You might have to track a used bookstore for the Heinlein-I bought mine a long time ago. Here's where I go.
http://www.littleoldbookshop.com/
The owner's name is Brett and he's a really cool dude. You might want to drop him a line.
SF/F Books: Chapter Two - What Are You Reading?
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You might have to track a used bookstore for the Heinlein-I bought mine a long time ago. Here's where I go.
http://www.littleoldbookshop.com/
The owner's name is Brett and he's a really cool dude. You might want to drop him a line.
^I know of a couple used bookstores in my own town, one that specializes in sci-fi and fantasy. I'm planning to visit in the next couple of days.
In the meantime, however, I seem to be trying to find a series to follow. I previously read A Princess of Mars (the first of ERB's Barsoom novels) and now, based on a recommendation from this thread, I picked up Kage Baker's In The Garden of Iden. Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds will follow.
In the meantime, however, I seem to be trying to find a series to follow. I previously read A Princess of Mars (the first of ERB's Barsoom novels) and now, based on a recommendation from this thread, I picked up Kage Baker's In The Garden of Iden. Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds will follow.
Kage Baker's Company series is great but DON'T read any out of order-you won't know what the hell is going on. (Actually, even in order you might not get everything-she has a unique style).
I would suggest McDevitt. His series(including Chindi) is pretty good. Again-in order, as the main character ages across the books.
Other series I got a kick out of:Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series
The Imperium saga by Laumer(except Zone Yellow-I think his mind was going by then)
1632, 1633, etc by Eric Flint and others-not every book or short story is great but there's more than enough to keep you busy and happy
The first 3 books of Christopher Staffesh's Warlock series(after that he got Piers Anthony syndrome and began beating dead cats)
Leo Frankowski's Crosstime Engineer series
Farmer's Riverworld series
to name a few I've enjoyed.
Me, too. I think I've gotten a little burned out on novels. There's something satisfying about reading a story that you can go through and enjoy in one sitting.
I'm still working through Revelation Space. I've been trying to graduate, so it's been placed on the back burner a lot.
I also recommend Jack McDevitt's books. Engines of God is pretty good, Deepsix is amazing, and Chindi has some really good ideas even though I'm not a big fan of the ending.
I also recommend Jack McDevitt's books. Engines of God is pretty good, Deepsix is amazing, and Chindi has some really good ideas even though I'm not a big fan of the ending.
Finished In The Garden of Iden by Kage Baker. I liked it, but it didn't quite bowl me over like it seems to have done to others. I was a mite turned off by the superior attitude of the Immortals towards ordinary human beings (especially since I can think of a few questionable elements of their way of life), but from what I've read of the continuing series I'm betting that gets..."dealt with" and explored in greater depth. So at this point I'd say that I would be interested in reading the next book at least, though I don't know if I'll be running pell-mell to the library.
I was going to read Revelation Space right next, but James Thurber's The 13 Clocks became available and since it's short, and I finished Iden ahead of "schedule", it's next up instead.
On the short story front: I found another Bradbury collection, I Sing The Body Electric! and picked up a couple issues of Analog magazine.
I was going to read Revelation Space right next, but James Thurber's The 13 Clocks became available and since it's short, and I finished Iden ahead of "schedule", it's next up instead.
On the short story front: I found another Bradbury collection, I Sing The Body Electric! and picked up a couple issues of Analog magazine.
Oh, the Company series gets much better as it goes along. To be honest, my favorites are the ones that follow Joseph and Lewis. The second book, in fact, is a book about Joseph, and it's a bit relieving getting away from Mendoza's cynicism. My favorite character, though, is Lewis the Literature specialist. *sigh* His, I think, is the most fascinating of all the storylines.
I must warn that things do get a little silly by the last book or two, and the end is a tad anti-climactic, but not nearly as anti-climactic as "Breaking Dawn" in the Twilight series, so I forgave it.
The short stories are really fun as well.
"Anvil of the World" and "House of the Stag" are really great, too.
I guess I'm just excited to finally have another favorite author to follow. I have a very limited number of authors who have more than one piece that I really enjoy, and a majority are either dead (Mark Twain, Shakespeare) or not very fast at releasing new stuff (JK Rowling), so the fact that Kage Baker has so many things out to read, and that I actually enjoy, and she still has more coming... It's just a joy to have become a fan of writer whose works entertain me and keep coming at a steady pace.
Joy
I must warn that things do get a little silly by the last book or two, and the end is a tad anti-climactic, but not nearly as anti-climactic as "Breaking Dawn" in the Twilight series, so I forgave it.
The short stories are really fun as well.
"Anvil of the World" and "House of the Stag" are really great, too.
I guess I'm just excited to finally have another favorite author to follow. I have a very limited number of authors who have more than one piece that I really enjoy, and a majority are either dead (Mark Twain, Shakespeare) or not very fast at releasing new stuff (JK Rowling), so the fact that Kage Baker has so many things out to read, and that I actually enjoy, and she still has more coming... It's just a joy to have become a fan of writer whose works entertain me and keep coming at a steady pace.
Joy
Since I've been in hospital I finished reading the Discworld book Mort, the I read David Mack's The Calling and after I finished that I started
Guillermo del Toro's The Strain, I'm currently about 150 pages in, I've enjoyed them all.
Guillermo del Toro's The Strain, I'm currently about 150 pages in, I've enjoyed them all.
Mort's one of my favs-hope you're feeling better!
Currently reading Doctor Who - Judgement of the Judoon
I'm re-reading all of my Andre Norton books...& also reading Scourge of God by S. M. Stirling...I love all of his "Change" novels...
I've successfully completed Ipcress, what a strange novel (and I even watched the Michael Cain flick -- he's really a dickhead in the movie), moved on to Kevin Anderson's Enemies & Allies. Good Batman & Superman book. Didn't care for the "must provide backstory" for Bats and Supes, but still a good read. Some funny Luthor moments, and some moments where the slash 'shippers could happily "fill in the blanks."
Just started a new espionage-ish thriller, Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon series. 200 pages in to The Kill Artist. Good stuff, very much what the successors to Fleming were trying to do with Bond but were unsuccessful at doing.
Just started a new espionage-ish thriller, Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon series. 200 pages in to The Kill Artist. Good stuff, very much what the successors to Fleming were trying to do with Bond but were unsuccessful at doing.
Should be allowed to go as an outpatient from this evening. But I have to return every day for antibiotics for the next 4 weeks.
I enjoyed Mort, probably the Discworld book I've enjoyed most so far.
Since I last checked in with this thread I've read the following:
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham - good stuff, quite restrained in terms of the horror of the situation.
The first three James Bond novels - Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, and Moonraker - by Ian Fleming. I've been on a major Bond kick lately. I got the box set with the special editions of the first 21 Bond movies a while ago and I just got through watching them in release order. That got me in the mood to read the Fleming novels in order, too, to compare them to the films. I'd only previously read one of the Bond books years ago, so it's been great fun getting into them now.
Hope you have a speedy recovery, Bob.
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham - good stuff, quite restrained in terms of the horror of the situation.
The first three James Bond novels - Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, and Moonraker - by Ian Fleming. I've been on a major Bond kick lately. I got the box set with the special editions of the first 21 Bond movies a while ago and I just got through watching them in release order. That got me in the mood to read the Fleming novels in order, too, to compare them to the films. I'd only previously read one of the Bond books years ago, so it's been great fun getting into them now.
Hope you have a speedy recovery, Bob.
^Thanks.
What a treat for you to be a virgin Bond book reader! The series really is a great period piece in 50s and 60s espionage.
I finished Silva's first Gabriel Allon book, and I'm thrilled to get into a new spy series, now that I'm ostensibly done with the Bond-verse, and Tom Rob Smith has done such a great job with his Leo Demidov books that I don't honestly care if he writes another.
Back into real SFF with book 3 of F. Paul Wilson's The Adversary Cycle with The Touch. A point is going to come, when he finishes the Repairman Jack books, where I'm going to want to read all the pieces of this puzzle in temporal order.
Now, just enjoying some relevant stuff in the universe before the next RJ book comes out in Sept.
I've not read any more of The Strain since I've been home, I've been concentrating on getting rest, early nights etc. but I did manage to get just over half way before I stopped. And I was enjoying it.
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