BlindBrick 0 #51 April 22, 2004 If you like military sci-fi you might try soe of the Battletech/Mechwarrior novels. Soem suck horribly but the ones by Keith, Stackpole, and Coleman are pretty safe. For a fantasysettign that's comfortably familiar but still different enough to be refreshing, try David Drake's Lord of the Isles duology. -Blind"If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #52 April 22, 2004 Quote...David Brin... Brin is one of my "get the new stuff as soon as it hits the stores" authors. Sometimes he can be preachy and annoying (especially since he's a lefty and I'm not), but when he forgets to try to save the world with every sentence, he's great. I think my favorite is still the first one I read, The Practice Effect.-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #53 April 22, 2004 QuoteI also submit Roger Zelazny(sp) Lord of Light Zelazny was my first "favorite" author. I had read all of his books by about 7th grade. I can still recite the first paragraph of Lord of Light by heart. He's written a lot of great stuff, but much of it isn't sci-fi. I really enjoyed Changling and Madwand for example, as well as the overall thrust of the Amber books (in places they weren't my favorite, but overall they were very good). If you liked Lord of Light have you read Creatures of Light and Darkness or Jack of Shadows?-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KawiZX900 0 #54 April 22, 2004 Got Shadow of the Hegemon sittin on my floor 1/2 read.... speaker for the dead was a great book. Orson Scott Card is the man... I still say best scifi writter is Thomas Pynchon and the book is hands down Gravity's Rainbow Accelerate hard to get them looking, then slam on the fronts and rollright beside the car, hanging the back wheel at eye level for a few seconds. Guaranteed reaction- Dave Sonsky Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lurch 0 #55 April 22, 2004 Ender's game: that book was the bible for my brother and I, growing up. That book taught us everything we needed to know at the time about how to truly Defeat an opponent. Also try: the Radix tetrad, (series) or The Last Legends of Earth by A.A. Attanasio. Basically the story of an entire solar system created from scratch as a weapon/trap for another species which is eating/torturing the species doing the creating. How do humans figure into the story? Well, we are a long extinct species resurrected from fossil DNA, as bait.... Anything I've ever found by Attanasio was absolutely awesome. I read the first two Alvin books. I've kind of lost some respect for Card as a writer last few years....he has become rather heavy on the religion-pushing and I'm allergic to his God. I don't intend to finish the Alvin books.Live and learn... or die, and teach by example. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snowflake 0 #56 April 22, 2004 QuoteIf you liked Lord of Light have you read Creatures of Light and Darkness or Jack of Shadows? I read Creatures of Light and the Amber series right after I read Lord of Light. I liked both a lot but I just didn't like them as much. something about those charechters I really liked. I can't define it either. Legacy of Herot.....I'm guessing thats the title of the Niven book you couldn't think of earlier. Once it gets rollin it's a page turner Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,995 #57 April 22, 2004 >Brin is one of my "get the new stuff as soon as it hits the stores" authors. I used to really like him but he's been sort of going downhill lately. His Uplift books were great, The Postman started out as an awesome book and then descended into inanity. His latest (Kiln People) was just silly. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #58 April 22, 2004 Quote....I'm guessing thats the title of the Niven book you couldn't think of earlier. It was A World Out of Time.-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,995 #59 April 22, 2004 >Did you read the rest of his stuff Count Zero, and Mona Lisa >Overdrive finish the "Sprawl" series. One thing I found remarkable about Gibson is how seamlessly he has moved the world in Neuromancer (written in 1984, a year after I discovered the web) into the world of Pattern Recognition. It uses as much gadgetry and technology as his earlier books, but there's nothing futuristic about it. The characters use Macs and Word. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snowflake 0 #60 April 22, 2004 QuoteI used to really like him but he's been sort of going downhill lately. His Uplift books were great, The Postman started out as an awesome book and then descended into inanity. His latest (Kiln People) was just silly. I gotta agree with you although I did find Kiln people really entertaining. Heres a little more uplift (a tease actually) it picks up with the crew of Streaker that was left on Kithrup http://www.davidbrin.com/temptation1.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snowflake 0 #61 April 22, 2004 QuoteOne thing I found remarkable about Gibson is how seamlessly he has moved the world in Neuromancer (written in 1984, a year after I discovered the web) into the world of Pattern Recognition. It uses as much gadgetry and technology as his earlier books, but there's nothing futuristic about it. The characters use Macs and Word. The tech he uses in his stories has gotten closer to real life over time yet the stories still have the same impact and feel. It's one of the things I love about him. Did you read the virtual light series? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #62 April 22, 2004 I actually like Brin's short stories a bit more than his novels. "Senses Three and Six" was, in my opinion, simply brilliant. And if you consider the parameters, "Toujours Voir" was pretty striking, as well.-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
