Your most recent Favorite SF Book
POSTED BY: pizmobeach
UPDATED: Thursday, September 23, 2010 13:21
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Maybe no one redas any more?
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By the way, I found the typo in your question rather ironic...
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Maybe no one redas any more?
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By the way, I found the typo in your question rather ironic...
Hey, just me trying to be phunny. Thx for your suggestions btw. You made me think about Ender's Game which I believe a lot of people around here are fans of - haven't read it, maybe now's the time.
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Quote:MHI does have a kind of Angel ring to it - sounds interesting, so does Saberhagens - I like the idea of a 'verse - thx for the tips.
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
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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I've been reading books outside my usual comfort zone, trying to find something interesting. Nothing great, but maybe you'd like them:
"Frankenstein" (classic) - twitterish review: it's sort of about pretty people being killed by an ugly guy because he got rejected for being ugly
"Love's Immortal Pantheon 3" (erotica anthology with gods) - twitterish review: the human body can only move in so many ways, so it got a bit repetitive after a while but still ... stimulating.
Then I retreated back to F&SF and read "Misspelled" (anthology about magic spells going wrong) - twitterish review: some very good tales in this collection, will be looking for books by some of the authors
Currently reading an SF classic, "Spadeful of Spacetime" (anthology about time travel without a time machine) - I'm only two stories in. If these are any indication, there's a reason this is a classic.
The Codex Menduri: http://mendur.blogspot.com
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
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..."
Not sure anything has quite lived up to that hyperbole, recently, but...
Stealing Light and Nova War by Gary Gibson (currently waiting for part 3 in paperback) is shaping up to be a pretty good space opera saga in an interesting 'verse...
http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Light-Gary-Gibson/dp/1405091894/ref=sr_
1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285191085&sr=1-1
The other big (fairly) recent space opera saga is Neil Asher's "Cormac" series... Lots of shit gets blown up and people get eaten by unpleasant fauna.
http://www.amazon.com/Neal-L.-Asher/e/B000APOEUC/ref=sr_tc_img_2_0?qid
=1285191378&sr=1-2-ent
Slightly less recent - if you like the old ultraviolence - Richard Morgan's Kovacs series: Altered Carbon/Broken Angels/Woken Furies[/i[. The first is hard-boiled SF Film Noir (and passes your "I can't believe they haven't made a film yet" test) the others are a bit more military SF.
http://www.amazon.com/Altered-Carbon-Takeshi-Kovacs-Novels/dp/03454576
92/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285191789&sr=1-1
Less space-opera-y, I quite enjoyed Flood and Ark by Stephen Baxter (although I prefer his older hard-SF stuff - The Time Ships and the Xeelee books).
http://www.amazon.com/Flood-Stephen-Baxter/dp/B002XULY2S/ref=sr_1_4?s=
books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285191974&sr=1-4
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Although they are written for young adults, I really like the Softwire series by PJ Haarsma (a close friend of Nathan and cofounder of the Kids Need To Read organization (with Nathan)).
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-ke
ywords=softwire&x=0&y=0
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I used to read constantly. I've actually had jobs in the past where I could read a book while on the clock. Those were the days, but that was nearly twenty years ago. Now...not so much.
I read almost exclusively SF/F, but lately I've had a hard time finding something that does grab me enough to keep reading even when I should get to bed. Even some of my favorite writers haven't been doing it for me lately.
Even though it is not something I've read lately, I'll never hesitate to mention Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, without a doubt the best speculative fiction I have ever read. It was originally published as four novels that are now collected in two volumes, then a few years later there was a fifth book added, plus he followed that up with two other series set in the same milieu, the Book of the Long Sun (again four novels) and the Book of the Short Sun (three books).
Please check out what I have written about Wolfe on my site:
http://templetongate.net/genewolfe.htm
http://templetongate.net/sunsagas.htm
I cannot recommend him too highly.
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I gotta mention "Shade's Children" by Garth Nix. It's as close to unputdownable as any book I've read. That also extends to the "Old Kingdom" Trilogy by the same author.
Matthew Reilly's books are also if you want some mindless action (and who doesn't once in a while).
And to anyone who hasn't read "Ender's Game": do it! Just don't read the last one.
Oh, and as for hilarious fantasy, you can't go wrong with "Genesis" or "Revelations".
"I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?"
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