Book recommendations
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UPDATED: Friday, June 11, 2010 06:33
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The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede:
Dealing with Dragons
Searching for Dragons
Calling on Dragons
Talking to Dragons
The King's Trilogy by Jo Walton
The King's Peace
The King's Name
The Prize in the Game
The Apropos series by Peter David
Sir Apropos of Nothing
The Woad to Wuin
Tong Lashing
Gypsies, Vamps, and Thieves
Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles by Deborah Chester
The Golden One
Crimson Claw
The Crystal Eye
(Despite the name, these are not tied to any existing LucasFilm property; they're a self-contained universe)
There's also a whole list of Star Wars and Star Trek books I can recommend, but those may take more time investment than you have.
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The Honor Harrington series by David Weber. The Best series i've read in a long time.
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by David Drake: any of the Hammer's Slammers books.
I'm partial to most anything by Spider Robinson.
if you like humor, Kieth Laumer's Retief short stories.
If you like Heinlein and haven't read it, The Past Thru Tomorrow, the collection of the Future History stories. Some of it is dated, but it's the basis for most modern hard sci-fi.
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Originally posted by Littlebird:
I'm assuming you sorta like Fairy Tales. :) In that world I would recommend "The Dreamstone" and "The Tree of Swords and Jewels", by C.J. Cherryh.
If you are looking for straight Sci-Fi I would recommend anything in the Alliance-Union universe by the same author. I would start with "Downbelow Station" and go from there.
My favorite series of hers is the "The Faded Sun" trilogy.
I also love the Dune series by Frank Herbert, but I imagine you have already read those.
And the Ender series by Orson Scott Card is fun. I think we have some Enders on this board. :)
Ok, I better stop now. I could go on and on.[/QUOTE I absolutely concur with your choice of Downbelow Station. my favourite sci fi book. Follow that up with Merchanters Luck. The Foreigner series is a damn good read aswell. But as for Dreamstone, that will put you to sleep in seconds.
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David Brin. The Uplift novels or the stand alone, "Earth".
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Seems like you've got enough recommendations there for a lifetime. However, taking the safe assumption that you like firefly Firefly and making the less-safe deduction that you like stories with morally ambiguous disillusioned soldiers-turned-mercenary/criminal stubbornly tilting at windmills:
Consider Phlebas (the book that made Space Opera respectable again) or maybe Against a Dark Background by Iain M Banks.
Stealing Light and Nova War by Gary Gibson.
Richard Morgan: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Woken Furies. Not for the faint hearted or easily offended. The first is very film noir - the later ones amp up the SF and military angles.
For black humour (and general weirdness) try "Only Forward" by Michael Marshall Smith. If you liked the Hitchhiker's Guide books (especially the later ones) this might appeal.
My personal favorite (but no Firefly-ness here) is Greg Egan (particularly Diaspora and Permutation City) but they're really hard SF with lots of Fictional Science and minimal characterization (but then, how much fun can you have when your protagonist is an androgynous posthuman computer program?) - you'll either love them or hate them.
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If you enjoy Lord of the Rings type, try Elizabeth Moon's Deed of Paksennarion.
Otherwise, her Serrano series has horses, space, military. Compilations bring the book total from 7 down to 3 I think.
I have reread both series numerous times, and all who have borrowed them have greatly enjoyed them. I can only read women-written books by her and 2 others, so don't be turned off by that.
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