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1141 - 08-18-2013, 14:14
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shocks me that people like Rayn with a mind for finances will turn to fantasy book when the book of books remains as unchanging as ever
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly."

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Just finished reading both Starship Troopers (again) and Stranger in a Strange Land (first time) - only complaint is that SIASL felt a bit dated and in some places over-preachy but both still recommended readings by a big margin.

Also, on the advice of the thread, I'm about to start Hyperion.
 
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Just finished Hyperion/Fall Of, really enjoyed it up until the '**** sake, THAT'S the end?!' bit.
 
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Sanderson's Reckoners series book 1 Steelheart comes out 9/24.

This dude writes a lot.

Stormlight archive book 2 in March looks like.
 
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Just finished "Blue Remembered Earth" by Allastair Reynolds. It was a fun, hard scifi read, but not nearly as good as the "Revelation Space" books. A very meh follow-the-dots mystery, sprinkled with some cool cyberpunk elements. Thinking about picking up "House of Suns" next.
 
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1146 - 09-21-2013, 23:11
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Have been reading a couple of series by Evan Currie.
On Silver Wings us the first book in the Valkyrie series.
Odyssey One is the other series.
Both are good military sci-fi.
 
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1147 - 09-22-2013, 08:12
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Has anyone read Pratchett's The Long Earth or The Long War?

I just bought books 2&3 of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn and a couple of Peter F. Hamilton to keep me going
 
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Sanderson's Reckoners series book 1 Steelheart comes out 9/24.

This dude writes a lot.

Stormlight archive book 2 in March looks like.
Thanks I was wondering about that. Damn 2 years between books? We are going to never see the end of it.
 
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Just finished Hyperion/Fall Of, really enjoyed it up until the '**** sake, THAT'S the end?!' bit.
that's how i felt too when i read them a few months ago
 
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Just started the "Wool" series.
 
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I'm reading Stranger in a Strange Land right now (the new extended version) (thx ICFire for reminding me of it) and finding it pretty good. It is always funny to read these type of stories where everything is hi tech but they need to change the spool of tape in a camera or recorder. Some things were just beyond imagining at the time.
Same thing with Snow Crash. It read like modern sci-fi... but had these antiquated elements like video tapes. So I looked up when it was written and was blown away.
 
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Same thing with Snow Crash. It read like modern sci-fi... but had these antiquated elements like video tapes. So I looked up when it was written and was blown away.
Especially the google earth type application they use, that freaked me out.
 
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I found the same true of my rereading of Asimov's Foundation trilogy+ recently and smoking being such an accepted habit in that society.
 
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if you haven't read these books u dont kno c urrent sci fi

singularity sky
iron sunrinse
glasshouse
accelerando
on

on was the most depressing book i have ever read. more so than anything existential, the painted bird, etc
 
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Sanderson's Reckoners series book 1 Steelheart comes out 9/24.

This dude writes a lot.

Stormlight archive book 2 in March looks like.
I wish that one of the zillion books that he is writing was the next book in the Mistborn series (The Alloy of Law sequel).
 
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Has anyone read Pratchett's The Long Earth or The Long War?

I just bought books 2&3 of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn and a couple of Peter F. Hamilton to keep me going
i read The Long Earth

it was ok........too broad focus/not enough happening in that first book of the series imo

be interested to hear what others think
 
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I know it's probably more horror than sci-fi / fantasy but I'm really enjoying NOS4A2 which is written by Stephen King's son and writing under the name Joe Hill. He writes VERY much like his father which I guess shouldn't surprise me.
 
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Long Earth/Long War are really not that amazing for a Pratchett work. It's more of a "what if" thought exercise than an actual story.
 
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Cliff notes for every Honorverse book:

Missile launch! Multiple missile launch!
Contemptuous ease.
Bucked and heaved in agony.
*Lengthy emo, soul searching mental soliloquy*
Celery.
Bleek
 
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Cliff notes for every Honorverse book:

Missile launch! Multiple missile launch!
Contemptuous ease.
Bucked and heaved in agony.
*Lengthy emo, soul searching mental soliloquy*
Celery.
Bleek
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