i wouldn't recommend either, no. i don't intend on reading his other books, but i prob will read the rest of this series to see if he pulls it off.

>yeah not so surprisingly sf writers seem to think the internet
>is theirs to say as they please. i'm kinda wishing i hadn't
>opened this door because now i feel like i have to be more
>diligent in what's generally just my casual fun reading.
>
>incidentally knowing the wright books would you recommend
>anything?

i don't know what you'd like or what you've read/haven't read. i'm reading "oh such a full sea" right now, which i like but the buzz out there is that it doesn't go anywhere. i reread almost all of iain bank's books this year after he passed and i'd highly recommend them.

i think the best "for fun" science fiction reading i've done over the past couple years was reading liu cixin's books after a they translated a bunch of them and put them out for kindle. i'd probably start with "sun of china" or "the wandering earth."

"containment" by christian cantrell and "the martian" by andy weir were good fun novels.

none of these other than some of liu cixin's stories are anything like the wright books in terms of scope though.