[Tormod]

I am at a loss. Since moving to ebooks *only*, I have for the past two years read just about everything I can lay my hands on at eReader.com. - like my favorite writers:

Stephen Baxter
Richard Morgan
Neal Stephenson
William Gibson
Peter F Hamilton
Vernon Vinge
Greg Bear
Alastair Reynolds
Kim Stanley Robinson

But now I'm out of books! I am simply unable to find anything else on that site that I want to read.

So...I know there are more sci-fi buffs here. Help me out by checking out eReader.com and tell me which sci-fi books to get. Authors listed above are out, I have ALL their books already.

[Michaelangelica]

Fred Hoyle? ("The Black Cloud" is one of my favourites)
Ursela le Guin?
Some of her kids stuff too
Susan Cooper's "The Dark is Rising" series, excellent, young adult-discerning adult
Asimov
Wyndham?
Terry Prattchet???(great 'humour science fiction fantasy' its own genre)
Prattchet & Gaimen together
Niven
Anne Mc Caffrey

I envy your ability to read on line.
i need the book in front of me.

[Tormod]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

I envy your ability to read on line.
i need the book in front of me.

I don't! I use a Palm TX handheld:



Thanks for your tips. Larry Niven may fit the bill. Anne Caffrey I read years ago, and I have about 200 Asimov books in print...

But I want real hard-core stuff! Deep space! High tech! Lost alien civilizations! Multiverses! Warped physics!

[Mercedes Benzene]

L Ron Hubbard has written hundreds of sci-fi books... even if he was a looney


"Battlefield Earth" is always a good place to start.

[Tormod]

I found an interesting list here, by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen:

blog.pmarca.com: Top 10 science fiction novelists of the '00s -- so far

Sadly only a few of these are available as ereader books.

[freeztar]

Originally Posted by Tormod

I found an interesting list here, by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen:

blog.pmarca.com: Top 10 science fiction novelists of the '00s -- so far

Ahh...nice...
Bookmarked

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Tormod

I don't! I use a Palm TX handheld:



Thanks for your tips. Larry Niven may fit the bill. Anne Caffrey I read years ago, and I have about 200 Asimov books in print...

But I want real hard-core stuff! Deep space! High tech! Lost alien civilizations! Multiverses! Warped physics!

i have given up abit on sci Fi it seems all so grim these days.
i have a hard core friend who subscribes to a bookshop newsleter which he sends on the me- but really I've given up. So many are ugly and grim.

As for "first contact" themes I think "The mote in God's Eye' was the best sociologically that T have read. The societies' were really diferent and the contrast was fascinating (was thatLarry Niven?).

MY friend (as above) despairs of me reading E 'DOC' Smith where the wars build up to where they are throwing planets at each other. I thought they were joyous romps my friend just shakes his head in shame of having such a low-brow friend.

A lot of the suggestions I gave were from my old days of devouring SF. Now I am incredibly picky and wary.
Life is too short to read stuff you don't enjoy.
I still think the best of Anne Mc Caffery and Ursela le Quin is the best you will get. Although both have written some terrible howlers as well.

These days I read non-fiction ( Biograpghy-Darwin Cook etc, 1491, Longitude) and British and some beaut Australian (Kerry Greenwood) detective stories.

[LaurieAG]

Originally Posted by Tormod

But I want real hard-core stuff! Deep space! High tech! Lost alien civilizations! Multiverses! Warped physics!

Hi Tormod,

Have you tried Robert Heinlein? Some of his earlier ones may be a bit like childrens books but on the whole they grab you. (in Double Star the solar systems government was loosely based on Australia's federated states).

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle also put out some good ones. While 'A Mote in Gods eye' isn't on the list it is a good precursor for what we call nanotechnology.

[Tormod]

Thanks a bunch. Yeah, I have read quite a bit of Heinlein, good stuff. Jerry Pournelle is a new name for me, worth a try!

[Buffy]

Originally Posted by Tormod

Jerry Pournelle is a new name for me, worth a try!

Let me repeat, !!!!

Byte magazine? in the 80's/90's? Original author of the phrase "Real Soon Now?"



Where *have* you been T?

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