28-04-2003, 17:56 | #1 |
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Recommend me a book!
I want some book recommendations please.
Sci-Fi and Fantasy only please, I have a reputation to keep. And Terry Pratchett is a . P.S. I like 'epics', like Heliconia trilogy, the Mars trilogy, the Ender series, LOTR (nearly forgot it!), Rama, Riftwar saga, Empire series, ...
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28-04-2003, 18:08 | #2 |
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I can highly recommend George R.R. Martin's "A song of Ice and Fire", or Robert Jordan's Wheel of time books. Both excellent series in my view.
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28-04-2003, 18:40 | #3 |
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Excellent! As long as it's Sci-Fi or Fantasy and you liked it a lot I will read it!
Feel free to tell me about their writing style or general setting for the book/series, but please no plot lines, I like to be suprised. BTW, the Mars trilogy is amazing (Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars). It's by Kim Stanly Robinson and well worth it. Also at the top of the list is the Helliconia trilogy by Brian Aldiss, an amazing trilogy.
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28-04-2003, 19:10 | #4 |
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well, I need not recommend D.A. to you.....
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28-04-2003, 20:52 | #6 |
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28-04-2003, 22:30 | #7 |
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I can really recommend the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons ( if you haven't already read it) Best sci-fi I ever read. Still a great fan of the author. He also wrote horror and thriller stories and they're magnificent too.
I read the Liveship Traders trilogy by Robinn Hobb last month, liked it very much too.
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28-04-2003, 22:37 | #8 |
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I loved the enders series!
Enders game, Enders shadow (following Beans point of view, Xenocide, Speaker... All really great. And he has also done Alvin Maker which is also by Card and really good! |
28-04-2003, 23:13 | #9 |
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I can recomend the Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spy-Glass. Very inventive stuff, a real blend of fantasy/sci-fi. He 'explains' such things as parallel universe's and dark-matter within the narrative in an extremely creative way. |
29-04-2003, 00:13 | #10 |
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Hey - we have similar tastes. I agree about the Hyperion series. I've got everything that Orson Scott card has written! If youre into hardcore space opera I'd recommend the Reality/Dysfunction/Neutronium Alchemist/Naked God - the Nights dawn series.
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