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Good Sci-fi

posted by [personal profile] elanya at 11:54pm on 16/09/2005
I'm looking for recommendations on something to read. I'm waaaay too immersed in the eighteenth century right now, and I need to escape via my fiction, at least. I'm looking for something non-historical :p

In other news, why are smart people so stupid sometimes? Sheesh.
Mood:: 'annoyed' annoyed
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posted by [identity profile] devradigestion.livejournal.com at 04:51am on 17/09/2005
Good question..."why are smart people so stupid sometimes?" lol

why do smart people have no common sense?
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posted by [identity profile] devradigestion.livejournal.com at 04:52am on 17/09/2005
hrmmm....I'd recommend Ender's Game...but I bet you have already read it.
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posted by [identity profile] gnomentum.livejournal.com at 09:43am on 17/09/2005
Try anything by Cordwainer Smith. Pretty different but I have a feeling it might tickle you.
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posted by [identity profile] longpig.livejournal.com at 11:40am on 17/09/2005
Robert Silverberg, Dying Inside. Also that Ursula K. LeGuin book that isn't the Left Hand of Darkness but that is awesome... D'oh, what *is* it??)... There needs to be an imdb type thing for authors/books. >:/
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posted by [identity profile] curtana.livejournal.com at 01:59pm on 17/09/2005
The Dispossesed?
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posted by [identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com at 04:26pm on 17/09/2005
Yes, that's the one. Also, you could read Always Coming Home, which is very anthropology-y.
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posted by [identity profile] longpig.livejournal.com at 06:07pm on 17/09/2005
Yeah, that's the one.
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posted by [identity profile] tsiankiio.livejournal.com at 02:00pm on 17/09/2005
Catherine Asaro, Elizabeth Moon, David Weber, Lois McMaster Bujold... I don't think I've seen any of them on your shelves, and they are all good (and deliverable to your house by me!)
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posted by [identity profile] sorceror.livejournal.com at 11:39pm on 17/09/2005
I was going to say David Weber or Lois McMaster Bujold: but the first writes Horatio Hornblower in space, while the second is set in nineteenth century Russia in space. Are those far enough from the eighteenth century?
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posted by [identity profile] fritzleonhardt.livejournal.com at 04:29pm on 17/09/2005
I recommend the Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer. The three books are Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids. It is an interesting series about a parallel earth where Neanderthals are the dominant lifeform. Also, it takes place in Canada :)
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posted by [identity profile] ladyiolanthe.livejournal.com at 11:46pm on 17/09/2005
If you're after Sci Fi, a series I've really enjoyed is Jack L. Chalker's Well of Souls series.
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posted by [identity profile] fiachra.livejournal.com at 02:05am on 18/09/2005
I recommend Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn series, The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God. Good solid reading and plenty of it(each of those titles is actually two books!). His Pandora's Star novel is also excellent, but it's the first part of a new series and he hasn't finished the others yet.
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posted by [identity profile] skjaere.livejournal.com at 01:39pm on 24/09/2005
New George R R Martin out next month! *does the happy dance*
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