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Valan
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Posted - 2005.03.19 07:24:00 -
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 Originally by: Joshua Calvert
Iain M Banks (Culture series. Nuff said.)
'Consider Phlebas' Inspiration for Halo.
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Vera Liskrii
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Posted - 2005.03.19 11:39:00 -
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Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. I try to buy a new book every week (helps pass time while travelling )and no matter where I go, it seems any bookstore will have at least one book of the series. But that could just be me 
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KingsGambit
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Posted - 2005.03.19 20:53:00 -
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Just managed to obtain Goodkind's "Chainfire" in eBook format to read before the mass market paperback is out this year. Also got "Elegy For A Lost Star" and "Requiem For The Sun", both musically named to continue the theme started with Rhapsody, looking forward to reading them all...not enough time!! I feel a bit guilty though as now I've started writing myself, I'm unconciously over-analysing other's writing. |
Xeaon
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Posted - 2005.03.19 23:49:00 -
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I read terry pratchetts discworld books alot too, good stuff 
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Herko Kerghans
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Posted - 2005.03.20 11:20:00 -
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Ursula Le Guinn anybody?
"Wizard of Earthsea" is IMHO the only rival to LoTR at "best fantasy".
In the SF contest, William Gibson's short stories in "Burning Chrome" (better than "Neuromancer", btw, his most famous book) hands down. Second place for Orson Scott Card with "Ender's Game" or "Songmaster".
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Rodj Blake
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Posted - 2005.03.21 11:36:00 -
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Frankly, you can't go wrong with anything by either Iain (M) Banks or JG Ballard. Apart from that, both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World are excellent reads.
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Valisk
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Posted - 2005.03.21 12:36:00 -
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Originally by: Tricky Trixy
Especially this Honor Harrington series by David Weber, thing is I dont know what the first book is called?? Could someone tell me the title of the firts book so i can start at the beginning?
I think the first one was 'On Basilisk Station'...
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Posted - 2005.03.22 19:12:00 -
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Originally by: Valisk
I think the first one was 'On Basilisk Station'...
OMG someone named themselves after a habitat.
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Tar Ecthelion
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Posted - 2005.03.23 01:34:00 -
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LOTR is best fantasy book I've read by far, lost count of times I've read it.
Stephen Baxter is a good if you like you Sci-fi complicated and in depth .. lots of technical details that really makes you believe this guy knows what he's writing about.
Asimov, Clarke, Banks, Gibson are among the others I like.
But generally, so long as the story is good, I'll read it.
and Bab5 rocks as well 
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Tairos Hakonnus
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Posted - 2005.03.23 02:11:00 -
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Not sure if anyone's mentioned this yet, but since we're on the topic of Sci-Fi books...
Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun is ******* awesome.
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Valentine Keen
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Posted - 2005.03.23 09:57:00 -
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Edited by: Valentine Keen on 23/03/2005 09:57:07
Departing from sci-fi and fantasy, there's some great historic and military fiction out there.
Anything by Bernard Cornwell is usually worth a read and he's covered quite a few different periods now, though he's most known for the Sharpe series.
I'm also a fan of naval warfare authors, such as Patrick O'Brien and Julian Stockwin, though my favourite by far would be Alexander Kent's Bolitho novels.
Back on fantasy, I have to agree on David Eddings and Robin Hobb recommendations, though after a while David Eddings seems to be rather repetitive. I've also enjoyed Stephen Donaldson's Illearth books, though to be honest I actually prefer his detective novels.
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Eris Discordia
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Posted - 2005.03.23 10:30:00 -
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Robin Hobb for the win
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mahhy
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Posted - 2005.03.23 13:33:00 -
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Edited by: mahhy on 23/03/2005 13:34:30
Originally by: Joshua Calvert
Tad Williams (War of the Flowers is amazing)
David Eddings (I fancy Pol)
Robert Jordan (Cygane would get it too)
Peter Hamilton (Ione 4tw!)
Michael Crichton (Andromeda Strain is excellent)
Jeffery Deaver (Best thriller/crime writer ever)
Iain M Banks (Culture series. Nuff said.)
Nice list... only one I'm not familiar with is Jeffrey Deaver. Peter Hamiltons new stuff, starting with Pandoras Star is fantastic. Eddings is an old favorite. Jordan, well, I love the series, but damnit, finish it! Banks doesn't write enough Culture novels... I wish he released a new one every 2 months, cause I love 'em. The Algebraist was incredibly good even though it wasn't Culture. Williams is a fantastic author, but I'm having a tough time with Shadowmarch. Just not getting into it as much as Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. Probably have to put it down and come back to it at some point.
My top author of all time is currently Richard Morgan. Just a fantastic series (barring Market Forces, bit of an odd one out), extremely violent, dark, and mature with just enough Sci-Fi to catch my eye. Just received the new one today actually, Woken Furies. If people haven't read Altered Carbon, go NOW and buy it. NOW NOW NOW
Edit: oh and Eris, Robin Hobb is fantastic. The Liveship series I didn't enjoy quite as much but it was still good. The Farseer trilogy was a stunning read, but I think I liked Tawny Man better.
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Niko Succorso
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Posted - 2005.03.26 03:45:00 -
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.Stephen Donaldson - the Gap series? Anyone? Also Alastair Reynolds for the Revealation Space universe. For fantasy, one I like is Michael Moorcock, author of the Eternal Champion stories. Not to everyone's taste, but some good stuff. Elric 4tw (Stormbringer teh 1337 HaX)
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Laythun
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Posted - 2005.03.26 13:33:00 -
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its a nice list but.....wheres Terry pratchett?
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Danks
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Posted - 2005.03.26 15:50:00 -
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I'm a huge Terry pratchett fan. Got to meet him last year at a book signing. The guy is amazingly funny in person.
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ChainyMcSmoke
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Posted - 2005.04.05 05:29:00 -
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Anything by Hunter Thompson(Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, The Rum diaries)the hitchikers guide and of course anything by Card.
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Ghost Red
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Posted - 2005.04.05 08:41:00 -
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Does anyone in this game actually read anything outside of sci-fi and faerie and elf books? 
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Discorporation
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Posted - 2005.04.05 08:45:00 -
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I read Vondel's Lucifer ages ago, does that count?
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Ghost Red
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Posted - 2005.04.05 08:51:00 -
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Originally by: Discorporation
I read Vondel's Lucifer ages ago, does that count?
Its a start
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Discorporation
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Posted - 2005.04.05 09:02:00 -
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Also read some old xth century arthurian legend snippets.
And Beowulf in it's original language (with the translation next to it, ofc(thank you lian))
YAY ME?
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Gunstar Zero
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Posted - 2005.04.05 09:51:00 -
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Edited by: Gunstar Zero on 05/04/2005 09:51:37
Originally by: DeMundus
The Nights Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton - I know some1 at CCP has read it... since alot of EVE stuff is taken out of these books.
Best SciFi books ever, larger then LOTR, better then DUNE and
kicks more ass then these two combined
I think Eve was originally concieved in 1996, just about the same time as Reality Dysfunction was published.
At a guess it was a big part of the inspiration - and you can see why.
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Vicarrah
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Posted - 2005.04.05 10:49:00 -
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Edited by: Vicarrah on 05/04/2005 10:52:22
Originally by: mahhy
Williams is a fantastic author, but I'm having a tough time with Shadowmarch. Just not getting into it as much as Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. Probably have to put it down and come back to it at some point.
I've just recently finished Shadowmarch, and yes, it was a bit slow to start off with... my feeling is that he's going to be putting in as much time with this series as he did with the Otherland cycle, which again started quite slowly but ended up being the best damn set of books I've read in a very very long time.
Towards the end of shadowmarch, you begin to feel a bit of a connection with some of the characters as more and more of their background/character evolves, and I think that there's a lot of scope for further development. The book certainly ends on an "OMG WTF is next?"
currently I've just been loaned the conqurerors book (by Zahn), I hope they're going to be as good as the (extremely space opera) Cobra series, which are th eonly other ones I've read by him (not being a huge starwars fan)
btw... if you're looking for something different, try the Neverness books by David Zindel... some interesting mathematical concepts of warp/hyperspace surroundded by a universe of super-intellects and far-flung humanity.
Vicarrah
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Kees
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Posted - 2005.04.05 14:15:00 -
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Originally by: Ghost Red
Does anyone in this game actually read anything outside of sci-fi and faerie and elf books?
Have finished reading all of Dan Browns books after reading "The Da Vinci Code". "Angels and Demons" seems bizarrely apt at this moment in time.
Also, how much of Eve is similar in ways to Asimov's Foundation series in its Galactic concept?
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Velsharoon
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Posted - 2005.04.05 15:05:00 -
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yeah dan brown was good
also reading rubicon atm, next up a book on roman and greek mythology and a book on the celts
i do ancient history but these arent on my reading list im just sad and like reading things :)
would help if i read my set texts tho...
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KingsGambit
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Posted - 2005.04.05 16:36:00 -
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"Da Vinci Code" was a great story, haven't read Mr. Brown's other works but I hear Robert Langdon made appearances in earlier books, and if so that would make for an interesting read. Perhaps some more background on his Mickey Mouse watch! :) Just finished Monteleone's "Blood Of The Lamb", a fiction novel based on what I thought was a fantastic premise. A group of folks from the Vatican secretly obtained a piece of the Turin Shroud, and extracting the genetic information of the blood on it, used modern science to clone Christ. Interesting read but a lot of the *americanisms* were confusing. Do you guys really have preachers on TV over there?
Also finished Goodkind's "Chainfire" and Haydon's "Requiem for the Sun" and "Elegy for the Lost Star", all continuations of earlier series (Sword of Truth and Symphony of Ages series respectively). Chainfire was good, but not much really happened. Knowing however that there won't be more than 2 more books before the series ends makes the cliffhangar ending a touch more bearable. Requiem seemed a bit rushed to me...the first 3/4 were well paced but toward the end, half the events which were built up, were glossed over, and the other half were hurried. It was setting up what looks like another trilogy, continuing in Elegy, but would rather an extra few chapters than the sudden change of pace. Elegy was good, picking up where Requiem left off and leaving a lot hanging for another book in the future. Lots of tension and excellent pace made it by far a better read than it's predecessor.
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Zeromancer
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Posted - 2005.04.05 19:33:00 -
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Edited by: Zeromancer on 05/04/2005 19:33:25
I have been reading some books by David Weber and Steve White.
Exellent reading on large scale space battles.
In Death Ground and the follow up The Shiva option.
Also a book called Crusade witch is set before those two books.
Then we have Mutineers moon and The Armaggeddon Inherithance witch also are great books.
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Lygos
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Posted - 2005.04.06 03:02:00 -
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Originally by: Joshua Calvert
I'm really into
Tad Williams (War of the Flowers is amazing)
I'll see your bid for Tad, plus the Otherland series, and raise you a Margarent Atwood and a Jeff Vandermeer.
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Vera Liskrii
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Posted - 2005.04.06 03:38:00 -
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Textbooks are fun too  ...
Europe: A cultural History by Peter Rietbergen
Ethics: A pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory by Lawrence M Hinman
Politics (2nd ed.) by Andrew Heywood
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ArmedSolid
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Posted - 2005.04.06 08:48:00 -
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i go through a couple o books a week ,working at sea on the trawlers you dont get an internet connection  ,2 books id recommend , The blue nowhere (jeffery deaver)
and, The da vinci code (dan brown) both psychological thrillers with great twists.
Anyone with an understanding of computers wont put the( blue nowhere) down till its finished .
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