Recommend to me a book/author!

[Glompbot]

So, I've sadly gotten out of the habit of reading lately (no longer spending ages on public transport)

I want to pick it up again... (so I have something to do whilst waiting for specialists and doctors)

HOWEVER, I am bored of my current books... I still love the authors, but they've been read too many times.

I have books by Margaret Atwood (big fan of handmaids tale),
Sheri S Tepper (almost every book of hers written... I have a slight obsession with her to the point where I paid $200aud for one of her earliest books),
Robin Hobb,
Raymond E Feist (riftwar saga, serpentwar saga, and emire trilogy),
Michael Marshall Smith/Michael Marshall,
Terry Pratchett (most but not all of his discworld books + Good Omens),
William Gibson (I have to be in the mood to read his stuff nowdays though),
Robert Rankin (I wasn't very impressed with him though).....

Out of those, Sheri S Tepper, Michael Marshall Smith, Terry pratchett and Raymond E Feist are the most read.

So you can kinda see my interests from the above.
I'm a fan of sci fi/fantasy.... I generally find dystiopians quite interesting, but I'll always re-return to my fantasy.




So, with all that in mind, recommend me an author, or even a particular book...
I used to read quite a lot, the above is just books I OWN, and your recommendations will most likely be books I purchase. Even if I have read them before and forgotten them :D

I love re-reading books.



OH! and I'd prefer them not to be recent releases because they tend to be in hardcover and I have an extreme dislike for hardcover books.

[btwong]

Have u read Brave New World or 1984?

What about some Arthur C. Clark novels like 2001, or Rama?

Or then again A Clockwork Orange?

[BlueBoy]

Seems we've got roughly the same sort of taste.
Here's a list of books i'm looking to get in the future:
(Amazon links because they're from my Wish List.)

Lethe (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553568582/ref=wl_it_dp/002-7696939-6852066?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=I23IP0IZBQ39TA&v=glance&colid=38ERDW1LNAXEQ)
Eastern Standard Tribe (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765307596/ref=wl_it_dp/002-7696939-6852066?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=IA11HT4DMII2H&v=glance&colid=38ERDW1LNAXEQ)
Altered Carbon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345457684/ref=wl_it_dp/002-7696939-6852066?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=IE1EMYDZVJYMD&v=glance&colid=38ERDW1LNAXEQ)
The Glass Bead Game : (Magister Ludi) A Novel (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312278497/ref=wl_it_dp/002-7696939-6852066?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=I2FPWE9HI6UU3Q&v=glance&colid=38ERDW1LNAXEQ)
Utopia : A Thriller (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385506686/ref=wl_it_dp/002-7696939-6852066?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=I3M8DUJI49NHHC&v=glance&colid=38ERDW1LNAXEQ)
Signal to Noise (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380792923/ref=wl_it_dp/002-7696939-6852066?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=I2FZ7DTSMMC74V&v=glance&colid=38ERDW1LNAXEQ)

[Scythe]

Some of my more often re-read books include:


Sci-fi:
* Tad Williams "Otherland" series
* The "Foundation" series by Asimov


Fantasy:
* Lankhmar series by Fritz Leiber
* Robert Jordan's seemingly neverending Wheel of Time series (10 books and counting)
* Tad Williams, "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" series
* "Conclave of Shadows" series by Feist, if you haven't already read them
* "Nightrunner" series by Lynn Flewelling
* The Science of Discworld I and II by Pratchett

[Glompbot]

Have u read Brave New World or 1984?

What about some Arthur C. Clark novels like 2001, or Rama?

Or then again A Clockwork Orange?

Yes, yes, yes (ALL of the space oddessey books)... not rama, yes.

I studied dystopians in highschool, so I chewed through those books... Also read the Dune series.


:D

All the other books recommended I've not yet read....

[Cassa]

Read any Chuck Palahniuk recently? Can be a pretty tough read but I like it.

[Enos]

You can't go past Iain M Banks' sci-fi (or normal for that matter)

Recently went through Orson Scott Card's Ender series which were pretty cool.

Great fantasy I recommend is Stephen Erikson's "Tales of the Malazan Books of the Fallen". Think we're up to about 5 in that series.

Another fave fantasy is Caiseal Mor (an aussie I might add). Most set in Ireland during the dark ages, a really good read.

[Arcane1]

http://books.regehr.org/covers/0553277472.gifMost awesome book I know of - responsible for my taking off on a motorcycle for a year plus (to my family's dismay): Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig.
Premise: An Inquiry Into Values Discusses: Quality, Metaphysics of life, Mental illness and the overall dealing with life from a basic to extreme intellectual viewpoint.
Read Some (http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/pirsig.html) The follow-up to this was called Lila.

Interesting and Creepy: "The Lovely Bones," by Alice Sebold
Salon.com review (http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/08/01/sebold/)

For Stupid Fun: Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3Dstripbooks%26field-keywords%3Duncle%20johns%20bathroom%26results-process%3Ddefault%26dispatch%3Dsearch/ref%3Dpd%5Fsl%5Faw%5Ftops-1%5Fstripbooks%5F4349760%5F1/102-5775019-1743361) :rolleyes:

My wife had to figure out how to deal with 2 issues when we got together:
- The 2 German Shepards
- The hundreds (literally) of books.
At least the books don't bite :aah:

[locust]

My favourite SF authors would have to be Greg Egan and Alistair Reynolds. Although, if maths and physics bore you, odds are Egan will too. Quarantine is probably his most approachable work - nothing much more complicated than Schroedinger's cat in there.

Reynold's Chasm City is pretty good and features a dystopia to boot!

[beowulf437]

For some easy fun reads try Edgar Rice Burroughs. He can create complex worlds yet make their descriptions interesting.

For dystopia novels try Ray Bradbury or some of the later H.G. Wells novels.

[ShinymetalASS]

I've posted these before but:

Katherine Kerr's Deverry Series (freaking brilliant and lots of books too)
Kate Forsayth's Eelinaan Series (also freaking brilliant)
Cosmic Trilogy by CS Lewis
Lord of the Isles by David Drake.
Isobell Carmody's Obernewton Series

There's a good 35 or so books on that list.

Plus, anyone who reads this forum knows that I would also be adding Salvatore's dark elf series from Forgotten Realms.

[Space Cowboy]

You could try Dave Duncan - The Reluctant Swordsman 3 books in total, if you can find them. If you want I can loan em to ya.

Or Terry Brooks - The Shannara Series.

[ShinymetalASS]

Oooooooooooh this book:

Big Book of Conspiracies
http://www.hillcity-comics.com/graphic_novels/paradox/big_book_of_conspiracies.htm

[Glompbot]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig.

Read it when I was younger. My dad has a copy.
Also he has bob dylan tarantula (i think its called?) which i also read
along with the electric kool aid acid trip, by... it slips my mind at the moment

I've posted these before but:

Katherine Kerr's Deverry Series (freaking brilliant and lots of books too)
Kate Forsayth's Eelinaan Series (also freaking brilliant)
Cosmic Trilogy by CS Lewis
Lord of the Isles by David Drake.
Isobell Carmody's Obernewton Series

There's a good 35 or so books on that list.

Plus, anyone who reads this forum knows that I would also be adding Salvatore's dark elf series from Forgotten Realms.


I always thought the deverry series was young adult fiction, I read most of it in primary school... I might pick it up again, but I'm worried about it being different to what I remember.
Obernewtyn series, own it, love it, didn't include it because its youth fiction.

Will keep those others in mind :D

[locust]

I've always thought that fantasy, as a whole, was young adult fiction :) *ducks*

(Not that there's anything wrong with that..)

[Bifrost]

My fav fantasy writer of all time has to be David Gemmell (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=DAVID%20GEMMELL/104-7357920-5157503) <- (Amazon Author link).

I have read pretty much everything he has written, even though after a while it becomes a bit repetitive. When I say this I mean, it became repetitive after I'd read probably 10 books.

I highly recommend his early Drenai novels:

Legend
Waylander
King Beyond the Gate
Quest for Lost Heroes


And his Jon Shannow Sipstrassi novels

Wolf in Shadow
The Last Guardian
Bloodstone


Come to think of it his book White Wolf was also excellent...As were his 2 scotsman-type novels Ironhands Daughter and The Hawk Eternal...

[Serpent_Girl]

Read any of Ian Irvine's books...they're awesome. :) :D

Also, you might try Sara Douglass's books, they're award winning and they're pretty damn good. (Except for her series starting with the book "Crucible" I think that sucked) I also recommend Cecilia Dart-Thornton's books...very strange, but I did enjoy them. :)

[SOC]

May I present, for your consideration, Robert Crais (http://www.robertcrais.com/), crime novelist extraordinaire. I've read 4 of his books so far, after recently having them recommended to me by a friend. He's a top read. His main character is a PI named Elvis Cole, and the stories are set in LA. Crais writes great characters, and the stories are full of incredible wit and clever plots.

[ShinymetalASS]

Read any of Ian Irvine's books...they're awesome. :) :D

:)


View from the Mirror Quartet KICKED ASS!

[rayjayjohnson]

may have been mentioned numerous times before, but i really dug the illuminatus! trillogy, but i can't even remember who wrote it. anyone?

[Arsozah]

I've always thought that fantasy, as a whole, was young adult fiction :) *ducks*

(Not that there's anything wrong with that..)

Sure, if you want to limit its reader base. So young adults are the only ones that can appreciate the imagination that the authors put into these books? Just because a book is kept in a certain section of the library doesn't mean that its off limits to all others.

I love fantasy books. All fantasy books. Even the ones that are kept next to the Goosebumps books at Bookworld. I don't feel that I am reading below my level at all. Isobelle Carmody makes some pretty strong political statements. I am told Ursula LeGuinn touches on some very dark issues.

Please don't rule out a book because it's considered youth fiction. Open your mind to a good story, regardless of classification.

[SOC]

Please don't rule out a book because it's considered youth fiction. Open your mind to a good story, regardless of classification.
Too true. Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is classed as "childrens" fiction, but it's one of the best series I've read in a long time. And Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time is also classified a kid's book, but it was easily the best thing I read last year.

[Mr. Bungle]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Neal Stephenson yet.

I would say start with Snow Crash, then read Crytponomicon (which I am re-reading atm). Diamond Age is good. His new series is called the Baroque Cycle and is fantastic (however I think only the first book in the trilogy is available in paperback). Zodiac is his first real novel and is a good story, but much simpler than his later books.

Yeah I am a fanboy, but his stories are great.

Also, everyone should read the first 4 books in Frank Herbert's Dune series (I can't ever make it through Heretics and Chapterhouse). Classic sci-fi, but much more than that.

Clive Barker's Imajica is a really interesting read too. Magic/fantasy stuff. Interesting story and well written.

Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere is seriously good.

For laughs, pick up Christopher Moore's Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. Really funny and touching stuff there.

[locust]

Please don't rule out a book because it's considered youth fiction.

Oh, I don't. :)

(I read Star Wars)

[Uther Pendragon]

If you haven't read any of Dan Simmons work I highly suggest that you get thee henceforth the the bookshop to aquire some of his literary genius.

Books include:

Hyperion
The fall of Hyperion
Endymion
The rise of Endymion

Ilium
(And there is a sequel to this coming out in July)

I am currently reading "song of kali" by him but it isn't really sci fi or fantasy per se. It is more fantasy horror.

[Uther Pendragon]

On the topic of youth fiction, I read Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen from Garth Nix a little while back. Found it quite good. Definitely teenager oriented but good nonetheless.

I have started reading a book of Arthur C Clarkes short stories and while they are good there isn't much depth in the characters generally. I find it a bit lacking. I haven't finished the book, it is there for when I run out of other books to read and haven't gotten to the shop yet. Short stories are good like that.

[dozer]

http://www.jgballard.com

[ajcrowley]

House of God - Samuel Shem like ER on laughing gas

[gunsella]

have you tried any paul theroux?
mosquito coast, picture palace, my secret history, kowloon tong - all fiction, plus lots of great travel writing.

i also echo dozer's jg ballard - empire of the sun, the kindness of women, the drought, running wild

[Natfu]

I'm into the Raymond Feist stuff too and I also loved a book by Roger Zelazny called the Chronicles of Amber. I suggest you pick yourself up a copy if you can get it. One of the best reads ever. seriously.

[polite]

I've tried to get into fantasy stories but I have trouble with context. I agree that J.G.Ballards 'Empire of the Sun' is worth reading as it deals with real things that are that crazy it's fantastic. I found it interesting that he wrote so much sci-fi after that. Too much reality perhaps.
Another way of looking at it is to look for stories that are related to human existence right now and the past leading up to it. Peter Careys earliest short stories are fascinating now in their prophetic view. 'War Crimes', 'American Dreams', 'The Chance' etc..
So maybe try something different rather than a variation on a theme.:)

[Fuzzy Dice]

David Farland's "Runelord" series is very well done, four books in total. Though, I did think the final book was a bit of a let down, the first two are really excellent. Fantastic imagery. It's victory-at-a-cost, no clean happy ending. Bittersweet.

[ShinymetalASS]

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Quartet.

Be wary though: Youth Fiction@!$@#$

P.s. I personally find someone like Eddings simplistic enough in his writing style and depth of plot to be classed as youth fiction. Particularly when you consider that 'the hobbit' was written for children. I'm with Arsozah on this one. I never limit myself based on what section of the book store I find my books in. How else am I meant to get the new Carmody book?

:D

[Blink]

George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. Three books so far, all quite thick volumes that are very addictive.

The early books in Terry Goodkind's "Sword of Truth" series...haven't read the latest two as the last one I read sucked...but the first 5 are good.

Already mentioned I think, but Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" is good.

Not fantasy or sci-fi, but I still love reading Ian Fleming's James Bond novels...

Shiny - Yep Eddings has a pretty simplistic formula that he just repeats. I tried to read "The Redemption of Althalus" but the humour and dialog were ripped straight out of his Elenium and Tamuli series.

[locust]

Has he even finished the Waste of Time yet?

[Organ Donor]

Suggestion from the science geek:

A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson. This book is fantastic. It's factual, written by a non-scientist and gives a very entertaining and accurate description (in laymans terms) of some of the most significant findings of modern science. His travel writing is also extremely funny (eg The lost continent, A walk in the woods, Neither here nor there.)

[gunsella]

i forgot to mention diceman, and search for diceman by luke reinhardt.

i'm sure many will testify as to their brilliance.

[Blink]

Has he even finished the Waste of Time yet?

Book 11 comes out late this year. Unlike books 7 - 10 which were rushed to print, this one will have a six week editorial process. Probably to make sure it doesn't stink as much as the last couple did.

Try this for an "alternative" view on the Wheel of Time (http://www.darkfriends.net/~waldo/entry151.htm)

[Mr. Bungle]

i forgot to mention diceman, and search for diceman by luke reinhardt.

i'm sure many will testify as to their brilliance.
I should be slapping myself in the face for failing to mention the Diceman. THis book is insane and it took me 3 years to find a copy of it in the US. I heard about after writing to Dick Lucas, the singer of Citizen Fish, and he told me that it was the best book he ever read.

I actually reccommend this book over Neal Stephenson, that's how good it is.

[gunsella]

I should be slapping myself in the face for failing to mention the Diceman.

hey bro don't beat yourself up about it :)

while i'm on a roll - anyone read 'gould's book of fish' by richard flanagan? same guy that wrote 'the sound of one hand clapping'.
in a similar vein to 'baudolino' by umberto eco, my hero. both of these books are 'faction', fiction based on historical fact. they are well worth the read.


you getting all this, sapia?

[Deimos]

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
It isn't quite what you'd call fantasy, or sci-fi, but it is so easy to get lost in and so very enjoyable to read.

[Uther Pendragon]

<rant>
I am so over the wheel of time series, since book 6 the series has been a piece of shit. If you are going to read the series be prepared to be disappointed from book 6 onwards. I never even bothered to ring new spring.

And I used to be a huge fan, I used to wait til the next book was about to come out and then re-read the entire series again so that it would be fresh in my mind. Book 7 was a bit ordinary but I could forgive that because 6 was great. 8 was shit, 9 was shit, 10 was shit. At that point I just gave up. I hope RJ has enough money for his retirement now because there is little chance of him getting any more of my cash.
</rant>

[polite]

hey bro don't beat yourself up about it :)
while i'm on a roll - anyone read 'gould's book of fish' by richard flanagan? same guy that wrote 'the sound of one hand clapping'.



Wholeheartedly agree. I was astonished by this story and will revisit it from time to time.
'Death of a river guide' by the same author is also a fine book IMO.
'The Great World' by David Malouf I liked also.

[-=[BB]=-]

Does anyone else read Larry Niven & Jerry Pournell, they have written heaps of good books together, I have most of them as ebooks if anyone wants them.
Footfall and Lucifers Hammer were particularly good, even if they did share similar points.

[Mr. Bungle]

=-']Does anyone else read Larry Niven & Jerry Pournell, they have written heaps of good books together, I have most of them as ebooks if anyone wants them.
Footfall and Lucifers Hammer were particularly good, even if they did share similar points.
Did they write The Mote in God's Eye? I read that a long time ago and I think it was good.....

[StygiaN]

Two awesome books both by Tom Robbins. "Skinny Legs and All" and "Jitterbug Perfume". Two of the best (and wierdest) books I have ever read. Skinny Legs is about a girl, a sock, a spoon and a can of beans. Perfume is about Beetroots and Life. Wierd I know but so very very good!!!!

[-=[BB]=-]

Did they write The Mote in God's Eye? I read that a long time ago and I think it was good.....

Yeah they did, I havent gotten round to reading it yet cos I hate reading it off the computer screen & I only have it as a pdf. I do however have the sequel as hard copy. dont know if I should read it now or wait till I have read The Mote in God's Eye.

[EtTuBrute]

R. Scott Bakker's 'The Darkness that Comes Before' and 'The Warrior-Prophet', excellent fantasy series with some unique characters, not your standard fantasy story.

Heres the website (http://www.princeofnothing.com/)

the next book in the series is coming out in Jan

[xenph]

I'd HIGHLY recommend Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash, unless you've already read it. But it took off from where neuromancer by William Gibson left off. Fantastic read, Available in paperback, only downside is it's short at only 400 odd pages. But it is available on the web in PDF if you look hard enough. But who can read a book on a screen :)

[Glompbot]

Thanks everyone!

I wasn't expecting such an awesome response from you guys!

[ShinymetalASS]

Big response on sci fi/fantasy books from geeks?

Never :D

p.s. thanks also from me for the posts on this list.... I'm always looking for new books to read... I'm sure other geeks feel the same....

[Glompbot]

Yeah, I think I'm going to go with something I'm familiar with and grab some pratchett books and the raymond e feist series that was recommended....

I find it very hard to venture into different authors books...

[EtTuBrute]

May I present, for your consideration, Robert Crais (http://www.robertcrais.com/), crime novelist extraordinaire. I've read 4 of his books so far, after recently having them recommended to me by a friend. He's a top read. His main character is a PI named Elvis Cole, and the stories are set in LA. Crais writes great characters, and the stories are full of incredible wit and clever plots.

If your into crime/pulp novels, you should read Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679733973/104-4891517-9436767?v=glance) kicks ass

[Mr. Bungle]

Yeah, I think I'm going to go with something I'm familiar with and grab some pratchett books and the raymond e feist series that was recommended....

I find it very hard to venture into different authors books...
Awwww. Come on there are so many great suggestions on here. You should get the ones you are familiar with if that's what you want, but you really should pick up ONE unknown author at the same time. I know there are lots of Terry Pratchett books (if you haven't read Good Omens -cowritten with Neil Gaiman- shame on you!), but you will run out of them someday.

Expand!!!!

[Glompbot]

I've read good omens. It took me 6 goes to finish it because I got to a point... put it down... read the last few pages.... (i have a bad habit of reading the last few pages in a book when I get about half way through)
and never picked it back up again...
finally read it all in one go when I was suffering from a bout of insomnia


I might pick up one unknown author, and one pratchett then.

[Sagacious]

Catherine Neville 'The Eight'

[berserk]

I was walking through a bookshop yesterday & happened to see books by Salman Rushdie, Paul Coelho & Gabriel Barcia Marquez. Having not had a good read for some months, I had this urge to pick-up a novel. Question is, which book to choose?

The ones that looked interesting were
The Moor's Last Sigh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moor%27s_Last_Sigh), Midnight's Children (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%27s_Children) by Salman Rushie (never read any of his works but have enjoyed many of RK Narayan's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._K._Narayan) novels.
100 years of solitude (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which sounds a bit like James Michener's Centennial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_%28novel%29) which I found to be a good read, &
The Alchemist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_%28book%29) by Paul Coelho (never read either author, probably because the originals are in Spanish)

I'd add Satanic Verses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%27s_Children) to the list of possible reads except that its banned where I am & rather difficult to obtain in the near term.

[Henrik]

Like I've wanked on about before in another thread but if you liked the movie 'Fight Club' (and who didn't!) then the book is doubly enjoyable.

Also if you're one of the many that was into Australian music from Ratcat through the Recovery years and then the end of the 90's where it all went a bit boring a book called 'Sell in-How the music business seduced alternative rock' by Craig Matheison is a great read.

'Satisfaction', an unauthorised biography on Keith Richards is also great..the guy is a c---t but a fuckin cool and iconic one!

[Girl.]

I haven't read the rest of this thread, so apologies if I'm repeating books that other people have recommended.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera is one of my favourite books. I also finished Ignorance a few weeks ago, by the same author, and it was pretty good as well.

The Awakening by Kate Chopin - beautiful, simple story set in Louisiana at the turn of the century.

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow - I originally picked this up because I'm a huge fan of the band Augie March and I wanted to read their namesake. Fantastic book, incredibly written...

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers, and also The Member of the Wedding - Graham Greene once wrote that "[Carson] McCullers and perhaps Mr Faulkner are the only writers since the death of DH Lawrence with an original poetic sensibility. I prefer Miss McCullers to Mr Faulkner because she writes more clearly; I prefer her to DH Lawrence because she has no message."

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy. I hated this book when I first read it, but after reading it two or three more times I really like it.

And lastly, the book I just grabbed from my nightstand - The Devil's Larder, by Jim Crace. I picked this one up for $1 at a market stall and expected it to be woeful, but it's amazingly good. It consists of a series of short prose, which is good for me at the moment because after studying Uni stuff until the early hours of the morning, I can't really focus on a long and complicated story.

[ShinymetalASS]

Question is, which book to choose?


The Alchemist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_%28book%29) by Paul Coelho (never read either author, probably because the originals are in Spanish.


Without a doubt.

All his books.

I don't often venture outside fantasy/sci fi genres, but damn.....

To use a phrase laden with irony..... Just Do It.

[NastyButler]

I did a quick search and no has recommended Peter F Hamilton yet so I'll do that now. Particularly Fallen Dragon, The Nights Dawn Trilogy and his new book Pandoras Star. Great imaginative sci-fi.


I'd HIGHLY recommend Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash, unless you've already read it. But it took off from where neuromancer by William Gibson left off. Fantastic read, Available in paperback, only downside is it's short at only 400 odd pages. But it is available on the web in PDF if you look hard enough. But who can read a book on a screen :)

You probably won't believe this but I read the whole Wheel of Time series and the the last two books in The Nights Dawn Trilogy on a .PDF on my CRT. And yes, my eyes are still fucked.

ninja edit: Another vote for Snowcrash.