Your most recent Favorite SF Book
POSTED BY: pizmobeach
UPDATED: Thursday, September 23, 2010 13:21
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Anybody reading anything.... ya know... great? "Couldn't put it down... they need to make a movie out of it... best thing I've read in ages..."
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I've just been re-reading Eric S. Nylund's "Signal to Noise", and its sequel, "A Signal Shattered". Awesome story!
http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Eric-S-Nylund/dp/0380792923
http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Shattered-Eric-S-Nylund/dp/038079294X/ref
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http://www.sfsite.com/05b/sig33.htm
http://www.sfsite.com/12a/sig70.htm
http://www.rambles.net/nylund_noise.html
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Maybe no one redas any more? 
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Last Earth-shattering sci-fi I read was William Gibson's Neuromancer. Nothing much has grabbed me since that.
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Originally posted by cljohnston108:
I've just been re-reading Eric S. Nylund's "Signal to Noise", and its sequel, "A Signal Shattered". Awesome story!
http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Eric-S-Nylund/dp/0380792923
http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Shattered-Eric-S-Nylund/dp/038079294X/ref
=sip_rech_dp_10
http://www.sfsite.com/05b/sig33.htm
http://www.sfsite.com/12a/sig70.htm
http://www.rambles.net/nylund_noise.html
Thx CLJ!
sounds great:
"This latest offering from the former Microsoft employee will undoubtedly thrill writers of code and the romantics who call themselves hackers. Nylund's main characters are affixed with permanent implants allowing instant access to cyberspace; a virtuality so vivid that they often prefer the virtual over the reality. The trouble begins when Jack Potter, an encryption expert who's done some shady work for the NSO, finds and decodes a message buried in old astronomical data. Contact with the outreaching alien and information bartering result. Unfortunately, someone else is watching, too. "Down the hall, bars rattled. It was a nice touch. Cold churned in Jack's stomach, diffused down his legs and up his spine. It was synthetic fear generated by the bubble. He fought it. DeMitri took a set of keys from his pocket, picked one out, then opened a cell door ... 'Alcatraz'--he spread his arms in a grand gesture--'is a reflection of what's on your mind, Jack. Feeling guilty about something?'"
It is a bit funny, a Microsoft employee writing about hacking considering how full of holes their OSs are.
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Well I dunno that it's Sci-Fi so much, but I recently read Monster Hunter: Vendetta, the follow up to Larry Corrieas Monster Hunter International.
Both books rocked some ass, and you can find free sample chapters at Baen Books to get a little taste of it - I liked both books quite a bit, hell, Owen Z Pitt kind of reminds me of Mikey.
The other recent read was BOLO Rising, which was pretty good, but the BOLO books are somewhat interconnected, so even the stand-alone books lose a little something without having read the rest.
I have em all, naturally - all the BOLO books and every single one of Saberhagens Berserker series, even the members-only waldenbooks otherworlds club novel, I like stuff where all the real stories take place as tiny snapshots of a much larger universe - the best I have ever seen it done though is David Drakes The Fleet novels, all six of em.
I've also bagged up the Caine books - Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle, Caine Black Knife and they are VERY good, especially BoT, but expect to pay top dollar for that one, as it's become something of a collectors item now.
And for, of all things, a humorous take on the Warhammer40K universe, you can't go wrong with Ciphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium! (you have to shout it, you know you want to.. 
) who is, in fact, about as "heroic" as Captain Jack Sparrow, if slightly more slick about it.
All good stuff, but for fans of Whedon-work, Larry Corrieas MHI is a sure-fire hit.
-Frem
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A children's sci-fi book I recently enjoyed was "The Supernaturalist" by Eoin Colfer (the guy who wrote the Artemis Fowl series and, I think, "Airman" -- both of which are enjoyable if you like children's/young adults books). It is a quick read and sort of had an Ender's Game vibe to it (though, of course, isn't as good). I'm not sure I totally "got" the ending, but the story was enjoyable enough.
Another children's sci-fi/fantasy book with a very intriguing premise which doesn't quite pull it off in the story is "The Storm Thief" by Chris Wooding.
I'm not remembering any adult sci fi off hand, so I'll be curious what others recommend as well.
As a side note, has anyone read any of the Deathstalker series by Simon Green? It is in the space opera genre, and if you can get past the awful book covers, had some pretty interesting ideas and subplots. I read the first 3 and haven't felt the need to read more.
ETA: Oh, and I must give a notable mention to the young adult novel "Monster Blood Tattoo" and, particularly, its sequel, "Lamplighter" by DM Cornish which creates a fascinating fantasy world with some sci-fi elements. "Lamplighter" had me almost as hooked as the Harry Potter novels -- but it doesn't have the near-universal appeal of Harry Potter (one of my friends couldn't get through it).
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Amazing story of a family with supernatural powers!
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I'll have to check out the five chinese brothers. Its reviews on Amazon seem pretty good overall...
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