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Defenestration posted:I'm looking into ereaders for one purpose and one purpose only: to read PDFs (or docs) of my friends' unpublished novels. Calibre can do .doc/.docx/.pdf to .epub or .mobi pretty well. I converted a .docx and a .pdf to .mobi with it and they read fine on my Kindle. Maybe trying using Calibre to go pdf->epub and then try again on your Nook? A novel is likely going to be straight text and that should be a pretty easy conversion.
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First Law is pretty great, Joe Abercrombie is an SF&F thread favorite. Brandon Sanderson is really hit or miss. If you like worldbuilding and magic system detailed enough to double as an RPG sourcebook and you don't mind his prose/dialogue/literally-everything-but-worldbuilding being mediocre at best, you'll probably be a fan. Night Angel is garbage even by the standards of a genre filled with garbage. High Warlord Zog posted:What about Stephenson's Baroque Cycle or, if he wants to read a contemporary shooty-shoot bang bang book, Reamde? Cryptonomicon and Anathem are his best, imo.
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Ornamented Death posted:Richard K. Morgan's A Land Fit for Heroes series. Two of the three main characters are gay. Ringil suffers for being gay, he's just so badass that he's never really in personal danger cause nobody wants to gently caress with him.
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Man with Hat posted:Hey Book Goons. You are looking for the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson.
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In the theme of "mice with swords", I have to admit that I loved all of Brian Jacques' Redwall books when I was that age.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Note: AIs also count, we just want non-human metallic creatures. Iain M. Bank's Culture series and Neal Asher's Polity books involve civilizations basically run by advanced AIs, because they outperform baseline humanity by several orders of magnitude. Ann Leckie's Ancillary books are about a starship AI that basically lives inside a human body.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Fortunately Hundred Thousand Kingdoms stands alone very well, so definitely give it a look! The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms sells itself as a book about politics and intrigue, about a power struggle in the royal family in a world where the gods are slaves. Sadly, that stuff doesn't really show up and the book is largely about the princess and the insane Murder God of Darkness making gently caress-me eyes at each other while ignoring everything interesting about the premise.
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John LeCarre's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is fantastic. It's a more realistic spy novel, though. No James Bond superspies to be found in it.
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Major Isoor posted:Hey all, I'm currently interested in reading a book or two (either fantasy novels, or more historical stuff) that follow a mercenary company/band, or perhaps a holy order. I've looked into it a little bit and have found The White Company (by Doyle) online, although I'm not certain how I'll go with his writing style, as I actually haven't read his books before (heresy!), so I'm not sure how it holds up these days. Miles Cameron's Red Knight series, starting with The Red Knight. Is a very knightly type of mercenary band. Plate mail and poleaxes and all the "hold the longsword by the blade and beat them with the hilt" kind of stuff
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TommyGun85 posted:Can someone recommend science fiction. Not sure what the term would be, but I'm looking for novels along the lines of the movies Gravity or Interstellar, 2001, Jurassic Park, etc. (I realize some of those are also novels). Im not looking for anything with gloops or bleepblorps, no Dune and not any "speculative fiction" like Atwood. Kim Stanley Robinson, maybe? I've read Aurora and his Mars trilogy and feel like they'd both qualify here.
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succ posted:Any recommendations on near future sci-fi 100-500 years, maybe with things not necessarily in space? Something like Kim Stanley Robinson (which I have never read). Have you considered maybe trying Kim Stanley Robinson?
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It's another Stephen King book, but if you want some top-shelf horror you need look no further than Pet Sematary. This isn't a horror story of eerie houses and clowns. It's on an entirely different level from most of his horror books and this is the one that gets the most visceral reactions out of people. This is the Stephen King book that people say that they just can't reread. My other suggestion would be some Richard Matheson short stories, because they're loving fantastic, but you want to avoid short stories this time around you said.
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Big Bad Beetleborg posted:Demon Cycle is consistent enough (if pulpy) all the way through.
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Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, maybe. Stephen King's The Running Man is also in that ballpark pagewise.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:The first volume of James Herriot's books - All Creatures Great and Small - is a collection of animal stories with lots of insight of the veterinarian techniques of his day. I suppose the rest are the same. My mother has all of them and they're all pretty much like that. Pretty hard to beat as far as soothing nothing books go.
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Burke posted:I'm almost done with the second Malazan book so I could continue those. I've liked them so far but haven't really loved them. The third Malazon book, Memories of Ice, is widely considered to be one of the best of them. If you've liked the first two, it's worth a shot.
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tuyop posted:I'm looking for good hard SF, FTL and dumb dogfighty space battles are pretty much right out for me. I loved Chasing Ice, Children of Time, and Rendezvous With Rama, among others. Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora.
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Subjunctive posted:Maybe The Water Knife. Definitely The Water Knife
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NGC773 posted:I watched the movie straight after and it definitely wasn't as good as the book. I have never understood why so many people back then said "This character would absolutely positively not have a Scottish accent. I know, let's cast Sean Connery!"
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Tenacious J posted:Just finished Schild’s Ladder by Greg Egan after seeing it recommended in one of these threads as a good hard sci-fi book. It totally was, I really enjoyed it. Any other ones you’d recommend by him? For that matter, any other must-reads in the “hard sci-fi” genre aside from Blindsight/Echopraxia (also loved them). Thanks. Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora. It's about a generation ship headed towards Tau Ceti and the difficulties it faces.
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knuthgrush posted:Back again this time with a request for my son. He absolutely loved Treasure Island and asked if there was more. Any recommendations for that line of reading? It's a different kind of swashbuckling, but The Three Musketeers was my one of my favorite books at that age range.
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I'd suggest looking at one of Stephen King's short story collections, probably Night Shift or Skeleton Crew. They're quick reads and good stories. King's probably at his best in the short story format, and every used book store ever will have a billion of his books.
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Annath posted:I'm looking for a good scifi book that involves life on, or exploration of, a generation ship. The idea of Space Archaeology fascinates me. Something like Rendezvous with Rama but on a generation ship would be cool. Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora.
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Sandwolf posted:idk man Frankenstein the doctor continually fucks up throughout the entire book. He creates a wife for his creation and then realizes if he gives this thing a partner it's kind will dominate the earth so he just sorta destroys it all, his creation is a disgusting nightmare because he created it overnight in a haze, and he's not even well respected in his field because he's too busy reading the works of losers like Cornelius Agrippa. I don't think that quite lines up with "professionally highly competent." He's professionally competent in that he is extremely knowledgeable and technically proficient at his one specific thing, enough so that he was able to bring a body back from the dead. He's a failure at a lot of other things, but he's very good at the one thing that he's good at. A similar real life example that comes to mind is Ben Carson, a complete trash fire of a human being who was also a brilliant neurosurgeon.
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mr. unhsib posted:Any near-future climate-focused sci fi recommendations out there? I just finished Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson, would love to read more books in this vein. The Water Knife, by Paulo Bacigalupi.
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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. Maybe Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora or his Mars trilogy, if he hasn’t read those.
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The Murderbot novellas are good, and they are free if you’ve got Audible Plus or whatever the subscription service is. They’re short(3hrs or so) though, so the price/length ratio isn’t that favorable if you have to buy them.
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Piss Stain Johnson posted:What are the best boomer book series? Thinking along the lines of Jack Ryan, Jack Reacher, Harry Bosch, etc. Looking for Xmas gifts for my dad and I think he's got those covered, except maybe Bosch. Reddit recommends The Grey Man as a newer series along those lines. Robert Ludlum's books about Jason Bourne.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:I'm really trying to get my dad to read books. He's nearing retirement and needs something to do. One of the few books he's read in recent years was non-fiction about a sailing race around the antarctic circle. So, something like that, nautical adventure books are what I'm looking for. Probably gotta be non-fiction, but maybe a novel if it's really good. Maybe mountain climbing stuff like Into Thin Air? It’s a similar kind of non-fiction adventure story, and the kind of thing I definitely think of as prime dad lit.
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DarkLich posted:Seeking recommendations for a friend-group book club - the genre this month is HARD SCI FI Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson. Fairly hard SF about a generation ship from Earth seeking to colonize another star.
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