House Party In Space
I’m about 500 pages into the first book, The Reality Dysfunction, of Peter F. Hamilton’s “The Night’s Dawn Trilogy” and so far I’m loving it.
Part of the reason I like it is because some of the main characters, the “Edenists” are similar to the post-human Culture of Iain Banks’ books. One of the key differences is that instead of having their main technologies be based on computers, the Edenists grow their sentient starships and habitats out of a substance called “bitek” (that I can only assume is short for “bio-technology”). This gives both their habitats and ships personality and sentience, with the Edenists connected to them via a telepathic affinity bond.
Like a lot of the sci-fi I’ve been reading lately, its full of huge ideas and takes place on an epic scale. Reading it, I feel the same way that I do when I look at that picture of the astronaut floating above the earth.
I added the tracks from the XX below because they definitely have a spacey-feel. If you listen closely to the lyrics of “Shelter,” it almost sounds like they were written about the Edenists and their living technology. The original version of this track is pretty good, but I really like the the rework that Death to the Throne gives it.
The XX - Shelter (Death to the Throne Remix)
The XX - Basic Space (The Astronomer Remix)
Joachim Garraud - Back From Space (Frederico Fanchi Remix) (via the always-classy Palms Out)
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From https://199x.org House Party In Space http://bit.ly/7Tq5ug
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@kbadid amazing? yeah pretty much: http://bit.ly/7L3hh0
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The XX, “Basic Space” (Astronomer Remix), (stream) (mp3) - Ant: this version has a cool late night bounce to it. I … http://ow.ly/16b5sK
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Cool, that was one of my favorite series growing up.
Such a pity that negative folk are out there baying for a pound of flesh.
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