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« Reply #75 on: January 21, 2012, 12:46:54 PM » |
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That just means more for me.
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« Reply #76 on: January 21, 2012, 12:50:21 PM » |
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Or more irritated spirits.
Sorry Krista, I'll stop now.
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« Reply #77 on: January 21, 2012, 12:50:43 PM » |
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Oh, and I'd like to recommend Fallen Angels. available from baen, i believe, it can be used as dystopia or authoritarian government.
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« Reply #78 on: January 21, 2012, 01:02:39 PM » |
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I've never read that one. Thanks!
It's perfect for the cold winter weather.... |
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« Reply #79 on: January 21, 2012, 04:57:54 PM » |
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Bah, it's warmed up here 15 degrees. Only -16 now |
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« Reply #80 on: January 21, 2012, 05:54:08 PM » |
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David Brin's Uplift novels have some great military aspects to them. And they're space opera with some actual depth.
For a near-cyberpunk, dystopian, feminist, Jewish read try Marge Piercy's He, She, and It. Good read.
I also don't think this fits in any of your categories, but Nancy Kress's Sleepless books are really good.
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« Reply #81 on: January 21, 2012, 10:41:35 PM » |
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It's one of the problems with trying to fill out a reading list: so many good books that don't fit what folks are looking for!
I've never read Kress. Thanks for the recommend.
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« Reply #82 on: January 22, 2012, 01:27:31 PM » |
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I'd put in a vote for Altered Carbon and Ender's Game.
Peter F. Hamilton's also good, though I'm less impressed with the latest (Void) trilogy.
YA, take a look at the Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines series, well worth a go.
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« Reply #83 on: January 22, 2012, 03:21:02 PM » |
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War Games by K.S. Augustin should be right up your alley. It's lesbian military SF.
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« Reply #85 on: January 23, 2012, 07:16:10 PM » |
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I have a confession. I liked Dune when I was a young teen. Then I got older and I didn't like it anymore. I don't know what happened. I wonder if I'd like it now? THE SPICE SHALL RUN!!!  |
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« Reply #86 on: January 23, 2012, 11:21:39 PM » |
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I have a confession. I liked Dune when I was a young teen. Then I got older and I didn't like it anymore. I don't know what happened. I wonder if I'd like it now? THE SPICE SHALL RUN!!! Book holds up better than the the 1984 movie, which by the way comes to mind whenever I try to reread Dune. |
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« Reply #87 on: January 24, 2012, 10:54:47 AM » |
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Book holds up better than the the 1984 movie, which by the way comes to mind whenever I try to reread Dune.
You know, I think that's why I didn't like it later. It was the movie...It's been so long that I don't really remember it. Perhaps I can read it now without seeing those costumes lol |
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« Reply #88 on: January 24, 2012, 11:22:44 AM » |
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 I really liked this one....but it is hard to classify. Closer to the Big Idea..Rama type books http://elitistbookreviews.blogspot.com/2009/11/diving-into-wreck.html"Buy and read this novel. It is easily worth its cover-price. It will surprise you with its depth, and its enjoyment factor. If it doesn't get nominated for the Hugo, we will be disappointed in WorldCon attendees everywhere." |
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« Reply #89 on: January 25, 2012, 04:19:16 PM » |
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« Reply #90 on: January 31, 2012, 01:17:15 PM » |
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I second Sherri Tepper's Gate to Women's country for the dystopian category and would add Nicola Griffith's Ammonite to the lesbian. OTOH, it's a novel and not a short story.
What about a classic dystopia like Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz? (Too many good dystopian novels out there ...)
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« Reply #91 on: February 12, 2012, 11:27:48 AM » |
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Thanks Ruth!
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« Reply #93 on: February 12, 2012, 12:28:29 PM » |
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All of his books apply to the requirements in the first post then?
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« Reply #94 on: March 04, 2012, 10:31:08 AM » |
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Time Quake, Kurt Vonnegut. It was published prior to the suggestion, still a good humor read.
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« Reply #95 on: March 04, 2012, 10:43:17 AM » |
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Which one does it fit into? I haven't heard of that Vonnegut book.
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« Reply #96 on: March 04, 2012, 02:44:44 PM » |
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Below is a paste for write-up at Amazon Kindle for Time Quake. "Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a confident final trot 'round the track by one of the greats of postwar American literature. After 40 years of practice, Vonnegut's got his schtick down cold, and it's a pleasure--if a slightly tame one--to watch him go through his paces one more time. Timequake's a mongrel; it is half novel, half memoir, the project of a decade's worth of writer's block, a book "that didn't want to be written." The premise is standard-issue Vonnegut: "...a timequake, a sudden glitch in the space-time continuum, made everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during past decades, for good or ill, a second time..." Simultaneously, the author's favorite tricks are on display--frequent visits with the shopworn science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a Hitchcockian appearance by the author at the book's end, and frequent authorial opining on love, war, and society. " Timequake |
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« Reply #97 on: March 04, 2012, 03:09:34 PM » |
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Below is a paste for write-up at Amazon Kindle for Time Quake. "Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a confident final trot 'round the track by one of the greats of postwar American literature. After 40 years of practice, Vonnegut's got his schtick down cold, and it's a pleasure--if a slightly tame one--to watch him go through his paces one more time. Timequake's a mongrel; it is half novel, half memoir, the project of a decade's worth of writer's block, a book "that didn't want to be written." The premise is standard-issue Vonnegut: "...a timequake, a sudden glitch in the space-time continuum, made everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during past decades, for good or ill, a second time..." Simultaneously, the author's favorite tricks are on display--frequent visits with the shopworn science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a Hitchcockian appearance by the author at the book's end, and frequent authorial opining on love, war, and society. " TimequakeI'm reading that and still don't know what this book is about  Since you read the first post and recommended this novel based on my needs, what category does it belong to? |
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« Reply #98 on: March 06, 2012, 02:33:03 AM » |
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SF about Time Travel: 'The Fall of Chronopolis' by Barrington J. Bayley.
YA SF: 'Balance of Trade' by Steve Miller and Sharon Lee. I don't know that it is marketed as such, but it reads like YA.
Military SF: 'Once A Hero' by Elizabeth Moon; 'The Regiment' by John Dalmas; (Moon and Dalmas have other military SF as well.)
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« Reply #99 on: March 06, 2012, 12:43:08 PM » |
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SF dystopia - Wool by Hugh Howey
The Omnibus is free on the Kindle lending library, great stuff!
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