03-26-2011, 09:59 AM | #16 |
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The site which gave me the best recommendations would be amazon, just register and supply it with a list of books you've read. (might be some work, but you will get good results)
Another site I use a lot is fantasticfiction.co.uk which lists everything an author created. Very useful if you want to read more from someone. I also read "looking for more of this genre"-threads in this forum. After those I just wander around the internet, scrolling trough top x lists, blogs, catalogs etc. |
03-26-2011, 10:24 PM | #17 |
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Amazon also has "communities." I've gotten a lot of good recommendations from them.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=200280960 |
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03-27-2011, 02:21 PM | #18 |
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Hi all, I just started reading the "Bedlam Bards" by Mercedes Lackey, and found I'm missing part three "Summoned to Tourney". Up to now I was unable to find it anywhere except one miserably scanned PDF. Does anybody know where to get one? |
03-27-2011, 09:45 PM | #19 | |
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And I couldn't find any non-legit ebook versions either. Wow. |
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04-02-2011, 10:31 PM | #20 |
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Inkmesh eBook search engine
http://inkmesh.com/ is an eBook search engine.
This search engine searches over 30 eBook sites. You can search for free or free and buy eBooks. You can restrict search by Amazon rating, by device, and price. You can also browse subjects. |
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04-06-2011, 09:39 PM | #21 |
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LibraryThing.com has a groups section for different types of books. Plus I have found some interesting recommendations by scanning some of the entries in the 11 in 11 Category Challenge (which are people trying to read 11 books in 11 different categories, each reader sets their own categories).
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04-08-2011, 10:32 PM | #22 |
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Like Diapdealer, I spend a lot of time researching books to find ones I will like. I read primarily UF/supernatural, but also mystery and SF.
I usually find a name recommended on line and check out reviews for that author- and if possible get the book from the library. I buy only what I can't find at library-nevertheless I have almost 100 books on my to-read shelf that I bought or swapped for. Since you are SF oriented, rather than fantasy, I would suggest some of the following to check out, Even those that are fantasy are not the verbose flowery kind; many are quite action packed, which I really like, the first section is mostly fantasy: Recent really good books/authors: Downum- Drowning City Connolly- Child of Fire Tregillis,- Bitter Seeds Richard Kadrey- Sandman Slim Warren Ellis- Crooked Little Vein Hal Bodner- Bite Club (gay vamps in W Hollywood) Dru Pagiasotti, ClockWork Heart Clay&Susan Mitchell- The Greyfriar Amanda Downum Kelly Meding Mathew Sturges Poppy Z Brite Jim Butcher (wizard Harry Dresden series) V W Harry Connolly Mick Farren V Alternate reality or alternate history Steven Brust Richard Kadrey (Sandman Slim) Simon Green Christopher Moore (fabulous) V Kim Newman (with vamps) V Kat Richardson Maria Snyder Science Fiction Ann Aguirre (Space opera) Kage Baker (cyborgs and time travel) Elizabeth Bear William C Dietz (Legion of the Damned series) military SF Sean McMullen Souls in the Great Machine etc Kristine Kathryn Rusch The Disappeared etc Linnea Sinclair Alternate History Jacqueline Carey (explicit sex) Naomi Novik (intelligent dragons used as fighter planes) Terry Pratchett (the Discworld series) Liz Williams Connie Willis (time travel) |
04-13-2011, 04:05 PM | #23 |
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Baen books has already been mentioned and I found it a really fine source for free books. I might add that the prices for those books they sell are very competitive.
Now, I don't know if you would be interested in Public Domain material, but if you are, Manybooks,net has some interesting material from (mainly) older writers and Feedbooks offers a wide selection which is worth browsing. Another site is http://www.epubbooks.com/. If you have Calibre it's easy to convert any of these books to a Kindle format and the conversion retains the illustrations--if there are any. |
04-14-2011, 05:45 AM | #24 |
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Have you checked out the gutenberg project, or Wowio.com? Wowio has a very wide variety of subjects and gutenberg has the classics for free. I also recommend the Baen free library mentioned previously. I highly support any publisher and authors who are willing to bet that their books are good enough that you'll want to buy them after reading them.
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I would also thank Andrul for the link to Wowio. It looks like another interesting site. |
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04-17-2011, 02:40 PM | #27 |
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Wowio interesting? It's PDF with advertising at best and at worst, it's dreck.
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04-17-2011, 06:15 PM | #28 |
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Not quite what you asked, but http://www.literature-map.com can be a fun and interesting site for finding new authors to try. Enter the name of an author you like and see where it takes you.
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