Kevin's Watch

Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson.

Saberhagen's First Book of Swords.

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Natural History by Justina Robson. AIs and Ets, could be derivative to Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Gemmel's Lion of Macedon. Great book.

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If I can only find the damned thing, I'll be reading the sequel, Dark Prince next. But it's missing in action. Damnit.

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Oh well, guess it's gonna be Wolfe's Urth of the New Sun instead.

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Finally (finally!) finished The City and the City by China Miéville. Started it a few days before christmas...
Good book. A much more subtle fantasy, definately weird rather than fantastic.

Kim Stanley Robinson's "Blue Mars".

It's awesome, and I'm almost done. This trilogy is definitely up there as among the very best sci-fi I've ever read.

Started both Red and Green Mars in the past, could never get into them at all.

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I have a good friend who says the exact same thing every time I bring them up in discussion.

I've never understood why someone wouldn't like them, but it doesn't weigh heavily on my mind. If it did, I'd probably have spent time thinking about it and have a pretty good idea of why to boot.

I read Red Mars, but didn't like it. I just could't get into all the political stuff.

@Avatar: how do you manage to read a book a day?

I liked the first one (Red?) but struggled through the sequels. They read more like a science textbook than sc-fi novels, iirc.

Spiral Jacobs wrote: @Avatar: how do you manage to read a book a day?

They were pretty thin books, and I'm a fast reader.

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A very good science fiction novel entitled Flat Earth by some guy named David Williams.

Every year I read the five Hugo nominated novels, and this is better than quite a few of those from the last few years, IMHO.

Very intelligent writing and in a smooth style that goes down like high grade aged Scotch.

I am very pleased.

Gene Wolfe: Nightside, Vol 1 of The Book of the Long Sun.

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More Wolfe: Soldier of Arete, sequel to Soldier of the Mist.

(Oh, Nightside the Long Sun, (which was the actual full title of the book I was reading before), was excellent. Actually, considerably less impenetrable the I'm used to from Wolfe.

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Murrin wrote:Finally (finally!) finished The City and the City by China Miéville. Started it a few days before christmas...
Good book. A much more subtle fantasy, definately weird rather than fantastic.

I found his Bas-Lag books to be unreadable (or at least I found Perdido Street Station to be unreadable, which is the only one of the three I have tried) but I loved that one and his YA book Un Lun Dun.

The City and the City is very good.

Still reading Flat Earth by David Williams, and still very happy with it.

duchess of malfi wrote:A very good science fiction novel entitled Flat Earth by some guy named David Williams.

Every year I read the five Hugo nominated novels, and this is better than quite a few of those from the last few years, IMHO.

Very intelligent writing and in a smooth style that goes down like high grade aged Scotch.

I am very pleased.

Try Iron Council.

duchess of malfi wrote:

Murrin wrote:Finally (finally!) finished The City and the City by China Miéville. Started it a few days before christmas...
Good book. A much more subtle fantasy, definately weird rather than fantastic.

I found his Bas-Lag books to be unreadable (or at least I found Perdido Street Station to be unreadable, which is the only one of the three I have tried) but I loved that one and his YA book Un Lun Dun.

The City and the City is very good.

Still reading Flat Earth by David Williams, and still very happy with it.

The, um, SIZE of Flat Earth is putting me off at the moment! But I've got tomorrow off with nothing to do, so I may have to lie on the sofa and start it... dunno if my eyesight is good enough to read it at kitchen table where i normally read!