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Posted: 2/27/2014 7:25:18 AM EDT
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The other day I finished "The Sword of Truth" series. I needed a break before picking up the Mistborn series. In the advice of this thread I picked up "Ready Player One". I wanted to say it was a ripoff of Neal Stephenson but it does a good job of being its own book. I actually texted my mom to see if she remembers "Ladyhawke".  LadyHawke was just referenced in 'Being Human" on SyFy. The wolf couple had a LadyHawke experience recently. But instead of being simultaneous they had about 30 mins in between each other changing. Kinda weird. i loved the movie. it would have been a good 80's series I've been watching 'Being Human' from the start on SyFy. On BBC, I watched the first season and thought it was a good show, so I started watching when it aired on US television. On another note, I read 'the Long Earth' and I am now reading 'The Long War'. |
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Posted: 2/27/2014 3:00:39 PM EDT
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I've been watching 'Being Human' from the start on SyFy. On BBC, I watched the first season and thought it was a good show, so I started watching when it aired on US television. On another note, I read 'the Long Earth' and I am now reading 'The Long War'. 
i meant ladyhawke, but i do watch being human off and on. i saw most of the first couple seasons on syfy, but i had to miss some of it and haven't gotten caught up yet |
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Posted: 3/3/2014 9:27:35 PM EDT
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I'm currently reading "The Martian" by Andy Weir.
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Posted: 3/3/2014 11:15:40 PM EDT
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I'm currently reading "The Martian" by Andy Weir. A very cool read for someone that understands chemistry and physics. Finished that one last week. Was a nice read. |
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Posted: 3/4/2014 9:58:47 AM EDT
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I’m starting Dragons Wild by Robert Asprin and just found that the author died in 2008.
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Posted: 3/4/2014 9:20:47 PM EDT
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I’m starting Dragons Wild by Robert Asprin and just found that the author died in 2008. I hate it when I find a new author that I just love only to find out that they have passed. 
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Posted: 3/5/2014 9:41:30 AM EDT
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I hate it when I find a new author that I just love only to find out that they have passed.
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I’m starting Dragons Wild by Robert Asprin and just found that the author died in 2008. I hate it when I find a new author that I just love only to find out that they have passed.
Vulcan94 I should have wrote a bit more. I have read many RA books over many years. I had not seen any of his books in a few years and I thought he was having another writers block episode as he has had in the past. Looks like he ran into the final writers block .
I feel a bit sad reading his next to last book. He was only 61 and died from a heart attack  .
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Posted: 3/5/2014 9:53:19 AM EDT
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I should have wrote a bit more. I have read many RA books over many years. I had not seen any of his books in a few years and I thought he was having another writers block episode as he has had in the past. Looks like he ran into the final writers block .
I feel a bit sad reading his next to last book. He was only 61 and died from a heart attack .
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I’m starting Dragons Wild by Robert Asprin and just found that the author died in 2008. I hate it when I find a new author that I just love only to find out that they have passed.
Vulcan94 I should have wrote a bit more. I have read many RA books over many years. I had not seen any of his books in a few years and I thought he was having another writers block episode as he has had in the past. Looks like he ran into the final writers block .
I feel a bit sad reading his next to last book. He was only 61 and died from a heart attack .
I had a friend recommend David Gemmell to me. Started to read his works, which I really enjoyed, only to find out that he had died in 2006 of coronary artery disease. On a brighter note, I just started reading "Words of Radiance" Brandon Sanderson's next novel in his The Stormlight Archive series. 1080 pages....This one is going to take me awhile to read. 
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Posted: 3/5/2014 11:57:14 AM EDT
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<snip> On a brighter note, I just started reading "Words of Radiance" Brandon Sanderson's next novel in his The Stormlight Archive series. 1080 pages....This one is going to take me awhile to read.
Vulcan94 My brother bought that yesterday. Finished it by this morning. (He reads fast!) Now, do I borrow his copy (Fat chance!) or buy my own? Decisions, decisions!
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Posted: 3/9/2014 3:01:41 PM EDT
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No, man, I LOVED Ender's Game. LOVED it. Then I read Speaker for the Dead and by the time I finished I liked Ender's Game less by association. By the time I read Xenocide I could take or leave Ender's Game. By the time I finished Children of the Mind, one of the crappiest, most self indulgent pieces of utter crap I have ever read, I was no longer willing to ever read anything by Card again. Years later I was suckered into reading Ender's Shadow and my opinion of Card hasn't improved. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Just finished Ender's Game - sucked. Flame away. Why that book is so revered I don't understand. 1/2 way finished with Swan Song, Robert R McCammon. Liking it so far. Ender's Game had some interesting ideas and unique concepts, but Card went on to produce virtually unreadable sequel after unreadable sequel to it. ETA: You don't GET Enders game? Should I waste time explaining how good it was? Yes, I read them (the sequels) though. And they were a waste of time. Don't bother. I am rereading the Elric series after being forced to suggest new reading to a newbie. STORMBRINGER! No, man, I LOVED Ender's Game. LOVED it. Then I read Speaker for the Dead and by the time I finished I liked Ender's Game less by association. By the time I read Xenocide I could take or leave Ender's Game. By the time I finished Children of the Mind, one of the crappiest, most self indulgent pieces of utter crap I have ever read, I was no longer willing to ever read anything by Card again. Years later I was suckered into reading Ender's Shadow and my opinion of Card hasn't improved. It's quite obvious you haven't read any of the Alvin journeyman books from Card. Even bigger pieces of self indulgent crap than all the Ender sequels. |
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Posted: 3/9/2014 5:52:06 PM EDT
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Just finished Ender's Game - sucked. Flame away. Why that book is so revered I don't understand. 1/2 way finished with Swan Song, Robert R McCammon. Liking it so far. Ender's Game had some interesting ideas and unique concepts, but Card went on to produce virtually unreadable sequel after unreadable sequel to it. ETA: You don't GET Enders game? Should I waste time explaining how good it was? Yes, I read them (the sequels) though. And they were a waste of time. Don't bother. I am rereading the Elric series after being forced to suggest new reading to a newbie. STORMBRINGER! No, man, I LOVED Ender's Game. LOVED it. Then I read Speaker for the Dead and by the time I finished I liked Ender's Game less by association. By the time I read Xenocide I could take or leave Ender's Game. By the time I finished Children of the Mind, one of the crappiest, most self indulgent pieces of utter crap I have ever read, I was no longer willing to ever read anything by Card again. Years later I was suckered into reading Ender's Shadow and my opinion of Card hasn't improved. It's quite obvious you haven't read any of the Alvin journeyman books from Card. Even bigger pieces of self indulgent crap than all the Ender sequels. Read all but the last one. I'd take any of them over Children of the Mind any day. |
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Posted: 3/11/2014 9:05:22 PM EDT
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Just finished reading the entire Old Man's War series by John Scalzi.
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Posted: 3/13/2014 9:53:55 AM EDT
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In the grim darkness of the 41st Millenium, there is only WAR!
"It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor of Mankind has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the vast Imperium of Man for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day so that he may never truly die.Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in His name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defence forces, the ever-vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat to humanity from aliens, heretics, mutants -- and far, far worse. To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be relearned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods."
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Posted: 3/13/2014 3:17:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In the grim darkness of the 41st Millenium, there is only WAR! "It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor of Mankind has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the vast Imperium of Man for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day so that he may never truly die.Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in His name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defence forces, the ever-vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat to humanity from aliens, heretics, mutants -- and far, far worse. To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be relearned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods." |
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Posted: 3/15/2014 12:31:11 AM EDT
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R Scott Bakker just sent 'The Unholy Consult' to his publisher. I know itll probably be 6+ months before its for sale but any news is good news when you are starving for more
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Posted: 3/29/2014 11:33:46 AM EDT
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Rereading House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds. Possibly my favorite author, Reynolds has a way with imagining technology and societies that are at once grounded and completely out there. His fiction runs on big ideas and mysteries.
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Posted: 3/29/2014 2:30:42 PM EDT
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I'm currently reading Monster Hunter: Nemesis, the prerelease e-Arc.
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Posted: 4/1/2014 9:17:42 PM EDT
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Listening to "Words of Radiance" by Brandon Sanderson on Audible. Love the readers and the first book, though it was a little slow at the beginning.
Larry Correia and the The Grimnoir Chronicles are a VERY good listen! Love, Jake "heavy" Sullivan and Faye. Mistborn series is also excellent on Audible, same readers as WOR and the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. Wheel of time is pretty good also. I think I forgot how to read once we acquired Audible. |
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Posted: 4/1/2014 10:02:51 PM EDT
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I'm currently reading Monster Hunter: Nemesis, the prerelease e-Arc. so jealous |
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Posted: 4/2/2014 6:03:59 AM EDT
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I'm currently reading Monster Hunter: Nemesis, the prerelease e-Arc. so jealous Why? You could buy it if you want. Just go to Baen's website. |
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Posted: 4/16/2014 2:53:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/16/2014 2:58:15 PM EDT
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I just finished Maria V. Snyder's glass series - Stormglass, Seaglass, and Spyglass.
Not sure it'll be an arfcom hit tho. It wasn't until I got to book 2 that I realized these were being published by Harlequin. 
O well. The plot was interesting, although I could have done with less on the romance. Not sure what I'll be reading next. I was thinking about popping down to the library to see if they had Speaker for the Dead (Ender's game book 2). Or maybe I'll just go through the Deed of Paksenarrion again. |
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Posted: 4/16/2014 2:58:22 PM EDT
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I'm currently reading Monster Hunter: Nemesis, the prerelease e-Arc. Finished it already. How's your book coming along? Almost 600 pages right now...nearly done. |
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Posted: 4/16/2014 10:21:22 PM EDT
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Just picked up book 2 of The Demon Cycle.
Lord, this guy loves some muslims and strict doctrination. Not sure I'm going to finish this book. This would be the second time I put one of his books down. I started "The Painted Man" series but wasn't in the mood, which is where I think I went to SoT series. Book one was good, but I'm not going to get past his insatiable love for muslims or just genera statism or just general "the boot". |
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Posted: 4/17/2014 3:44:56 PM EDT
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I just finished Maria V. Snyder's glass series - Stormglass, Seaglass, and Spyglass. Not sure it'll be an arfcom hit tho. It wasn't until I got to book 2 that I realized these were being published by Harlequin.
O well. The plot was interesting, although I could have done with less on the romance. Not sure what I'll be reading next. I was thinking about popping down to the library to see if they had Speaker for the Dead (Ender's game book 2). Or maybe I'll just go through the Deed of Paksenarrion again. don't do it. stop the Ender series where I wish i would have. don't go on with Ender's story and just consider him to have wandered the galaxy for years to come. |
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Posted: 4/18/2014 3:14:12 AM EDT
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The whole Galactic Encounters series and Terran Trade Authority Handbook Local Space 220 AD.
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Posted: 4/18/2014 10:04:20 AM EDT
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I just finished Maria V. Snyder's glass series - Stormglass, Seaglass, and Spyglass. Not sure it'll be an arfcom hit tho. It wasn't until I got to book 2 that I realized these were being published by Harlequin.
O well. The plot was interesting, although I could have done with less on the romance. Not sure what I'll be reading next. I was thinking about popping down to the library to see if they had Speaker for the Dead (Ender's game book 2). Or maybe I'll just go through the Deed of Paksenarrion again. don't do it. stop the Ender series where I wish i would have. don't go on with Ender's story and just consider him to have wandered the galaxy for years to come. This. Ender's Game was good, Speaker for the Dead was bad, Xenocide was terrible, Children of the Mind was one of the very worst books I've ever read. I hated those books even back when I was in a phase where I LIKED Card's work. If you read past Ender's Game you'll ruin your enjoyment of it in retrospect. |
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Posted: 5/12/2014 3:40:04 PM EDT
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I'm reading Pandora's Star right now. Anyone read it?
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Posted: 5/12/2014 5:11:41 PM EDT
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I'm reading Pandora's Star right now. Anyone read it? by Peter Hamilton? If so, then no. Some folks swear by him. I've never given him a try. Now reading "Foreseen", by Terry-Lynne Smith. (from the free books on Kindle thread). I've been able to put it down. Not usually a good sign. But I'm only 12% into it. |
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Posted: 5/12/2014 5:13:20 PM EDT
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"The prefect " by Alastair Reynolds.
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Posted: 5/12/2014 7:12:01 PM EDT
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"The Sea Without a Shore" by David Drake.
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Posted: 5/12/2014 7:13:42 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/12/2014 9:22:01 PM EDT
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finished the Troy Rising series
getting back into Weber's Safehold series |
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Posted: 5/12/2014 10:25:16 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/12/2014 10:27:12 PM EDT
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I read it a while ago. I'm lukewarm on Hamilton. I found Pandora's Star to be confusing. There are a lot of characters, many subplots, and a huge amount of exposition that IMHO was not needed. I thought most of the "Ozzie" subplot was a waste of time. But I'm a glutton for punishment... I read the sequel and am now reading The Dreaming Void, which is set in the same universe
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I'm reading Pandora's Star right now. Anyone read it? I read it a while ago. I'm lukewarm on Hamilton. I found Pandora's Star to be confusing. There are a lot of characters, many subplots, and a huge amount of exposition that IMHO was not needed. I thought most of the "Ozzie" subplot was a waste of time. But I'm a glutton for punishment... I read the sequel and am now reading The Dreaming Void, which is set in the same universe
Ha, yeah there is a lot of exposition...I was kind of wondering if it was going to be useful at some point. Oh well, I'm going to keep reading it for now. It has potential, there's some neat concepts so far so we'll see what happens. |
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Posted: 5/12/2014 10:47:42 PM EDT
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Has anyone finished the Foundation series? Is it worth it?
I read and loved the robot series, and loved the beginning of Foundation. Currently half way through Foundation and Empire and just can't keep up with the constant changes. |
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Posted: 5/13/2014 7:50:52 AM EDT
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I'm reading Pandora's Star right now. Anyone read it? I have read the series and more. he is one of my favorite SF writers. |
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Posted: 6/10/2014 12:16:15 AM EDT
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Been reading an anthology book about Zombies vs. Robots. Its ok so far.
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Posted: 6/11/2014 12:57:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: "The prefect " by Alastair Reynolds. Great book. I'm reading Chasm City right now. |
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Posted: 6/16/2014 4:42:09 PM EDT
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Redlaw by James Lovegrove
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Posted: 6/21/2014 6:57:10 PM EDT
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Currently reading Kratman's Desert Called Peace, what other books are in that series?
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Posted: 6/21/2014 8:34:23 PM EDT
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Currently reading Kratman's Desert Called Peace, what other books are in that series? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Kratman 6 total now. i need to pick up 4 and 5. i don't think book 6 is in stores yet...he posted something about it on fb recently...might have been the advance copies |
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Posted: 6/22/2014 1:03:32 AM EDT
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I just finished Starship Troopers today, my first Heinlein experience. And I loved it. Any suggestions on what to read next written by him? I need more please.
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Posted: 6/22/2014 12:27:28 PM EDT
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I just finished Starship Troopers today, my first Heinlein experience. And I loved it. Any suggestions on what to read next written by him? I need more please. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Farnham's Freehold Glory Road |
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Posted: 6/22/2014 10:59:56 PM EDT
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I just finished Starship Troopers today, my first Heinlein experience. And I loved it. Any suggestions on what to read next written by him? I need more please. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Farnham's Freehold Glory Road The man who sold the moon, Red Planet, Tunnel in the Sky |
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Posted: 6/22/2014 11:07:12 PM EDT
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Just finished the Martian Chronicles. Read Ender's Game before that.
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Posted: 6/22/2014 11:23:39 PM EDT
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Foreigner series by C.J. Cherryh
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Posted: 6/22/2014 11:48:53 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/22/2014 11:49:42 PM EDT
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Right now I am re-reading my own book Birthright to get my head right for writing its sequel.
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Posted: 6/23/2014 2:57:23 PM EDT
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Right in the middle of the Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey. Starts of quickly, has a bit of a lull, and then picks right back up. So far, I'm loving it.
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