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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 4815210" data-attributes="member: 7533">Alright...First, take a look at Issac Asimov's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Starr_series" target="_blank">"Lucky Starr, Space Ranger"</a> series, which he wrote under the pseudonym Paul French.  It's a bit more pulp-action than his usual stuff, and the plots are heavily into the sort of action-mystery-suspense that you'll see from McDevitt's Benedict books.  Part of the reason behind that is that the series was intended for a young adult audience and written with the intent of possibly turning it into a television series.Also take a look at Ursula LeGuin's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_Andre_Norton#Solar_Queen" target="_blank">"Solar Queen"</a> series, which she wrote under the name Andrew North.  It follows the career of a young man who joins the interstellar equivalent of the merchant marine, and misadventures of the crew of the tramp freighter he's assigned to.  She's got a lot of other titles, but honestly most them get pretty weird.Check out Harry Harrison, especially the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless_Steel_Rat" target="_blank">"Stainless Steel Rat"</a> series about a future criminal who gets caught and effectively recruited to be a future cop.  The third book in the series, The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World is perhaps one best time travel stories I've ever read.  Also read his book Make Room!  Make Room!, which is the novel that the movie Soylent Green is based on...  Spoiler: [spoiler]Soylent isn't green, and it isn't made of people.[/spoiler]Take a look at Philip K. Dick.  He's considered by many to be the forefather of the cyberpunk genre. His writing is rather dystopian and may be just a bit slow for what you're looking for, but several of his novels were turned into classic sci-fi movies: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? became the movie Bladerunner, "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" was made into Total Recall, Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly are both movies made from stories of the same names.  Aside from being very good reads, they may be worth reading just to compare with the movies.David Gerrold wrote a lot of scripts for Star Trek, both the original series and The Next Generation.  He's the man responsible for "The Trouble With Tribbles".  He also wrote several sci-fi novels.  The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wolf_(David_Gerrold)" target="_blank">"Star Wolf"</a> series is fun, but very reminiscent of Trek.  The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dingilliad" target="_blank">"Dingilliad"</a> is another fun series directed toward a young-adult audience.You might also like Richard K. Morgan.  Start with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon" target="_blank">Altered Carbon</a>.Phew.  That's a good start.  Let me know if you need more suggestions...  I'm a prolific reader of a wide variety of fiction, but sci-fi and historical fiction have long been my favorites.</blockquote>

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