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Is it bad that I read that as "...until the apocalypse and we can all rest in our adhoc graves" and then thought "phew, I can make it that far I think" ?
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Commonwealth is a good series yes. In general PFH does a good job of explaining things without deus-ex-machina type situations.
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I kinda thought of those as thought-entities running on a compute substrate which was out of "phase" with normal space. But it has been many years since I last read those books :D
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Aah I quite like mysticism approaches sometimes :D The reverse-time-travel things were really interesting to me as a way to look across mysticism as well.
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You should get on with that. Some of the Elijah Bailey books are wonderful. I imagine Rammstein in my head while reading them since about 2000 when I spent a lovely summer with those books and rammstein on my mp3 player :D
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Oh I *adore* Asimov's worldbuilding and love the anachronisms in his futurisms. Such as the robots operating a physical control panel to operate the video-phone equivalent; or actually speaking to each other rather than using local-area wireless :D
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The science parts of the series are fascinating, especially how close to plausible a lot of the non-medical portions are.
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Mmm, 3 was my least favourite too (though it does tie useful knots in a lot of the story) - I think 2 is my favourite with 1 a very very close second. I like a lot of the world-building in 2 which was less present in 1 in favour of the science :D
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