And now for something Totally off topic :)

DirectorTsaarx · #1 April 27th, 2001, 10:52 PM

Here goes:

Stephen R. Donaldson - both the Thomas Covenant series and the "Gap" series.

Frank Herbert's Dune series (I'm working through "House Atreides" now; I own all but Chapterhouse: Dune, the weakest of the series IMHO).

Older Asimov stuff (Robot, original Foundation trilogy, etc.)

A little bit of Heinlein

The entire "Known Universe" series by Niven (of course)

"The God Particle" by Lederman (quantum physics)

"Flatland"

"A History of Time" by Hawking

"The Existential Pleasures of Engineering" by Florman

Couple different series of modern vampire books (Laurel Hamilton's series and another series by another author that begins with an "H" - Hahn or something like that)

The Harry Potter series

I stopped reading McCaffery's Pern series a while back, but I'll probably pick it up again soon. I've read a couple of her Crystal Singer books recently, and read a couple of her Dinosaur Planet books a long time ago.

The "Phule" series by Robert Asprin (also read the "Myth" series by Asprin, very disappointed that he stopped writing them).

The "Exiles" series by Melanie Rawn.

And anything else that strikes my fancy.

Coal · #2 April 28th, 2001, 12:06 AM

I've been reading sci-fi books since late elementary/early middle school. THe ones I can remember are:

A.C. Clarkes Rama and 2001 series; Weber and White's three Starfire based books; most of the Aliens novels; most of the Robotech series; Berserkers: the Beginnig; SHerman and Craggs StarFIST series; many of the Star Wars books, Timothy Zahn's Conqueror series; Nivens Ringworld trilogy (the three that happne on the ringworls); Dohery's Area 51 series; all of the Wing Commander books (but not the ones based on the movie; the two ID4 novels not based on the movie; a bunch more I can't remember, and I am currently reading C.J. Cherryh's The Faded Sun trilogy. I do recomend many of these books. Many are good action stories.

I've had lots of free time in my life.

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capnq · #3 April 28th, 2001, 05:49 AM

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(also read the "Myth" series by Asprin, very disappointed that he stopped writing them)

I agree; the the teaser blurb for _Something M.Y.T.H. Inc._ looked really promising. Has Asprin publically said he's not going to write more Myths, or is he just having another writer's block like the Last long gap in the series?

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Resident Alien · #4 April 29th, 2001, 04:41 AM

Inspirations for SE4 games

The Culture novels by Iain M Banks (Consider Phlebas, Excession, Player of Games, Look to Windward)

Lensmen series by EE Doc Smith.

Other
Just started Game of Thrones, GRR Martin.

Jordan's Wheel of Time, got up to about vol 6 before it got too slow, slow, slow. Waiting for the final blow out and wrap up.... asuming he ever gets there!

Eddings - first Belgariard books.

Tad William's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series.

and many, many more.... I have been buying more books than I can read for 20 plus years now.

Trachmyr · #5 April 29th, 2001, 10:22 PM

The Dune series (Frank Herbert) is still my personal fav.

dogscoff · #6 April 30th, 2001, 10:09 AM

Resident ALien: I read the Memory, Sorrow, Thorn series too. Good stuff, but borrows too much from Tolkien. Ever read Tailchaser's song? Think "The Hobbit" but with cats. He has a new book out that looks more scifi than fantasy - can't remember the name of it.

Am also reading Dune (again.) Unortunately the only copy I have is in French so it's taking a little longer than it ought to...

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Resident Alien · #7 May 1st, 2001, 03:00 AM

Tad William's current series is "Otherland" - 4 thick volumes based on virtual reality technology and worlds of the not so distant future. I read the first volume ("City of Golden Shadow") and found it interesting but I haven't got around to the rest of them yet.

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
Resident ALien: I read the Memory, Sorrow, Thorn series too. Good stuff, but borrows too much from Tolkien. Ever read Tailchaser's song? Think "The Hobbit" but with cats. He has a new book out that looks more scifi than fantasy - can't remember the name of it.

Am also reading Dune (again.) Unortunately the only copy I have is in French so it's taking a little longer than it ought to...