The Egg (2009)

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227 points jxmorris12 | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 11:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | 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]▶

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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. bodine30 ◴[31 Mar 25 17:32 UTC] No.43537537[source]▶

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I had similar feelings for PHM, but it was hard to put a finger on why. I enjoyed it well enough to make it to the end, but I think I have a limited appetite for his "authorial voice". I read it directly after The Bone Clocks and remember thinking I missed David Mitchell's "voice" and wishing there were a way to experience books through another author's voice. Outside the copyright concerns, this could be an interesting use case for AI, a cover band for literature. It's definitely the only way we'll ever get Wes Anderson Star Wars

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