Books: SciFi & Fantasy

**SkywalkerJedi** · 05-20-08, 05:26 PM

I can't wait for Republic Commandos: Order 66. And Legacy of the Force: Invincible.

**Cody** · 05-25-08, 12:27 PM

Isn't Invincible out already?

**SkywalkerJedi** · 05-25-08, 02:06 PM

Yes it is, but not Order 66.

**Cody** · 05-25-08, 02:10 PM

I think it's coming out in June, right?

**pjdude1219** · 05-25-08, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by rde

Dune was by Frank, not Brian; Brian is his son and he wrote the seventh in the series. However, while the first is astonishing and the second is readable (but short) the rest are terrible.
But by all means, everyone, read the first.

Terry Goodkind/Terry Brooks: terrible. Stick to Tolkien.

Laurell K. Hamilton: only read her Anita Blake books. If this is another one, it's well worth a read.
Peter David: snigger.

terry brooks was pretty good

**pjdude1219** · 05-25-08, 05:08 PM

the Kushiel's series is a good one but its not for people uptight and prudish about sex. its has a lot of sex in it and not the lovey dovey kind no we're talking about whips and chains and shit. this more so in the first 3 books.

**SkywalkerJedi** · 05-25-08, 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by Cody

I think it's coming out in June, right?

Yes, it am waiting for it.

**Xelios** · 07-22-08, 05:34 PM

Vurt by Jeff Noon was pretty friggin fantastic.

**~~scott3x~~** · 10-03-08, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by Xelios

Vurt by Jeff Noon was pretty friggin fantastic.

Yeah, it was awesome. He's also written other good books, such as nymphomation and automated alice, but of the 3, I think that vurt was my favourite. I think pollen is part of the vurt universe, and atleast one review says its better then vurt, but I haven't read that one yet.

**Fafnir665** · 10-25-08, 09:13 PM

Originally Posted by Xelios

Vurt by Jeff Noon was pretty friggin fantastic.

Yeah if you love crazy drug stories ><

**Bricoleur** · 12-19-08, 06:35 AM

One of my favourite reads lately has been the Dawn's Night Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. Pretty fair lump of paper (about 1200 pages each), which has been described as a space opera. Despite that, the books kept me hanging on throughout.
I really liked the imagined technology, which I thought was handled believably; the characters were a bit stereotypic but varied, and included sentient habitats; and the style veered towards a Terry Pratchet sex romp at times, with some demonic pocession thrown in for good measure. Very enjoyable, made better by picking it up randomly at a secondhand book shop!

**psikeyhackr** · 01-02-09, 08:19 AM

If you Google

+torrent +"science fiction and fantasy" +13130

You can find a lot of out of print books in PDF format.

How long will it take you to read 4 GIGABYTES?

psik

**kmguru** · 01-02-09, 12:25 PM

The ideal reading medium for PDFs would be a Netbook laptop. Light weight enough to relax on a lazyboy or on the bed....

**psikeyhackr** · 01-27-09, 01:01 PM

I convert the PDFs to TXT files and use this to read them.

http://www.lordpercy.com/archos_pma400_review.htm

I have installed the program JustReader for the text files. The only problem is that it doesn't have automatic scroll. It is also an MP3 player so I use it for audio books.

What I find incredible these days is little kids going to school with these HUGE back packs. It is like half of the kid could fit in these things. Like, what do they need with so much stuff? And then I have got 200 megabytes of e-books in my pocket, plus a couple of gig of audio books and seven gigabytes of music and 5 gig of Stargate Atlantis videos. What is wrong with these kids?

OK, its not the kids. Its the schools and their parents.

psik

**ScaryMonster** · 08-26-09, 03:32 AM

I liked Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons, they were really original and quirky.
I also liked Cordwainer Smith I think everyone who really into science fiction should read he’s short story “Scanners Live In Vain” it’s amazing and he wrote it in 1945!

**thinking** · 12-07-09, 01:29 PM

how about Neal Stephenson's

ANATHEM

any body read this or any of his books ?

**pjdude1219** · 12-07-09, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by thinking

how about Neal Stephenson's

ANATHEM

any body read this or any of his books ?

i am working on that very book

**Dywyddyr** · 12-07-09, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by thinking

how about Neal Stephenson's
ANATHEM
any body read this or any of his books ?

Finished Anathem last week.
Also read Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon and his System of the World Trilogy. And In The Beginning Was The Command Line.

**thinking** · 12-07-09, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by Dywyddyr

Finished Anathem last week.
Also read Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon and his System of the World Trilogy. And In The Beginning Was The Command Line.

and your thoughts on Anathem , I'm third of the way through

Neal's mathematics are interesting