OT: Books, Books, Books.

[Cipher7071]

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]

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.

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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]

VEROOM! VEROOM! *BUMP*

[gregebowman]

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.

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Growltigger:
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!! )

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.

I love Keven J. Anderson. Unfortunately, I've never heard of this new series of his. I'll have to check it out.

Never heard of a W. Williams, or those books of his. Sorry, can't help you there.

I've heard of Elizabeth Moon; just haven't read any of her books. I'll try to check her out one of these days, but I am SO FAR behind in reading sci-fi/fantasy books I'll probably never read a fraction of them that are out there. Heck, I've still haven't read any of Eddings books, and they've been out for about 20 years. I recently joined the sci-fi book club, and I've ordered some books I might never have read, but the postage kills you, so I don't order too many books from them. To paraphrase someone's signature line; too many books, not enough time.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

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

if that's the series i'm thinking of, i've read most of those books and there's more than fox hunting. there's intrigue, psychopaths, space battles, land battles and two main storylines that'll keep you confused for three books.

[Growltigger]

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!! )

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.

[gregebowman]

I finally finished reading that Tad Williams' Otherland books. It just seemed to take forever. I just now finished reading the Last two Star Wars books on the Yuzhoon Vong invasion. I'm glad they finally wrapped that up. It was a 20+ book series, that probably should have been done in half that time. Even though it was good reading most of the time, I was tired of reading about those guys. Now back to some regular Star Wars adventures. Now I'm finally starting that new Stephen King book I got for Christmas. Just two more of his books to read before he officially "retires". I'll be in a funk until he comes out of retirement, which I hope won't take too long. I'm looking forward to that new TV show that's coming out in March. Looks interesting.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

what tv show is that?

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
what tv show is that?

I forgot the name of it, but it's set in a hospital. Looks like it could be a combination of ER and any number of his books.