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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostWorldsMike" data-source="post: 1056644" data-attributes="member: 12159">I'll second (or is it third?) the vote for China Mieville! Perdido Street Station is fantastic, as is The Scar (which is only a "sequel" in the sense that it's set on the same world and has as its protagonist a character who knew one of the characters from Perdido). His book King Rat is good as well, but not nearly as rich as his already mentioned work.Mary Gentle's fantasy is very good (she's written some SF, but I haven't read it). Particularly good are the Books of Ash, dealing with a female mercenary captain in an off kilter medieval Earth. Very good stuff about which I can't really say more without blowing cool plot points. Architecture of Desire, and Rats and Gargoyles are both very good also.Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon is a great contemporary thriller/adventure - with a mathematical bent.I just rediscovered Keith Laumer's Retief stories, and I love those to pieces.And I recently reread Dune for the umpteenth time, and that's gotta be one of my top 5 all time favorite books.Ah, fudge, I could go on about this for hours... but that'd take away from my already limited reading time.</blockquote>