Kevin's Watch

I just downloaded about 2,800 sci-fi books. Somehow I have chosen these to start. Which one should I read first. I just finished up The Gap & have started Mordant's Need. I'd appreciate any input you might have.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Gateway by Frederik Pohl

Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut's

Of those four, I think that Gateway was the funnest read for me.

Despite a couple of real stinkers, I'm a big Heinlein fan, so that'd be my pick. If you haven't read Stranger in a Strange Land, however, read it before Moon.

Slaughterhouse Five

Heinlein, and Pohl, for me. I'll throw in Asimov, Clarke, and Bradbury, too.
I recommend A History of Science Fiction: The Golden Age, if you hadn't known of it already....excellent source of rare and early work. ( wierd stuff!)

Heinlein is my recommendation. And that's one of the really good ones IMHO.

--A

Thanks people. I'm going to go with The Forever War and stop reading Mordant's Need. MN has nothing about it so far that is grabbing me. Having just come off of The Gap I need some more sci-fi and death not this mamsy pamsy Geraden & nutbag Terisa. I'm sure there's some good stuff in there but I'm just gonna have to shelf that for awhile.

Don't feel bad, I use MN for when I can't sleep. I've had the book for 6 months and I'm about 100 pages in.

Watch it. Some of us liked MN, and this is an SRD fan site, after all......

Don't diss MN. I had to read all the way through book one and start on book two before I really 'got into it'.

Bleh...I didn't really care for Mordant's Need either. I love the Covenant books of course, but this failed to grab me at all. Even after starting "Mirror of Her Dreams" a couple of times and finally managing to finish it and read "A Man Rides Through" as well, I still wasn't very thrilled about it.

Hey watch it Encryptic, how dare you not like MN even in the MULTIFARIAM you must like all SRD books

Dawngreeter wrote:Hey watch it Encryptic, how dare you not like MN even in the MULTIFARIAM you must like all SRD books

Uh oh....I see an angry mob of Mordant's Need lovers approaching my way with torches and rope.

Mordan't Need... meh. If they hang you, Encryptic, they're gonna have to hang me, too.

Anyway, I vote for Slaughterhouse-Five.

The Forever War was a very satisfying book for me & I'd recommend this book to any sci-fi nut. I am now onto the Heechee Saga starting with Gateway by Fred Pohl.

This is a late addition to the topic, but regarding MN:

SRD is a slow starter in general. I just reread MN and noticed that perhaps of all his books that may have been the slowest. He's like a chess player, slowly moving his pieces around the board - and then BAM, he strikes. That's what happened for me. The story started to really take off midway through the first book (not a good idea if you're trying to sell books, truth be told), and the second book was a race to the finish.

What he said.