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I'm halfway through Berserkers: The Beginning, a collection of Fred Saberhagen's short stories about sentient warships whose one and only goal is to wipe out life. Lots of action with some disturbing bits about experiments on human prisoners, the way he describes the Berserkers synthesised voices as snatches of speech from different people the machines had captured is creepy. I've heard that the full length novels aren't as good, though. Shampoo posted:Oh, an oldie but goodie I forgot about are Frederick Pohl's Heechee books. Good call, I've only read Gateway so far, but that was excellent. muscles like this? posted:That's pretty much what happened to me and I really liked it! I had heard about the Culture series but nothing specific so I went in with a blank slate. Same here. I'd never heard of Iain M. Banks before an English teacher lent me her copy of Consider Phlebas, it's still my favourite. That was partly responsible for getting me into sci-fi. Cheers, teacher whose name I cannot remember! it dont matter fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Jun 25, 2009 |
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There's a Xeelee omnibus coming out, though Amazon says it's not being released in paperback until Jan 2011.Baron Von Awesome posted:So, I want to start a new space opera book but I'm having trouble choosing which one to buy next. I've narrowed it down to three choices, all coming recommended from this thread: I've not read Revelation Space yet, but just finished A Fire Upon The Deep and it was fantastic. Consider Phlebas is also great. You can't really go wrong with any of them. quote:Can anyone recommend a book with a humanity uber alles theme? I have a weakness for books where humanity gets beaten or starts out as the underdog, then proceeds to kick rear end. Sort of like the first three books of the Uplift series, or that weird Niven book where the elephant aliens invade the solar system. Try Old Man's War by John Scalzi and Armor by John Steakly. Also recommend Berserkers: The Beginning by Fred Saberhagen, a collection of short stories about humanity fighting against huge sentient killing machines. There is a series called Orphanage by Robert Buettner which would fit the bill, but I couldn't finish the first book because I found the writing so weak. Maybe one to get from the library. it dont matter fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Aug 7, 2009 |
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