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I opened up a old friend the other day, "Earth" by David Brin , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(novel)[^] What's interesting with his novel is some of the accuaricies in technology that he thought of back then for now. Now this is what I deem "Heavy Sci-fi", in essence a lot more science than fiction but still enjoyable. What books do you guys read? I'm always on the lookout for some good new titles, so maybe list Genre and your fav author/series. I got 2 by 2mx1m high book cases filled with Fantasy and Sci-fi. Wife has a section on murder and forensics. So for us its: Sci-Fi David Brin David Webber Frank Herbert Fantasy Robert Jordan David Gemmel David Eddings Tad Williams Terry Goodkind Le. Modesitt Jnr Others Patricia Cornwell Tom Clancy Jodi Picolt Clive Cussler
Mario Luis wrote:
Robert Jordan
Dear God, could he not have finished that series before book 633 (I know it's less, it's just how long that overly dragged out series took). That guy had issues; let's spend 800 pages describing the girls dresses.
Mario Luis wrote:
David Eddings
My first series was so good that I wrote it again, and again, and again, and again.
Mario Luis wrote:
Tom Clancy
Hey, I'm so rich that I can put my name to a book that I had nothing to do with and it'll be a best seller.
Mario Luis wrote:
Clive Cussler
Look, the film of my book is crap as well.
Mario Luis wrote:
Patricia Cornwell
Damn those other lady forensic writers for doing what I do better than me. And damn you Karen Slaughter for having the perfect name for it.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Mario Luis wrote:
Robert Jordan
Dear God, could he not have finished that series before book 633 (I know it's less, it's just how long that overly dragged out series took). That guy had issues; let's spend 800 pages describing the girls dresses.
Mario Luis wrote:
David Eddings
My first series was so good that I wrote it again, and again, and again, and again.
Mario Luis wrote:
Tom Clancy
Hey, I'm so rich that I can put my name to a book that I had nothing to do with and it'll be a best seller.
Mario Luis wrote:
Clive Cussler
Look, the film of my book is crap as well.
Mario Luis wrote:
Patricia Cornwell
Damn those other lady forensic writers for doing what I do better than me. And damn you Karen Slaughter for having the perfect name for it.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Enlightenment to better would be welcome :D Like I say, happy to look for new authors and series. Share , don't just criticise ;P
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I opened up a old friend the other day, "Earth" by David Brin , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(novel)[^] What's interesting with his novel is some of the accuaricies in technology that he thought of back then for now. Now this is what I deem "Heavy Sci-fi", in essence a lot more science than fiction but still enjoyable. What books do you guys read? I'm always on the lookout for some good new titles, so maybe list Genre and your fav author/series. I got 2 by 2mx1m high book cases filled with Fantasy and Sci-fi. Wife has a section on murder and forensics. So for us its: Sci-Fi David Brin David Webber Frank Herbert Fantasy Robert Jordan David Gemmel David Eddings Tad Williams Terry Goodkind Le. Modesitt Jnr Others Patricia Cornwell Tom Clancy Jodi Picolt Clive Cussler
I Recently read Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan[^]. Very enjoyable. Probably falls into your definition of "Heavy sci-fi", it's got plenty of quantum physics and stuff like that. Also, Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxtor[^] has some great visions of the extreme far future. Not so hardcore on the "sci" side though. I have to recommend it just for the far future section though. It's only 1 chapter but it's just dam cool.
Simon
modified on Monday, April 26, 2010 4:59 AM
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Mario Luis wrote:
Robert Jordan
Dear God, could he not have finished that series before book 633 (I know it's less, it's just how long that overly dragged out series took). That guy had issues; let's spend 800 pages describing the girls dresses.
Mario Luis wrote:
David Eddings
My first series was so good that I wrote it again, and again, and again, and again.
Mario Luis wrote:
Tom Clancy
Hey, I'm so rich that I can put my name to a book that I had nothing to do with and it'll be a best seller.
Mario Luis wrote:
Clive Cussler
Look, the film of my book is crap as well.
Mario Luis wrote:
Patricia Cornwell
Damn those other lady forensic writers for doing what I do better than me. And damn you Karen Slaughter for having the perfect name for it.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
David Eddings My first series was so good that I wrote it again, and again, and again, and again.
:laugh:
Simon
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Enlightenment to better would be welcome :D Like I say, happy to look for new authors and series. Share , don't just criticise ;P
I'm currently reading Jeffrey Deaver, but I also like Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle. I used to enjoy Fantasy series, but they bore me rigid now because they are so formulaic. I much prefer to read factual books, such as Bill Brysons books (or Gervaise Phinn for genuine amusement).
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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I opened up a old friend the other day, "Earth" by David Brin , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(novel)[^] What's interesting with his novel is some of the accuaricies in technology that he thought of back then for now. Now this is what I deem "Heavy Sci-fi", in essence a lot more science than fiction but still enjoyable. What books do you guys read? I'm always on the lookout for some good new titles, so maybe list Genre and your fav author/series. I got 2 by 2mx1m high book cases filled with Fantasy and Sci-fi. Wife has a section on murder and forensics. So for us its: Sci-Fi David Brin David Webber Frank Herbert Fantasy Robert Jordan David Gemmel David Eddings Tad Williams Terry Goodkind Le. Modesitt Jnr Others Patricia Cornwell Tom Clancy Jodi Picolt Clive Cussler
I tend to read books on history so, for example, I am currently reading Inquisition: The Reign Of Fear by Toby Green. It's a good read but I struggle with the Spanish names, they just don't register well in my brain so it's often quite difficult to follow some of the history of families who suffered from generation to generation. It's not as bad as books on Arabic history - those names don't register with me at all.
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I tend to read books on history so, for example, I am currently reading Inquisition: The Reign Of Fear by Toby Green. It's a good read but I struggle with the Spanish names, they just don't register well in my brain so it's often quite difficult to follow some of the history of families who suffered from generation to generation. It's not as bad as books on Arabic history - those names don't register with me at all.
Wow that's surprising. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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I opened up a old friend the other day, "Earth" by David Brin , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(novel)[^] What's interesting with his novel is some of the accuaricies in technology that he thought of back then for now. Now this is what I deem "Heavy Sci-fi", in essence a lot more science than fiction but still enjoyable. What books do you guys read? I'm always on the lookout for some good new titles, so maybe list Genre and your fav author/series. I got 2 by 2mx1m high book cases filled with Fantasy and Sci-fi. Wife has a section on murder and forensics. So for us its: Sci-Fi David Brin David Webber Frank Herbert Fantasy Robert Jordan David Gemmel David Eddings Tad Williams Terry Goodkind Le. Modesitt Jnr Others Patricia Cornwell Tom Clancy Jodi Picolt Clive Cussler
I would add: Sci-Fi: Iain M Banks Robert L Forward Greg Bear Fantasy: Terry Pratchett Bit of both, good writer: Orson Scott Card. Oldie, but goodie: Philip Jose Farmer
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
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Wow that's surprising. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
...surprise and fear.
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
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Wow that's surprising. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Our chief weapon is surprise
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
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I would add: Sci-Fi: Iain M Banks Robert L Forward Greg Bear Fantasy: Terry Pratchett Bit of both, good writer: Orson Scott Card. Oldie, but goodie: Philip Jose Farmer
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
Have you been borrowing books from my 'library'? My favourite authors as well...all of them...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p CodeProject MVP for 2010 - who'd'a thunk it!
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...surprise and fear.
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms - Oh damn!
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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...surprise and fear.
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
"Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Um, I'll come in again..."
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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I'm currently reading Jeffrey Deaver, but I also like Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle. I used to enjoy Fantasy series, but they bore me rigid now because they are so formulaic. I much prefer to read factual books, such as Bill Brysons books (or Gervaise Phinn for genuine amusement).
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
but I also like Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle
In that case you might also like PD James. Like Agatha Christie, she spends more time developing the plot and characters rather than just describing the crimes in gratuitous detail like some other crime writers (e.g. James Patterson, Dennis Lehane etc). Her best stories (IMO) are "Original Sin" or "Death in Holy Orders"
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
but I also like Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle
In that case you might also like PD James. Like Agatha Christie, she spends more time developing the plot and characters rather than just describing the crimes in gratuitous detail like some other crime writers (e.g. James Patterson, Dennis Lehane etc). Her best stories (IMO) are "Original Sin" or "Death in Holy Orders"
I've read most of the PD James books, as well as the likes of Colin Dexter.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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I would add: Sci-Fi: Iain M Banks Robert L Forward Greg Bear Fantasy: Terry Pratchett Bit of both, good writer: Orson Scott Card. Oldie, but goodie: Philip Jose Farmer
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
Hmmm I've never heard of the sci-fi ones so will go look. Thanx :-D T.P's humour is not quite my thing, have tried but just can't seem to get it. Read Orson, want to re-read the Enders series. Read the Homecoming one. Have read old PJF as well.
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I've read most of the PD James books, as well as the likes of Colin Dexter.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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I opened up a old friend the other day, "Earth" by David Brin , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(novel)[^] What's interesting with his novel is some of the accuaricies in technology that he thought of back then for now. Now this is what I deem "Heavy Sci-fi", in essence a lot more science than fiction but still enjoyable. What books do you guys read? I'm always on the lookout for some good new titles, so maybe list Genre and your fav author/series. I got 2 by 2mx1m high book cases filled with Fantasy and Sci-fi. Wife has a section on murder and forensics. So for us its: Sci-Fi David Brin David Webber Frank Herbert Fantasy Robert Jordan David Gemmel David Eddings Tad Williams Terry Goodkind Le. Modesitt Jnr Others Patricia Cornwell Tom Clancy Jodi Picolt Clive Cussler
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I would add: Sci-Fi: Iain M Banks Robert L Forward Greg Bear Fantasy: Terry Pratchett Bit of both, good writer: Orson Scott Card. Oldie, but goodie: Philip Jose Farmer
You should never use standby on an elephant. It always crashes when you lift the ears. - Mark Wallace C/C++ (I dont see a huge difference between them, and the 'benefits' of C++ are questionable, who needs inheritance when you have copy and paste) - fat_boy
OriginalGriff wrote:
Iain M Banks
Awesome. Recently discovered he'd written 2 books while I wasn't looking. Matter is brilliant so far, will be ordering the Algebraist when I'm done. Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon take some beating too. Orson Card? Isn't that what a country bumpkin uses to take how wares to market?
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I opened up a old friend the other day, "Earth" by David Brin , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(novel)[^] What's interesting with his novel is some of the accuaricies in technology that he thought of back then for now. Now this is what I deem "Heavy Sci-fi", in essence a lot more science than fiction but still enjoyable. What books do you guys read? I'm always on the lookout for some good new titles, so maybe list Genre and your fav author/series. I got 2 by 2mx1m high book cases filled with Fantasy and Sci-fi. Wife has a section on murder and forensics. So for us its: Sci-Fi David Brin David Webber Frank Herbert Fantasy Robert Jordan David Gemmel David Eddings Tad Williams Terry Goodkind Le. Modesitt Jnr Others Patricia Cornwell Tom Clancy Jodi Picolt Clive Cussler
Mario Luis wrote:
Fantasy Robert Jordan
To long... I don't care about his books any longer, in my opinion he should finish his story and begin a new series. It's just like George R Martin, it drags on and on and on... (but at least Jordan still writes books)
Mario Luis wrote:
Fantasy Terry Goodkind
He did what Jordan should do, finished the serie. Right now I can't wait for a new book from him. For fantasy books I would add Steven Erikson and Ian Cameron Esslemont Malazan empire books. For other books I would add David Gibbins, the first books are good.
