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Sevarus James
Minmatar Meridian Dynamics
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Posted - 2006.08.16 13:05:00 -
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Night's Dawn Trilogy -P.F. Hamilton Otherland- Tad Williams ---and yep, they're long multipart....but "done" so you don't have to wait and wait and wait for the next ones....are you listening GRR Martin??? ;)
The Moon is Harsh Mistress - Robert H. Heinlein will ALWAYS be near the top of my recommendations.
For classic, short, fast, but stick in your head forever: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
Lucifer's Hammer, or the Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Anything by David Brin, Asimov, Pohl, Zelazney, Herbert
The list goes on and on. ----- ------------
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Sevarus James
Minmatar Meridian Dynamics
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Posted - 2006.08.16 13:09:00 -
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Originally by: Avon
Originally by: Redundancy If you wanted really classic, you could go all the way back to E.E. "Doc" Smith and Robert A. Heinlein.
Doc Smith stuff are crazy mad superfast, and often silly, stories .. fantastic stuff. Not really books you think your way through, more the type you get dragged through by the author, with smoke and flames exploding from your eyeballs.
I have all of them, including the Skylark series in first editions. And no, you can't have my books.
I have ALWAYS been afraid to re-read the Lensman series, as I fear that it would ruin childhood memories....even thinking back on some of it I get the idea that it would be horribly 'dated' now...sorta' like watching 1930's buck rogers after being exposed to The Empire Strikes Back.
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Sevarus James
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Posted - 2006.08.16 13:14:00 -
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Originally by: Mongrove Space Op' novelas - my favorites
Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space, IMO best current space opera: # Revelation Space (2000) # Chasm City (2001) # Redemption Ark (2002) # Absolution Gap (2003)
Vernor Vinge : # A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) - Hugo 1993 # A Deepness in the Sky (2000) - it's "A Fire Upon the Deep" prequel and the most honored science fiction novels
See wikipedia.org
Oh gods I'll second the Vernor Vinge section.......just literally with in a couple of weeks finished those. What an amazing story. (both of em'.) ----- ------------
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Sevarus James
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Posted - 2006.08.16 13:57:00 -
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Originally by: Dejah Carter
Lastly, Sevarus James, you must also be a very enlightened person. My reading tastes are almost identical based on what you put forth
Why thank you. Good stuff is.........good stuff.
I've got one more book (yeah, right, one more. lol.) that belongs in the 'classical' category. Considered one of the best books written in the 20th Century in ANY genre:
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
This won the 1961 Hugo, and is a book that will be hard to forget. Powerful stuff. ----- ------------
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