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Know of any good ones?
I was thinking about getting some of the Halo and/or Lensman ones. But I'm open to ideas.
Also, it'd be helpful if you peeps could post a paragraph-from/link-relating-to whatever book your raving about. Saying "It's awesome" doesn't mean much as for all I know you could think Tweenies (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/tweenies) is 'awesome'.
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Ever read Orson Scott Card? He wrote the 'Ender's Game' series (about a kid called Ender who saves the world from invading aliens called Buggers by using computers and strategy, and his later life) the 'Ender's Shadow' series (about the kid Ender's companion Bean, and his life) and the 'Homecoming' series (separate universe; humans have been separated from Earth for forty million years on the planet Harmony and are now going to come home... it's got fantasy elements but)
He also wrote all this other stuff. I've read the above. I like them. He has a website at hatrack river (you'll have to look it up in google or something cos I can't remember the exact address)
um... Stephen Baxter... I haven't read much of him except 'Raft' (bunch of humans stranded in a universe where gravity is a thousand times stronger than here) and the 'Time' 'Space' 'Origin' series (basically about the universe) and 'The Time Ships' (a sequel to 'The Time Machine', HG Wells) He's a different style from Card; he's more of the 'hard sf' stuff, broader, more concerned with the universe than with people.
i can't be bothered to think of more. night.
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http://baen.ghostwheel.com
Tons of good free e-books there. Even if you prefer printed ones, you can read a few chapters before buying. I just finished There Will Be Dragons, by John Ringo, and it's fairly good: it's about an almost perfect society in the far future, where energy is aplenty and everyone does only what they want - until suddenly, a war breaks among the council that controls the energy flow and the whole world falls back into the middle ages.
There's also books by David Drake and David Weber available there, of Hammer's Slammers and Honor Harrington fames, respectively. Practically the whole Honor series is available, and there's a ton of Slammers books that I didn't even have the time to touch yet.
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I'd also reccomend Orson Scott Card and David Weber.
I'll add Larry Niven to that list though. The guy invented the original Ringworld that Halo is based on. I'd start out with Protector even though it's not the first one in the series to see if you like his style.
Or you could start out with something a little lighter like one of his short story collections in which case I'd reccomend N-Space or Inconstant Moon Both contain the Inconstant Moon short story which is one of my favourites and was later made into an episode of the Outer Limits (One of the few with a strong enough storyline to not need aliens or nudity to sell it).
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Orson Scott Card is good. And many of the Star Wars books out there are good too. I cant speak for any of the NJO books though, cause I heavent read them yet... However I do primarily go for any kind of Thriller/adventure/sci-fi books mostly. Chricton stuff basically. Theres great books out there by Douglas Preston&Lincoln Child, Clive Cussler, Matthew Reilley, and James Rollins. All are basically books that you'd likely see as a major motion Picture. Loads of fun without the pretentious Bull**** that you could often find in PURE sci-fi books.
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Robert Heinlein is the greatest. Really amazing. I just finished Stranger in a Strange Land and it is by far one of the best books I've ever read.
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The Night's Dawn trilogy
Pt.1 The Reality Dysfunction
In the 26th century the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. But on a primitive colony planet a renegade criminal's chance encounter with an alien entity unleashes the most primal of fears - "the reality dysfunction".
Pt.2 The Neutronium Alchemist
The second volume in the "Night's Dawn" trilogy. An ancient menace has escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's existence. In such times the last thing the galaxy needs is a new, powerful weapon. Yet Dr Mzu is determined to retrieve the Alchemist, so that she can complete a vendetta.
Pt.3 The Naked God
After the multi-layered, multi-dramatic events described in "The Reality Dysfunction" and "The Neutronium Alchemist", here is the climax. Joshua Calvert and Syrinx fly their starships on a mission to find the "Sleeping God" - which an alien race believes holds the key to overthrowing the possessed.
This series has is all dramatic space battles, interesting tech, psycho-theological discussion about life after death, ghosts, demons, magic, possessed, and other stuff. By far the best Space Opera I've ever read. Two words: Bi tek
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Rendevous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. Quite short, but excellent. Find it on Amazon for about 5 quid. 's about a big tube thingy that comes flying into the solar system and confuses everyone. Got ripped off by Star Trek 5. Very good. :)
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Amtrak. Not the best but sure as hell the longest
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Originally posted by pyro-manic
Rendevous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. Quite short, but excellent. Find it on Amazon for about 5 quid. 's about a big tube thingy that comes flying into the solar system and confuses everyone. Got ripped off by Star Trek 5. Very good. :)
What ever you don don't read any of the sequels though! :) The original is brilliant though :D
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Originally posted by Styxx
http://baen.ghostwheel.com
Doood!
After 1 Chapter of On Basilisk Station, I really friggin like it.
And Nimitz kicks ass.
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[size=20]Asimov.[/size]
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Eastern Standard Tribe, read it for free on http://craphound.com/est/download.php (http://craphound.com/est/download.php)
Transmetropolitian by Warren Ellis. Graphic novel.
The Scar or Perdido Street Station by China Mièville. More steampunk than fantasy, but excellent reads.
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Originally posted by karajorma
What ever you don don't read any of the sequels though! :) The original is brilliant though :D
Fool. Read ALL the sequels EXCEPT the very last one of the main series. They all rock up until the very end where it gets all ****ed up.
You absolutely MUST read these:
The Reality Dysfunction
An Exchange of Hostages
Snow Crash
The Diamond Age
Ender's Game (This more than anything is a must read)
Xenocide
Speaker for the Dead
Authors you must read:
Susan R. Matthews
Stephen Baxter (man, icespeed is dead on. He rocks)
Greg Bear
David Brin (these last three are known as the Killer B's for a reason)
Jack McDevitt
Joe Haldeman
James Gardner
Charles Sheffield
Robert Sawyer
Michael Flynn
Roger McBride Allen
If you'd like I can go through my sci fi library and pull out a better selection and give you individual precis and recommendations. My library is currently at about 3000 books, though there are ten or twelve I haven't read yet.
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I suggest anything by Michael A. Stackpole, mainly his Blood of Kerensky Trilogy, the X-Wing series, or his DragonCrown War Cycle.
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Aspa's stuff is all excellent. Well, except for the last one, which I've never even heard of, so can't vouch for.
Basically any sci-fi made in the past decade or so, or which "includes fantasy aspects", is pretty much a self-indulgent fantasy wank or some kind of cash-in on a popular universe (i.e. Dune, Star Wars, video games), so I'd stay away from those. Anything made before, say, the thirties isn't generally going to be science fiction so much as fifty years ago plus some aliens who're basically the same as us only eviller. Anything that falls outside of those parameters is generally passable.
In particular, Bester is the most incredibilitastic read ever, Asimov, Clark, and Heinlein are good if you want lots of metaphor and subtext (which is really what sci-fi's all about), and Pohl, Lem, Vonnegut's wierdnesses and those hordes of Russian authors are all pretty decent reads. Um, provided you can either understand Russian or get it translated.
And short stories from the old 60s sci-fi rags, if you can find any. They're generally pretty good.
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Originally posted by Beowulf
[size=20]Asimov.[/size]
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Originally posted by mikhael
Fool. Read ALL the sequels EXCEPT the very last one of the main series. They all rock up until the very end where it gets all ****ed up.
I didn't say that Rama II and Garden of Rama weren't good but what's the point of reading them if you aren't going to read Rama Revealed. And the end of Rama Revealed is so poor that I can't honestly reccomend it.
Oh and cause I forgot it earlier I reccomend reading some H.G Wells. Especially War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. Both are far better in book form than the movies they spawned (although the 50's version of The Time Machine wasn't that bad).
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Rama Revealed is... well... :(
Its like Freelancer bad. Its like Command and Conquer bad. Its like Halo bad. I mean Baby Jesus would be crying if his head hadn't exploded. Its that damn bad.
But the other two, they're pretty good. I suppose you're right though.
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Stackpole! X-wing series!
It's more like star wars than the new movies are.
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The classics, Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card are both excellent choices (altho Asimov is a bit hard to understand, and the universe is odd and convuluted, imo).
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I've always liked Gordon R. Dickson and Charles Sheffield, myself. Sheffield writes mainly hard science fiction, while Dickson writes a very wide variety of stuff.
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I'd call Sheffield's work more speculative than hard, especially if you look to Baxter and the like for hard science fiction.
I never could get into Dickson. His writing style put me off and the universe with the Encyclopedia and the Friendlies was just annoying. Maybe I should give it another try now, tne years later.
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As far as Science-Fiction Action goes, the Halo series is actually pretty good IMO.
I sort of got the impression that they'd be dorky books to milk money from the franchise when I first saw them, but it totally wasn't the case when I read them.
And as said, Orson Scott Card is a good pick.
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I suggest Dan Simmons' Hyperion.
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*shameless plug of some writing* (http://anandraj.sphosting.com/Combinedseasons.htm)
By several authors...it isnt top-grade....but its something :P
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Originally posted by Eternal One
I suggest Dan Simmons' Hyperion.
Damn. How did I forget Hyperion and the rest? ABSOLUTELY must read these books. :)
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I can recommend the Star Wars NJO books. There are about 19 novels or so detailing a three to four year period with the New republic at war with an alien species called the Yuuzhan Vong, who are invaders from another galaxy who use biotechnology, hate all non-living machinery (especially droids) and are immune/invisible to the Force. They also consider all non-Vong to be infidels unworthy of life and sacrifice to their gods any prisoners they manage to capture. And for much of the war, the Vong have the New Republic and their Jedi allies on the run.
While I've personally read only the second half of the NJO novels, I know what happens in the first half as I read a summary of the events between Vector Prime (the first NJO book) and Star By Star (the ninth book) in the NJO Surcebook for the Star Wars RPG. But I can personally reccomend the NJO series as a whole.
And I can also say that the Vong are such hideous enemies, they make the Imperials look like schoolyard panzies. I won't give anything away here, but the Vong use such hideous and monstrous tactics against civilians, they make the Death Star look sanitary. (I'm not kidding.)
The Unifying Force, the last novel in the series, came out last November, but I've decided not to read it until I read the books I haven't read yet. I'm savoring the NJO series and don't want to read the end until I've read everything else first.
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I have to add in another voice for Baxter. I really enjoy the usually bigger scope that his work has. :yes:
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Originally posted by an0n
Doood!
After 1 Chapter of On Basilisk Station, I really friggin like it.
And Nimitz kicks ass.
Oh no! He's gonna become a weberite!
Go read something good, like the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons, or the Culture series by Iain M. Banks, or Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan, or the books by Alistair Reynolds, the Northworld series by David Drake, or books by William Gibson if you haven't already..... Read these. All of these. Now.
Originally posted by mikhael
If you'd like I can go through my sci fi library and pull out a better selection and give you individual precis and recommendations. My library is currently at about 3000 books, though there are ten or twelve I haven't read yet.
Hmm, that'd keep me going for, mmm, depends on how busy I am... *does math*
At least four years anyhow. :p
I don't buy too many books nowadays, they're just too expensive on my budget to be getting them all the time at the rate I go through them.
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Originally posted by Shrike
Go read something good, like ... Alistair Reynolds...
I read an Alistair Reynolds book (Revelation Space) and I'm really torn. It wasn't a bad story (and hell, I was guessing to the end), but the writing style is so clunky and heavy handed. I don't know. Are the rest of his books good?
I don't buy too many books nowadays, they're just too expensive on my budget to be getting them all the time at the rate I go through them.
I cheat shamelessly. Books I don't like go to a used bookseller in exchange for store credit. I'd say that I've read probably four to five thousand books over the last 20 years, and I've only kept the 2500 to 3000 that are in my closet. Also, I tend to get books heaped on me as gifts. It works out better than sweaters! As for time, I can read two full length novels a day if I take my time, or three to four if I speedread, so I don't lack for time to read.
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Originally posted by mikhael
As for time, I can read two full length novels a day if I take my time, or three to four if I speedread, so I don't lack for time to read.
I was just doing the math, and yegads man, you read fast. Thank God there are so many writers in the world... :yes:
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does it have to be about spaec? william gibsons book are all great. I'd recommend you start off with either neuromancer or virtual light and finish one of the trilogys first, and then take the other one. admittedly, I liked the bridge trilogy better, but the sprawl one isn't bad at all, either.
and if it's some offworld planet story you want, dune by frank herbert is the book/series.
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Originally posted by kode
and if it's some offworld planet story you want, dune by frank herbert is the book/series.
Yeah, I forgot to mention Dune when I posted about the Star Wars NJO series. I read the Dune book and saw the Sci-Fi miniseries DVD and i can heartily reccomend them.
Yeah, Dune is by far one of the best Sci-fi classics EVER. I don't know about the rest of the books in the original series as I haven't read them yet, nor have I read any of the Prequel to Dune novels (House Atreides, House Harkonnen and House Corrino). As for the Legends of Dune novels detailing the Butlerian Jihad (the time 10,000 years before Dune, when Humanity was at was with the thinking machines), they are good reading, though not as good as the original Dune. But then, thats to be expected since the Prequel to Dune and Legends of Dune novels were written by Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's son.
What I'm trying to do is read all the Dune novels in chronological order so, (even though I already read Dune) I'm reading the Legends of Dune novels first, then the Prequel to Dune novels, then I'll read the original series.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how many years in the future Chaprthouse: Dune takes place from the original Dune? It's several thousand years at least, but does anyone know the exact date?
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Originally posted by Setekh
I was just doing the math, and yegads man, you read fast. Thank God there are so many writers in the world... :yes:
Speed reading is TEH WIN. The only problem is that you do end up having to reread books occasionally because you lose fine details.
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Originally posted by an0n
Doood!
After 1 Chapter of On Basilisk Station, I really friggin like it.
And Nimitz kicks ass.
Mwahaha, got another one.
And don't pay attention to Shrike! Remember, missile flight statistics are good! :D
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dude, i am just starthing Chapter one here, love it. reading it on an LCD with black background and white text doesn;t even hurtt my eyes all that much.
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Oh, and if you're going to read the Hyperion series, read only the first two books (Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion). The other two screw everything up. It's like Simmons decided he didn't like the first two books and proceeded to completely destroy the story and the universe mythology.
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Originally posted by Styxx
Mwahaha, got another one.
And don't pay attention to Shrike! Remember, missile flight statistics are good! :D
...if 385,318 missiles are put into a long-term saving minefield at 1.8% interest compounded 7 times yearly, how many superdreadnoughts die after 2.51 years?
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..........42?
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Originally posted by Styxx
Oh, and if you're going to read the Hyperion series, read only the first two books (Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion). The other two screw everything up. It's like Simmons decided he didn't like the first two books and proceeded to completely destroy the story and the universe mythology.
Don't listen to Styxx. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Read Endymion and Rise of Endymion. They make some of the events in Fall of Hyperion make sense (where they didn't before).
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Originally posted by mikhael
Don't listen to Styxx. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Read Endymion and Rise of Endymion. They make some of the events in Fall of Hyperion make sense (where they didn't before).
No, don't read them. It's like watching Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions. It'll ruin the experience. I read Endymion because I loved the first two books and wanted more, and was disappointed. Then I read Rise of Endymion hoping that it would fix the screwups on Endymion, and it only got worse.
Shame I can't un-read them now. :p
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Originally posted by Su-tehp
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how many years in the future Chaprthouse: Dune takes place from the original Dune? It's several thousand years at least, but does anyone know the exact date?
I can't recall if they ever say it, but I don't think they do. I'll go flip the book a little to check, I think they give somewhat of a hint in the beginning of it.
*back* couldn't find any date, but I didn't look really much either. the fourth book is taking place a millenia after the first, but iirc even more time passes in the fifth and then not so very much in chapterhouse. it was a while since I read the whole series, but I'm currently rereading it at ultraslow pace...
I almost need to get the "prequels" and stuff too.
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Originally posted by Styxx
No, don't read them. It's like watching Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions. It'll ruin the experience. I read Endymion because I loved the first two books and wanted more, and was disappointed. Then I read Rise of Endymion hoping that it would fix the screwups on Endymion, and it only got worse.
Shame I can't un-read them now. :p
Bah. Heathen. Its a shame we can't surgically implant literary taste in you. :p
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Originally posted by an0n
..........42?
Absolutely. Genius is what it is.
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Incidentially, this site (http://www.infinitematrix.net/index.html) is really damn cool for short SF stories. It's like the magazines from the good old days.
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cool site. Should have warned people about that pic though. SCARY.
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Hey, what's science fiction without deformed monsters?
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I'd sort of half heartedly recommend Greg Bear's Blood Music, in which nanites or intelligent microbes (can't remember which) turn a sizable portion of the world's population into mush. It drags a little towards the end but the first half of the book is kind of trippy and worth a read.
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Mutant blood cells actually. :) I feel the same way about a lot of Greg Bear's stuff. He comes up with great ideas but isn't that great at getting them down on paper.
I did however like Forge of God and its sequel Anvil of Star's by him. His short story Dead Run is also very good (it became a twilight zone episode). It's about a guy in charge of transporting dead souls to hell.
On the other hand Eon and Eternity were full of great ideas but never quite gelled together as a book for me.
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Man... I'm reading a rather psychotically odd book right now, called THE BONES OF THE EARTH by Michael Swanwick... Its basically a time travel book where paleontologists get to study their favorite beasties for real, while taking into account a multitude of paradoxes and counter paradoxes as well as a phychotic militarist Christian Terrorist movement...
I gotta admit the book is slightly "interesting" but seriously, every page has me going "WTF?!"! Its like reading a damn Paleontologists Wet-dream! Its quite... Well, let me explain...
Someone has made a time machine/funnel thingy, the writer doesent care to elaborate. The guys who invented it wish to keep it secret. But they wanna do something with it. So they hire a whole bunch of paleontologists to go back in time to research dinosaurs. But still keep their findings secret. Well, at this point I was rather struck by the fact that these paleontologists are put at such high regard. I mean, wouldn't the goverment rather but it to some more sinister use? Anyway, their noble deeds get done, and people start resereaching dinosaurs. Then things get complicated. When the hero "gets the opportunity of a lifetime" he goes to a mass paleontologist conference in the future, ten years into the future, that pritty much has people from all over time arrive. (only people from the creation of the time machine and its future mind you.) Basically its a seminar. And paleontologist from the future lecture paleontologists from the past saying before each speech how great the books of the audinece members were and how much it inspired them to become paleontogists, even though these people heavent written them yet. And they pritty much say that there isnt much they can teach them, since all they KNOW is from the people they're lecturing, who also don't know what they WILL know in the future...
Still following? Well it gets even better...
By now, my head was swimming with the crazy ammount of paradoxes I just read. Then there's a small explenation about paradoxes during the conference. The explenation is pritty much this. Paradoxes can happen, and they do. Because the writer says so. But they ofcourse usually try and not have them happen. Or certain things are not adressed as paradoxes. So pritty much at this stage I'm totally confused. Somethings are srious paradoxes while others (that would be serious in my mind) arent. so now, we have a whole slew of Paleontologist teams from across a 90 year span all from different eras working with each other in different dinossaur times, trying to figure them out. All the while writing books and publishing and giving them to their predecessor to learn therefore giving themselves the knowledge to write the book in the first place. And then theres this ONE guy who controls it ALL! He pritty much jumps from time to time, doing things to keep things from going sour, sometimes bumping into his future or older self, or meeting his older or younger workers, and usually arguing with his boss (which is also himself, but much older). So you cant seriously believe how bloody flawed this book is with its paradoxes!
anyway, if you're still with me, we also have some weird ass love triangle thing going on. Our main hero got duped by his future love, who was in her fifties, before she got whisked away by the boss, who tells him he's an idiot for almost having sex with a woman twice his age and one who slanders his work. He then show him a future article about his book he hasn't written yet. So now, he doesent like this woman anymore, so everytime he sees her he's angry. So when the young aspiring version of her meets him the first time during one lecture, he finds out who she is and gets agnry, and storms off. She then takes it personally and slanders his book... But still for some reason, she tries to have sex with him every chance she gets, all at different times in his life, and he likes I think one of here ages. Where they actually fall in love. So... He hates her past self, her future self, and most of her present self. But somewhere is his true love. Ok. And all of those selves are competing with each other. To get him...
yeah... I thought you were scratching your heads. But trust me, I'm making it all the more straight forward than in the book. Anyway it gets better...
At somepoint, the woman decides to spill the beans about the whole project and snatch a dinosaur baby and show it to the world, in the future. Everyone cheers and time travel has become public. No upheaval, no nothing. Everyone is happy. And the paleontologists still use it almost solely for themselves. Anyway, when time travel became public and dinosaurs were show for the first time in the flesh... This got the creationists all in a frezy. I mean serious frenzy. Time travel threatens ttheir whole belief! And they become militarist and terroristic! First they attempt to prove their theories by sending bodies into the past and have them fossilize in order to dis-prove carbon dating, and such. Then they decide to also assassinate some of the major paleontologists as well....
Ok... So at this point I totally realized that this writer is some bloody pompous assed science proffesor with too big a grudge against religeon in general. I mean every chance he gets, he takes a stab at religeon. (I personally am not a really religeous person, but it starts to annoy me when someone keeps on ranting about things such as religeon in general) He also writes way too lovingly about dinosaurs. Everytime they pop up, its like he's... I mean ****, its almost like he's getting off on the subject.
I mean seriously, Creationist extremists?!! YES! The paleontogists worst enemy! But the gung ho action hero dino explorers can survive anything! From plastic explosive remote controls, to building a wooden long house in the mezozoic era when they get stranded!
Then theres the paradoxes. I wont even get into to that... Except that at some points it seems everything is in control since, time pritty much can be controlled, and everything that can happen, HAS happened therefore there is prior knowledge to it. Still people have to wait around to be rescued, while in some cases people can't seem to do things on time! yeah.... So if you wanna read an interesting crazy trip into a mind of an idiot. Read the book. BONES OF THE EARTH! Every paleontologists Wet Dream!
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Hey, what's science fiction without deformed monsters?
Good science fiction... :wtf:
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Two recommendations.
Honor Harrington series...love the military sci-fi myself. And the sci-fi books my aunt writes :D. I've read almost all of them except for one and they are quite good! (still need time to read that newest one) Check it out: www.czerneda.com
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The earlier Honor Harrington books are better than the later. I'm hoping that Crown of Slaves (I believe that's the name) will help the setting recover a bit...
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
The earlier Honor Harrington books are better than the later. I'm hoping that Crown of Slaves (I believe that's the name) will help the setting recover a bit...
Crown of Slaves rules. Anton Zilwicki kicks ass. Victor Cachat kicks ass. And Thandi Palane kicks ass. The story is a bit far-fetched, but it's damn cool, and it's a refreshment from the missile flight statistics I mentioned earlier, even if it still dwells quite a bit on politics. You'd be a lot better off reading it only after reading the short stories From the Highlands, on the book Changer of Worlds and Fanatic, on the book Service of the Sword.
Here, have some links:
From the Highlands (http://baen.ghostwheel.com/Honorverse/Changer%20of%20Worlds/0671319752___3.htm)
Fanatic (http://baen.ghostwheel.com/Aldenata/The%20Service%20of%20the%20Sword/0743435990__17.htm)
Crown of Slaves isn't available for free, though. Not yet, at least.
Oh, and while you're at it, read A Ship named Francis (http://baen.ghostwheel.com/Aldenata/The%20Service%20of%20the%20Sword/0743435990___3.htm), it's bloody hilarious.
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Oh, forgot to mention. The short story Promised Land (http://baen.ghostwheel.com/Aldenata/The%20Service%20of%20the%20Sword/0743435990___1.htm) is also a good read before Crown of Slaves. More background details in there.
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I've read From the Highlands, one of the better short stories in the anthologies. I'll have to read the other two.
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Deep Angel was pretty awesome, that is until they changed the storyline and abandoned the old setting. Bastards.
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Originally posted by IceFire
And the sci-fi books my aunt writes :D. I've read almost all of them except for one and they are quite good! (still need time to read that newest one) Check it out: www.czerneda.com
Wow. Cookies, scarves, and sci-fi novels... it must be a happy time at Christmas in the Czernada household. :D
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I agree with Styxx and Shrike. David Drake is good at what he does, especially the Hammer's Slammers books (I've blown through nearly 5 already).
Aside from this, Douglass Adams and Isaac Asimov are good. (If you don't know who Adams is, you need to be shot... and given a towel).
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Originally posted by nuclear1
Aside from this, Douglass Adams and Isaac Asimov are good. (If you don't know who Adams is, you need to be shot... and given a towel).
LOL! Adams' books are hilarious to read. Too bad about him dying a while back. :(
Ah, well, we all gotta go sometime.
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Originally posted by IceFire
Two recommendations.
Honor Harrington series...love the military sci-fi myself. And the sci-fi books my aunt writes :D. I've read almost all of them except for one and they are quite good! (still need time to read that newest one) Check it out: www.czerneda.com
Ms. Czerneda. I like her stuff, but she annoys me. After reading the first two books of the Web Shifters and the first two books of the Trade Pact Universe, I felt like I'd only read like one and a half distinct stories. Luckily, I decided to give In the Company of Others a shot and it brought up my estimation of her vastly--even if some of the relationships in the story were a bit rushed.
All in all, she's one of the authors I buy, no matter what. Definately one of my guilty pleasures.
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Originally posted by mikhael
Ms. Czerneda. I like her stuff, but she annoys me. After reading the first two books of the Web Shifters and the first two books of the Trade Pact Universe, I felt like I'd only read like one and a half distinct stories. Luckily, I decided to give In the Company of Others a shot and it brought up my estimation of her vastly--even if some of the relationships in the story were a bit rushed.
All in all, she's one of the authors I buy, no matter what. Definately one of my guilty pleasures.
Hahah I can't disagree with you either. The first few books she's done definately have some similarities but I think its starting to expand and change. Thing is the first novel sort of sat around for 20 years...so I think once things started going forward you have to sort of regain your ground again. I'm glad you like them overall! I do too! Just need more time to read! But I'm sure she'll be writing for some time to come!