Comments on: The Android’s Dream on AbeBook’s Best of the Decade List http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/02/the-androids-dream-on-abebooks-best-of-the-decade-list/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: RBH http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/02/the-androids-dream-on-abebooks-best-of-the-decade-list/#comment-181001 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:46:50 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9231#comment-181001 By a nice coincidence, I started re-reading Android’s Dream just last night. Good to see my judgment vindicated. :)

]]> By: EternalDensity http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/02/the-androids-dream-on-abebooks-best-of-the-decade-list/#comment-180220 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:30:58 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9231#comment-180220 Bravo, that’s a fun book :D

]]> By: Luisa Perkins http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/02/the-androids-dream-on-abebooks-best-of-the-decade-list/#comment-180044 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:44:29 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9231#comment-180044 Nice company, indeed! And well-deserved. Bravo.

]]> By: KenS http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/02/the-androids-dream-on-abebooks-best-of-the-decade-list/#comment-180011 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:22:07 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9231#comment-180011 One of the funniest things I’ve done was watching my son-in-law’s face as he read the first chapter, Priceless! Since then, every fart joke reminds me of A’s D.

]]> By: Chris G. http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/02/the-androids-dream-on-abebooks-best-of-the-decade-list/#comment-179861 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:05:39 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9231#comment-179861 I’m chiming in on the side of Android’s Dream as well. An excellent book, which is why I reviewed it early in my podcast – the first regular review, in fact, after calibrating High (“Good Omens”) and Low (“Series of Unfortunate Events”). It definitely deserves all the praise it gets.

I do need to get the Old Man’s War books in there at some point. I think I’m missing a couple, though….

]]> By: Thena http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/02/the-androids-dream-on-abebooks-best-of-the-decade-list/#comment-179855 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:55:59 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9231#comment-179855 I bought TAD for my birthday this year and when I was mid-read my other half asked me what it was.

“This has got to be the weirdest fucking thing I have ever read. But it’s good.”

“Who is it by?”

“Scalzi. The bacon cat guy.”

“Oh, right. He’s pretty good.”

I loaned it to him later and mid-way through asked him what he thought.

“This is the weirdest fucking thing I’ve ever read in my life. But it’s good. Does he have any more in this universe?”

“Not yet. I’ll put them on my Christmas list if he ever does.”

]]> By: Patrick http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/02/the-androids-dream-on-abebooks-best-of-the-decade-list/#comment-179830 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:19:33 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9231#comment-179830 Always been my favorite work of yours, John.

I remember picking it up early in 2008. I think it may have been the first book I read by you. And oh if it didn’t open up a wonderland of fantastical stories to my feeble little mind!

]]> By: Victhor http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/02/the-androids-dream-on-abebooks-best-of-the-decade-list/#comment-179762 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:11:33 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9231#comment-179762 Androids is one of my favorite books of all time. It is incredible.

]]> By: Kevin S. http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/02/the-androids-dream-on-abebooks-best-of-the-decade-list/#comment-179701 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:24:27 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9231#comment-179701 I think I’ll read The Android’s Dream sometime next year. I read all of Old Man’s War this year and really enjoyed it. Looking back I’ve read a ton of books about war this year, so I’m setting next year’s reading agenda for lighter subject matter and a little bit of nonfiction.

]]> By: Craig Ranapia http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/12/02/the-androids-dream-on-abebooks-best-of-the-decade-list/#comment-179678 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:34:33 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=9231#comment-179678 The best review I ever heard of TAD came from a friend I bullied into reading it, despite her dismissal of SF as bullshit for poorly-socialised man-children.

“This is really really funny.”

“Ha-ha, or weird and creepy?”

“Ha-ha.”

Word — anyone who can make a chapter long fart joke not only pants-pissingly funny, but stuff in a lot of world-building and make it an essential part of the plot at the same time is a big bag of win.

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