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Off Topic => Ten Forward => Topic started by: interloper on August 22, 2004, 11:16:51 am
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just finished reading "the shiva option" by david webber and steve white.
awesome book, i would recomend it to anyone! what are your favorite
sci-fi books?
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just finished reading "the shiva option" by david webber and steve white.
awesome book, i would recomend it to anyone! what are your favorite
sci-fi books?
Did you ever read its predecessor, In Death Ground?
Weber and White's Starfire-universe books are very good. I also recommend Crusade.
Edit: I understand that these two books are now available in one hardcover volume, The Stars at War (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743488415/qid=1093191706/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-8067269-2203811?v=glance&s=books).
I love Turtledove's "Alternate America" trilogies--"The Great War," "American Empire," and the new "Settling Accounts."
Another alternate history I recommend is James Hogan's The Proteus Operation.
Jack McDevitt combines archeology with sci-fi in The Engines of God.
All very good books!
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Check out Weber's series starting with Mutineer's Moon
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Gene wolfe book of teh new sun.
Fantasy wise Reimond E. Feist
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Favorite Sci-Fi currently...
Issac Asimov's
Starting in the Robot Novels and going all the way through the Foundation Series ending at Foundation and Earth!
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Favorite Sci-Fi currently...
Issac Asimov's
Starting in the Robot Novels and going all the way through the Foundation Series ending at Foundation and Earth!
Asimov makes a cameo appearance in The Proteus Operation. :)
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Im finding out i love every thing by David Webber.
And i mean really love his work. :) I have been in the process of reading all of his works for the last year or so.
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Nothing can replace (in my heart...wherever the SNCO board put it) is the Amber series...I've reread it numerous times (many for those in Rio Lindo)* and always find something new..
Mike
* Cheap shot...but I just dealt with too many people taking thier children grocerary shopping with them...leave them at home..duct tape them to wall if necessary..
Mike
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I'm also reading Foundation at the moment. Thought I would go back read some of the classics.
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Im finding out i love every thing by David Webber.
And i mean really love his work. :) I have been in the process of reading all of his works for the last year or so.
Same here. Unfortunately, I have now read all of his books that I know of and have to wait for him to write new.
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One can always read "Cities in Flight" by James Blish..kinda old and obscure..but then some of the best was written in the 50' s- '70's
Mike
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Check out Weber's series starting with Mutineer's Moon
read that one it was awesome
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One can always read "Cities in Flight" by James Blish..kinda old and obscure..but then some of the best was written in the 50' s- '70's
Mike
\ Citys in flight was awsome! I have been lookingfor a copy for years and have not found one yet.
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I'll look and see if I still have it..have over 30 years of stuff shoved in the garage...to quote
"what's the only city with two names the same?"
great stuff...
Mike
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Thanks!!! :)
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My fav? "In Conquest Borne" by C.S. Friedman, and by a very large margin. The only flaw is that you can easily guess who's going to "win" in the end (but not how).
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There are three books out there about HALO (the X-Box game) the first and last book are incredibly good! The middle on is written by another author and just follows the game to the T yet isn't as saticfying as Eric Nylund's writing.
The authors I constantly re-read are Anne McCaffrey (Pern, the T&Ts and beyond), Andre Norton (her Witch World and anything to do with cats), and Laurell K. Hamilton but only her Anita Blake books. Humm hey that's all women! Let's see . . . Oh I do read Terry Pratchet but then he isn't SciFi . . . How about Spider Robinson and Neil Gaiman?
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You mean you haven't read Heinlien's "The Cat who Walks Through Walls"? If not, shame on you :skeptic: ..the whole Lazarus Long series is well worth a read.
Mike
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You mean you haven't read Heinlien's "The Cat who Walks Through Walls"? If not, shame on you :skeptic: ..the whole Lazarus Long series is well worth a read.
Mike
Im going to secong that these books are a" must read" For any body who likes SF
Lazurus Long is the Man! :)
I also re read Ann MaCaffery on a regular basis, the woman is a god. :)
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And one should never forget the "Amber" series...can be confusing, but after you read it 12, 14 times..some things clear up...and the follow on by the new author (the pre-quill) is shaping up...
Mike
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My fav? "In Conquest Borne" by C.S. Friedman, and by a very large margin. The only flaw is that you can easily guess who's going to "win" in the end (but not how).
I've tried reading that one but never could get through it. I have read the fantasy trilogy. Still prefer Asimov over it I have to admit.
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I perfer anything with a Bolo in it.
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And one should never forget the "Amber" series...
Excellent books - and then Zelazny had to go and die while leaving a whole bunch of plot elements hanging.
The nerve of that guy!
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And one should never forget the "Amber" series...
Excellent books - and then Zelazny had to go and die while leaving a whole bunch of plot elements hanging.
The nerve of that guy!
I always felt the same way about Herbert. He had positioned the Dune universe to where he could do something pretty cool with it and then goes and kicks the bucket. Some people! :)
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Im reading the preqwells. They are really not bad at all.
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Im reading the preqwells. They are really not bad at all.
They aren't bad, better than the other Brian Herbert book I read. (Sudanna, Sudanna?) I've read the "House" prequels and the first of the Butlerian Jihad, the second is sitting on the table next to my chair waiting it's turn. :)
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Im on the second now. And i just saw on TV yesterday, that the 3rd Jihad book just came out in hard back.
Time to go to the Book Store any way, i read like a mad man. :)
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another good series i have recently read is the belisarius series!
also turtledove's books hold a special place in my heart!
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You guys are going to kill my Wish List on Amazon! :lol:
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And if you are into humour... the "MYTH Adventures" series...and who is the Pervert (that's Pervect!!)
Mike
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The Retif novels by Keith Laumer are hiliarious as well.
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My fav? "In Conquest Borne" by C.S. Friedman, and by a very large margin. The only flaw is that you can easily guess who's going to "win" in the end (but not how).
I've tried reading that one but never could get through it. I have read the fantasy trilogy. Still prefer Asimov over it I have to admit.
Now that I think about it, I may be a little prejudiced. My best friend at the time just flat was Harkonnen, and I got a real kick out of finding such a perfect description of him in fiction.
But I still have to say the ICB universe was well conceived, and in extreme detail. It's a little tricky to read since some of the chapers are almost totally independent short stories. My favorite of these is about the Harkonnen youth who's trying to assassinate his old man.( I also know someone who was kinda like the old man if you exaggerate him a little.)