OT - I know we've discussed this before...

[Coal]

I would recomend Weber's Crusade, In Death Ground and Insurrection. Make sure you read them in the righ order, it'l be better that way.

Also Weber's Honor Harrington series. Im not even finished with the first, but I like it already.

The Area 51 series by Robert Doherty. Good aliens visting and affecting earth and it's history.

STARFIST series by Sherman and Cragg. About Marines in the 26th century. Lots of battle, some sex, little comedy.

Rama and 2000 series by Arthur C. Clarke. Rama deals alittle with explaining god. The 2001 book and it's sequels goes a long way to explaneing the movies.

If you're a Wing Commander fan, there are several books in that universe that I would recomend.

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'Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?'
Grand Moff Tarkin, just before the Death Star blew.

We are Dyslexia of Borg, futility is resistant, your *** will be laminated.

[Taqwus]

S'more sci-fi:

Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep", and perhaps somewhat less well-done, "A Deepness in the Sky".

On _Dune_ -- first book is pretty good, but I know of people who've referred to one of the later ones as "Crackhouse: Dune", and I'm inclined to agree. Serious weirdness occurs later.

Niven and Pournelle's "The Mote in God's Eye" (or is it "The Mote in the Eye of God"?), which deals with contact with an... interesting alien race.

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

[Kadste]

Already enough said about Weber, but you might want to read In Death Ground Last. In my opinion, by far the best.

Anyone read the Area 51 Series by Robert Doherty?

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Never Give up, Never Surrender!

[capnq]

Forgot about this one in the other post: for fantasy, Elizabeth Forward's _Villains by Necessity_ was fun. Turns a lot of genre conventions upside down; frex, the protagonists are a band of Evil characters in a world where Good has triumphed.

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Cap'n Q
My first mod! Hypermaze quadrant
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[dogscoff]

Thanks for the responses. I spent the voucher yesterday. Went for:

"Colony" by Rob Grant (One of the Red Dwarf writers.) Very funny so far.
"Otherland" (first book) by Tad Williams.
A book by Iain M Banks. Coz I liked the cover=-)

I looked at a Nietzche book but it was expensive. Maybe next time. Was also tempted several times on the "Graphic Novel" aisle (transmetropolitan compilation, and it's about time I owned my own copy of "Watchmen"). I wanted to try the Honor Harrington series but couldn't find one on the shelves. Again, mayb next time.

Oh, and I was also intigued by the Time series by someoneorother Baxter. That looked good, but tthey only had books 2 and 3, and obviously I'd rather start at #1...

In other news... I might have a little sci-fi project of my own in the pipeline. I ought to finish the Viking shipset graphics first though...

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[dogscoff]

OK... just finished reading "Look to Windward" by Iain M Banks yesterday, and I can't recommend it highly enough. It's great, and it has a quite a strong SEIV feel to it.

Some of the features that will appeal instantly to SEIV fans...
Ringworlds
Cool alien races,
Inter-imperial politics & intel operations,
Ships with comical / ironic names=-)
Lots of stellar manipulation,
Keen sense of humour=-)
I think there was some iced tea in there somewhere as well...

It's just a brilliant sci-fi book. Someone please go read it so I'll have someone about it to.

Oh, and did I mention that the cover looks really cool=-)


take a look

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Go to my meagre SEIV pages to generate your own code.

[This message has been edited by dogscoff (edited 15 October 2001).]

[Cheeze]

I'd recommend David Brin's trilogies of the Uplift War. I enjoyed the first trilogy more than the second, but really the only disappointment of the second one was aspects of the ending of the story.