What fantasy/science fiction book are you reading RIGHT NOW?
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Picked up a nice little stash from a school fair - all these books for $5!!
Pandora's Star - Peter F Hamilton
Excession - Iain M Banks
The Many Coloured Land - Julian May
Dead Air - Iain Banks
The War of the Worlds - HG Wells
Anvil of Stars - Greg Bear
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer
Neverness - David Zindell
The Long Dark Tea-time of The Soul - Douglas Adams
I can't believe I found such treasure at a school fair!
Currently reading Anvil of Stars, which is a sequel to Forge of God. Intense, and technical - not entirely my cup of tea, but still very interesting.
Pandora's Star - Peter F Hamilton
Excession - Iain M Banks
The Many Coloured Land - Julian May
Dead Air - Iain Banks
The War of the Worlds - HG Wells
Anvil of Stars - Greg Bear
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer
Neverness - David Zindell
The Long Dark Tea-time of The Soul - Douglas Adams
I can't believe I found such treasure at a school fair!
Currently reading Anvil of Stars, which is a sequel to Forge of God. Intense, and technical - not entirely my cup of tea, but still very interesting.
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I have read 8 of those 10. Only Revelation Space was disappointing (to me). If you haven't read any of those, you are in for a long treat. 4 of those begin great serieses.StevieG wrote:Pandora's Star - Peter F Hamilton
Excession - Iain M Banks
The Many Coloured Land - Julian May
Dead Air - Iain Banks
The War of the Worlds - HG Wells
Anvil of Stars - Greg Bear
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer
Neverness - David Zindell
The Long Dark Tea-time of The Soul - Douglas Adams
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I've been trying to find Neverness locally for a long time (I have never read Zindell) - never found it, so I was very pleased to stumble across it ... That's the way it goes isn't it - stumble across something that you've specifically sought elsewhere, and then when you're not actually looking for it...
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What did you think of the Void trilogy? Hamilton has series that begin with a great premise, take you on a great ride, and then kind of dump you in wtf-land. Not that it's not worth reading, just that you wish it ended better. Oddly, this is true of both Void and Night's Dawn. The one you missed, which is my favorite Hamilton series, is the one which avoids this problem, and which ends quite well - Pandora's Star+Judas Unchained. Which Void is actually a spin-off from. I would look that up if you like his writing and his mileau.Avatar wrote:Since I just read the Void trilogy, that pushed me to Hamilton's Reality Dysfunction.
Absolutely. The best things are the things you didn't expect, but always hoped you'd find.StevieG wrote:That's the way it goes isn't it
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Finished Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson. Will update when I finish other books!
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I find it worse in Nights Dawn than the Void, but yeah, overall good, but a bit let down by the endings. Lot of potential in both, just not really realised all that well in general I feel.wayfriend wrote: What did you think of the Void trilogy? Hamilton has series that begin with a great premise, take you on a great ride, and then kind of dump you in wtf-land. Not that it's not worth reading, just that you wish it ended better. Oddly, this is true of both Void and Night's Dawn.
Of course, my real problem with Night's Dawn is well documented...
Spoiler
THE GHOST OF AL CAPONE! WTF?
Otherwise, I mostly enjoy the books, those big sweeping and convoluted epics are fun for me. I've seen Pandora's Star etc. around. Will certainly pick it up at some point.
I did like the whole Waterwalker storyline in the Void books, once I figured out its "chronology" and it was interesting to see how that worked out.
But as with the ND books, it feels like an annoying amount of Deus ex machina is standard in his books.
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Avatar wrote:I mostly enjoy the books, those big sweeping and convoluted epics are fun for me.
it feels like an annoying amount of Deus ex machina is standard in his books.
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yea, on those things.
My position on him has evolved to:
Roughly speaking, enjoy him, but don't respect him.
[[that's not entirely true, but fun to say...even if it IS too Deus, weaving the complicated webs he does is fucking HARD...and unlike "Wheel of Time," for example, at least his characters don't just say variations of the same shit over and over, twenty or infinitely many times per book]]
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
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the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Actually Stevie G have you read many Aussie scifi fantasy works, there are some worthwhile works Canavan, Garth Nix, that woman that wrote with Feist. whatever her name is .. shes really good.
Caravan has a crap editor .. great worlds but you have to grimace through typos and odd grammar. Otherwise, worth a read
Caravan has a crap editor .. great worlds but you have to grimace through typos and odd grammar. Otherwise, worth a read
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You mean the book is awful? I didn't think it was that bad...Horrim Carabal wrote:It's weird how "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" is awful but "The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul" is fantastic.
Janny Wurts. Never read any of her standalone stuff, just the (brilliant) Empire books she wrote with Feist.Skyweir wrote:...that woman that wrote with Feist. whatever her name is .. shes really good.
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