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Vesayen
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In two days I go to college..... there are, strangley enough no big bookstores near the school. I need to go buy several months(i.e thousands upon thousands) of reading material. I need your recommendations! Please give at LEAST a brief description along with the author or titles
*HUGE* fan of Orson Scott Card-i've read every book hes written several times.
David Brin is amazing too.
Isac Asimovs, also known as God is tied with the highest place in my heart, with the next author....
Robin Hobb-AMAZING! Author of the farseer/liveship books. Absolutley incredible. Her books are very "low" fantasty.
S.M. Stirling(ISland in a sea of time), Jack McDevitt(Postman). Terry Patchett is AMAZING-read every one of her books, Terry Goodkind is great too when he does not have a character give 300 page syloquies on the evils of socialism.
I mostly read sci fi but as you can tell I read some fantasy too.
I can't *STAND* Tolkein. I like "low" fantasy, as in the worlds are close to ours and they don't have 10,000 strange proper nouns I can't keep track of(I HATE Tolkein)
Recommend me some!
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Vesayen
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Originally posted by Vesayen
Please give at LEAST a brief description along with the author or titles. |
I plan on buying upwards of a hundred dollars of books in the next day or two.....
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000
time: 07:37
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Damn you Americans and your cheap book prices... 100$ gets me 5 books over here.
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000
time: 07:37
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I forget the author, but get Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion. Especially Hyperion. Great SF.
The rest of the series is moneymaking shite. |
Dan Simmons.
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child of Thor
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=glance&s=books
The Dark is Rising series.
Low fantasy, kind of for kids; but much more adult than harry potter imho. Read them as a youngster, and again a few years back - susan cooper is a very good author.
Sci-fi try Phillip K.Dick - lite but philosophical sci-fi.
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nostromo
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Montréal, Québec
Mar 2002
time: 00:37
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I haven't read it myself, but judging by your tastes, you should definitively try out
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Powerful. Sensual. Seductive. He is all that is shamelessly erotic in a man. In her sexiest Highlander novel yet, New York Times bestselling author Karen Moning stirs up a sizzling brew of ancient mystery and modern passion as she brings together a devilishly handsome Celtic warrior trapped in time . . . and the woman whos about to pay the ultimate price for freeing him. Age-old secrets haunt them. Deadly danger and irresistible desire shadow their every move. Its a relationship for the ages. And all that separates them is a mere thirteen hundred years. . . .
Jessi St. James has got to get a life. Too many hours studying ancient artifacts has given the hardworking archaeology student a bad case of sex on the brain. So she figures she must be dreaming when she spies a gorgeous half-naked man staring out at her from inside the silvery glass of an ancient mirror. But when a split-second decision saves her from a terrifying attempt on her life, Jessi suddenly finds herself confronting six and a half feet of smoldering, insatiable alpha male.
Heir to the arcane magic of his Druid ancestors, eleven centuries ago Cian MacKeltar was trapped inside the Dark Glass, one of four coveted Unseelie Hallows, objects of unspeakable power. When the Dark Glass is stolen, an ancient enemy will stop at nothing to reclaim it, destroying everything in his pathincluding the one woman who may just hold the key to breaking the ninth-century Highlanders dark spell. For Jessi, the muscle-bound sex god in the mirror is not only tantalizingly real, hes offering his protectionfrom exactly what, Jessi doesnt know. And all he wants in exchange is the exquisite pleasure of sharing her bed.
Yet even as Cians insatiable hunger begins to work its dark magic on Jessi, his ancient enemy is about to obtain the final and most dangerous of the Unseelie Hallowsand the ninth-century Highlander must stop him from getting it. Nothing less than the very fabric of the universe and two passionately entwined lives are at stakeas Cian and Jessi fight to claim the kind of love that comes along but once in an ice age. . . .
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Guynemer
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Christopher Moore:
Brief, humorous novels putting ordinary people in bizarre, supernatural circumstances, similar in scope and sensibilities to Kurt Vonnegut.
I highly recommend Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Coyote Blue, and Bloodsucking Fiends.
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nostromo
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Montréal, Québec
Mar 2002
time: 00:37
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More seriously, you could try out The Nikopol Trilogy by Enki Bilal
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=books&n=507846
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The Nikopol Trilogy brings together three previously published volumes Carnival of Mortals, Woman Trap and Cold Equator all impressive works of imagination meticulously written, drawn and colored by European comics artist Bilal. It's the year 2023 and Alcide Nikopol has been revived from a state of suspended animation after 30 years orbiting Earth. In the meantime, the planet has suffered two nuclear wars, and France is ruled by the ruthless dictator J.F. Choublanc. The immortal gods of Egyptian antiquity have also reawakened to revive their rule over humanity, and they now hover above the crumbling technopolis of Paris in a massive stone pyramid/airship. Horus, the renegade falcon god, takes possession of Nikopol's body, rendering him immortal, and concocts a conspiracy to overthrow the Choublanc regime. When Nikopol cracks under the pressure of Horus's possession, he is reduced to muttering the poetry of Baudelaire while he wanders the halls of a mental hospital. "Woman Trap" picks up two years later in a war-torn London. Blue-haired news correspondent Jill Bioskop dispatches stories 30 years into the past using a device called a scriptwriter, while she takes pills to eradicate the bloody memories of men she has murdered. In "Cold Equator" the story is further complicated as Nikopol's son boards a train bound for Equator City, an African metropolis afflicted with a freezing micro-climate of minus-six degrees, but surrounded by desert and surrealistically populated by sub-Saharan wildlife. Intricate plot twists and stunning color artwork mark this work as both an extraordinary comics literary achievement and a crackling good story. |
Or the Ghost in the Shell mangas, by Masamune Shirow
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=glance&s=books
I read the first volume and its great. And I'm not really a manga person myself. His Sci-Fi universe is reminiscent of Blade Runner's. Btw, the two Ghost in the Shell movies a truely amazing, IMO! The TV show is also very good, but not as beautiful as the movies.
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Starred Review. First published in English in 1995, this classic cyberpunk manga is the story of a future society dependent on cyborgs (humans with machine parts). It's 2029, and Japan has gathered a troop of military cyborgs in Section Nine, a secret paramilitary security squad. The S-9 squad leader is the tall and sexy female cyborg Major Kusanagi, and the men under her command include the gruff Batou and the uncertain (and mostly human) rookie Togusa. Bafflingly metaphysical and utterly gripping, the book is an episodic chronicle of S-9's missions that illustrates the fluid nature of crime, espionage and geopolitical skullduggery in a world where human personality, vast data networks and cybernetic technology have essentially fused into a single social matrix. The team tracks criminals, spies and terrorists who hack networks or illegally copy the ghosts (or souls) of enslaved humans into black market cyborgs. Their ultimate case is the Puppeteer, a deadly cyberterrorist who turns out to be a ghostless, "self-aware" artificial intelligence spontaneously created out of the vast sea of networked information. Masamune's b&w drawings are dynamic and beautifully gestural; he vividly renders the awesome urban landscape of a futuristic, supertechnological Japan. This new edition restores material (including graphic sex scenes) deleted from the earlier U.S. edition. |
Last edited by nostromo on 24-08-2005 at 02:19
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Jon Miller
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Cherryh
Gene Wolfe
Zelazny
Conrad
Faulkner
MacDonald
Rowling
Bujold
George Martin
Jon Miller
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Flip McWho
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New Zealand
May 2002
time: 17:37
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'Nights Dawn Trilogy' by Peter F Hamilton. Good big read. Space opera excellently done.
Pick up Pandora's Tomorrow too, also by Peter F Hamilton. The sequel hasn't been written yet though unfortunately, can't wait for it.
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Jon Miller
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depending on what you are into I can see having time for significant ammounts of pleasure reading in college, I did.. (at times)
JM
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ColdWizard
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I enjoy Anne Mccaffrey's Pern series. Basically a series where the descendants of the original colonists attempt to defend themselves from a non-sentient space organism, amongst other issues.
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Minute Mirage
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Helsinki
Aug 2003
time: 07:37
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The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
I guess you could classify this as fantasy, but this is pretty damn far from Tolkien.
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24-08-2005 01:21
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still it has potential........must look it up.
why donīt you suggest him to read pokemon cards then
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