Your most recent Favorite SF Book by pizmobeach

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Your most recent Favorite SF Book

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:13 AM

... fully loaded, safety off...

Anybody reading anything.... ya know... great? "Couldn't put it down... they need to make a movie out of it... best thing I've read in ages..."

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 3:16 AM

CLJOHNSTON108

I've just been re-reading Eric S. Nylund's "Signal to Noise", and its sequel, "A Signal Shattered". Awesome story!

http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Eric-S-Nylund/dp/0380792923
http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Shattered-Eric-S-Nylund/dp/038079294X/ref
=sip_rech_dp_10
http://www.sfsite.com/05b/sig33.htm
http://www.sfsite.com/12a/sig70.htm
http://www.rambles.net/nylund_noise.html

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 3:17 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...

Maybe no one redas any more?

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 3:49 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Last Earth-shattering sci-fi I read was William Gibson's Neuromancer. Nothing much has grabbed me since that.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 4:13 AM

PIZMOBEACH

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Originally posted by cljohnston108:
I've just been re-reading Eric S. Nylund's "Signal to Noise", and its sequel, "A Signal Shattered". Awesome story!

http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Eric-S-Nylund/dp/0380792923
http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Shattered-Eric-S-Nylund/dp/038079294X/ref
=sip_rech_dp_10
http://www.sfsite.com/05b/sig33.htm
http://www.sfsite.com/12a/sig70.htm
http://www.rambles.net/nylund_noise.html

Thx CLJ!

sounds great:

"This latest offering from the former Microsoft employee will undoubtedly thrill writers of code and the romantics who call themselves hackers. Nylund's main characters are affixed with permanent implants allowing instant access to cyberspace; a virtuality so vivid that they often prefer the virtual over the reality. The trouble begins when Jack Potter, an encryption expert who's done some shady work for the NSO, finds and decodes a message buried in old astronomical data. Contact with the outreaching alien and information bartering result. Unfortunately, someone else is watching, too. "Down the hall, bars rattled. It was a nice touch. Cold churned in Jack's stomach, diffused down his legs and up his spine. It was synthetic fear generated by the bubble. He fought it. DeMitri took a set of keys from his pocket, picked one out, then opened a cell door ... 'Alcatraz'--he spread his arms in a grand gesture--'is a reflection of what's on your mind, Jack. Feeling guilty about something?'"

It is a bit funny, a Microsoft employee writing about hacking considering how full of holes their OSs are.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 4:41 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Well I dunno that it's Sci-Fi so much, but I recently read Monster Hunter: Vendetta, the follow up to Larry Corrieas Monster Hunter International.

Both books rocked some ass, and you can find free sample chapters at Baen Books to get a little taste of it - I liked both books quite a bit, hell, Owen Z Pitt kind of reminds me of Mikey.

The other recent read was BOLO Rising, which was pretty good, but the BOLO books are somewhat interconnected, so even the stand-alone books lose a little something without having read the rest.

I have em all, naturally - all the BOLO books and every single one of Saberhagens Berserker series, even the members-only waldenbooks otherworlds club novel, I like stuff where all the real stories take place as tiny snapshots of a much larger universe - the best I have ever seen it done though is David Drakes The Fleet novels, all six of em.

I've also bagged up the Caine books - Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle, Caine Black Knife and they are VERY good, especially BoT, but expect to pay top dollar for that one, as it's become something of a collectors item now.

And for, of all things, a humorous take on the Warhammer40K universe, you can't go wrong with Ciphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium! (you have to shout it, you know you want to..

) who is, in fact, about as "heroic" as Captain Jack Sparrow, if slightly more slick about it.

All good stuff, but for fans of Whedon-work, Larry Corrieas MHI is a sure-fire hit.

-Frem

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 5:09 AM

MALACHITE

A children's sci-fi book I recently enjoyed was "The Supernaturalist" by Eoin Colfer (the guy who wrote the Artemis Fowl series and, I think, "Airman" -- both of which are enjoyable if you like children's/young adults books). It is a quick read and sort of had an Ender's Game vibe to it (though, of course, isn't as good). I'm not sure I totally "got" the ending, but the story was enjoyable enough.

Another children's sci-fi/fantasy book with a very intriguing premise which doesn't quite pull it off in the story is "The Storm Thief" by Chris Wooding.

I'm not remembering any adult sci fi off hand, so I'll be curious what others recommend as well.

As a side note, has anyone read any of the Deathstalker series by Simon Green? It is in the space opera genre, and if you can get past the awful book covers, had some pretty interesting ideas and subplots. I read the first 3 and haven't felt the need to read more.

ETA: Oh, and I must give a notable mention to the young adult novel "Monster Blood Tattoo" and, particularly, its sequel, "Lamplighter" by DM Cornish which creates a fascinating fantasy world with some sci-fi elements. "Lamplighter" had me almost as hooked as the Harry Potter novels -- but it doesn't have the near-universal appeal of Harry Potter (one of my friends couldn't get through it).

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 5:26 AM

JONGSSTRAW

Amazing story of a family with supernatural powers!

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 5:32 AM

MALACHITE

I'll have to check out the five chinese brothers. Its reviews on Amazon seem pretty good overall...

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 5:50 AM

MALACHITE

These look like good reads. I didn't start the post, but thanks for the recommendations.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 5:51 AM

MALACHITE

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Maybe no one redas any more?

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By the way, I found the typo in your question rather ironic...

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 6:32 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...

Quote:
Originally posted by Malachite:
Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Maybe no one redas any more?

Scifi movie music + Firefly dialogue clips, 24 hours a day - http://www.scifiradio.com

By the way, I found the typo in your question rather ironic...

Hey, just me trying to be phunny. Thx for your suggestions btw. You made me think about Ender's Game which I believe a lot of people around here are fans of - haven't read it, maybe now's the time.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 6:41 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Well I dunno that it's Sci-Fi so much, but I recently read Monster Hunter: Vendetta, the follow up to Larry Corrieas Monster Hunter International.

Both books rocked some ass, and you can find free sample chapters at Baen Books to get a little taste of it - I liked both books quite a bit, hell, Owen Z Pitt kind of reminds me of Mikey.

The other recent read was BOLO Rising, which was pretty good, but the BOLO books are somewhat interconnected, so even the stand-alone books lose a little something without having read the rest.

I have em all, naturally - all the BOLO books and every single one of Saberhagens Berserker series, even the members-only waldenbooks otherworlds club novel, I like stuff where all the real stories take place as tiny snapshots of a much larger universe - the best I have ever seen it done though is David Drakes The Fleet novels, all six of em.

I've also bagged up the Caine books - Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle, Caine Black Knife and they are VERY good, especially BoT, but expect to pay top dollar for that one, as it's become something of a collectors item now.

And for, of all things, a humorous take on the Warhammer40K universe, you can't go wrong with Ciphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium! (you have to shout it, you know you want to.. ) who is, in fact, about as "heroic" as Captain Jack Sparrow, if slightly more slick about it.

All good stuff, but for fans of Whedon-work, Larry Corrieas MHI is a sure-fire hit.

-Frem

MHI does have a kind of Angel ring to it - sounds interesting, so does Saberhagens - I like the idea of a 'verse - thx for the tips.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 6:45 AM

MENDUR

I've been reading books outside my usual comfort zone, trying to find something interesting. Nothing great, but maybe you'd like them:

"Frankenstein" (classic) - twitterish review: it's sort of about pretty people being killed by an ugly guy because he got rejected for being ugly

"Love's Immortal Pantheon 3" (erotica anthology with gods) - twitterish review: the human body can only move in so many ways, so it got a bit repetitive after a while but still ... stimulating.

Then I retreated back to F&SF and read "Misspelled" (anthology about magic spells going wrong) - twitterish review: some very good tales in this collection, will be looking for books by some of the authors

Currently reading an SF classic, "Spadeful of Spacetime" (anthology about time travel without a time machine) - I'm only two stories in. If these are any indication, there's a reason this is a classic.

The Codex Menduri: http://mendur.blogspot.com

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:07 PM

IMNOTHERE

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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Anybody reading anything.... ya know... great? "Couldn't put it down... they need to make a movie out of it... best thing I've read in ages..."

Not sure anything has quite lived up to that hyperbole, recently, but...

Stealing Light and Nova War by Gary Gibson (currently waiting for part 3 in paperback) is shaping up to be a pretty good space opera saga in an interesting 'verse...

http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Light-Gary-Gibson/dp/1405091894/ref=sr_
1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285191085&sr=1-1

The other big (fairly) recent space opera saga is Neil Asher's "Cormac" series... Lots of shit gets blown up and people get eaten by unpleasant fauna.

http://www.amazon.com/Neal-L.-Asher/e/B000APOEUC/ref=sr_tc_img_2_0?qid
=1285191378&sr=1-2-ent

Slightly less recent - if you like the old ultraviolence - Richard Morgan's Kovacs series: Altered Carbon/Broken Angels/Woken Furies[/i[. The first is hard-boiled SF Film Noir (and passes your "I can't believe they haven't made a film yet" test) the others are a bit more military SF.

http://www.amazon.com/Altered-Carbon-Takeshi-Kovacs-Novels/dp/03454576
92/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285191789&sr=1-1

Less space-opera-y, I quite enjoyed Flood and Ark by Stephen Baxter (although I prefer his older hard-SF stuff - The Time Ships and the Xeelee books).

http://www.amazon.com/Flood-Stephen-Baxter/dp/B002XULY2S/ref=sr_1_4?s=
books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285191974&sr=1-4

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:25 PM

PENGUIN

Although they are written for young adults, I really like the Softwire series by PJ Haarsma (a close friend of Nathan and cofounder of the Kids Need To Read organization (with Nathan)).

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-ke
ywords=softwire&x=0&y=0

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 5:22 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

I used to read constantly. I've actually had jobs in the past where I could read a book while on the clock. Those were the days, but that was nearly twenty years ago. Now...not so much.

I read almost exclusively SF/F, but lately I've had a hard time finding something that does grab me enough to keep reading even when I should get to bed. Even some of my favorite writers haven't been doing it for me lately.

Even though it is not something I've read lately, I'll never hesitate to mention Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, without a doubt the best speculative fiction I have ever read. It was originally published as four novels that are now collected in two volumes, then a few years later there was a fifth book added, plus he followed that up with two other series set in the same milieu, the Book of the Long Sun (again four novels) and the Book of the Short Sun (three books).

Please check out what I have written about Wolfe on my site:
http://templetongate.net/genewolfe.htm
http://templetongate.net/sunsagas.htm

I cannot recommend him too highly.

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Thursday, September 23, 2010 3:21 AM

DMAANLILEILTT

I gotta mention "Shade's Children" by Garth Nix. It's as close to unputdownable as any book I've read. That also extends to the "Old Kingdom" Trilogy by the same author.

Matthew Reilly's books are also if you want some mindless action (and who doesn't once in a while).

And to anyone who hasn't read "Ender's Game": do it! Just don't read the last one.

Oh, and as for hilarious fantasy, you can't go wrong with "Genesis" or "Revelations".

"I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?"

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