15-08-2002 01:39									#1
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I am about to head to the library and would like some names to look up( because my usual authors the closest library seems to be lacking).

So hurry, and provide some names.


Jon Miller

	15-08-2002 01:43									#2
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Orson Scott Card (duh)
Dan Simmons (Hyperion)

	15-08-2002 01:45									#3
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anyone named Greg B

	15-08-2002 01:49									#4
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David Weber, the Honor Harrington series.

	15-08-2002 01:52									#5
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Hmm, this will be hard (because I read a lot and have read all that is mentioned here, well not all there works, but enough that I am familiar with them (David Weber I have only read a couple of because the last Honor book sort of sucked))

Thanks for the suggestions though

Jon Miller

	15-08-2002 01:55									#6
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Oh oh read my book! It's not published and it's not finished, but I just completed Part I of a three Part book so at least it's a whole story.

Sorry, I can't give real suggestions right now. I'm sorta stuck on Asimov and me right now.

	15-08-2002 01:56									#7
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Anything by Rush Limbaugh.

Oh wait, that's Fantasy, sorry...

	15-08-2002 02:06									#8
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David Brin - Startide Rising. That simple. I have a very faint hunch that you've already read it, though.

	15-08-2002 02:08									#9
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Anything by Greg Egan... very good hardcore sci-fi.

J. Sawyer is good also, he writes soft sci-fi. Good author, a Canadian to boot. A good book is "End of an Era", or "Frameshift".

	15-08-2002 02:09									#10
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Walter Jon Willaims (Aristoi, Voice of the Whirlwind, Hard Wired, Metropolis, etc)

Vernor Vinge (Fire on the Deep, etc)

David Brin (Uplift)

Heinlein (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, many others)

Bradbury (many, many, many books)

Asimov (ditto)

Should be a good start.

Wraith
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	15-08-2002 02:10									#11
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Icarus Hunt, Timothy Zahn


*Considers changing avatar*

	15-08-2002 02:13									#12
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	15-08-2002 02:17									#13
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(seconds timothy zahn)
excellent choice, that

	15-08-2002 02:18									#14
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thanks all, heading to the library now

I think I have read all the author suggested, but maybe it is time to try them again (it has been over a year since I read Asmov)

(the only author listed above I do not think I read is Walter Jon Willaims)

peace out

Jon Miller

	15-08-2002 02:31									#15
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You've read J. Sawyer?

	15-08-2002 02:59									#16
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A few months ago, I re-read Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, the first sci-fi novel to win both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards. It's still a darn good read.

But, there are now a few bumps in it, such as our interstellar war with the Taurians breaking out in 1997.

	15-08-2002 03:15									#17
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IAIN BANKS!!!! The Culture series is the best "space" series of stories ever. Check out "The player of games" or "Excession". My two favourites.

Only problem is that he is hard to get in the US.

Another great author is Ken MacLeod. Che would love him as he is an unrepentant communist and so are some of the characters in his books.

Hope you haven't left yet.

	15-08-2002 03:28									#18
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I recently read a book by George R.R. Martin (author of the amazing "A Game of Ice of Fire" series) called "Fevre Dreams."

It's a vampire book set in the years preceding and following the US Civil War. Good stuff (infinitely better than Anne Rice, of course that's not saying much ).

quote: Vernor Vinge (Fire on the Deep, etc)

Excellent series.

	15-08-2002 04:14									#20
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quote: Originally posted by November Adam You've read J. Sawyer?

oops missed that one

I don't think so

(but I often pick up books and realise I have already read them)

Jon Miller

	15-08-2002 04:14									#21
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Solaris-Stanislaw Lem

Best SciFi book of all time

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quote: Originally posted by Ramo I recently read a book by George R.R. Martin (author of the amazing "A Game of Ice of Fire" series) called "Fevre Dreams." It's a vampire book set in the years preceding and following the US Civil War. Good stuff (infinitely better than Anne Rice, of course that's not saying much ).

I have read a number of his books (and own all of the mentioned series), I shall try that one if I see it.

Jon Miller

	15-08-2002 04:18									#23
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I read a book by Peter F Hamilton (The Reality Dysfunction), I hated it intensly after 500 pages...

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hmm, after reading all the posts I still have read almost all the authors mentioned (and some like Douglas Adams I have read almost all that they have written (And all I could find)).

thanks again all

Jon Miller

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quote: Originally posted by bogi Solaris-Stanislaw Lem Best SciFi book of all time

I so should read this. The film (The Tarkovsky version, not the forthcoming Soderbergh one) is the best Science Fiction film I've ever seen, but I believe this might have very little to do with the actual source. I ought to try to find out.

	15-08-2002 04:35									#26
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The book and the film are actually amazingly similar.

	15-08-2002 04:43									#27
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Has no one suggested Arthur C. Clarke?

I hated 2001 the movie, but when i read the book years later, i loved it, so much so, that i want to see the movie again, just so i can finally appreciate it properly.

The Odyssey series is hard to beat as a sci-fi concept

Also, The Light of Other Days is fascinating - at least conceptually.

	15-08-2002 04:45									#28
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I´m pissed noone had made 2061 into a movie yet

	15-08-2002 04:51									#29
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quote: Originally posted by Kamrat X I´m pissed noone had made 2061 into a movie yet

I await with baited breath

	15-08-2002 05:50									#30
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oops sorry its Robert J Sawyer, another good one of his, is "Illegal alien".

another good athor is Harry Turtledove.

also in the fantasy genre is Guy Gavariel Kay, not to sure how polpular he is in the States though.