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Old 04-12-2016, 01:01 PM   #23827
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Originally Posted by Dngrsone View Post
I got you, drjd. It sounds like you might like some hard-SF, as Rama is a popular example of. The book I recently reread, Bones Burnt Black by Stephen Euin Cobb is a nice newer example of this genre, and may be up your alley: it features mass-murder on a ship tumbling toward the sun. The science feels accurate without being too in-your-face, and the drama is gripping.

Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy would be hard SF, as well as Andy Wier's The Martian, which I highly recommend.I'd Also recommend Larry Niven, Greg Bear, and Isaac Asimov.


Meanwhile I finished reading Deliver Her by Patricia Perry Donovan and have begun to read The Monster of Florence, a non-fic by Douglas Preston.

My quick review of Deliver Her:
Thank you very much, Dngrsone, for your suggestions of hard-SF books.

I'll definitely go for Bones Burnt Black by Stephen Euiyn Cobb and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. I remember having read two novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, about 10-15 years back, viz., Icehenge and Antarctica. I still have faded memories of their plots.

I'm fairly impressed with your review of Deliver Her by Patricia Perry Donovan, and I am anxious to read about the dead Cassie. I will go for it as soon the time allows me for that.

For now, I have added your recommendations in my wishlist. It's been a pleasure to meet you here.
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