• PolarKraken@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    This post really doesn’t call for this comment but here we go -

    One of my favorite authors wrote at least one book in a setting where many galactic civilizations have come and largely gone, and treasure hunters try to “crack baubles” - break into old vaults and such left behind. Think Space Indiana Jones! But what’s really compelling and brain melty to me is that these civilizations used entirely unknown tech and physics in some cases. So they’re trying to break into and steal things they cannot possibly even comprehend, which is SO foolish and so fucking cool, and if that were available to me, my curiosity would utterly demand I keep at it until dead or worse.

    Book is Revenger by Alastair Reynolds. Plus it’s got one of the scariest fuckin pirates ever, so I mean, Space Indiana Jones with horrifying unknown tech treasure and implacable, immortal(?) pirate villains…that’s gonna be a strong recommendation for the right flavor of reader lmao.

      • PolarKraken@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        7 hours ago

        Hmm, I don’t remember much, and not in his books in general. Although I am the kind of reader that’s wholly uninterested (no shade to those who feel differently!) - but it’s entirely possible it’s there and my brain doesn’t really hold onto it! But put bluntly his stories are usually bleak, romance would fit a little oddly.

    • CelloMike@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      16 hours ago

      Huge fan of Reynolds here! Been a while since I read the Revenger series but I remember being amazed by the quantum currency thing he does there.

      Plus the revelation space series are just an incredible setting, love it

      • Hupf@feddit.org
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        6 hours ago

        I’ve only read House of Suns so far but immediately got hooked. Guess I’ll have to pick him up again once I’m done with my current Banks volume.

      • PolarKraken@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        13 hours ago

        Awesome!! And I don’t think it was a series when I read it, so been a while for me too lol. And yeah, Revelation Space books are just so, so good. Can’t say enough good things about the worlds this guy builds. Artifact in the meme would fit right in, lol