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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:49 pm
by Lindy_Hop
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
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:25 pm
by tsubaki_sanjuro
as an alternative to the @#(! fiction already posted, agri reccommends tim mackintosh-smith's abridged translation of
the travels by ibn battuta.
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 4:06 pm
by Adept
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:59 pm
by HJ_KG
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:27 pm
by Adept
Thanks
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:58 pm
by takingarms1
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?
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:18 pm
by notjarvis
"Salt" By Adam Roberts is an awesome Sci-fi book.
I recommend it to everyone who hasn't read it.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:57 pm
by SaiSoma
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.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 4:09 pm
by kramari
Harry Turtledove: Great War: American Front. I love reading alternate history and this is pretty interesting.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 4:41 pm
by ryujin
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.