Science Fiction Book Club

[Addled Platypus]

lets not forget

Old Mans War
Ghosts Brigade
Last Colony

orderd from SFB, good reads

thanks for the link HarryTuttle

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Addled Platypus
lets not forget

Old Mans War
Ghosts Brigade
Last Colony

orderd from SFB, good reads

Already mentioned Scalzi in post #10. Great new author, though! Another good book in the military sci-fi genre is "Armor" by John Steakley.

Originally posted by Heraclitus
Two words: Frank Herbert

My avatar is from the cover of Herbert's short story collection "Eye". And "The Dosadi Experiment" is one of my all-time favorites -absoulte masterpiece!

"Divide and Rule
Subdivide and rule more thoroughly
Fragment and rule absolutely"

[Donegeal]

Ok, finished with Ender's Game. Which of the Ender series should I read next... or what come next chronologicaly?

[Zoid]

Speaker for the Dead IIRC...

[Julian Delphiki]

Originally posted by Donegeal
Ok, finished with Ender's Game. Which of the Ender series should I read next... or what come next chronologicaly?

Hmm, next Ender stories will be very different.. so, if you want know what happened on earth after those events and more about other Battle School students and have similar books to Enders Game, go for Enders Shadow.

Otoh, if you want to know what happened to Ender and Valentine in the future, continue to Speaker for the Dead. It will be very different and more philosophical. They're good, but first time i tried Speaker i was WTF?

Personal recommendation -> Shadow series first, then other Ender sequels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game_series

[Imran Siddiqui]

Read Speaker for the Dead next. IMO, the best book in the Ender series. It really is an amazing book.

[Julian Delphiki]

I'll need to re-read Speaker again. It was 91' when i read it and i was 15 then... well now it's reserved from library again.

[Lord Avalon]

Both Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead received Hugo & Nebula Awards. Xenocide was nominated for a Hugo.

[Donegeal]

I'm going for chronological order, so it looks like Ender's Shadow is it. It'll be interesting to see things from Bean's perspective.

BTW, I have read Speaker for the Dead, if that is the one where humans first meet the second alien inteligence.

[Julian Delphiki]

Heh, i just realized that i actually own Speaker for the Dead. I had bought it when library was cleaning up more used books. Nice.