OT: Books, Books, Books.

Fyron · #1 January 7th, 2004, 12:10 AM

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Originally posted by spoon:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
just pick some in the middle and read them. Then pick a few pages at a different point and read them. You can get a good sampling of what the book is like from a few pages.

That sounds like manual foreshadowing...

Just an example of how you can judge a book from a few pages...

Fyron · #2 January 7th, 2004, 12:14 AM

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Originally posted by gregebowman:
I've mentioned this in another post, but no one ever responded. I'm interested in reading Harry Turtledove's alternate history books, but I'm not sure of the chronology. Does anyone know? Thanks

Google is your friend. UBB code, however, is not.

[ January 06, 2004, 22:15: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Cipher7071 · #3 January 7th, 2004, 03:24 PM

Here I go with the ancient history again. Gregebowman mentioned that he likes books with a lot of character development. "Macroscope" by Piers Anthony is a good one for that. The story also has a unique techno-premise, which is the SDPS itself.

gregebowman · #4 January 7th, 2004, 05:53 PM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by gregebowman:
I've mentioned this in another post, but no one ever responded. I'm interested in reading Harry Turtledove's alternate history books, but I'm not sure of the chronology. Does anyone know? Thanks

Google is your friend. UBB code, however, is not.

Ok, got an idea now of the order, but it is confusing from all of those sites that were offered. Just a plain simple listing of all of his books would have been nice, especially those of his alternate history novels.

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 January 13th, 2004, 11:53 AM

VEROOM! VEROOM! *BUMP*

gregebowman · #6 January 13th, 2004, 03:57 PM

Just a word of warning. If anyone is interested in reading Tad Williams' Otherland series, you might just have to have the right state of mind to read it. Usually I don't mind reading 700+ page novels, espeically a series of 4 of them, but this has been taking me forever to read. I think I started around Halloween, and if I'm lucky, I'll finish the fourth book this Saturday while I'm at my part-time job (one of the benefits of doing security work). I remember enjoying his fantasy trilogy, and I thought this Otherland would be written in a similar style. It's not, and sometimes it just drags. So, this is just a warning. But if anyone is interested, it's about a group of people who go into, for lack of a better word, a matrix that is so lifelike, it seems real. But they can't get out, and they're in there to fight a cabal of the world's wealthiest people who are using the minds of children to use their matrix for the electronic equivalent of immortality. It is a fascinating premise, and the overall story gets you gripped, but it's still slow reading for me.

Growltigger · #7 January 15th, 2004, 02:50 AM

Couple of books I have enjoyed reading recently were books 1 & 2 of The Seven Suns Saga by Kevin Anderson. Book 1 is called The Hidden Empire, book 2 is called A Forest of Stars.

Pretty good space-opera style Sci-Fi, nothing too radical although I do like the aliens, they live in the middle of gas giants. Groovy (my god, I am English and said that word as if I meant it!!

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Has anyone read The Praxis by W Williams, or its sequel The Sundering? These look like they may be good Sci-fi, but would appreciate a steer befoe I lay out the cash..

Final comment, read some Sci-fi by Elizabeth Moon. Seemed to be about fox hunting. Weird.