Some great stuff there. Must delve in my attic and read them again.
If you like funny/subversive then most of Eric Frank Russell is worth a read.
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Recommend me some sci-fi books from santa....
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Neal Stephenson for sure. Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon. The Baroque Cycle has its moments (but is knocking on for, what, 3000 pages?)
Bill Gibson. Spook Country I really enjoyed.
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Second the Joe Haldeman, you can get the Forever Wars in a one volume trilogy now. You can tell it was written in the 70s but that's a good thing. I couldn't put it down.
The Algebrist Iain Banks was a return to form I thought but was a bit disappointed in the last one.
Did anybody say Kurt Vonnegut yet ?
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Black Man by Richard Morgan. Seriously cool.
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Only forward and Spares by Michael Marshall Smith.
and a second on Snow Crash it's superb!
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Dan Simmons Hyperion, anything that has "The Shrike stands roughly three meters in height and is described as being composed of razorwire, thorns, blades, and cutting edges, having fingers like scalpels and long, curved toe blades. It is basically a gigantic, bladed killing machine." as a baddy in it has to be cool:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shrike
Oh, and Unto Leviathan by Richard Paul Russo (also known as Ship of Fools in the US) was quite terrifying but one of the best books I've ever read.
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AndyP, this is about SF, not Fantasy
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Vurt - Jeff Noon
maybe too obvious but if you havent 'do androids dream of sleep' philip k dick
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Ah, Vurt, what a great book...
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The Peshwar Lanncers by S.M Stirling
Altered Carbon, Broken Angels & Woken Furies by Richard Morgan
Stealing Light, Nova War, Against Gravity by Gary GibsonPosted 2 years ago # -
All Iain M Banks - Use of Weapons and Excession are great
Greg Bear - Queen of Angesl or the Forge of God / Anvil of Stars linked books. Darwins Radio is also pretty good byt damn depressing (makes Children of Men look like Playschool!)
JG Ballard - Millenium People
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Kit - Member
Perdido Street Station - China Miéville
Not strictly sci-fi, more gothic fantasy horror with a bit of steam punk influence. But excellent, very dark, scary
Having got this for Christmas, I'm a good chunk of the way through this now and must say it is *excellent*.
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Oh! Excellent thread. Its reminded me to go and source the lensman series for my own collection. As has been said - E.E. Doc Smith - the daddy of space opera.
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