and let the Snow Crash/Neuromancer argument begin
with no spoilers please, as Neuromancer on my “to read” pile (and forever war) & I can’t agree Snowcrash is Neals best (it’s very good, but I prefer Cryptonomicon) & I’ve yet to read all his stuff.
Agree with majority of the stuff listed about Banks (+1000), Reynolds, Hamilton (poor twee ending would be my review to what promised in the 1st book to be an excellent series), but do like the old stuff like Asimov’s (foundation, I robot), Saberhagen (beserker series), Larry Niven (Man Kzin wars) & Heinlein. I do also love Herberts Dune (and other non-dune books too) but hated the rest.. I have recently got hold of the series to try them again (2nd chance)
One seemingly big name missing for me though is David Brin, the Uplift series is excellent.
redwoods – Member
I would have to +1 the recs for black library/40k stuff if for no other reason than I work for them!
Read the 1st book of Abnett’s The Horus Heresy series and very very impressed by how dark and well written it was (I need to revisit/finish them), have read a number of other 40K works that vary greatly in quality, though I am a fan of the very light weight fun 40K Cain series.
PS. Cheers NW hadn’t realised there was follow up books to the 1st Kovacs book – off to ‘locate’ them now!