gonna finish it before i see tha movie.............................sooooooo good though....................
That and just finished this one:
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/0...onze/index.htm
(free online book, sci-fi about a roman legion taken from Africa and used as a shock army by aliens after being transported around the galaxy by alien merchant trading guilds)
Just got done reading that. Pretty good for a quick, light read.
It was interesting. The follow up short stories were kind of fun too. Drake and Weber are good at that kind of thing.
Baenebooks.com has another fascinating book, "1632", about what would happen if a small town in the US got plopped down in Germany during the Protestant Reformation. The ideas and ideals, both scientific and social/economic (i.e. democracy, and corporations) were interesting things to play with. He has a couple of sequels as well.
If you like military sci-fi, Drake is a good author, whose Hammers Slammers series from the 1980's were some of my introduction in to military science/tactics. Hammers Slammers was a high-tech mercenary unit of heavy futuristic armor.
Weber, for his part did a long-running successful series based on a young space navy officer, Honor Harrington, and her rise through the ranks. The first in that series is "On Basilisk Station", also free at http://www.baenebooks.com/c-1-free-library.aspx
Wonderful library of older sci-fi. Gives you the first in a lot of series for free, so you can see if you like it enough to spend money buying the follow ups to see what happens next.
I think you would get a kick out of the overall story arc of the Harrington series. Take that for what it is worth. It is one of the few sci-fi series where I will plunk down cash for new hardbacks. He does blather on a bit about technical stuff occasionally, but the overall storytelling more than compensates for this minor short-coming, IMO.
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Hmmm, thought there was another book thread I had posted in before. Oh well
Waiting on this series after my Dad gets done reading them
Recently finished this:
Last fiction I read:
About 250 pages in, and this book is great. It has a monster but I am more fearful of some of the realistic dangers so far
Dan Simmons is great. i highly recommend checking out Hyperion if you guys haven't already.
I will definitely check all his books out as long as the ending to this one is good!
Bought this hardbound version of the 3 stories at Barnes n Noble a couple weeks back.
Its been about 25 years since i've read Martian Chronicles and Illustrated Man.
I have almost all of his books/story collections, love all of them.
Its been about 25 years since i've read Martian Chronicles and Illustrated Man.
IronMaxipad, I just finished Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, it was excellent.
Very cool selection DR,
I happen to be reading this one right now:
I'll most likely follow up with:
Hooked on Lee Childs "Jack Reacher" novels, now it's...61 HOURS. Already read six of the series.
Not McMurty's best by any means, but still fun and a very quick read compared to his other stuff.
Michael Connelly 'The Black Box'
Reading King of Thorns, sequel to Prince of Thorns:
I love Julia Child, but this biography is probably the most hyperbolic one I've read. I have learned a few things I didn't know about her though.
So sorry. Clarke's writing in this series goes downhill badly as it progresses, and 3001 is basically a novella padded with chapters from the previous books.
As for me:
Oh reallyman that is so disappointing. I loved 2001 and 2010 so much, I was so glad there was two more
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