Looking for a new book to read

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CALHOUN

Wednesday, August 3, 2005 10:19 AM

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SoupCatcher wrote:
Tuesday, August 02, 2005 14:56

If you find you like Weber's style there's always Honor Harrington. Plenty of books in that series to keep you occupied (In Enemy Hands and Echoes of Honor are pretty high on my yearly re-reading list). It's one of my favorite series and I'm eagerly looking forward to the next installment later this year.

Davib Webber's Honor Harrington series is one of the best series of books i've ever read!
Tell me those books wouldnt translate into an awesome TV series or movies!

CALLMESERENITY

Wednesday, August 3, 2005 1:15 PM

Pog, I agree wholeheartly! There's nothing better than reading the label of a new, fresh, Cadbury Creme Egg! Except, maybe, eating the egg afterwards. Nummers!

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny

EMMA

Wednesday, August 3, 2005 1:22 PM

I come here to read about books and I get Creme Eggs instead. I obviously need to go back home (to S2 that is).

PS Apologies for calling His Dark MAterials the Nothern Lights trilogy, I always forget to call it by its proper name. The first book in the UK is called Northern Lights you see. Also, Becs, many people I know found them incredibly taxing indeed, the number of times I had to explain the concept of original sin and such like *sigh*

extremely dimensionally transcendental

PERFESSERGEE

Thursday, August 4, 2005 11:22 PM

No one has mentioned Dan Simmons yet. His Hyperion Cantos series (4 books: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion) is amazing. Great characters, long historical sweep, conspiracies, subplots. It has it all.

Stephen Stirling's Drakas series is also great.

(and so are all the suggestions on this thread that I'm familiar with!)

perfessergee

LETOV

Friday, August 5, 2005 3:36 PM

I will strongly second (or is it third or fourth at this point) Arthur C Clark's Rama books.
( http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Arthur_C_Clarke.htm)

I would also strongly recommend Greg Bear's EON, Eternity, and Legacy. ( http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Greg_Bear.htm)

But in recent years my absolute favorite series of books has been David Brin's Uplift stories. They develop a really interesting and complicated story of the development of intelligent star-faring life in the galaxy. Really neat stuff.
( http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/David_Brin.htm)

Also, whenever looking up Sci-Fi stories and authors I recommend http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk. Its a great site that has fantastic bibliographies of authors as well as listing their books grouped together into series etc.

Edited: to add links to the authors I mentioned and to mention that I'm now realizing this is starting to look like an ad for fantasticfiction... Its not, just love perusing that site...

- Leto_V

"Well, my days of not taking you
seriously are certainly coming to
a middle." - Mal

RIVERNOT

Friday, August 5, 2005 5:09 PM

Wow. I'd no idea that Firefly was just one of the things we had in common in this group. Reading through the list of books had me nodding my head and thinking, "yeah, that's a good one," over and over. I could go through my book case and find half of those listed.

A few not listed:

Sci-fi:
Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon the Deep."

Mary Doria Russell, "The Sparrow." NOT a light read, and not for everyone.

I'm a big Larry Nivin fan and "Protector" was the second sci-fi book I ever read (at age 13). Can't remember if it was good literature, but it sure got me headed in the right direction, reader wise.

Fantasy:
Dennis L. McKiernan, "Dragondoom."

Glen Cook, "The Black Company" series and "Garrett, P.I." series.

Melanie Rawn, anything.

PERFESSERGEE

Friday, August 5, 2005 6:22 PM

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Originally posted by RiverNot:

Sci-fi:
Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon the Deep."

Ah, I'd forgotten Vernor Vinge. His output hasn't been large, but it's great. The companion to this is "A Deepness in the Sky", and it's also very good. I wish he'd write more!

(and a strong second for David Brin's Uplift series)

perfessergee

RIVERNOT

Friday, August 5, 2005 7:44 PM

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Originally posted by perfessergee:
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Originally posted by RiverNot:

Sci-fi:
Vernor Vinge, "A Fire Upon the Deep."

Ah, I'd forgotten Vernor Vinge. His output hasn't been large, but it's great. The companion to this is "A Deepness in the Sky", and it's also very good. I wish he'd write more!

(and a strong second for David Brin's Uplift series)

perfessergee

Oooh, I didn't know about "A Deepness in the Sky" (haven't done much reading for ME since I had kids). That bumps up to the top of the "must read" list for me. Thanks.

I think David Brin's Uplift series is in my "reread" stack on my bookcase, but I'd forgotten about it. Oh, my. Which to read, which to read.

RAYSTON

Friday, August 5, 2005 8:59 PM

Id just like to add another vote for George R.R Martin. Easily the best fantasy series I have ever read, that includes tolkien (and I love tolkien).

Thanx

Rayston

RIVERNOT

Saturday, August 6, 2005 12:15 AM

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Originally posted by SoupCatcher:

* editted to add: I totally forgot to mention that Baen books has a really cool free library section where you can download some of the older books gratis. I'll just throw in links to free books for some of the authors I've mentioned. (The free library index of authors is here: http://www.baen.com/library/ ). And they also have the first handful of chapters of all their books available to browse online (usually months before release).

Thanks for posting this. My biggest problem on trying a new author is...trying a new author. Being able to read a bit of a novel before buying it is nice.

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's "Fallen Angel" is in the Baen free library, another good book.

And, thanks to the individual that "voted" for the Hyperion series. Another good one I'd forgotten. I'm going to be a busy reader when the kids head back to school.

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