It's not even that bad really. Classic low budget film school stuff. They clearly put effort into it
I've always preferred hard frame/external frame backpacks
Ted really needs to start running things past his legal team first...
Scrambled eggs with fried spam cubes. Add spices to taste
It is truly majestic
Keep circulating the tapes
Do people dislike Consider Phlebas? The story is a bit more straightforward than the others, but it does a good job introducing the setting. And that train battle at the end
Simmons does a good job with horror as well as science fiction. Hyperion is a wonderful blending of the two imo. The Terror is good as well for the hostile environment and isolation he manages to convey
His more recent work though... I'll just leave this NPR review https://www.npr.org/2011/07/28/137621172/one-rant-too-many-politics-mar-simmons-dystopia
Surface Detail, and The State of the Art by Iain M Banks. Been on a Culture bend recently. Excession is next on my list
Consider Phlebas is a favorite of mine for this reason. Two agents on opposite sides of a war trying to reach the same place and capture the same thing. The climactic battle at the end is amazing, and not just because I love trains