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Originally Posted by igorsk
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This is great news about the drm-free e-books and I will keep an eye on their future offerings.
If you enjoy space opera you will enjoy
Stealing Light which I bought last year when it came out - hc from BookDepository - and it was in my top 5 sff titles of 07 - I probably read about 100 sff novels last year if not more.
I also strongly recommend Mr. Gibson two earlier titles -
Against Gravity and
Angel Stations - they are different, closer to near future dystopic sf, but engrossing nonetheless. I have no idea if they are available e so far though.
Of the other offerings I saw in that 3 for 2 deal, China Mieville needs no recommendation from me since if there is one fantasy author that reinvented its weirder parts and even single-handendly created a new publishing category called New Weird is Mr. Mieville - New Weird books existed of course before, but before Mr. Mieville's breakout success, they were rarer, after that success, publishers starting looking for such actively and marketing them as "Mieville like"
And A. Tchaikovsky'
Empire in Black and Gold is one of the more original epic/urban fantasy series out there with humans divided in insect named kinded and having some properties of said insects.
Both Mr. Gibson and Mr. Tchaikovsky's next books in the series started here are buy on publication for me.
Of course Neal Asher is one of my top 5 established sff authors, so I strongly recommend
Prador Moon, but that one is a short novel, while the better introduction would be
Line of Polity or
The Skinner - again have no idea about their e-status.