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Post by Laethaka on Jan 29, 2015 19:19:01 GMT -5
was this where I got the recommendation for Bernard Cornwell? The Winter King is great! I wonder if our DAOC Hib server was the best because it drew fans of Cornwell's Nimue...
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Post by Morreion on Jan 29, 2015 19:34:58 GMT -5
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Post by Laethaka on Jan 29, 2015 20:39:17 GMT -5
yeah I have the full O'Brian series from my dad sitting & waiting... too many books to read and games to play!
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Post by Morreion on Jan 29, 2015 22:20:18 GMT -5
I know the feeling- I have a HUGE 'to-read' list.
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Post by dortmunder on Feb 19, 2015 21:26:19 GMT -5
Finally decided to start reading the Wheel of Time series, but only found the first book when I was looking, so going to buy a bunch of those next time I go grab some books. Don't buy too many! The Eye of the World is great and (I think? I forget) the next few are fun, but later in the series it drizzles out to "ageless" "ageless" "ageless" Aes Sedai, women being bossy, men being stubborn, journeys with vague goals, crappy "he grinned wryly as he spoke..." writing, over and over... I'm pretty sure at least Book 9 is widely scorned. Which is the last book of the Wheel of Time series I should read. I think I'm on the 4th now. Last good one would be the 8th? I recently read a bunch of Isaac Asimov's stuff, some of the Foundation series, Caves of Steel as well. I, Robot really wasn't very good  I don't know how the movie came from that book, both were pretty bad. Asimov's vision of the future is interesting, could be pretty close to reality if we ever get that far. |
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Post by Morreion on Feb 20, 2015 8:17:15 GMT -5
The Foundation trilogy by Asimov is a classic! You might try Dune by Frank Herbert if you haven't read it, another masterpiece. Brian Aldiss wrote the Helliconia trilogy that I greatly enjoyed- available cheap on Kindle- The Helliconia TrilogyHelliconia SpringWinner of two Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss has, for more than fifty years, continued to challenge readers’ minds with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive fiction.
Helliconia follows an eccentric orbit around a double-star system with a twenty-six-hundred-year cycle of very long seasons. As spring slowly breaks the brutally long winter, humans emerge from hiding and a long sequence of civilization and growth begins to repeat again, unbeknownst to the participants but watched by an orbiting satellite station, Avernus, created by Earth some centuries ago. Humans free themselves from slavery to the aboriginal Phagors, and religion and science flower and expand.Helliconia SummerA handful of centuries on, Helliconia is close to the larger star in its binary system, and the Phagors have been driven into exile, but conflicting religions and hostility to science keep human civilization fragmented and constantly fighting wars over petty power and fertile land as a plague devastates populations. However, everything changes when a secret visitor from the observer satellite from Earth accepts a slow death in order to visit the planet and spend his time in the sunlight and open air.Helliconia WinterAfter many centuries, the flowering of human civilization has begun to dwindle again and the Great Year slowly progresses while the long, deadly cold winter looms—but a break in the long, repeating cycles of growth and decay may result from the long-ago visit of the Earthman. New legends of the spring and summer have evolved and a new future may be aborning. |
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Post by Laethaka on Mar 12, 2015 13:52:38 GMT -5
www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31858156Sir Terry Pratchett, fantasy author and creator of the Discworld series, has died aged 66, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
"The world has lost one of its brightest, sharpest minds," said Larry Finlay of his publishers Transworld.
The author died at home, surrounded by his family, "with his cat sleeping on his bed", he added.
Sir Terry wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book last summer.
He "enriched the planet like few before him" and through Discworld satirised the world "with great skill, enormous humour and constant invention," said Mr Finlay.
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Post by Morreion on Mar 12, 2015 14:45:27 GMT -5
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Post by Laethaka on Sept 4, 2015 12:54:43 GMT -5
The Eyes of the Overworld was fantastic, Cugel's Saga was ok, and Rhialto the Marvellous is really fun.
<3 Jack Vance
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Post by dortmunder on Sept 4, 2015 18:11:28 GMT -5
I recently read The Martian while waiting for the movie to come out. It was awesome I'm reading Hyperion at the moment, almost done it, not bad. I really enjoy Sci-Fi books if anyone knows any really good ones. Seveneves is on my list to read, but it's expensive at the moment. |
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I don't know how the movie came from that book, both were pretty bad.