Just finished reading the "Robot" series by Asimov. I'm more half way done with Card's "Ender's Game".
SF/F Books: Chapter Two - What Are You Reading?
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The robot series is cool and if you've read Foundation, well, the Robot series loosely ties in in terms of taking place years before the Empire had fallen. Of course, to get a true sense of where Asimov was at you have to read "I, Robot" and "The Bicentennial Man"
Wrath Of A Mad God by Raymond Feist for a pro review
Tatooine Ghost by Troy Denning for travel this week.
Tatooine Ghost by Troy Denning for travel this week.
I recommend picking up the Robot Series since you've picked up on the Foundation and Empire Series. I enjoyed reading on the beginnings of "psychohistory" and how it all ties in with the Foundation.
Just finished Max Brooks' World War Z. Now I'm on book two of the Lost Fleet series.
Currently reading the new Del Rey collection The Stealer of Souls, the first of their planned series of Michael Moorcock's Elric books. I've read most of this stuff, but that was nearly thirty years ago. There's some new content and the versions of the stories aren't necesarily the same as the ones I read, so it's a worthwhile buy.
A lot of what's in the Elric books may seem familiar if not cliched today, in this age when there are people who've read dozens of Dragonlance novels but have never read Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, or Moorcock, but it sure as hell wasn't back then. This looks like it'll be as essential as Del Rey's Robert E. Howard collections. I wonder what they could do with Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser...
A lot of what's in the Elric books may seem familiar if not cliched today, in this age when there are people who've read dozens of Dragonlance novels but have never read Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, or Moorcock, but it sure as hell wasn't back then. This looks like it'll be as essential as Del Rey's Robert E. Howard collections. I wonder what they could do with Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser...
I have to confess I'm not familiar with Eric Flint or Christopher Anvil, though I've heard the names. I see Flint was involved in what looks like a sequel to The Witches of Karres; I read half a dozen or so of James Schmitz's books back in the '80s. But I don't generally go for the stuff Baen publishes. If I have more than a dozen books from them I'd be surprised. (Not counting stuff they've reprinted by people like Schmitz and a few others that I bought in earlier editions from other publishers.) That Interstellar Patrol stuff looks like something that would have been right up my alley a few years back, though. Are they doing a lot of old space opera stuff these days?
Flint is re-printing collections of old authors. I won't swear that they are all "space opera" types but 'Interstellar Patrol' certainly is. He also re-released "Bolo" by Laumer and I think a Jack Williamson collection. As for Flint-he authored 1632 and the book became a series on a scale I've never seen before. Check deeper into the postings on this thread-look for Opus for a quick search.
Interesting. I read a few Laumer books back in the '70s, but I've barely dented the surface of Jack Williamson's stuff. Guess I'll have to dig a little deeper.
Don't know how you feel about psuedo-fantasy but 2 other books I love-
The Warlock In Spite of Himself-Christopher Staffesh-although it springboarded a series that won't end (die gracefully, damnit!) the original book is still amazing. Funny and well thought out, any story with a warlock who rides an epileptic robot horse can't be all bad.
Grunts!-Mary Gentle-everybody knows that in the Final Battle Good will whip Evil's butt, right? Even Evil knows it. So that's great-unless you are an Orc or Goblin, the everyday "grunt" trooper on the side of Evil. So what are you going to do about it? This book tackles that question with a viciously funny angle to it. Both books well worth the $8 at Borders or B&N.
The Warlock In Spite of Himself-Christopher Staffesh-although it springboarded a series that won't end (die gracefully, damnit!) the original book is still amazing. Funny and well thought out, any story with a warlock who rides an epileptic robot horse can't be all bad.
Grunts!-Mary Gentle-everybody knows that in the Final Battle Good will whip Evil's butt, right? Even Evil knows it. So that's great-unless you are an Orc or Goblin, the everyday "grunt" trooper on the side of Evil. So what are you going to do about it? This book tackles that question with a viciously funny angle to it. Both books well worth the $8 at Borders or B&N.
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