spidey book club

Lindy_Hop · Post by **Lindy_Hop** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:49 pm

Timothy Zahn has a couple of decent popcorn sci-fi books I'll recommend.

1) The Icarus Hunt
2) War Horse

And in case Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle aren't on your list of classic sci-fi authors covered by etc. you might check out their works. In particular I will recommend

1) The Mote in God's Eye
2) The Legacy of Heorot

tsubaki_sanjuro · Post by **tsubaki_sanjuro** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:25 pm

as an alternative to the @#(! fiction already posted, agri reccommends tim mackintosh-smith's abridged translation of the travels by ibn battuta.

Adept · Post by **Adept** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 4:06 pm

Eris wrote:QUOTE (Eris @ Jun 14 2011, 06:04 AM) Actually, all of them are freely available via a share-and-share-alike licensed CD distributed with the last few hardbacks. The CD's floating around somewhere on that website, or I can dredge it up for you.

I'd love that Aeris, if you would. I'm gonna have some boring days at work this summer, and I would appreciate some mindless Sci-Fi to read.

QUOTE I prefer to think of his characters as sociopaths. In fact, that's not far off the mark for most of them.[/quote]
Oh, I agree totally, but it seems to apply to everybody they ever meet as well. People are either amoral sociopaths, or delusional "goodie" victims. Everything always boils down to posessions and lust, nothing else.

HJ_KG · Post by **HJ_KG** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:59 pm

Adept · Post by **Adept** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:27 pm

HJ_KG wrote:QUOTE (HJ_KG @ Jun 15 2011, 08:59 PM) Easiest site to navigate to get or to search for baen CDs;
http://oberon.zlynx.org/

Where to get the torrent list;
http://dak180.dynalias.com:8080/PHP/tracker/

Sites that have the CDs in either zip or iso form;
http://baencd.freedoors.org/
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

Thanks

takingarms1 · Post by **takingarms1** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:58 pm

Cookie Monster wrote:QUOTE (Cookie Monster @ Jun 13 2011, 02:33 PM) p.s: Peter F. Hamilton.

reading mindstar rising now and not being terribly impressed... am I doing it wrong?

notjarvis · Post by **notjarvis** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:18 pm

"Salt" By Adam Roberts is an awesome Sci-fi book.

I recommend it to everyone who hasn't read it.

SaiSoma · Post by **SaiSoma** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:57 pm

TakingArms wrote:QUOTE (TakingArms @ Jun 24 2011, 07:58 AM) reading mindstar rising now and not being terribly impressed... am I doing it wrong?

yup. that whole series is a bit weak. truthfully the Nights Dawn trilogy (Reality Dysfunction, et al) was his best work imo. The commonwealth stuff was pretty good too though I suppose . .most of the time anyway.

kramari · Post by **kramari** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 4:09 pm

Harry Turtledove: Great War: American Front. I love reading alternate history and this is pretty interesting.

ryujin · Post by **ryujin** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 4:41 pm

I liked the night dawn trilogy, until the end- I was very disappointed with how it ended.

SaiSoma wrote:QUOTE (SaiSoma @ Jun 24 2011, 08:57 AM) yup. that whole series is a bit weak. truthfully the Nights Dawn trilogy (Reality Dysfunction, et al) was his best work imo. The commonwealth stuff was pretty good too though I suppose . .most of the time anyway.