Looking for a Book
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I'm bored. I have several hundred books - whenever I reach a thousand I go on a donation binge and give the ones I no longer read to someone - and I can't find a single one I care to re-read again. There are some that I'll never tire of - Atlas Shrugged, the Martian Chronicles, Foundation et al, - but most of my collection I've read so many times that I can quote the protagonist's lines word for word. I have to admit that I haven't purchased a new book in a few years, and so I've lost touch with the writing community - who's hot and who's not. I enjoy philosophy, history, SciFi, and the ocassional fantasy. I hate the crap the SciFi channel passes off as science fiction, but which is really just horror crap. I enjoy authors like Ayn Rand, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Issac Asimov, James Michener, Tom Clancy, Ursula LeGuinn, Anne McAffry... Can someone recommend a new book or author in line with my weird preferences?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Try Paul Garrison - sea adventure, at least the sea plays a big part in it: Red Sky At Morning Fire And Ice Buried At Sea Sea Hunter The Ripple Effect To be truthful, I have read only Red Sky At Morning and Buried At Sea, but have rounded up the rest and plan to read them this summer. Dave.
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I'm bored. I have several hundred books - whenever I reach a thousand I go on a donation binge and give the ones I no longer read to someone - and I can't find a single one I care to re-read again. There are some that I'll never tire of - Atlas Shrugged, the Martian Chronicles, Foundation et al, - but most of my collection I've read so many times that I can quote the protagonist's lines word for word. I have to admit that I haven't purchased a new book in a few years, and so I've lost touch with the writing community - who's hot and who's not. I enjoy philosophy, history, SciFi, and the ocassional fantasy. I hate the crap the SciFi channel passes off as science fiction, but which is really just horror crap. I enjoy authors like Ayn Rand, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Issac Asimov, James Michener, Tom Clancy, Ursula LeGuinn, Anne McAffry... Can someone recommend a new book or author in line with my weird preferences?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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I'm bored. I have several hundred books - whenever I reach a thousand I go on a donation binge and give the ones I no longer read to someone - and I can't find a single one I care to re-read again. There are some that I'll never tire of - Atlas Shrugged, the Martian Chronicles, Foundation et al, - but most of my collection I've read so many times that I can quote the protagonist's lines word for word. I have to admit that I haven't purchased a new book in a few years, and so I've lost touch with the writing community - who's hot and who's not. I enjoy philosophy, history, SciFi, and the ocassional fantasy. I hate the crap the SciFi channel passes off as science fiction, but which is really just horror crap. I enjoy authors like Ayn Rand, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Issac Asimov, James Michener, Tom Clancy, Ursula LeGuinn, Anne McAffry... Can someone recommend a new book or author in line with my weird preferences?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
A late reply (just catching up with The Lounge after a long weekend), but nobody has mentioned Charles Stross yet. His books, Accelerando and Singularity Sky are excellent sci-fi. Also try Alan Campbells Scar Night and Iron Angel if you like alternate reality / fantasy type stuff. I am waiting for the third book in the trilogy to be published later this year. Also anything by Vernor Vinge, Ken MacLeod, Ian MacDonald, China Mieville.
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