06-10-2011, 01:46 PM | #9676 |
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I just finished with Neal Asher's The Line of Polity (my review here) and I really liked it. There's just something so gripping about his writing style and the detail he puts into the ecology of the world he created is astounding.
If you like action packed science fiction give his work a go. |
06-10-2011, 02:13 PM | #9677 |
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06-10-2011, 02:19 PM | #9678 |
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06-10-2011, 07:01 PM | #9679 |
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Finished The Falcons of Narabedla by Marion Zimmer Bradley, a fairly straightforward pulp-fictiony adventure about an Earthman who gets pulled into the intrigues of a seemingly alien world.
This is one of her very early sf/fantasy novels (circa 1964, with an introduction written circa 1979), and shows a lot of the elements that would get repeated throughout her future early books: Old-fashioned Earth-men physically or mentally kidnapped to a futuristic spin-off society to serve the local feudal lord's schemes but end up thwarting plots and finding a niche! Psionic powers and the telepath-backed aristocratic elites who wield them to keep the mindblind peasant populace in check! Struggling with the stranger who seemingly controls your body (or does s/he?)! Man-eating mutant plantlife! Remote-controlled birds of doom! Red suns and extra moons! Amber-eyed feral women! Ambiguously tricksterish effeminate men! Gender-blending maybe-neuter figures! Pseudo-technomagical Talismans which enable the interface between amazing-powers-with-a-horrific price and the people who would pay to use them! Science gone mad! Veils and Towers and Zandru, oh my! All that's truly missing for this to be an early Darkover book are the redheads, really. Disappointingly, not a single one. Mild recommend. I liked it and consider it worth the < $2 I think I paid for it via Fictionwise, but then I'm okay with early MZB if it doesn't cost me too much, and I suspect you have to enjoy early MZB or something very like it in the first place. Otherwise it's got mainly curiosity value. Probably best if you really liked Winds of Darkover and/or The Spell Sword and/or Two to Conquer. E-book edition had minor occasional punctuation drops in the way of typos, but while mildly annoying, not sufficient enough to interrupt or destroy the meaning of the overall text. |
06-10-2011, 08:11 PM | #9680 |
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I just finished reading our own Mr. Ploppy's first collection "Punk Faction". A short story centering on a couple of punks in 1980's Britain. Being a huge fan of the first wave of punk rock I was very excited to read this, but also more than a bit hesitant...punks aren't known for their great use of language or intelligent conversation. Luckily the apprehension was unneeded as the book was beautifully formatted, error free, and very well written.
I just found out that he released a second collection a few days ago so that's what I'll be reading tonight. |
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06-10-2011, 08:28 PM | #9681 | |
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Of course, I still haven't quite finished the May selection (Tolstoy's Anna Karenina) but I'm nearly there. Anna Karenina would be more interesting if, like Sam Spade, she beat people up and talked trash to cops. |
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06-10-2011, 09:02 PM | #9682 |
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06-11-2011, 02:59 AM | #9683 |
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06-11-2011, 03:05 AM | #9684 | |
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06-11-2011, 06:26 AM | #9685 | |
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06-11-2011, 06:35 AM | #9686 | |
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I'd be interested to hear how you find them, if you do take the plunge. |
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^ good info Orlok, thanks for heads-up. Will try and remember to ping you and tell you what I think.
@DiapDealer: re: giving up on multi-volume stories. I hear ya. With the notable exception of Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire, I normally do not read series-type books that are not "completed"...I simply do not have the patience to wait so I will acquire all the books and then consume them one after the other. OT, but for me exactly the reason why I cannot watch episodic TV [or actually, TV in general], "24" being a perfect example. I will not watch any weekly episodes, preferring instead to wait until the season is over and the DVDs are released. Then, I abscond back to my man-cave, shut off my cell phone and BB, whip out the take out menus and proceed to watch the entire season all in one weekend. I have done that for 7 of the 8 seasons of 24. Of course, now I have broken my own protocol with HBO's Game of Thrones adaption. |
06-11-2011, 07:42 AM | #9688 | |
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06-11-2011, 08:34 AM | #9689 | |
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@lestatar: we are birds of a feather RE book series and TV, then.
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