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CCP Whisper
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Posted - 2007.11.27 23:00:00 -
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The Stainless Steel Rat series is indeed good, vintage Sci-Fi that is easy to read and very entertaining. I would also recommend any of Isaac Asimov's short story collections. Dune is easily my favourite sci-fi novel of all time, but may be a bit too epic for one flight. You might want to consider some of the following:
- Old Man's War by John Scalzi
- Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
- The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Vurt by Jeff Noon
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- Gateway by Frederik Pohl
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Voltron Fury
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Posted - 2007.11.28 19:58:00 -
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Larry Niven . Ring World, Foot Fall & The Man-Kzin Wars
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Anwylyd Al'Vos
Minmatar
LightSpeed Industries
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Posted - 2007.11.28 20:25:00 -
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While not technically sci-fi... I'd recommend:
Gunslinger - Stephen King (while it is the first of 7 books in the dark tower, easily read by itself, and devourable if you are not careful)
Back to sci-fi:
The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy is always epic win.
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Khanivore
The Kingsmen
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Posted - 2007.11.28 20:50:00 -
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anything by Neal Asher
Grindlinked, Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent...
all great books
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Glassback
Body Count Inc.
Mercenary Coalition
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Posted - 2007.11.28 21:42:00 -
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 Originally by: Imperator Jora'h
Originally by: Avon
Originally by: Rodj Blake
The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy 
^ This
Yeah...honestly for the OP I have to third this one. Can't go wrong at all with The Guide. Loads of fun, laugh your ass off.
Been racking my brains, yet the answer is clear.^^
(Excessions is imho the easiest Iain M Banks book to read with lots of shooty shooty)
G.
BH Kharnubis > Need more people against the MC meanies
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LUH 3471
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Posted - 2007.11.28 22:23:00 -
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Edited by: LUH 3471 on 28/11/2007 22:24:58
Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy
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Miss Anthropy
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2007.11.28 22:25:00 -
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Originally by: LUH 3471
Nightsdawn Trilogy
That's hardly light reading though isn't it? Each book is over 1000 pages.
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LUH 3471
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Posted - 2007.11.28 22:26:00 -
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Edited by: LUH 3471 on 28/11/2007 22:27:51
it is an awesome light cost story which reads very fast
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ry ry
StateCorp
Veritas Immortalis
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Posted - 2007.11.28 23:15:00 -
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the problem is, the story is very much on-going.
some low-hanging plot threads may be tied up at the end of each book, but the three books are clearly the beginning, middle and end of the story proper. besides he's either be skim reading, or on a *really* long flight to finish any of them in a single sitting.
genuinely awesome books (which i'd recommend you read in order some time OP!) but probably not what he's loking for here.
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Ademaro Imre
Caldari
Eye of God
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Posted - 2007.11.28 23:47:00 -
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Edited by: Ademaro Imre on 28/11/2007 23:49:16
Originally by: Sister Impotentata
Similarly, Starship Troopers is excellent, but it has for many people the preconceived notions that go along with the horrid hollywood treatment. ST needs to be considered among friends with a good snort of brandy and some cigars. And thank god we can pretend we don't really live in a world like that.
Starship Troops by Heinlein is a good sci-fi book to read, by a well-known sci fi writer. The story is told in first person by a soldier at a war's end or before a new one starts. Goes through his boot camp training, and war exploits. Nothing like the movies. The only similarity is that Buenos Aires gets blown up, and humans are fighting bugs, and some similar names.
Its like Rogue Warrior goes to space, but without any cursing, s the Heinlein book was meant for all ages. Read page exerpts; Linkage |
Sister Impotentata
Caldari
Elite Angels Of Death
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Posted - 2007.11.29 00:12:00 -
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The best way to describe Starship Troopers? Full Metal Jacket on awesome. Kubrick had to have been influenced by ST when he was screenwriting FMJ.
Ringworld is a super-ultra-mega classic of Sci-Fi. Easy to learn, a lifetime to master. Similar to Dune but for different reasons. Niven has a masterful imagination, but poor poor writing discipline. You really have to work to get the full sense of wonder out of it. The words are easy enough to read, but he doesn't make it come alive on the page. It's more like a story outline, and then you go smoke a fattie and figure it out for yourself. I'd really like to be involved in a re-write of Ringworld. I could make it better. I bet my stuff on it.
Dune. Oh sweet Dune. Frank Herbert goes against everything I learned about creative  writing. I had drilled into me "Show don't Tell". I write like Stienbeck (or so I flatter myself). Herbert writes like Herbert. A sentence in three verbs. It works wonderfully, but not the way I was taught. Another writer who uses such technique to similar effect is Gibson. Idoru is a cultural explosion in an easy eight-hour read. Iron Chef meets Dog the Bounty Hunter.
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Originally by: Psycho John Petrucci
If there's any point where you feel it's too difficult, then just stop. Because you just, you don't have it, you're just not good.
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Suze'Rain
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.11.29 00:54:00 -
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Originally by: Mary Makepeace
you found Accelarando easy to read? I thought it was one of the most challenging modern hard scifi books out there, I mean the main character had their intellect spread into a distributed network of pigeons let alone the future shocked beginning where information and ideas are thrown at the reader at an astounding rate.
Although, he Atrocity archives was plenty fun.
Mentioned your comment to Stross in the pub earlier this evening, to much bemusement... even though it's never safe to feed the ego. Hugo-award winning writer he may be, but to their cats, he's just a particularly convenient food-ape :)
and, yes, it's hard sci-fi, and fries the brain, but it's easy to read and flows well enough that it's easy reading. Then again, I like stuff that makes my brain go "plink"... like the KGB Lobsters, or the pigeons later on... :)
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Avery Fatwallet
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Posted - 2007.11.29 00:58:00 -
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SNOWCRASH
ffs 
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Mary Makepeace
Caldari
Neh'bu Kau Beh'Hude
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2007.11.29 07:20:00 -
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Originally by: Suze'Rain
Originally by: Mary Makepeace
you found Accelarando easy to read? I thought it was one of the most challenging modern hard scifi books out there, I mean the main character had their intellect spread into a distributed network of pigeons let alone the future shocked beginning where information and ideas are thrown at the reader at an astounding rate.
Although, he Atrocity archives was plenty fun.
Mentioned your comment to Stross in the pub earlier this evening, to much bemusement... even though it's never safe to feed the ego. Hugo-award winning writer he may be, but to their cats, he's just a particularly convenient food-ape :)
and, yes, it's hard sci-fi, and fries the brain, but it's easy to read and flows well enough that it's easy reading. Then again, I like stuff that makes my brain go "plink"... like the KGB Lobsters, or the pigeons later on... :)
The pace is good, i still didn't find it an easy read as the idea a miniut begining made me stare off into space a lot to absorb the concept. I also loved the impact this had reinforcing the "future shock" theme. Elegant writing.
So which pub was this and can i come over and worship? or just come by a pet his cats, i don't have one atm as i am living in a flat in switzerland and i miss them terribly.
I feel the shift in Accelarando as hard scifi represents a modification of the genre, hard scifi is all about the tech, rockets, surviving in zero g etc, Stross is moving it towards information theory.
I also really like the glasshouse. I love the idea of a post scarcity economy.
for more brain go plink, try Jeff Noon's Vurt (sureal) and Greg Egan's Diaspora (hard scifi more information theory)
oh well, off to the lab to recearch self replicating nanotechnology
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Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS
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Posted - 2007.11.29 07:55:00 -
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Originally by: Broska
Enders Game - Orson Scott Card
this!!! (okay so there might be some other books in a series, but the plot stands alone)
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Lord Viathan
Caldari
State War Academy
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Posted - 2007.11.29 22:38:00 -
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For a heavy read I like Dune
but nice light scifi is Starship Troopers
which is a phenominal book
and Battlefield Earth which is an awesome book that spawned a horrible movie.
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