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Need Sci-Fi Book Recommendation
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We have recently read:
Neuromancer
The Difference Engine
A Fire Upon the Deep
Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Shards of Honor
Everyone expects me to choose Dune, because it is my favorite novel and most have not read it. I will let one of the others make that choice though and prefer to choose something different.
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Da Bid Dabid wrote: I was leaning toward Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan.
That was the first book I thought of when I read the thread title. It's one of my favorite books.
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I also understand there's a netflix series on it coming out next year or something.
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I'd throw Startide Rising by David Brin on a list of books to try. If you haven't read it, I recommend it.
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RobertB wrote: Altered Carbon is a good book, but there's lots of sex and violence. Enough of it that it caught the notice of more than one Amazon reviewer. More of it than what is in the works on your list. Richard Morgan doesn't believe in fading to black on that sort of thing. I don't have a problem with that, but I'm not in your book club.
Yeah, I didn't make it through Altered Carbon because of that. Kind of felt like I was reading a sci-fi Harlequin novel, but more explicit.
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Liu Cixin's "Three Body Problem" is also excellent.
These are both first contact novels, which should promote a lively discussion about how the characters handle things. Watts is in the deep end of hard sci-fi, Liu a bit less so, but if you can handle Vinge you can handle Watts.
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RobertB wrote: Altered Carbon is a good book, but there's lots of sex and violence. Enough of it that it caught the notice of more than one Amazon reviewer. More of it than what is in the works on your list. Richard Morgan doesn't believe in fading to black on that sort of thing. I don't have a problem with that, but I'm not in your book club.
Good point. I forgot this was reading within a book club.
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Two random suggestion off the top of my head:
The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle: one of the best first contact stories that I have read.
When Gravity Fails, by George Alec Effinger: Cyberpunk in a cosmopolitan city in the Mideast. Interesting contrast between gritty noir detective story and Islamic customs.
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Jackwraith wrote: Lord of Light. It's Zelazny's best work, IMO, and a Hugo award winner for Best Novel and Nebula nominee for the same. It's good for book club discussions because there's a tremendous amount of symbolism in it (in addition to Zelazny's elaborately poetic style) and the meaning of many things about the story and characters and even genre (some prefer to call it "science fantasy") can be interpreted in many ways.
Oh yeah, Lord of Light is good. Interesting read.
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Harry Harrison--Bill the Galactic Hero
Walter M. Miller, Jr.--Canticle for Leibowitz
Dan Simmons--The Hyperion Cantos
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