He is an odd author. I think he drinks sometimes before he writes-his stuff is all over the place. Try For Love of Mother-Not. Its the first in a series-but the best, I think. And Spellsinger is pretty good.
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He is an odd author. I think he drinks sometimes before he writes-his stuff is all over the place. Try For Love of Mother-Not. Its the first in a series-but the best, I think. And Spellsinger is pretty good.
I just finished STDS9: Fearful Symmetry and Black Order by James Rollins. Black Order was my first Rollins book, and I thought it was pretty good, it had kind of a fun summer blockbuster feel to it IMO. I thought alot of the ideas about evolution and quamtum physics in the book were pretty interesting. My only real issue was that I thought some of the dialouge was written a little strange. But other than that, I liked his writting style and I really liked all of the characters so I'm probably going to be picking up the other Sigma Force books eventually.
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I've just finished Gateway. A great read, it really flew in. The tension is built in a curious way, you know something's up in the end as the narrator attends psychiatry, while we flash back to his past in alternate chapters. Little tidbits of life on the station and in the future are thrown in in the shape of adverts and mission reports every few pages, that aren't part of the continuing story so much from the narrator's point of view. It was a laugh to read an advert looking for a third party in a lesbian tri-marriage in Northern Ireland 
I've finally finished Terok Nor: Night of the Wolves and moved onto Terok Nor: Dawn of the Eagles. This trilogy is simply amazing.
Finally purchased Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. I read the first seven volumes from the library last year, then decided I like it so much that I would savour reading the ending until I had bought the whole series for myself. The last five volumes have just been ordered so...
While I have some of the series already, I'd love to get the whole thing in the Absolute Editions that DC has been putting out.
While the Absolute editions would be cool, they're a) expensive and b) HUGE! I saw some of the other Absolute books (like Watchmen) in the store and they were simply ginormous. I'm sure they're beautiful and all that, but I'd rather actually be able to read them in bed before I go to sleep!Finally purchased Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. I read the first seven volumes from the library last year, then decided I like it so much that I would savour reading the ending until I had bought the whole series for myself. The last five volumes have just been ordered so...
While I have some of the series already, I'd love to get the whole thing in the Absolute Editions that DC has been putting out.
I just read Richard Matheson's Somewhere in Time (apparently called Bid Time Return before the movie came out). Decent enough, but without the acting talent of Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour and the great setting and fantastic score to support it, the flimsiness of the romance is really exposed.
Currently reading the late Craig Hinton's Doctor Who novel The Quantum Archangel while waiting for my copy of Time's Champion to arrive in the mail. Time's Champion was left unfinished by Hinton, so Chris McKeon finished it and it was published unofficially as a charity fund-raiser.
I like Hinton's books, generally, but this one's kind of dragging a bit.
I like Hinton's books, generally, but this one's kind of dragging a bit.
Try Jack Finney-a much better take on a similar idea.
Yeah, the Codex Alera series isn't quite as good as The Dresden Files, but they are still very good.
I haven't read (or seen) Somewhere in Time, so I can't say if Finney's Time and Again is better, but I can say it's damn good. I'm not sure the sequel was quite at the same level, but if Jack Finney ever wrote an awful book I haven't read it. (Not that I've read all of them, but I've read The Body Snatchers, Time and Again, From Time to Time, Three By Finney, Good Neighbour Sam, and some short stories, and Assault on a Queen is waiting for me in the Closet of Unread Books.)
I remember reading something from Butcher where he was discussing an idea he was working on about a new series, this one more of a sci-fi action adventure rather than the fantasy stuff he's done in Dresden and Alera. I think I'm pretty much at the point where I'll read anything the man writes, so I'm looking forward to it.
Yeah, same here, but I've been at that point for a while. I've got Turn Coat, and the next Alera novel pre-ordered, along with Welcome to the Jungle TPB and Backup. I keep meaning to order My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon and Many Bloody Returns, just for his Dresden short stories, but they're still a little expensive for just one story.
I think he said he's gonna get on to that new series after Alera, which after December, only has one book left.
Didn't he describe it as "X-Files meets X-Men"?
"Moonseed" by Stephen Baxter.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. Don't know if it counts as SF exactly, but most people seem to consider alternative history as somehow being part of it. Weirdos.
"Accelerando" by Charles Stross
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