. My disappointment with that book's ending was something I could feel in my viscera. I gave the guy another chance, he let me down hard. I managed to finish Cryptonomicon but I will never read it again; I couldn't stand Anathem. Just ... awful. Goo-goo about high finance has no appeal to me. I lived through the dotcoms and the condescending financial types I met revolted me. "What's the 'Periodic Table'?"
But hope springs eternal. It's hard to believe that someone who did work as fine as Snow and Diamond will never have another great book in him, so I bought the new one. But if it's another look-at-me letdown, it's the end.