08-12-2010, 02:38 AM | #16 |
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Pretty much anything by James P. Hogan would fit the bill nicely. One of my favourite "hard SF" authors. A large number of his books are available at very reasonable cost and DRM-free from Baen.
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Hogan wrote so many good books that I'd struggle to make a specific recommendation, but among my favourites are:
Code of the Lifemaker Endgame Enigma The "Giant" series (5 books) Realtime Interrupt The Genesis Machine The Proteus Operation Thrice Upon a Time Voyage from Yesteryear All available from Baen. |
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How about the 'Rosinante' series by Alexis A. Gilliland:
The Revolution from Rosinante Long Shot for Rosinante The Pirates of Rosinante All available as ebooks. Unfortunately his (non sf) Wizenbeak books are still only pb. snowman |
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I suggest Hal Clement's Heavy Planet if you can find anywhere still selling it.
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Second the Hal Clement (his short story collection _Small Changes_ / _Space Lash_ was a book which I read over-and-over as a youth).
Mike Brotherton's _Star Dragon_ is interesting (though it has some gratuitous sex) and there's a .pdf of it which I made a while back: http://www.mikebrotherton.com/novels/stardragon.pdf William |
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A second for Watt's BLINDSIGHT and Gilliland's 'Rosinante' series.
Hogan's INHERIT THE STARS and THE TWO FACES OF TOMORROW yet to be mentioned: Michael McCollum's PROCYON'S PROMISE (the second in the series, but I didn't like the first one that much. His Antares series is great hard SF, but mostly about space combat) Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night and The Web Between the Worlds |
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I love Charlie Stross but I always warn new readers that his books feel like he engages a higher gear in my mental automobile. Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill! lol Some of his stuff is mindblowing, even considering I was raised on cyberpunk.
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I agree, Star Wars has always been the preeminent example of Space Opera. I wasn't aware that that had changed.
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Eon by Greg Bear, can get it drm free from fictionwise. Good read. Lots of cool ideas. Haven't read anything else by him.
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You might want to post your request for hard science recommendations reads on PBS, Goodread, and Amazon communities which all have very active Sci/Fi discussion groups and threads. Just a thought.
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