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Can Trek really be counted as a book series though, since nothing written is counted as 'officially' Trek?
That german series Dennis mentioned earlier, btw, celebrates its 50th year of uninterrupted publication this year.
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Can Trek really be counted as a book series though, since nothing written is counted as 'officially' Trek?
That german series Dennis mentioned earlier, btw, celebrates its 50th year of uninterrupted publication this year.
love ASIMOV died to young . love WEBER and TURTLEDOVE LOVE to see a colbaeration between the two. Alternate history is one of my favorite gener's.
RIGHT now just getting cuaght up on STAR TREK ENTERPRISE .
NOW I want to read the dune saga and pern . But, are there any series out there
that are like STAR TREK AND STAR WARS combined ?
RIGHT now just getting cuaght up on STAR TREK ENTERPRISE .
NOW I want to read the dune saga and pern . But, are there any series out there
that are like STAR TREK AND STAR WARS combined ?
Well, since you beat me to it, let me just add his Galactic Empire trilogy that was also tied into them.
I read all three of these series separately roughly twenty years ago, but plan to reread them together one of these days along with David Brin, Greg Benford and Greg Bear's new Foundation trilogy and Asimov's other Robot novels that I haven't gotten around to reading yet. I understand that Roger Allen has written another Robot trilogy that ties into all this also.
Geez, trying to read all this, I'm looking at, what? Forty books, or so?
To be fair, the OP explicitly stated that he wasn't counting franchises like TREK or PERRY RHODAN that were written by multiple authors.
Which probably rules out DOC SAVAGE and TOM SWIFT as well!
ST-One
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To be fair, the OP explicitly stated that he wasn't counting franchises like TREK or PERRY RHODAN that were written by multiple authors.
Which probably rules out DOC SAVAGE and TOM SWIFT as well!
And Dune
If you are going to have a sense of humour bypass, at least learn to read - "single author".
Larry Niven's Known Space books are my favorites.
I was turned on to Dune by a high school teacher, but even though I went as far as God Emperor, I could never really get into it, and ultimately sold all of them off to a used book dealer. Something about the inside-out morality: mind- (and body-)altering drugs, assassination, and war are OK, but "Thou Shalt Not Build Artificial Intelligences"? Abbesses who wield an agonizer and an instantly-fatal poisoned needle that "kills only animals"?
I'm with "Nerys Myk" on Alan Dean Foster and the Humanx Commonwealth series. Foster is probably my favorite living author, and I find him grossly underrated. His opening line, "The Flinx was an ethical thief, in that he stole only from the crooked" (The Tar-Aiym Krang) is right up there with "In a hole in the ground lived a Hobbit." And "It's hard to be a larva" (Nor Crystal Tears), and the entire first paragraph of Sentenced to Prism, aren't too shabby, either.
I'm with "Nerys Myk" on Alan Dean Foster and the Humanx Commonwealth series. Foster is probably my favorite living author, and I find him grossly underrated. His opening line, "The Flinx was an ethical thief, in that he stole only from the crooked" (The Tar-Aiym Krang) is right up there with "In a hole in the ground lived a Hobbit." And "It's hard to be a larva" (Nor Crystal Tears), and the entire first paragraph of Sentenced to Prism, aren't too shabby, either.
No, but I thought of them lol...
I prefer the books focusing on Corwin. The later books really come from a different perspective on the Pattern and Logros. I wish he'd time to finish where he was going with the series. It had some intriguing ideas that leave Martin's story unfulfilling.