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I'd like to recommend an author....

POSTED BY: HUGHFF
UPDATED: Friday, November 17, 2006 05:40
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Friday, November 17, 2006 12:50 AM

Joel Shepherd.

He's Australian but I'd love to see him succeed despite this. His first novel (now seven years old) has just been released in the US and UK

http://www.pyrsf.com/crossover.html

and is very fast paced and complex. It's more Bladerunner/Do Androids Dream... than Firefly but I'm sure it will appeal to many here.

It's links to things brown of coat are mainly that it's set in the future and it's a very Asian-blend future. This reflects Shepherd's personal life as much as anything - he's spent a good portion of his life doing business in Asia. He knows the culture very well.

There are two sequels to Crossover (Breakaway and Killswitch) which I understand will be released soon outside the South Pacific.

Give it a go - it's well worth it.

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Friday, November 17, 2006 1:46 AM

SPACEANJL

Right back at you with Richard Morgan.

Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies.

A world where people have themselves stored in cortical stacks and bodies are sleeves. You can wake up in someone else's body. Takeshi Kovacs is from Harlan's World, where the culture is Japanese-Magyar, and nothing can fly above a certain height or the Martain Orbitals shoot it down...

Otherwise, for a good oriental culture vibe, try the Foreigner sequence by C J Cherryh. The Atevi are about as near to Imperial China as anything else I've ever read.

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Friday, November 17, 2006 5:40 AM

CYBERSNARK

I'll check it out. I like Cyberpunk as a genre, but I have trouble getting into most novels, 'cause of all the digressions that seem endemic to the genre.

It's the cyberpunk curse: the whole defining factor of cyberpunk is the worldbuilding (the people have to be "normal," it's just the world that's so different from our own that makes the characters seem strange), but novels and movies don't lend themselves to worldbuilding --movies are only a couple of hours (unless you're Peter Jackson), and novels have to follow a cohesive plot. You end up with these rambling, detail-filled explanations and extrapolations that break up the flow of the story.

Cyberpunk works best in serial form, but trying to sell a cyberpunk TV series is harder than doing sci-fi on Fox (only one I can think of off-hand is Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex).

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