Book Club (Feb 2018)

[stevebowers]

I'm on board with this.

Regarding possible reading material, I'm going to suggest a couple options:

The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks - Think OA meets David Brin's Uplift Universe. An ancient galactic civilization, in which humanity is rather small potatoes. There is intrigue, adventure, looming war, and a lot of complexity and general strangeness. Works as a good read and as possible inspiration for how space opera might work within the OA setting.
Todd

I've mentioned The Algebraist on this forum before. Banks uses as a major plot point that a wormhole can be destroyed by a relativistic mass- in this case an asteroid. Sounds to me like he read some of the same sources as Adam- either that or he read Adam's paper on the subject itself. I guess we'll never know now.