04-30-2011, 04:50 AM | #1 |
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Recommendations Wanted: Science/Medical Thrillers
I'm planning to go on a massive reading spree later in the month and want to fill my Kindle up ready.
I'm looking for science/medical based thrillers, although I'm not a fan of things set too far in the future. Authors I have previously enjoyed in the genre are Michael Crichton, Robin Cook and Ken McClure. Any recommendations would be gratefully received |
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I found Josh Bazell's Beat the Reaper a pleasant read.
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04-30-2011, 07:50 AM | #3 |
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Thanks for that! It's been added to my to read list.
EDIT: Even better, just found I already downloaded a copy of it, will get to reading it straight away. Last edited by Tome Keeper; 04-30-2011 at 07:52 AM. Reason: more info |
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For Medical thrillers, you might try Tess Gerritson. They take place today.
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You really should consider the Sector General books by James White. They are "set too far in the future", but in a future envisioned in the 1960s, so not nearly as futuristic as one of today's futures.
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I enjoy this genre as well.
Some I have read: Season Of The Harvest by Michael R Hicks Days’ End by Scott L Collins Confinement by Gabriella Murray Medical Error by Richard Mabry Code Blue by Richard Mabry |
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Cassidym: I have read all her books but that's for the recommendation.
ardeegee and AbFabGab: Thanks, I'm off looking for them now. I'm glad some people know what I'm talking about, my local librarian just looked blank when I tried to explain :S Last edited by Tome Keeper; 04-30-2011 at 11:57 AM. Reason: more info |
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Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Nancy Kress's Oaths and Miracles is available legally in an ebook format.
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Have you tried the Literature Map site? You enter an author's name and hit return and a new page opens with that author's name in the center and other authors arrayed around him/her. The closer they are to your author, the more like him/her they are. Check it out here http://www.literature-map.com/
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I also highly recommend Tess Gerritsen.
There's a couple by Richard Preston as well, The Cobra Event and The Hot Zone. I really enjoyed both. Also Patrick Lynch, ones called Carriers and Omega. |
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Look for the books by Michael Palmer. Books about a secret society of Nurses who perform mercy killings, A doctor friend of the President called in to replace his physician who disappeared, etc.
If you have not read Kathy Reichs - a real forensics anthropologist- you are in for a treat. Her books are the basis for the "Bones" TV series - but the books are better. One of my favorite authors is Lincoln Child. Try "Deep Storm" to start. A doctor is flown in to a secret underwater base to try and solve some mysterious deaths. He also joins with Doug Preston for a bunch of great books by Preston & Child. "Utopia" and "Ice Limit" are just a few of their science-based thrillers. |
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