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  • #91
    Originally posted by ajbera
    Oh, for hard sf, Dragon's Egg by Robert Forward.
    Dragon's Egg Starquake is quite good too though I don't think it's as good as the first. Flight of the Dragonfly I haven't read.
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    • #92
      Stanislav Lem - Invincible, Solaris
      The Strugatsky brothers - Its Hard to be God
      Ursula LeGuin - Commie SF

      The Amber series - except the last 2 books.

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      • #93
        I might as well mention the Book Recommendations page on my site.
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        • #94
          Strongly recmmend the Robert Forward, esp Dragon's Egg.

          Try M.A. Foster, The Morphodite. xcellent concept, well written.

          I like William Gibson, but it seems that's not your cup of tea.

          I'm also a huge Phillip Dick fan. Alternative reality.

          Babel-17 by Samuel Delaney is a classic.

          The Stainless Steel Rat series, by Harry Harrison is great fun.

          Spider Robinson (and for that matter, his wife Jeanne). Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is especially good. There's more as well.

          On the Discworld stuff by Pratchett, I recommend just going by copyright date and moving forward. Pratchett's a great satirist and a clever writer, great sense of humor.

          Most recently, I started reading Neal Stephenson. Sort of a looser, more freewheeling take on William Gibson's cyber-future. Nicely imagined. Try "Snow Crash."
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          • #95
            I forgot to mention Alastair Reynolds, especially Chasm City. Tech noir crime novel meets space opera sf.
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            • #96
              yeah.. is good

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              • #97
                Has anyone red Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson? I read a positive review of it today:



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                • #98
                  Re: Recommend me sci-fi/fantasy books

                  Originally posted by quantum_mechani
                  I'm starting to feel like I've exhausted the good books in these genres, but maybe someone could point me to some gems that I have overlooked.

                  Greg Bear: Eon

                  Robert Charles Wilson: Gypsies

                  Ursula K Le Guin: The Dispossessed or The Left Hand of Darkness

                  Bruce Sterling: Schismatrix or Islands In The Net

                  Roger Zelazny: Lord of Light

                  Maureen Hughes: China Mountain Zhang

                  Joanna Russ: The Female Man

                  Samuel R Delany: Triton or Babel-17

                  Iain M Banks: Use of Weapons or The Player of Games

                  Ken Macleod: The Star Fraction

                  J.G. Ballard: The Drowned World, Vermilion Sands or Crash

                  Nancy Kress: Beggars in Spain

                  Thomas Disch: 334, Echo Round His Bones

                  Walter John Williams: Voice of the Whirlwind

                  China Mieville: Perdido Station

                  Philip K Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? or We Can Build You

                  Harry Turtledove: Agent of Byzantium (before he started overwriting)

                  Greg Egan: Quarantine

                  Paul J McAuley: Pasquale's Angel

                  Peter Hamilton: The Reality Dysfunction

                  Michael Moorcock: Behold the Man or The Land Leviathan Trilogy
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