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[MadProfessah]

I love CLOUD ATLAS (and THE BONE CLOCKS even more)

[Trike]

Just about to finish The Bastard Legion (aka The Hangman's Daughter), which is in the wheelhouse of Space Opera/MilSF. It’s a decent action story about prisoners in a supermax prison spaceship being used as mercenaries.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

The newest book in The Silver Ships series by S.H. Jucha was published yesterday: Nua'll.

I just started it this morning. It doesn’t seem to be the type of book you can enjoy without having read the previous book(s). While I did read all the previous books there are so many characters I’m feeling a bit lost right now. Hoping it settles down soon to mostly the handful of characters that I still recall well.

[Echo]

I hears about the Silver Ships. Maybe I'll start that series next.

[Josh]

I recently finished the new star wars book Star Wars: Last Shot: A Han and Lando Novel by Daniel José Older



My Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Am currently re-reading Empire's End by Chuck Wendig

[Brandon]

I gave Last Shot the same 3/5 rating. The main character stuff and some of the universe-building is great, and the pacing is as fast as a race car. However, the main plot and villainous scheme were just adequate.

I was intrigued enough by the references to Life Debt that I am going to give the Aftermath trilogy another try. At the least, I'll get more on Jakku and Rae Sloane.

[Anthony]

I’m reading the cantos series currently on the fall of Hyperion, also the halo novels

[Anthony]

Fall of Hyperion!!!!

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Finished Nua'll. Readable but not great. Then I read Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold, which was well written but uncomfortable.

In looking for something interesting to read I noticed that The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein is finally available as ebook. I fell in love with that book as a teen, and recall writing a compare and contrast essay for English Lit on Mike vs HAL from 2001 A Space Oddessy. In any case, I’ve started rereading it, even though I still have strong memories of a lot of the plot from having reread it so many times before. The computer technology is extremely dated of course, but then the first time I’d read it was in the 60s.

[L J]

More SFR than Space Opera but just started First Mate's Accidental Wife by Eve Langlais. Langlais' Alien Abduction series and Space Gypsy series are hundreds of years in the past background. Earth and earth humans have become a Galactic Power because we reproduce like the rabbits in Australia, or the Tribbles on the Enterprise, and we have chocolate.

[Mary]

Bloodhype
Alan dean foster

[L J]

Mary wrote: "Bloodhype
Alan dean foster"

One of my favorites.

[Trike]

E.C. wrote: "A Deepness in the Sky

I am listening to A Deepness in the Sky (Again!!). Can someone recommend an author similar to Vinge in terms of inventiveness AND readability. Often times I fin..."

Some of John Varley’s stuff, particularly his Gaea trilogy Titan, Wizard and Demon). Some of Niven’s Known Space, particularly Ringworld, The World Of Ptavvs, A World Out of Time... I guess Niven with “world” in the title. :p

Quite a lot of Jack L. Chalker’s bigger SF epics such as the Well World saga (Midnight at the Well of Souls is the first one), the Four Lords of the Diamond series, as well as a couple standalones like The Web of the Chozen. Some of Alan Dean Foster’s Humanx Commonwealth books, particularly the loosely-associated ones such as Nor Crystal Tears, Cachalot and Midworld. Also Ian M. Banks’ Culture books.

[MadProfessah]

Those Vinge books are hard to top. I would agree with the recommendations mentioned earlier, and also endorse Niven (especially the RINGWORLD books).

[MadProfessah]

Yes John Varley is very good. For some reason his shorter fiction is better (more effective) than his books. (sort of like PK Dick in that regards.) Of his longer work the Titan/Wizard/Demon trilogy is probably his best effort.

[Will]

I've been reading Star Frontier

But I keep getting lost in the plethora of characters and it might be a very rare DNF

[Gary]

Not space opera, but currently reading Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber

[Will]

The Lankhmar collection is staring at me from my bookcase...

[Spitfire_Elspeth]

Re-reading the first book in Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet series and remembering how much I like the things the author does with FTL travel and communications (particularly the time delay aspect).

[Josh]

I recently finished Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan



My Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Has a completely different feel to Altered Carbon

[Lizzie]

I have been reading Zen DiPietro's new releases in her own series and in the Aeon 14 Universe and Amy Duboff's Troubled Space.

I signed up for the special 3 month KU offer that was cheap, so I have read a lot of books in the past 6 weeks. A lot of it has been continuing series where I had liked the 1st book but hadn't been able to afford the expense of the whole series after that initial 99 cent offers. In no particular order, but depending on what type of sci fi you like, I recommend these:

1. Craig Martelle's Free Trader
2. J.N. Chaney's Renegade Star
3. Lindsay Buroker's Fallen Empire
4. T.M. Catron's Star Streaker
5. Glynn Stewart's Starship Mage
6. Jade Kerrion's Double Helix

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

I finished The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein some time back. Yes it is dated but still enjoyable. I vaguely recall one of Heinlein’s other books having a time travel mission to go back and try to save Mike. Was that The Cat Who Walks Through Walls or perhaps To Sail Beyond the Sunset?

In any case after finishing it I switched to fantasy for half a dozen books. Now I’m back reading space opera: rereading The Scent of Metal by Sabrina Chase. I had given it three stars before but liked the sequel more. I hear that the author is working on a third in the series.

[Audrey]

Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey. I unearthed it while looking to see if I still had a copy of Sassinak.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Love Crystal Singer! The second book is eh, but the third is worth rereading.

[Will]

The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth

Brilliant SF short stories. Zelazny has to be one of the best, ever.

[Audrey]

Roger Zelazny was a favorite of mine, also. If you haven't read "Last Exit to Babylon" yet, you might want to.

[Robert]

Didn't Zelazny write, "A Night In Lonesome October"? Has anyone read this, opinions?

[Will]

Robert wrote: "Didn't Zelazny write, "A Night In Lonesome October"? Has anyone read this, opinions?"

Opinion... Zelazny can do no wrong. Lonesome October is a fantastic read, especially just before Halloween

[Will]

Audrey wrote: "Roger Zelazny was a favorite of mine, also. If you haven't read "Last Exit to Babylon" yet, you might want to."

I'd missed that. But not for much longer - thanks for the rec

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Finished rereading The Scent of Metal and its sequel. First book is okay, second better. I’m looking forward to the third when it is finally available.

Now I’m rereading Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon. It’s a First Contact story set on another planet but about half of it is about an elderly woman cutting herself free of social norms and expectations. I love this book. :)

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

And now I’m rereading another First Contact book: A Beautiful Friendship by David Weber. This is where humans (Stephanie Harrington) and treecats first interact, generations before Honor Harrington was born.

[James]

Just waiting till midnight to start "The Transmuter's Daughter" by Laurence Dahners. Comes out at midnight. He writes scifi with a medical twist where the protagonist has something that makes him/her special and extraordinary and has a few different series that he is currently writing.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

I enjoyed my reread of the Treecat trilogy.

I’ve just started the sixth book of Peter Damon’s Cambridge Annex series, just out today. THE CAMBRIDGE ANNEX - IT'S NOT ABOUT TECHNOLOGY: BOOK SIX. All caps for the titles annoys me, but the books are full of action. Near future, handwavium science discoveries and a group that is trying to keep the technological advances from wrecking Earth’s economy with far too many other interests wanting to steal it of course. First book is about getting to orbit with the new technology; after that most of the books are mostly off planet.

[Trike]

I don’t usually mention the non-Space Opera I’m reading in this thread, but I’m currently reading Mortal Engines because there’s a movie coming out soon. (Trailer: https://youtu.be/IRsFc2gguEg) Although it’s YA steampunk and Earth-based, it scratches the same itch as a lot of Space Opera adventures.

[Betsy]

Teresa wrote: "All caps for the titles annoys me,...."

Fixed.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Betsy wrote: "Teresa wrote: "All caps for the titles annoys me,...."

Fixed."
The books in that series use all caps for titles on Amazon, so I assume it was a decision made by the author. If I hadn’t been in sore need of something new to read at the time I bought the omnibus of the first three books (and it was on sale I think too) I wouldn’t have even looked at the free preview, assuming that it would be worthless.

[Kirsten]

Teresa wrote: "Betsy wrote: "Teresa wrote: "All caps for the titles annoys me,...."

Fixed."
The books in that series use all caps for titles on Amazon, so I assume it was a decision made by the author. If I hadn..."

Doing things like all caps for a title, just makes you think it's an amateur effort. It's not doing you any favors. Your book could be terrific, but by doing that, many people will pre-judge it.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Exactly!

[Betsy]

I'm not sure if it was a decision of the author or not. If you look at the covers closely, the titles of these books are not in all caps.

[L J]

Betsy wrote: "I'm not sure if it was a decision of the author or not. If you look at the covers closely, the titles of these books are not in all caps."

Preview shows title page is not all caps.

[Will]

So easy to hit the caps lock while typing promo stuff, isn't it, though?

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

I’m reading Space Deputy by Jenny Schwartz. This was just published a couple of days ago. It has a pulp space opera feel to it so far. It is definitely not just an SF skin of a western novel, which is what I had assumed it to be from the title and cover. I’m hoping it holds my interest. The first two chapters were enough to convince me to buy it.

Looks like it’s only in Kindle edition at least so far, so even if I love it I won’t be nominating it for Indie.

[Betsy]

After I finished re-reading A Call to Duty, I immediately started re-reading the next in the series, A Call to Arms. I'm enjoying this second one, the second time, better than the first one. Then it will be immediately on to the third, A Call to Vengeance, which came out a few months ago.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Space Deputy was enjoyable fluff. I’m currently rereading The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. Her third book is due out in less than a week, and I’m looking forward to it.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

I enjoyed my reread of the first two Wayfarers books by Becky Chambers. The third was released yesterday and I’m reading that now: Record of a Spaceborn Few. The prologue takes place a couple of years before the first book, and the rest appears to be around the time that the first book ended. One of the characters is Tessa, who is the sister of Ashby from the first book. This isn’t a series by any means.

[Trike]

Teresa wrote: "One of the characters is Tessa, who is the sister of Ashby from the first book. This isn’t a series by any means."

The second book is kind of a sequel to the first one, but only in the technical sense that it involves a version of a character from the first book.

I think Chambers is doing something along the lines of Niven’s Known Space, Varley’s Eight Worlds, Banks’ Culture or Foster’s Humanx Commonwealth, where each book is basically a standalone that shares a common universe. Some of those guys eventually wrote sequels to books in their universes, but they all started out as loosely connected.

[MadProfessah]

Yeah I actually like that method because then you can often read the books in any order.


I’ll have to check out the other series you mention .

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Record of a Spaceborn Few is going reeeeeaaaally slow. Not only does it change point of view characters every few pages, but there are too many characters for me to keep straight.

Oh look! A new Nathan Lowell book!!! Home Run

[Betsy]

Teresa wrote: "Oh look! A new Nathan Lowell book!!! Home Run (Smuggler's Tales From the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper Book 3) by Nathan Lowell Home Run."

Oh, good. I was looking for something to read.

[C. John]

Teresa wrote: "Record of a Spaceborn Few is going reeeeeaaaally slow. Not only does it change point of view characters every few pages, but there are too many characters for me to keep straight.

..."

My father complained about too many characters in one of Harry Turtledove's books. Never bothered me.