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| Subject | Re: Who do you rate as your best read in science fiction? |
| From | Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2018-05-01 15:43 -0700 |
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in
news:pcaqeg$jtd$1@dont-email.me:
> On 5/1/2018 4:28 PM, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
> ...
>>>>> Remind me, what SF/F books are your favorites ?
>>>>
>>>> #1 book would be the Cordelia's Honor omnibus (which is
>>>> really only one story), very closely followed by Brust's
>>>> Phoenix Guards. Both series (including the Vlad stuff from
>>>> Brust, which really is a separate series, I know) are at the
>>>> top of my list. Those get reread regularly.
>>>>
>>>> Just finished the latest from Jack McDevitt. Keeping current
>>>> on The Expanse books as they come out. Rereading the
>>>> Discworld books right now. Mary Stewarts Merlin trilogy (all
>>>> four books).
>>>>
>>>> While they don't hold up espcially well to today's standards
>>>> (mine, that is, not the world's), I have a fondness for
>>>> Julian May's Pliocene Exile books (and to a rather less
>>>> extent, the sequels) and Katherine Kurtz's Deryni books (the
>>>> first two trilogies, that is, the rest . . . OK, but not
>>>> among my rereads), The first Pern trilogy.
>>>>
>>>> It holds up even less well in many ways, but I have a great
>>>> fondness for Blish's Cities in Flight books. The Sten books
>>>> by Bunch and Cole *does* hold up pretty well. Everything of
>>>> Ryk's that I've read (haven't tried the fantasy stuff so
>>>> far). Anything by Barry Hughart (but there's only three) or
>>>> Tom Holt.
>>>>
>>>> Howl's Moving Castle (not the movie, though I like that, too,
>>>> but it's a completely different story) and the two sequels.
>>>> Pournelle's Falkenberg's Legion stuff, and the related stuff
>>>> in the same universe. Maybe Hammer's Slammers. Maybe. I'd
>>>> mention Ellis Peters, but Brother Cadfael isn't SF/F.
>>>>
>>>> Pretty much anything by Connie Willis.
>>>>
>>>> That's all stuff I've either reread, or probably will.
>>>
>>> I've got three by McDevitt
>>
>> The Alex Benedict series is reminds me quite a bit of classic,
>> old school stuff. Fairly optomistic view of the far future. The
>> Academy (or Hutch) series is nearer future (though still a
>> couple hundred years out), and not quite dystopic, but not a
>> bright, shiny future. Given the sort of stuff you usually seem
>> to like, I suspect you'll like the Hutch series better, but
>> it's all good.
>>
>>> and two from Connie Willis in my SBR.
>>
>> Which ones? A lot of her stuff is the time travel series, but
>> the rest is all over the place. (It, too, is all good.)
>>
>>> Maybe the last Deryni book.
>>
>> The very first trilogy are classics of the genre. The first
>> Camber trilogy really appeals to an appreciation of ritual and
>> flowerly language. After that, you *really* need to like the
>> writing style. A *lot*. With long, adoring descriptions of
>> inane rituals, the content of which could be presented in about
>> one paragraph. The latest, the Childe Morgan stuff, is better
>> on that score, though. (A friend of mine has one of the Camber
>> books dedicated to him, and Rhys Thuryn is based on him.)
>>
>>> I've got one or two Expanse books
>>> in my SBR.
>>
>> I read the first one a long time ago, on a lark. It was OK, but
>> too dark for my normal tastes. Then the TV show started, and
>> really brought it all to life. They have mastered
>> characterization to a rare degree. Hack writers rely on
>> stereotypes, and never vary from them. Better hack writers rely
>> on archtypes, but with a twist that virtually always reverses
>> it so the character can grow beyond their flaws. Abraham and
>> Franck manage to let their characters grow and expand while
>> staying true to their archtype.
>>>
>>> The Sten books ARE great.
>>
>> Classics. And Allan Cole is a hell of a nice guy. And his
>> memoirs from his days as a Hollywood script writer are
>> hysterical. (Chris Bunch is, sadly, no longer with us.)
>>
>>> I've got about three of Ryk's book in
>>> my SBR.
>>
>> Well, get to it.
>>>
>>> Sounds like you read more fantasy than I do.
>>>
>> Not much more, these days, unless you retreat to a purist
>> definition of science fiction (which makes pretty much all of
>> the above fantasy except The Expanse and some of Ryk's stuff).
>> The actual fantasy - the Deryni stuff, the original Pern
>> trilogy (which, regardless of what McCaffrey intended at the
>> time or has claimed since, was certainly presented in a fantasy
>> style), the Pliocene Exile stuff (same as McCaffrey), etc.,
>> that's all old stuff. I read very little *new* fantasy these
>> days, other than Bujold's Penric stories. (Especially now that
>> Pratchett is gone.)
>
> I have read all of the older Deryni books and McDevitt books. I
> have read the first 4 ? 5 ? Expanse books. The Connie Willis
> book that I have in my SBR is _Blackout_.
I would note that Blackout is only half the story. The other half
is All Clear.
> Should you be bored, you can see everything that I have read in
> the last fourteen years at:
>
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AHV2C7F5C3SWNVJAY
> RZOU7ORTWYA/
>
If I were that bored, I'd rather reread something I know I'll enjoy
again that a list of what someone else has read.
--
Terry Austin
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"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek
Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
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