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The Egg (2009)

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227 points jxmorris12 | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 11:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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xutopia ◴[31 Mar 25 13:09 UTC] No.43534641[source]▶
I can't recommend this author enough. Project Hail Mary and The Martian are amazing works of science fiction. Project Hail Mary is actually amazing as an audiobook.
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jpm_sd ◴[31 Mar 25 13:41 UTC] No.43534953[source]▶
I enjoyed The Martian (novel and movie) but I didn't care for Artemis or Project Hail Mary. I thought the characters and dialogue were fairly weak, even though the underlying ideas were clever. Also I thought that "main character amnesia" was a frustrating plot device (in PHM).

Overall, his authorial voice reminds me a lot of YouTube hosts? Perhaps that's just the cultural moment we're in.

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1. nartho ◴[31 Mar 25 15:20 UTC] No.43536058[source]▶
His stories are always extremely clever and he has an insane sense of rythm. But I hate his style, it reads like a giant Reddit post. My wife asked why I kept complaining about this book I couldn't put down.