danlo's Alltime Top 60 SciFis
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jacob Raver, sinTempter
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yeesh...nice list
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"I'm gonna eat your brains and gain your knowledge." - Tony Block, Planet Terror
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danlo
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Dang! Revisiting this list shows me I have NOT read much Sci-Fi in the past 3 years (coming out of a major fantasy phase, I guess). I've read Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space-which used a number of neat old gimmicks and came out very cool. I'm almost through with David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and despite the great character developments and very robust time eras I still don't know what to make of it. I started Delany's City of a Thousand Suns only to find it was the third book in the Fall of the Towers series and gave up Stephenson's The Diamond Age when it became too Corp/Victorian. Screw, I have a lot of catching up to do. I have read 30 pages of Scott Curtis' Beyond the Event Horizon so I'm pretty sure that's where I'm going next.
fall far and well Pilots!
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Orlion
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You forgot Jack Vance & A.E. van Vogt 
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
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ussusimiel
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If you're doing V's, where's Vernor Vinge. I'm a big fan!Orlion wrote:You forgot Jack Vance & A.E. van Vogt
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[EDIT: to remove Jack Vance's name, whose work I don't really know. It's Peter F. Hamilton I can't read, and he's not even a V
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Tho' all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
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ussusimiel
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Missed that. I'd highly recommend him. Start with A Fire Upon the Deep.danlo wrote:Vector Vinge...I noted I had not read him yet in the original post, sadly I still haven't read him, or Mieville, yet.
I dissed Jack Vance in my last post but I made a mistake (got carried away with the V thing
), but I don't actually know his work. It's Peter F. Hamilton who I can't read anymore 
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Tho' all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
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