>>25290920
I re-read the lost world every 3-4 years. Good stuff.

>>25290920
Eaters of the Dead

>>25290920

— The Andromeda Strain
Slightly dated (it's the 1970s trying to be cool with their silly clunky computers and so on) but still very solid and pretty much entirely plausible.

— The Terminal Man
Plausible, tense. Not quite the comfy vibe of the others; a bit nastier somehow.

— Jurassic Park
Much better than the film.

— Congo
All right I guess. Amy is fun. A million times better than the film. Not really much science. Story is a bit slight.

— Timeline
Lots of fun but you have to just ignore all the "science". Time travel is bollocks and his attempts to explain it via quantum mechanics are embarrassing. It's basically a swashbuckling medieval adventure.

— Sphere
All right I suppose but you get time travel AND supernatural alien artifacts so there's a lot of disbelief to suspend. The prickly black mathematician is a well-written high-IQ character though.

— Rising Sun
Solid but just a straight thriller really, not much science.

— Disclosure
Like the above but not as good. No science (none that matters anyway).

— Prey
OK but felt a bit slight. Like a short story expanded. Probably written with an eye to a film but for some reason they haven't made it.

— The Lost World
One dinosaur book was enough.

— The Great Train Robbery
He clearly wrote this because he liked the thieves' argot, the language of the Victorian criminal underground. He wanted to write a book with that in. Non-fiction, no science really but it's not bad.

>>25290959
>Lots of fun but you have to just ignore all the "science".
How was it? Quantum bubbles made with some king of ceramic or plastic?

>>25290965
Yeah he basically uses the Many-Worlds Interpretation of QM to explain how you can go back to the past. You just "go to another universe that happens to be the past of this universe" (but things you do there miraculously affect the present of THIS universe). He handwaves a lot:

— Shrink people down to the level of quantum foam
— errr . . . magic happens
— TIME TRAVEL!

>>25290981
I should add that the word "wormhole" gets thrown around a lot. You have been warned.

>>25290920
I really enjoyed that part in Airframe where the protagonist had to somehow sneak around in VR because that's the best way she could access some secret company files

>>25290992
I haven't read that one. MC thought VR was going to be the Next Big Thing, by the look of it. He shoe-horns it into Disclosure, for no good reason. (Possibly just so the book can have some vaguely cutting-edge science; there's nothing else.)

>>25290959
>one dinosaur book was enough
gay take. Both of the dinosaur books are very fun throughout

>>25290942
>what if Beowulf was based on a historical account grounded in reality
>but also literal fantasy dwarves exist

>>25290920
Billy and the Clonosaurus

>>25291162
The feral midgets are neanderthal.

>>25290942
+1

Sphere. I feel like it's a book everyone universally loves. It's very nice to read and keeps you hooked from the first page.

>>25291006
VR has been on the cusp of going mainstream for the last 4 years. I think people were just so impressed by the rate at which ICs and UI/UX was evolving at the time that it just felt obvious
>punch cards
>terminals
>GUIs
VR just felt like the next step forward. They just didn't realize at the time how much fidelity to "real life" was required so that people wouldn't feel sick and how long it would take to miniaturize screens to an acceptable size and resolution

>>25292415
I'm surprised no one has made as shotty extraction shooter based on Sphere yet

The premise has a diegetic excuse for all of the mechanics

>>25291162
>if your baby is born with a giant, burly cock, give him to the little men who live underground. It’s a great honor.
What did Criton mean by this?

>>25290920
State of Fear