My favourite author by a mile!!!

@@aishalotter9995 same

Yessss. Love his novels.

Agreed

Having just worked through most of the books after Jingles recommended them, I heartily agree.

Imagination that game is too full of BS on the screen to tell a story properly, it lacks anything but a million shits to relation to. Read some books Cyber_childz, write some of your own, with the pathways you've taken in FTL playthroughs make them in fan fics. Games to packed with management and crap to actually let you experience the story telling part. It's too reallocate resources for this campaign, or built this and mine this. I don't carew w here's the travel part?? That rock I don't care is it a story , no get it the F away from me. I hate games like that, it's NO game at all and it's literally become over zealous or too RTS and management crap and not enough gameplay game. (TM) Hate that game too. Five seconds of game for 20 minutes of understanding and reading for ONE item F U devs. Jolly Wangcore plays that and it can't be good for him, look at him he plays shitty Half Life mods for a LIVING in his spare time just to have any semblance of fun as a Twitch Streamer. Sad really, go play Halo with sum buds you'll feel better Jolly. And as for you commentor, go play some video games and not that crap. You are restricting yourself too much. Did you have a Court Judge for a father and a Priestess mother? Just go the F outside and go the E store and pick up Deep Rock Galactic for crying out loud and have some fucking fun for once GAMES are NOT JOBS that is for the corpos, game deving is having half the fun in the original idea and making it better for more people. I can tell you Halo 3 and Bungie Days were FAR better than any shit 343 has farted out. Never mind Destiny being better than Halo 5, and Fortnite beating out ANY Royale game in the market, AND the best anticheat and still fun as long as you have your own fun in it. LOZ TOTK is the Fortnite of Dark Souls. That is a video game. Gun V 1 that is a game. Minecraft, is a video game. KOTOR II (Content Restoration Mod) and SWOTOR, Jedi Fallen Order is a game. I am saying those are fun and you can make stories in them. FTL is there to make you wish you had a better game to play, think Hagan Daes and Blue Bunny. Resource management is not fun, punking it up in Cyberpunk 2020 but with some friends in the modern era would be better than the awful 1980s and their era of "Asbestos" and crap tech and minimal understanding in medicine and biotechnology. Gray Goo, they just had that in place of "Nano machines" "Clones" for MJ plants, back in the day they called them "Cuttings". Don't make me laugh young one. Go have some fun and experience what a real video game can be an can do for you. If I played FTL I'd be wondering the whole time when do I get out of the tutorial and into the real meat and potatoes of the game. Nope, it's all one big tutorial on how to troll people. Look, Inventory management is not a game either but there is more to Fallout 4 than just bad NPC programming (Preston) Settlement building (shacks and shanties b/c who cares) "every time you add a mod on console it makes game more unstable" and then on PC people lie and say they have a trillion or X amount, absolutely unrealistically and proud of their effing lies to a console gamer that's "Amazingly stupid" and a total fabrication. You want to kill yourself slaving over nothing or do you want to have fun and be frustrated for normal reasons? Clothes, do you want your ass raised up more, or do you want to be able to walk without stilts? Functionality and agency. Comfortable or realistic? Realistically Asimov's Perfect Man will just get the rest of us killed while he doesn't effing care bout nothing but the "one" they might love as most SCp spin offs are from there. Mr. Perfect doesn't have empathy. Pathetic what a tin can. Tin Man. All byte but none of the bark. Gunna have a baby with Mr. Tin Man, no sperm. Build more of the perfect devils, fine destroy humanity and replace them with literal cheap mock imitations. You will never have the real thing after that ever again You are losing something truly unique for "cybernetic Immortality as Asimov's Perfect Man. Not truly human all the way but with none of the draw back better than human ever but somehow still a monster. What's an alcoholic drink without the kick of the alcohol and the lasting effects? (Bioshock Infinite's Burial At Sea part 1 had the best video game whiskey, it lasts. a WHILE) Synthetic alcohol, you lose it weakness and deliver in place sobriety of drinking one glass of water no matter how much you drink of the synth alch and you get sober. What is perfect without the Imperfections to make them perfect in the first place. Games wearing the clothes of a sheep are not fun. What are emotions without the illogical nature of feeling and consequence, guilt? Those are real and FTL is just a term for Faster Than Light travel we can't stand, we will be turned to goo. That is also very real. Red Dead 2 is MORE realistic, and realism like say GTA 5 or CoD is more fake in terms of realism. Think Uncanny Vally. Metal Gear is the best of the two areas. Metal Gear 5 TPP and from Snake Eater, Sons of the Patriots to Ground Zeros goes even further in that department.

He is the BEST by far!

He's got Book of the New Sun on his shelf too I can't help but notice :)

I haven't been back to Reynolds' work for a while, but Chasm City and The Prefect are VERY high up on list of my favorite books. I need to read Inhibitor Phase, but his series books are lower for me than his standalone books.

i also loved chasm city but i also read consider phlebas first which was a great introduction

@@mattrobson3603 I've only read the trilogy, and it's good, but I have issues with it. I really should read Chasm City. And I've also got House of Suns very high on my TBR (just based on the synopsis and how higly others rate it).

@@Mentat1231 I loved House of Suns as well. I don't know if what you didn't like about the RS trilogy is the same stuff I disliked (but if you thought the Irravel Veda bookend for the last book wasn't good, and the ending was extremely rushed, and supposedly important elements were given almost no time or explanation...we're probably on at least a bit of the same page.) Maybe Inhibitor Phase hits a lot of what I didn't care for and retroactively makes the other books better, I don't know. I do know that Chasm City and House of Suns both do a better job of creating a big, interesting universe, putting characters in it, and then unfolding a plot in a fashion that mostly zips along and - possibly most importantly - comes to a solid ending.

The ending is horrible though imo. Everything else about it is pretty good, more or less.

❤❤ me too

I started my Alistair Reynolds fanhood with Chasm City, I love it.

@@mrlinden I wrote a paper I grad school about the form of government in Chasm City.

I feel like that is one of his more lackluster stories. I highly recommend House of Suns

@@MarkJustice85, I loved that one too!

Most people don't realize this, but Alastair Reynolds is like the Tolkien of science fiction, not because of he shaped a whole genre, but because some of his stories has some subtle religion themes imbeded on it, some stories of him, like Beyond the Aquila Rift are filled to the brim with christian symbolism, and not presented in a bad light. Also, heavy Mass Effect vibes with his stories!

I love the Revenger series and Terminal World. They're just so different to traditional scifi

Wow, we think alike!

Me too, by a long shot, in fact is the best of the entire anthology! Did you actually read the short story?

@@efxnews4776 I have not read the short story..but its in my over 1000 page Alastair Reynolds' Collection. So hopefully Ill get to it later this year.

I think it would take a real genius to adapt Reynolds adequately to screen, and that wasn’t born yet

@@unixux Actually, Beyond the Aquila Rift is almost perfect, it isn't identical to the original story, but actually complement the original one without stray away from the source material. You should definetely watch, and theres also Zima Blue too.

At first I was thinking "Oh great, Teen Sci-fi" with Revenger but it unfolded into a great series!

Me two love his work except the one with the uplifted elephants, I couldn’t get into it, might give it another go though, just coz he’s such a good writer!

What did you think of Terminal World and the Revenger series? It's a bit more fantastical than his other stories but that's also what makes em fun imo ;) I still think either of them would be sick for a TTRPG with some tweaking.

I got so excited that I commented before the video was over. Glad to see Chasm City got mentioned at the end. That book is nuts.

> A trailblazer is a person who is paving the way in their particular field for future generations. I must, so very much disagree. These novels simply do not sound interesting in the slightest. They just sound like taking what others have written before and changing it slightly. Hardly "trailblazing" worthy acclaim.

@@Zeithri You haven't read the novels, have you? He's not paving any paths in the general sci-fi category, but rather his sort of bleak, eerie, noir-like genre of a haunted space. Yeah, maybe "trailblazing" is a bit much. He definitely rehashes ideas of the Greats before him. I grew up on Revelation Space so there's a nostalgia component to my opinion. But I've never read anything like this works since. There are scenes and images from the novels that have just stuck with me. I've read a fair amount of contemporary sci-fi and Reynolds is up there in my top 5. (Only counting his works nearer the 2000s. His more recent stuff has started choking on page quotas and woke.)

i think trailblazing is a fair description, shame about the 3rd book, but whatever, the first 2 are original and deserve whatever praise people wanna put on them.