Mistral wrote:
Hate to double post but missed this at first. Scalzi does good-he's VERY reminiscent of Heinlein in style.
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Old Man's War does have a vague
Starship Troopers/Forever War vibe but I figured this comes with the genre. I'm not wild about Heinlein.
Klaus wrote:
I have Old Man's War in the queue as well, just having fun working through unread things from the old masters first.  |
Conversely, I've realized that so many of the science fiction authors I've read were either dead or wrote the works I was reading decades before I was born. When most of the 'recent science fiction' I read as a teenager was either the later Arthur C. Clarke novels (or novels he 'co-wrote', like
The Light of Other Days or the Rama sequels) that does say a fair bit... so I resolved to read more actually living writers this year, preferably those who may have actually written books after I was born.
This said:
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ty for the recommendations, the only Pohl I've read are the Heechee books IIRC...
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Try
Space Merchants, which he wrote with Kornbluth, and also
Jem. Both are great.
Space Merchants has a wickedly deadpan satire of Madison Avenue and
Jem has some of the best alien species I've come across in literature for a long while (the passage where Pohl patiently tries to explain how Sharn-igon saw
himself is a highlight of the book). One disgresses...