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Re: What else do you read besides scifi?
Post by Northstar   » Tue May 28, 2013 11:17 pm

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umbrarchist wrote:What did people think of H. G. Wells 100 years ago?

The World of H.G. Wells, by Van Wyck Brooks
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Thanks for this :D
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Re: What else do you read besides scifi?
Post by MaxxQ   » Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:20 pm

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Emo Otaku wrote:From what I've read on this thread I'm surprised no one has mentioned Terry Pratchetts Disk world Books (especially with the glorious 25th of may coming soon

I also like Jim Butcher (even got my mum hooked on those), as well as the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch

Looking over my shelves what else do I see

Quite a lot of Manga (Ah! My Goddess, Battle Royale, Remote, Dance in the Vampire Bund, and Gunslinger Girls, maybe the last can be classed as Sci-Fi but not the others)

Scott Pilgrim making it regular appearance on my reading list

Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant booka

Hmm mostly Sci-fi though (Weber, Ringo, Flint, E.E. 'Doc' Smith. There's Appleseesd and Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow, Akira, More manga (Fruits Basket Sailor moon, and Kare Kano)

Most of the Shannara books By Terry Brooks, A few Niven/purnelle books. The Space Captain Smith Books (Sci-Fi but Comedy Sci-fi)

Elizabeth Moon, China Mieville, Anne Mcaffrey, Howard Taylors Schlock Mercenary books

Some Lupin III hiding behind Chobits

Oh yeah and the Gunsmith Cats Manga (not Sci-fi and a damned good read (not something I'd recommend to my mother though)

And Finally over there hiding in the corner are the David Eddings books I've had since I was a kid



With a name like "Emo Otaku" I should certainly hope you have some manga in there. Glad to see I'm not the only one here that thinks it's okay to read the stuff. I mostly read it on the scanlation sites, but try to buy when I can. I've bought up to Vol. 21 of Gantz, and actually just got the complete box set of Death Note. Still need to get Elfen Lied, Akira, GitS, and Appleseed for sure. After that, whatever takes my fancy.

As for other books, for the past few years, it's almost been exclusively Honorverse, partly for my BuNine work. However, I also go for any Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, Niven, Alan Dean Foster, James P. Hogan, Dr. Robert L. Forward, H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy books, and Tolkien.
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Re: What else do you read besides scifi?
Post by pokermind   » Sun Jun 30, 2013 6:00 pm

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Book seven of the Destroyermen series due out July 2 got mine ordered. David Weber recommends the series, with WW2 Navy ships, sailing ships, steam/sail, and civil war iron clads is it a surprise?

Warning: the series is addicting as any of Webers.

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Re: What else do you read besides scifi?
Post by JimHacker   » Sun Jun 30, 2013 7:27 pm

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Book seven of the Destroyermen series due out July 2 got mine ordered. David Weber recommends the series, with WW2 Navy ships, sailing ships, steam/sail, and civil war iron clads is it a surprise?

Warning: the series is addicting as any of Webers.

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I'm waiting eagerly for this book too and have enjoyed the series since before I started reading Weber's stuff. My concern however is that Anderson seems to be letting his plot get out of control - it is getting exponentially larger and more complicated with each installment. Some authors can handle this but I'm not sure Anderson can.
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Re: What else do you read besides scifi?
Post by Spacekiwi   » Sun Jun 30, 2013 9:02 pm

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Love the series, and got the latest on hold for me at the library, so will have it in about month when it arrives down under here. :D
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Re: What else do you read besides scifi?
Post by Daryl   » Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:57 am

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First look at the cover. Like the Walker being overflown by the P40s, thanks for the reminder to get it.
Combination of Flint, Weber and Turtledove themes and written by a true story teller.
Spacekiwi wrote:Love the series, and got the latest on hold for me at the library, so will have it in about month when it arrives down under here. :D
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Re: What else do you read besides scifi?
Post by pokermind   » Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:49 am

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Check out the large pterodactyls on either side of the farther P-40. What got my attention was what looks Grik Birds being ridden by Grik, Air Cav? Or is what I take for riders on their backs one of their back feet? Hmmm?

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Re: What else do you read besides scifi?
Post by Michael Everett   » Sun Jul 07, 2013 11:20 am

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For books, I tend towards David Weber (duh!), Eric Flint, Mercedes Lackey, Lois McMaster Bujold, Anne McCaffrey (sadly missed), Isaac Asimov, Terry Pratchett, Jim Butcher, David Eddings etc.
However, I've also come across a few interesting series, such as the Chicago Sentinels series by Marion G. Harmon, an interesting take on what would happen should superpowers occur in the "real world".
Another fun series is the Trilogy of the Damned by Alan Dean Foster (A Call To Arms, The False Mirror & The Spoils Of War) which has overly-civilised/near-pacifist aliens being forced to rely on us bloodthirsty humans to help them win a war.
Most of my time these days, however, is spent reading the works of amateur and novice writers in what is known as Fanfiction. I am fully aware that Weber has a very understandable dislike of it due to litigation suffered by other professional authors, but some of the interesting takes on pre-existing stories are fun to read. Of course, Sturgeons law applies, over 90% of fanfiction is useless, or worse, and half of what is good tends to be abandoned without warning or stated reason (very annoying). Nevertheless, I see it has a use as a way of sharpening ones literary capabilities, so long as the writer admits that they do not own the base material in any way.
Yeah, I've posted a couple of stories... ;)
For those who think Kishimoto's ruined Naruto, check out the story Team 8 by S'TarKan, http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2731239/1/Team-8. Now IMHO, that is an example of fanfiction as good as the original source. Shame that it's a Dead Fic...
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Re: What else do you read besides scifi?
Post by st barbara   » Sun Sep 29, 2013 2:34 am

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Besides Sci-Fi er let's see fantasy (Leiber ,Bok, Howard, Merritt etc),Action/Adventure (Matthew Reilly, Steve Berry, Clive Cussler etc), reference books on military history, comics and s f, Pulp and neo pulp (Doc Savage,The Spider etc) and the odd horror novel and even Paranormal Romance (although I am more interested in the "paranormal" aspect than the "romance ") and reference books on film and television (especially favourite old T V shows such as "The Twilight Zone", "Buffy The Vampire Slayer",and "Charmed"). Oh and "odd" subjects like cryptozoology, Nazi occultism and Hollow Earth.
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Re: What else do you read besides scifi?
Post by Lord Skimper   » Wed Oct 02, 2013 12:53 am

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Having a fairly good memory helps but I typically read, perhaps not word for word, twenty to fifty books at a time. From philosophical discourse, to mysteries, comedies, historical fiction, sci-fy, technical articles, weather books, computer networking, MCSE tech net manuals and briefings, ancient history, still reading the Satyricon I started it 15 years ago, the twelve ceasers, etc...

Currently reading the Paul Doherty Hugh Corbet series, his Athelstan series, Elizabeth Moons various books, Raymond E Feists Magician series, Scalzi, old mans war series. The There will be war series, war in hell books read most of these, River World, Asimov, Heinlein, and various others. Currently reading "Brainstorms" by Daniel C Dennett. The Mind's I edited by Hofstadter and Dennett. The introduction by DCD is one of the great stories in Philosophy. While Harding's "On having no head" is agony to read. D E Harding 1972.

I also read novels about ordinary people living normal lives. Like Mother's day by Kirsty Scott.

Lawrence Watt Evans great Ethshar and other books all loosely related but with non or relatively non interacting characters. The opposite of the great Celery Runner who focuses on a group of characters Watt Evans instead has many different characters who only know of the other characters in passing rumour or legend.

Anyhow I'm just glad i do forget things, until I buy a great book start reading it and suddenly the deja vu kicks in so much that I realise I've already read it.
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