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| From | Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | rec.arts.sf.written |
| Subject | Re: Who do you rate as your best read in science fiction? |
| Date | 2018-05-01 15:47 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 4/30/2018 10:35 PM, Ninapenda Jibini wrote: > Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in > news:pc8bck$dji$2@dont-email.me: > >> On 4/30/2018 6:50 PM, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote: >>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in >>> news:pc87cl$n6f$1@dont-email.me: >>> >>>> On 4/30/2018 5:48 PM, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote: >>>>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in >>>>> news:pc7u6g$ot3$4@dont-email.me: >>>>> >>>>>> On 4/30/2018 3:24 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>>>>>> On 4/30/2018 4:29 AM, The Zygon wrote: >>>>>>>> I quite deliberately posed the question as "best read" as >>>>>>>> opposed to best writer, because I think that far more >>>>>>>> factors go into being the best writer than simply having >>>>>>>> the best writing style.  My favorite read >>>>>>>> is _Dan Simmons_, but he is not my favorite writer. Before >>>>>>>> I read _Dan Simmons_, _Orson Scott Card_ was my favorite >>>>>>>> read. My favorite writer is _C J Cherryh_. I am in awe of >>>>>>>> her ability to evoke a sense of the alien in the ET's she >>>>>>>> writes about. Even so, she is not the writer I find most >>>>>>>> impressive. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The writer I find most impressive is _Lois McMaster >>>>>>>> Bujold_. She takes stories which are conceptually >>>>>>>> quite ordinary and makes something special out of them. >>>>>>>> Whenever I read her books, I am reminded of _Denzel >>>>>>>> Washington_ in _Training Day_. >>>>>>>> Without his performance, that movies is a nothing >>>>>>>> movie. There are hundreds like it that no one >>>>>>>> remembers. But people remember _Training >>>>>>>> Day_ because of his Oscar-winning performance. >>>>>>>> This is what _Lois McMaster Bujold_ does to what would >>>>>>>> otherwise be very ordinary stories. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Even so, I would not name any of the above as the best >>>>>>>> science fiction/fantasy author I have >>>>>>>> read. Indeed, I am not certain that I can name >>>>>>>> anyone. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> David Weber. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Lynn >>>>>> >>>>>> Explicitly for his Dahak series. >>>>>> >>>>> But nothing he's written since he got too popular to edit. >>>> >>>> I am not sure of that. >>> >>> I am. >>> >>> You like a lot of crap books. >> >> The correct term is pulp. > > A correct term is pulp. Another is crap. >> >> 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 and two from Connie Willis in my SBR. Maybe the last Deryni book. I've got one or two Expanse books in my SBR. The Sten books ARE great. I've got about three of Ryk's book in my SBR. Sounds like you read more fantasy than I do. Lynn
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