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<blockquote data-quote="Stormrunner" data-source="post: 1940967" data-attributes="member: 13471"><p><strong>Lois McMaster Bujold</strong>. I know you said "no military", but her Miles Vorkosigan books are "military" the way MASH or JAG are "military" rather than the way "Platoon" is military - that is, they're character-driven plots in a military background rather than a series of battles. Also check out <em>Falling Free </em> (same universe but not a Miles book), about the "quaddies" - humans gengineered for free-fall, with a second set of arms replacing the legs.</p><p></p><p><strong>Robert L. Forward</strong>. <em>Dragon's Egg </em> and <em>Starquake</em>, tiny squashed-flat critters living on the surface of a neutron star. <em>Rocheworld</em>, amoeba-like critters living in the oceans of a double planet. Good, reasonably hard SF (Forward is a scientist).</p><p></p><p>Pretty much anything by <strong>CJ Cherryh</strong> or <strong>Cordwainer Smith</strong>. Or <strong>Poul Anderson</strong>.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ken MacLeod</strong>, <strong>Ian M. Banks</strong>, and <strong>Eleanor Arneson</strong> all have some good stuff.</p><p></p><p><strong>Julie Czerneda</strong>: <em>Beholder's Eye</em>, <em>Changing Vision</em>, and <em>Hidden in Sight</em> - the last survivor of a family of shapeshifters tries to survive in a universe of humans who want to kill her on sight.</p><p></p><p><strong>George Alec Effinger</strong>. <em>When Gravity Fails</em>, <em>A Fire in the Sun</em>, and I think there's a third book but I don't recall the title off-hand. Cyberpunk from an Arabic perspective.</p><p></p><p><strong>Kate Elliott</strong>, the <em>Jaran</em> series. Mongolian-style horse-nomads trying to survive in a futuristic, alien-dominated society. Warning: I found to my dismay that some of the paperback editions had printer's errors: whole 16- or 32-page sections missing entirely or replaced with duplicates of earlier sections.</p><p></p><p><em>DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction</em> (and it's companion volume, <em>DAW 30th Anniversary Fantasy</em>) - excellent anthologies with a wide range of authors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stormrunner, post: 1940967, member: 13471"] [B]Lois McMaster Bujold[/B]. I know you said "no military", but her Miles Vorkosigan books are "military" the way MASH or JAG are "military" rather than the way "Platoon" is military - that is, they're character-driven plots in a military background rather than a series of battles. Also check out [I]Falling Free [/I] (same universe but not a Miles book), about the "quaddies" - humans gengineered for free-fall, with a second set of arms replacing the legs. [B]Robert L. Forward[/B]. [I]Dragon's Egg [/I] and [I]Starquake[/I], tiny squashed-flat critters living on the surface of a neutron star. [I]Rocheworld[/I], amoeba-like critters living in the oceans of a double planet. Good, reasonably hard SF (Forward is a scientist). Pretty much anything by [B]CJ Cherryh[/B] or [B]Cordwainer Smith[/B]. Or [B]Poul Anderson[/B]. [B]Ken MacLeod[/B], [B]Ian M. Banks[/B], and [B]Eleanor Arneson[/B] all have some good stuff. [B]Julie Czerneda[/B]: [I]Beholder's Eye[/I], [I]Changing Vision[/I], and [I]Hidden in Sight[/I] - the last survivor of a family of shapeshifters tries to survive in a universe of humans who want to kill her on sight. [B]George Alec Effinger[/B]. [I]When Gravity Fails[/I], [I]A Fire in the Sun[/I], and I think there's a third book but I don't recall the title off-hand. Cyberpunk from an Arabic perspective. [B]Kate Elliott[/B], the [I]Jaran[/I] series. Mongolian-style horse-nomads trying to survive in a futuristic, alien-dominated society. Warning: I found to my dismay that some of the paperback editions had printer's errors: whole 16- or 32-page sections missing entirely or replaced with duplicates of earlier sections. [I]DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction[/I] (and it's companion volume, [I]DAW 30th Anniversary Fantasy[/I]) - excellent anthologies with a wide range of authors. [/QUOTE]
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