Thorin Stoutfoot
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You've got to read Daniel Keys Moran's: "The Long Run", if you can find a copy anywhere (check out your local library, it's been long out of print). It's awesome. "The Last Dancer" is great too.
Please recommend some new SF
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Thorntangle
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Both of those sound very cool. Consider them on my list. I hadn't heard of either. Thanks!Ycore Rixle said:
The review on Amazon for Revelation Space: "Meanwhile, the vast, decaying lightship Nostalgia for Infinity is coming for Sylveste, whose dead father (in AI simulation) could perhaps help the Captain, frozen near absolute zero yet still suffering monstrous transformation by nanotech plague"
This really sold me. Plausible high-tech, nano, AI simulcrums, and the cincher: a pure Banksian ship name
I'll make a counter-recommendation for Iain Banks if any of you haven't read him before. His far-future Culture has enormous, well-armed AI ships with names like:
GCU Flexible Demeanour
GCU Just Read The Instructions
GCU Of Course I Still Love You
GSV Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The
GSV Cargo Cult
GSV Little Rascal
GSV So Much For Subtlety
GSV Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence
GSV Youthful Indiscretion
LOU Gunboat Diplomat
Thorntangle
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** Spoilers **Numion said:
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I've read the Hyperion Cantos (1st 2) and I really liked them. I found the story of the priest who suffered in extreme agony for something like a hundred years(?) to rid himself of the symbiote one of the most chilling stories ever.
Someone beat me to "Metaplanetary"....damn. It's like Robert Heinlien meets Tom Robbins; that is, rollicking, exuberant scifi that's so much fun you won't really care when it doesn't make sense.
"Revelation Space" is good, but colder, less fun. I read it directly after "Meta" and it paled in comparison.
"The Golden Age" by John C. Wright is also very good. Something Cordwainer Smith or Olaf Stapleton would have written if they had broadband access...
C.S. Friendman's Coldfire Trilogy also rocks. Its looks like a fantasy epic, but it isn't. Read it for the two central characters, Father Vryce and {especially} Gerald Tarrant.
Also, if you've never read Gene Wolfe's work, particularly "The Book of the New Sun {which again could be mistaken for epic fantasy}, do so. They're marvelous.
Also redux: Sean {?} McMullens Mirrorsun series --starts with "Souls in the Great Machine".
"Revelation Space" is good, but colder, less fun. I read it directly after "Meta" and it paled in comparison.
"The Golden Age" by John C. Wright is also very good. Something Cordwainer Smith or Olaf Stapleton would have written if they had broadband access...
C.S. Friendman's Coldfire Trilogy also rocks. Its looks like a fantasy epic, but it isn't. Read it for the two central characters, Father Vryce and {especially} Gerald Tarrant.
Also, if you've never read Gene Wolfe's work, particularly "The Book of the New Sun {which again could be mistaken for epic fantasy}, do so. They're marvelous.
Also redux: Sean {?} McMullens Mirrorsun series --starts with "Souls in the Great Machine".
I totally forget about Hamiton's epic "Reality Disfunction". Also great. All the better for being such a damn-near impossible melange of elements; hard scifi, horror, pulp, philosphy... Some {ok a myriad of} memorable characters plus enough thrills for 10 books. Oh wait, its as long as 10 books.
And my fav. Culture ship names:
Frank Exchange Of Views {A Psychopath class warship}.
Wisdom Like Silence.
And my fav. Culture ship names:
Frank Exchange Of Views {A Psychopath class warship}.
Wisdom Like Silence.
Celebrim
Legend
If you like Banks and Stephenson, then I'll second the Sean McMullen, though don't think to o hard about the science. 
And I also think Vernor Vinge is a good choice.
And of course, David Brin. You have read 'Kiln People' haven't you? If not, you have of course read the Uplift books, right?
Also try Jonathan Letham, especially 'Gun with Occassional Music' and 'As She Climbed Across the Table'.
And then there is the incomparable Robert Silverburg. Sometimes the best new Sci-Fi is old Sci-Fi. Try 'Downward to the Earth', 'A Time of Changes', 'The Tower of Glass', 'Schadrach in the Furnace', and 'Nightwings'.
And Gene Wolf ought to be taught in high schools.
To everyone else, Iain Banks is doing the best Sci-Fi out there right now. If you aren't reading him, you are missing out.
PS: I think you'll like China Meiville too.
And I also think Vernor Vinge is a good choice.
And of course, David Brin. You have read 'Kiln People' haven't you? If not, you have of course read the Uplift books, right?
Also try Jonathan Letham, especially 'Gun with Occassional Music' and 'As She Climbed Across the Table'.
And then there is the incomparable Robert Silverburg. Sometimes the best new Sci-Fi is old Sci-Fi. Try 'Downward to the Earth', 'A Time of Changes', 'The Tower of Glass', 'Schadrach in the Furnace', and 'Nightwings'.
And Gene Wolf ought to be taught in high schools.
To everyone else, Iain Banks is doing the best Sci-Fi out there right now. If you aren't reading him, you are missing out.
PS: I think you'll like China Meiville too.
Thorin Stoutfoot
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One more: John Varley, "Steel Beach."
