Thread: Looking for a particular type of scifi/fantasy - can you help?
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Old 03-26-2009, 01:52 AM   #68
Darqref
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Originally Posted by Shadowplay View Post
Just finished the 3rd book in Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion series. The 3 books were good and worth reading. I can't give them top marks, but can easily recommend them. The 3rd book itself was quite a bit different from the first 2 with no previously introduced characters showing up at all. That wasn't a bad thing, but with that and with the particular plot I ended up expecting a much longer story than I got for some reason. I reached a point with only about 100 pages or so left that when combined with what was happening in the story at that point made me realize "oh. this is going to end very soon actually." Sure enough it did.

Now I've got to dig back through this thread again to find my next read!

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I'm torn between Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn space opera or Carol Berg's Bridge D'Arnath books. Obviously different literary cuisine there.
Good choice on the Bujold, as others have noted, I recommend anything by Lois, and eagerly await whatever is currently being written.

I just had another thought for you: Roger MacBride Allen. He's written a couple of Star Wars books, but I really like his other works. He tends to write large scale SF. An open ended story is the two book series that starts with "The Ring of Charon". For a more action-adventure story, try the duology "Torch of Honor" and "Rogue Powers". And his latest? (that I've got, anyway) is a trilogy about space and time-travel-tunnels and terraforming that starts with "Depth of Time". I think I just saw at least some of that series at Fictionwise. (I got a bit gnarled by the logic of the ending of this trilogy, but its still a good story.)

And hey, the last trilogy has a neat point about ebooks vs paper: Electronic databases are going to be used, but they can be corrupted, and sometimes you need to go back to the archival medium, which seems to be some humongous library with the stacks evacuated of air (you wear space suits, and take your selections back to a small local reading room that can have breathable air....)
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