OT: Books, Books, Books.

narf poit chez BOOM · #1 December 29th, 2003, 11:42 PM

ran into a 'short takes' thing for DW. i like their one for 'The Armaggedon Inheritance'.
http://electronictiger.com/shorts/dw2.htm

a bit of a typo from the amazon.com editer review: 'Restoring the empire that had been destroyed >forty-five< years earlier, Emperor Colin finds problems in the genocidal Achuutani and in his children Sean and Harriet, who have been marooned on a hostile planet. '

[ January 05, 2004, 17:27: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

se5a · #2 December 30th, 2003, 12:45 AM

The Apocalypse Troll was great, I read it on bain free libary, I have to get that book...

oleg · #3 December 30th, 2003, 12:59 AM

I red "In Death Ground" so many times it fell apart, I glue it back and it is breaking up now anyway... Every single page gives me an urge to play SEIV again and again

Taera · #4 December 30th, 2003, 07:17 AM

hm. my take on "A Book That Makes Me Wanna Play SE" was Allan Dean Foster's Founding of the Commonwealth trilogy. I reccommend it to anyone.

Gotta reread it sometime...

Cipher7071 · #5 December 30th, 2003, 03:12 PM

I don't know...call me an old fart (again), but I still think the old Asimov books are the best, i.e. the "Foundation Trilogy," "We Claim These Stars," etc.

gregebowman · #6 December 30th, 2003, 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cipher7071:
I don't know...call me an old fart (again), but I still think the old Asimov books are the best, i.e. the "Foundation Trilogy," "We Claim These Stars," etc.

I wouldn't call you an old fart. I spent my teenage years reading the "masters": Heinlein, Bradbury, Clarke and of course Asimov. But I was more into Heinlein and Bradbury than the other two. Maybe it's because I read The Foundation trilogy then that it really didn't do anything for me. maybe if I read it again, it might be different.

[ December 30, 2003, 13:24: Message edited by: gregebowman ]

Narrew · #7 December 30th, 2003, 11:55 PM

Hey Greg,

When you get to it, don't stop with the first Honor book, I really think DW matured as a writer the further he went into the series.

Narratio · #8 December 31st, 2003, 02:01 AM

Point taken Bug, my bug. Although I find the stuff that Weber wrote for the Starfire mini games before they boxed the lot can do it for me. Remember those? They still got the ships names Duke of Hazard and Duke of Wayne... Oh the good old days!

gregebowman · #9 December 31st, 2003, 02:19 AM

I recently bought the first book in the Honor Harrington series, but haven't had the chance to read it yet. I'm reading Tad Williams Otherland books, and it's taking me forever. Then I have the supposedly Last 2 Star Wars books involving the Yuzan Vong, then I got Stephen King's latest book for Christmas, then after that I have several books I want to read. I'll try to read that book then.

narf poit chez BOOM · #10 December 31st, 2003, 03:12 AM

the battle in OBS always seemed a bit improbable to me. it's been a while since i read it, though.

i like some of Asimov and Clarke, but for some reason i don't like what might be called the three big classics of sf, foundation, space oddysey or dune. well, i didn't exactly not like them, i just didn't find them to interesting, and i think dune 1 is about all i ever read of Heinlein.