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

[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.

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[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.

[Taqwus]

Oh, a comment about George Martin's "Song of Fire and Ice" series (just finished #3, "A Storm of Swords") -- don't get attached to the characters, heh. And the plots and sub-plots involve an awful, awful lot of, er, plots. It may be fantasy, but that world's no Wonderland.

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

[tesco samoa]

Some classic H.P. Lovecraft.
or

On the Road. Kerouac Great book

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . H.S.Thompson

[Phoenix-D]

"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."

Second that, though Heaven's Reach got kind of..odd.. and Sundiver is nothing impressive IMO.

Phoenix-D

[Atrocities]

The Brothehood Of War series by W.E.B. Griffin is one of the best book series I have read in a long time. Gripping and involved it takes you from the middle of WWII to present day following the careers of several key individuals. A very nicely written series.

The Dirk Pitt series by Clive Custler are amoung the best books ever written in my honest opinion. I first read Inca Gold, and was hooked from there. Very good books.

Stainless Steel Rat series is a great read, but Harry Harrisons lates Rat books leave something to be desired.

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New Age Ship Yards

"We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats! They invade our space and we fall back -- they assimilate entire worlds and we fall back! Not again! The line must be drawn here -- this far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!" -- Captain Picard STNG

Borg Breen Species 8472 Cardassian Dominion STNG Ferengi Klingon Romulan
Trek Movie era TOS Illuminati Starwolf

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[tesco samoa]

Griffen eh ?

I will put that on my list.

the turtledove ww1 series it amazing.

anyone ever read the one tree series or the one with the UofT students?

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[tesco samoa]

i just finished Barry Longyear's Enemy Mine series. Fantastic

I picked up the enemy papers (white wolf publishing ) which has all 3 stories. <--"The Enemy Papers" contains a newly edited and expanded-by-the-author Version of "Enemy Mine" and its two sequels, "The Last Enemy" and "The Tomorrow Testament"-->

I Recommend it.