Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:42 am
bump for jacob
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danlo's Alltime Top 60 SciFis
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:22 am
yeesh...nice list
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 5:52 pm
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.
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:13 am
You forgot Jack Vance & A.E. van Vogt 
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 1:45 am
I was told exactly that on a couple of other boards where I posted this list, Ainudale's and Westeros, I think... 
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 2:54 am
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
]Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 5:17 am
Vector Vinge...I noted I had not read him yet in the original post, sadly I still haven't read him, or Mieville, yet.
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 1:28 pm
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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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:20 am
Good move; I wish I'd known when to quit that book. It was a slog.danlo wrote: and gave up Stephenson's The Diamond Age when it became too Corp/Victorian.