sci-fi reading list
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Just about anything by Neal Stephenson, just finished Quicksilver which was very entertaining at least as good as Cryptonomicon. His earlier stuff was more sci-fi like Snow Crash or The Diamond Age both strange / cool. Also, just about anything by Iain Banks, like his Culture series, 'Consider Phlebas', 'The Player of Games', 'Look To Windward', 'Excession', oh heck, they're all good :-D! Check out his web site. And if you're in a mind for some non sci-fi you could do much worse than his very clever fiction, Whit is a good introduction there. enjoy, Stephen Owens Corner Software
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: is it just me? It's just y ....errr... *checks calendar* Nope. It's you. ;P However, if Monday was actually as long as it felt this week, it would still be Monday today. ;) BW CP Member Homepages
"...take what you need and leave the rest..."
:zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: It might have something to do with the fact this this week is my first full week back at work and I'm running out of steam fast! :rolleyes: Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In
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:zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: It might have something to do with the fact this this week is my first full week back at work and I'm running out of steam fast! :rolleyes: Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In
The weekend is nigh, and you'll soon have rest. I've been the opposite, that is unusually jumpy, this week, since I haven't had a smoke since Sunday. I'm quitting again. :~ BW CP Member Homepages
"...take what you need and leave the rest..."
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Butlerian Jihad - Brian Herbert Kevin J Andersen Machine Crusade - The Jesus Incident- Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom Bought these books in the newly opened Landmark bookshop (wow, the scifi section is quite good)in the still newly opened ForumMall shopping mall. Have already been through the first two. must relax and enjoy/WorShip Sir Frank's book slowly. Wondering what any of you people reading apart from the deeper meanings of semicolon(or alternately woofles)?;P
I come in peace. Please take me to your vodka bottle. Amit Dey
The first book in the Gap series by Stephen Donaldson is extremely dark and really good. -Andy Brummer
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The weekend is nigh, and you'll soon have rest. I've been the opposite, that is unusually jumpy, this week, since I haven't had a smoke since Sunday. I'm quitting again. :~ BW CP Member Homepages
"...take what you need and leave the rest..."
Enough said! :rolleyes: Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In
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Off the top of my head--Asimov, Zelazny, Orson Scott Card, CS Lewis, Niven, Pournelle, Ursula K. le Guin, McCaffrey, Koontz, Crichton, Cooper, [edit]Bradbury[/edit]. [edit]never got into Heinlein[/edit] Marc Microsoft MVP, Visual C#
"Time enough for love" is vaugely entertaining...actually, the "Notebooks of Lazarus Long" are the real entertaining part...Heinlein has always been rather long-winded, IMHO... Niven and Pournelle are great, Card got way too philosophical in his sequels, never been fond of McCaffrey. You forgot Adams :) Check out a pair of books by Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon and Broken Angels. Very slick. Very neo-cyberpunkish, yet not. Oh, also: Gibson and Sterling Jeremy Kimball
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Amit Dey wrote: Wondering what any of you people reading apart from the deeper meanings of semicolon(or alternately woofles)? In the last two or three weeks: Hofstaders Gödel Escher Bach (I'm working my way through this one slowly :-)) Recently finished the new Peter F Hamilton Pandora's Star, which was quite good. Went through Clarkes 4 Space Odyssey books again - and 3001 is still a cop-out and cash-in of the worst sort :rolleyes: Good Omens, Only You Can Save Mankind (Pratchett)
Ian Darling "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
Long live Pratchett! :) Still haven't gotten around to reading the Monstrous Regiment (or whatever the name of it is), but I've read damned near every other one he's put out. Favorite still has to be a tie between Small Gods, and Mort. The Turtle Moves! Jeremy Kimball
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PSS was interesting...read it for a class in SciFi. Since you appear to dig on the new blood coming up, I'll reiterate the suggestion I gave Marc: Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon and Broken Angels. Very entertaining, if not so deep. Jeremy Kimball
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Similar here except Koontz, although I liked the early Heinlein. As for the later stuff...it got ever so slightly :eek: Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D
Elaine, I totally just clicked on the wrong thing. I meant to vote 5 for your message! Sorry. Did you ever read "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag"? Jeff Varszegi
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Butlerian Jihad - Brian Herbert Kevin J Andersen Machine Crusade - The Jesus Incident- Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom Bought these books in the newly opened Landmark bookshop (wow, the scifi section is quite good)in the still newly opened ForumMall shopping mall. Have already been through the first two. must relax and enjoy/WorShip Sir Frank's book slowly. Wondering what any of you people reading apart from the deeper meanings of semicolon(or alternately woofles)?;P
I come in peace. Please take me to your vodka bottle. Amit Dey
I just got done rereading "Fiasco", probably the hardest SF that Stanislaw Lem ever wrote. My next book will probably be a Destroyer novel-- I've got a big stack at home to go through. I've been buying them in blocks of ten, and I'm only up in the forties. Then I'll probably reread Lem's "A Perfect Vacuum", a collection of reviews of nonexistent books; then I'll probably finish reading "Our Lady of the Flowers", which I once started but never finished. Regards, Jeff Varszegi
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Butlerian Jihad - Brian Herbert Kevin J Andersen Machine Crusade - The Jesus Incident- Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom Bought these books in the newly opened Landmark bookshop (wow, the scifi section is quite good)in the still newly opened ForumMall shopping mall. Have already been through the first two. must relax and enjoy/WorShip Sir Frank's book slowly. Wondering what any of you people reading apart from the deeper meanings of semicolon(or alternately woofles)?;P
I come in peace. Please take me to your vodka bottle. Amit Dey
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Elaine, I totally just clicked on the wrong thing. I meant to vote 5 for your message! Sorry. Did you ever read "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag"? Jeff Varszegi
*Sound of wrist being slapped* ;P The tigress is here :-D
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Wondering if I can borrow 'The Jesus Incident'.... Pia "Don't try to out-weird me, three eyes. I get weirder things than you in my breakfast cereal."
I just finished. so you can begin. but this is a beautiful book. and a heavy one one with huge religious overtones. bet you would not enjoy this, at first. not like the Asimov omnibus at all. but a good read- and a great story, a wonderful book.and telling you any more would be a copyright violation.;P. pickit next week? hali/ hylighter?
I come in peace. But what about your snot-rag? Amit Dey