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[the_siobhan]

The last three books I've read all featured a floating city built out of boats lashed together.

To be fair, I haven't read much science fiction lately. Did floating cities suddenly get to be a major trope while I wasn't looking?

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Saw Milk last night. Teared up during the final scene. I'm turning into a big wuss.

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You know those movies where people just wake up one day and the world is completely deserted? They walk through echoing streets trying to figure out where everybody is, but the only other living beings are pigeons and the occasional rat scurrying through an alley?

Travelling to work at 6 AM today felt a lot like that. Except the subways were still running.

Comments

[eveofdstruction.livejournal.com]

One must be Scar, but what are the other 2 books? Inquiring minds want to know.

[emzebel.livejournal.com]

This!

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

That was the first one.

The second was Against A Dark Background (http://www.amazon.com/Against-Dark-Background-Iain-Banks/dp/0553292250) and Snow Crash was the third.

[eveofdstruction.livejournal.com]

Thanks! You were right about Scar btw. I couldn't put it down.

[shara.livejournal.com]

Was one of them Snow Crash? (this is a good game...)

[marchenland.livejournal.com]

I was gonna ask the same...

[greylock.livejournal.com]

As was I (except I confused it for The Diamond Age).

[artistatlarge.livejournal.com]

Another vote for the excellence of Snow Crash.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Yep. That was number three.

The Scar was the first and Against A Dark Background (http://www.amazon.com/Against-Dark-Background-Iain-Banks/dp/0553292250) was the second.

[zenmonkeykstop.livejournal.com]

Kensington on the night of the 26th was apocalyptically empty. It was getting a bit creepy, but then someone appeared from nowhere and tried to sell me the drugs.

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

Was another floating boat city book Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan?

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

No, but now I'm going to have to hunt it down.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

*laugh* That's *exactly* how it felt driving to work here this morning. Evidently a lot of people take the entire Christmas-to-New Year's stretch off. Lucky bastards.

[eciklb.livejournal.com]

Yep. One of my colleagues startled the crud out of me today; I figured I'd be the only one there, and I had been for several hours, when suddenly he popped up out of nowhere.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I haven't read much science fiction lately. Did floating cities suddenly get to be a major trope while I wasn't looking?

Dude, Waterworld was re-assessed for the classic it is.

[unagothae.livejournal.com]

I've totally turned into a wuss over the last couple of years. Used to be movies NEVER made me cry, especially if I'd seen them before, ESPECIALLY if the acting was mediocre.

Freaking Hallmark channel drek makes me bawl. Seeing someone suffering loss rips me up every single time.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

It seems to really hit me when the story is based on actual events. Hotel Rwanda made me bawl like a baby.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Re Milk: You and me both.

[xthlcm.livejournal.com]

I *heart* China Mieville. I just got finished with a short story collection called The New Weird (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1892391554/) that's pretty good -- apparently he's part of a new genre movement or something.

[peculiaire.livejournal.com]

I teared up both times I saw Milk, and I am not ashamed to say it!

I felt really lucky to see it at the Castro, too. I was all "Wait, I know that place! It's 50 yards away from me!"

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, bcholmes and I kept saying, "We've been there!"

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

And, so often, in those movies, there aren't even any bodies laying around. WTF happens to them?

[planktonnn.livejournal.com]

.happy b day for the 2nd :-)

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Completely OT!!!!!!!!!

[liz-lowlife.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, beautiful! XXXX

Re: Completely OT!!!!!!!!!

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you so much.