Zekky posted:

Zekky posted:

Scifi stuff

Kvlt! posted:

Jack London's The Sea Wolf is one of my favorite books and I'm looking for more stories of salty sea dogs (hopefully something a little more "fun" and easier to read than Melville)

Edmond Dantes posted:

Hey thread; time for some videogame and manga references and some vague 'mood' descriptions for what I'm looking for.

Boogoose posted:

I need to get my elderly father reading crime/adventure/technothriller books that aren't written by garbage racists.

Chas McGill posted:

Looking for Indiana Jones style pseudoarchaeological adventure stuff. I don't mind if it's trash if its fun. Any opinions on James Rollins for example?

Saul Kain posted:

I think I read the first one of those. Do they get better?

This one looks really interesting. Is it a series?

Hollismason posted:

I like Glen Cook, Joe Ambercrombie, Robert Jordan fantasy novels. Any recommendations for old school fantasy novels? I am just now getting back into reading having just finished Jordans Wheel of Time and am now working on Glen Cooks Black Company series of novels.

sloppy portmanteau posted:

Can I get some recommendations for long fantasy/sci-fi series which stick with the same main or small cast of characters throughout and follows their growth? I recently read the Wheel of Time series and that's what I found I liked about it. The payoff with Rands, Matts, and Egwenes evolution especially, I enjoy the shifting power dynamics from the beginning of the series. Then I moved on to the Cradle series and found that satisfying for similar reasons. Currently reading Forge of Destiny due to recommendations in relation to Cradle, but finding it too meandering and will be dropping it.

I'd like to stay with the same characters for a long while so I'm hoping for something almost as long or longer than Cradle, which currently clocks in at around 1M words, but I may be hoping for too much.

Claeaus posted:

I'm going hiking in the northern parts of Sweden for a week this summer and would like a nice book to read in the tent. Once when hiking I read Jan Guillous Brobyggarna which is a swedish book about three norwegian brothers and their adventures in the beginning of the 1900s. One is building bridges in the norwegian mountains. It was really nice reading about adventures in the snowy mountains when you're around mountains yourself. On another hike I started reading Leviathan Wakes and reading about space wasn't as fitting on a hike.

So I guess I'm looking for anything which will be enhanced by reading it out in the forest in a tent regardless of genre

Halman posted:

I've been re-reading Marko Kloos' Frontline and Palladium Wars books, but I'm nearly out and need some suggestions of similar works. I've read Weber, Drake, the Vorkosigan books, all kinds of military SF but it'd be nice to read more that isn't taking itself too seriously. Or like, some newer 40k stuff (outside of the 4 dawn of fire books).

R.L. Stine posted:

Strangely obscure, specific request but I've used TBB for a few research jumping points and I figured if anyone could help, they're all here.

I'm looking for non-fiction (or semi-autobiographical fiction) about growing up as a teenager in the 90s, in the midwest. Grungy, cynical and punk scenes would be ideal but anything about growing up from the 90s to the Myspace era, in the middle of nowhere. The kind of stories about regular non-famous people who couldn't wait to leave.

I know that's probably a tall order but it's worth a shot. I took a look through Goodreads lists and it's garbage. There are projects dedicated to preserving old abandoned diaries and journals from everyday people but google is giving me journals from ages past in Britain, and not in Nowheresville Ohio. Those would be 100% what I'm looking for though and I'm going to continue my search for something like that but I'm not super hopeful. A lot of what I've looked at so far are mostly pre-war, which doesn't help either.

Any help is much appreciated. Even stuff like old angelfire pages are primo.

Thank y'all for coming through for me before for weird obscure poo poo, hopefully this one isn't too strange either.

neurotech posted:

I'm looking for a good fantasy book that is about thieves. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Khizan posted:

The Water Knife, by Paulo Bacigalupi.

ScienceSeagull posted:

What are some good collections of microfiction, flash fiction or short-short stories? I'm not totally clear on the cutoff points for those terms, but I mean like a page maximum in length, maybe only a few sentences. I'm especially interested in fantasy, horror, and weird fiction in this format.

Ramie posted:

Name of the Rose owns and the audiobook narration by Sean Barrett is something I come back to all the time, even though I don't like audiobooks much

Worth burning a free trial Audible credit on is what I'm saying

Kvlt! posted:

looking for some book suggestions for my old man. He loves hard sci-fi and hard space stuff his favorite movies are Interstellar and Apollo 13.

tuyop posted:

Sorry for the double post, I’m looking for a book like Around the World in 80 Days, which I really liked.

I just loved the travelogue of it. I could leave the lovely racism and nationalism but I’m glad it’s there as a reminder of like, how hosed up the nineteenth century was. I chose 80 Days because it’s public domain

VelociBacon posted:

Looking for recommendations for sci Fi. Previously enjoyed the Culture series, Asimov, etc etc. Spaceships welcome. Lasers welcome.

Sickening posted:

I need some grimdark suggestions. I feel like I am exhausted every mainstream option I can find.