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Posted - 2011.10.19 00:18:00 -
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Old Mans War. Fairly new, and simple... But every part in the book is really solid. Was such a good read.
Another vote for Pandora's Star and Judas unchained. Both books are at least 1100 pages with a text size that makes EVE text look big! Very large space opera, many main characters and one top story.
The Greg Mandel series by the same author (Peter F. Hammilton). Focusing on about 50 years into the future, global warming, different governments and fast changes in the field of bio sciences. Really good reading too.
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Pj Harvey wrote:Also forgot to mention the Mars trilogy by Kim-Stanley Robinson, 3 books about the colonization of Mars using today's technology, red Mars was written in 1996 with conceivable technology for the day, the 'first 100' are trained in Antarctica and sent to Mars aboard the Ares, a ship using centripetal rotation for gravity, they are mostly Russian and American and a few Japanese, they land and begin construction of underhill, the first dwelling on Mars, as the years pass they make tent cities and tap the north pole for water, using rovers trains led by buoys, they make derrigables to move around and manufacture everything themselves, multinational greed and mass immigration eventually causes the first revolution in 2061 where they bring down the space elevator on Olympus mons causing the giant cable to come crashing down across the equator.
Green Mars is the second book, Mars now has it's own industry, terraforming has started and a whole new generation of 'locals' has been born there, the first 100 are largely still alive but quite a few were killed in the '61 revolution, they live in an underground society cut off from corporate controlled Mars and they lead the way for the second uprising, they sign a constitution called the dorsa brevia agreement and successfully revolt, Mars at this stage has a large transient population of people who live 'off the grid' in small tent towns and roving caravans of Arabs and Swiss.
Blue Mars is set across several hundred years, it deal with the colonization of other bodies in the solar system and Mars becoming an independent powerhouse of its own.
Truly a spectacular series of books, not to be missed if you like 'realistic' sci-fi as it's all very conceivable
I forgot these series of books, i must get a copy of them.
Another trilogy i forgot was a new Dune series by Brian herbert and Kevin J Anderson. The three books are:
The Butlerand Jihad
The Machine Crusade
The Battle of Corrin.
Basically it deals with humanity has expanded outwards and occupied hundreds of worlds. A small faction and some revered people have worked out how to remove their brains into a type of stasis jar, allowing them to live for thousands of years. The faction group have gone a step further and built massive robots to control directly with their brains. They have gone and invented a very good A. I. Eventually one of the faction gives too much power to it, and it takes control. The faction are now subservient to the AI, while the rest of humanity forces a stale mate with it.
The stories themselves deal with how humanity struggles to overcome the AI with slaves, new ships, and a herb found on only one desert planet... Dune.
It is a very good series
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