Dan's comments
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Dan's comments from the Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library group.
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I see it.
Maybe everyone are reading?
Do you have a spam-filter, does your provider have a spam-filter, are your e-mail client sett to accept HTML mails?
The books about Deverry by Katharine Kerr should keep anyone busy for a while, I think it's about 13 or 14 books in the series by now. What would that be, a tredecimiology or quattuordecimiology?
Ursula Le Guin
Ursula Le Guin
Ursula Le Guin
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Kathering Kerr
I don't like boycotts, so I boycotted it.
Jan 03, 2009 08:26AM
All of course depends on supply and demand. My demand are great but the supply my be lacking. When I was young I read almost anything (inside my favourite genres), but now I have become picky. If I had a constant supply I'm at least a two books a week guy.
TV I watch when there are any good on, however there are a lot of rubbish; game shows, American and European Soaps and so called "documentaries" from America, like Cops and The Most Amazing...., I try to avoid. Wish there was more SciFi on TV.
Jules Verne defnitly, not that thebooks are Sci-Fi's as we see it now.
The Lucky Star books by Isaac Asimov, if you can still get them.
The Bromeliad Trilogy by Pratchett, writtne espechaly for children.
The books about Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer.
Well, the Deverry saga by Katharine Kerr are at book 13 by now I think. Well written stuff.
The Honorverse books by David Weber are rather good. The same I can say for the Serrano and the Vatta series by Elizabeth Moon.
David Drake with his books about Daniel Leary are good spaceopera to. If you like a bit "harder" sci-fi there is allways the Dune books by Frank Herbert.
I'm not much for the post apocalyptic stuff, but I have read Wilson Tuckers 'The Long Loud Silence'. I found it be be well written, but rather depressing as books like that often are.
Gavrielle Guy Kay, all what he have written are more or less good stuff.
Ursula Le Guin, her books about Earth Sea are really good. More or less classics.
Katharine Kerr, good stuff, but be warned there are a lot of books in here series about Deverry.
Lois McMaster Bujold's books about Chalion are well written.
Are you looking for the 4th book named 'The Way Between the Worlds', or are you looking for other series by the same author; The Song of Tears series or The Well of Echoes series?
Anyway, I found a lot of his books on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
Are Hard Sci Fi defined as the "old" writers like Asimov, Farmer, Pohl. Lem and the Strugatsky brothers?
Baen Publishing Company have a lot of legally free stuff on there site to, as well as pre-peeks on new books. You can read them online or download them in several formats.
http://www.baen.com/library/
Apparently the Dresden Files aired one season on SciFi channel, from January to August 2007.
Of course, as I live in Sweden, I probably will have to buy the stuff if I want to see it, no network here is interested in buying just one season of a cancelled series. But maybe they do reruns of it on your side of The Puddle?
By the way Patricia Briggs have dun some nice Werewolf/Fantasy/Action books about Mercy Thompson, the first is called 'Moon Called'.
There are also Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse books, if you are not irked by some romance.
But something that I really liked is the SciFi/Cyberpunk/Fantasy books by Justina Robson in the Quantum Gravity series, but then I am foremost a SciFi nerd.
Jim Butcher sort of write modern Fantasy, that is wizards, daemons and faeries in a modern setting.
If I remember correctly all of the 'Dresden Files' books are played out in Chicago. There are at least 10 books in the series.
Gene Wolf's 'The Book of the New Sun' (4 parts) are what I would think is dark fantasy. Strange fantasy to I guess.
However I would like to recomend my favorite fantasy authors; Katharine Kerr, Ursula LeGuin, Gavriel Guy Kay, Mary Gentle and Lois McMaster Bujold.
Not a writer my self, but an obsessive reader, the biggest problem with new writers,or old writers, is the ones that have fallen in love with the genre or a certain style. The tend to write without having anything to tell.
But thank you!
Well, in the Chalion triple Lois McMaster Bujold at least finishes the books into autonomous stories, even if they use the same universe and even some of the same characters.
Ah, I'm with Evaine, 'Tigana' is a really good read. 'A Song for Arbonne' by the same writer are definitely a stand-alone and also very good.
I also want to promote 'Snare' by Katharine Kerr even if it have it's...ah...surprises.
A lot of Pratchett's books are separate even if they all of course are tied in to the discworld.
I never liked Clark's books, they was a bit weird for me. But It must be admitted that he had a great importance as one of the greatest "philosophical" writers.
De mortuis nil nisi bene.
Started on a book yesterday called 'Capacity' by Tony Ballantyne. With a lot of people running around as digital 'personality constructs' in a virtual world it's definitely Cyberpunk.
In Fury Born - David Weber
Apparently half the book was written years before, and you can tell.
One dimensional characters, a to unbelievable plot, where the main character just happen to be in the right moment.
Shame on you David Weber, did you do it for the money?
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