WAYR---airshocker's sci-fi edition!

Aside from telling us what you are reading, OT, I would like some suggestions of some good sci-fi. Preferably having to do with fleets, combat, etc. I've taken a shine on space opera recently and I would like to read more.

I just finished Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet series and while his writing left a lot to be desired it was still an okay series. Not your typical space opera series that just focuses on combat and the like, but these books focused mostly on the problems associated with command. It's a good read if you're just trying to kill some time, but nothing that's going to change your world.

So, OT, what have you been reading?

5 books at the moment: Lord of the Rings, Neverwhere, the Boy who Harnessed the Wind, Book Thief, and Final Crisisbrucewayne69

Read that. ^

Currently reading Team of Rivals. Maaaaaaaaaad good.

Read that. ^

Currently reading Team of Rivals. Maaaaaaaaaad good.

Aljosa23

Just finished Threat Vector by Tom Clancy. Pretty good.

Almost finished with Die Trying by Lee Child. Solid.

'The Glory of Their Times' by Lawrence S. Ritter (Sorry, no sci-fi suggestions.)worlock77

All of my hate.

The Forever War. Ridley Scott has film rights to that, but who knows when he'd ever make that into a series.

Recommended.

Basically an anthology of science fiction and essays on the history of the genre.

I think it's actually a textbook.

Some of you guys are spoiling me.

i am currently reading infinite jestAbbeten

Some of you guys are spoiling me.

airshocker

Any titles that have caught your interest?

Any titles that have caught your interest?

PandaTrueno86

Nemesis, The Forever War, Hyperion, that book topgun recommended.

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Any titles that have caught your interest?

airshocker

Nemesis, The Forever War, Hyperion, that book topgun recommended.

I found out about The Forever War by reading up on some Ridley Scott, his vision is that he would want the film adaption to rival Avatar. But if he ever does get around to directing it, I hope he doesn't plan to merge the universe with Alien/Prometheus and Blade Runner. I'm quite interested to see what he would do with Alien/Prometheus and Blade Runner whenever he gets that sequel made, but that would be too much I would think.

[QUOTE="Abbeten"]i am currently reading infinite jestAljosa23

Also Mirrored Heavens apparently it's part of a trilogy, and world war 3 occurs so you might be interested.

I've been reading the PDG. Cut me Air. Cut me. I test this year.Wilfred_Owen

For Staff? Good luck, man!

Dune--but I'm sure you've read it airshocker.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the whole series.

Those are what I can recommend as far as science fiction, although I don't think they are to fleety, or whatever you specifically wanted.:) They do have space ships in them.

What I'm wanting to read is "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen." I watched the movie and I liked it, but I haven't gotten my hands on the book yet.

Finally got around to reading 1984 and just finished it, pretty amazing like I had heard. I'm thinking of rereading Ender's Game again sometime soon, pretty good sci fi book with a good amount of action

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Finished all of Lovecraft so now I'm moving on to Pratchett. Ace6301

How are your nightmares?

[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Finished all of Lovecraft so now I'm moving on to Pratchett. airshocker

How are your nightmares?

Frederik Pohl's "Heechee saga" is pretty good---all four books are well-rated on Amazon.

• Gateway
• Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
• Heechee Rendezvous
• The Annals of the Heechee

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[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Finished all of Lovecraft so now I'm moving on to Pratchett. worlock77

How are your nightmares?

seems i deleted my original post.

umm currently going on and off reading through Cloud Atlas. pretty good, got some sci-fi elements but that's not the point of the book.

lately just been keeping up with the new Iron Man series that Marvel is running lately.

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However, i haven't read that much sci-fi space opera's, the sci-fi's i've read have had to do with like time travel and genetics (TimeLine, Next, etc), or it's related to some tie-in to a game like Draw Karpyshyn's Mass Effect books, and whlie Mass Effect is all about being a space opera the books are not. Mostly based around the intrigue of Biotic Academy (which you go to in Mass Effect 3).

As for my recommendations, i found a few.

I did mention earlier Mirrored Heavens, which is part of David J. Williams Autumn Rain trilogy, basically cyberpunk future world where a second cold war has set in between the USA and her Allies (North America and South America), and the Eurasian alliance of China and Russia with their allies (Middle East and most of Asia and Africa). basically future cold war and third world war.

As for other books i could recommend that seemed interesting "The Old Man's War", "Pandora's Star", and "Leviathan's Wake".

I guess for me and things like with Sci-Fi i need some anchor that relates somehow to our world, so like the people are from Earth, or at the very least originated from Earth. if it's like in a far away place - in book form - it gets very hard for me to imagine it and feel that emotional invested to keep going. If it's in film form and i see it it's much easier to enjoy.

I plan on going back to read the original Dune again, to get the taste of the series ending books out of my mouth.

[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Finished all of Lovecraft so now I'm moving on to Pratchett. airshocker

How are your nightmares?

[Didn't know those were super scary books capable of giving one nightmares, but I shouldn't be surprised I didn't considering I never read books.Toph_Girl250

Lovecraft gave me nightmares once or twice. But some of his stories really are fantastic. The Outsider is probably my favorite.

hey Airshocker, i would also suggest checking out The Forever War

"The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties and do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But "home" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries..."

could be cool.

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