Books
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Not really a fantasy fan usually, but I was recommended Robin Hobb's "The Assassin's Apprentice" recently and it's excellent.
If you like Heinlein-style space opera, I recommend Elliott Kay's "Poor Man's Fight" series. He also has an excellent series of urban fantasy X (light) eroticism novels…
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Robin Hobb is good, but she's written an awful lot of books in that series! I'm halfway through the third part of the third trilogy. (And there are two more trilogies set in the same world and time period.
The Vlad Taltos books by Steven Brust feature an assassin with a telepathic familiar, which isn't an entirely dissimilar setup to Hobb's. They're more tongue in cheek, though.
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch is another good series. He's up to book three of seven, I think that four is pretty close.
The Year of Our War by Steph Swainston feels a bit like Starship Troopers in a Michael Moorcock fantasy world. I really enjoyed the books, but I think that it took me the first half of the first one to gel with it.
The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert VS Reddick was a good read too. It's set on a gigantic sailing ship that's on a diplomatic mission, before everything goes Pete Tong.
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My favorite time travel book is called Up the Line by Robert Silverberg. Check it out.
Thx, I’ll have to check it out. I love a good story filled with paradoxes
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Robert Silverberg has done some blinders down the years. Didn’t he have a retelling if the Gilgamesh legends?
I’ve read some of the Hobbs books and they were good, but possibly not good enough to commit to the number released. Tbh though I haven’t found a series exceeding a three or four books that is, since my youth. The closest was Steven Eriksen’s but even that, ambitious as it was, peaked halfway.
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Tbh though I haven’t found a series exceeding a three or four books that is, since my youth.
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Robert Silverberg has done some blinders down the years. Didn’t he have a retelling if the Gilgamesh legends?
I Had to look it up as I’ve been out of the sci-fi scene since the early 80s. He wrote something called Gilgamesh in the Outback,which he won an award for. Otherwise I know nothing about it. Happy to find out he’s 85 and living in San Francisco.
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Robert Silverberg is very good. His best known book is "Lord Valentine's Castle". It's reminiscent of Jack Vance's work, IMHO.
Another author who is mostly known of sci fi aficionados is Poul Anderson. He's got a good time-travel book (really a collection of short stories) called "Time Patrol". There's a whole series of books in that setting, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson_bibliography#Time_Patrol
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In the sci-fi sorta vein, I really think Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossed and The Left Hand of Darkness were both incredible. Stunning prose and really compelling thought experiments abound.
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I never managed to get into her work but I am fascinated by this (which I have never read):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas -
Robin Hobb is good, but she's written an awful lot of books in that series! I'm halfway through the third part of the third trilogy. (And there are two more trilogies set in the same world and time period.
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch is another good series. He's up to book three of seven, I think that four is pretty close.
I've actually read all the Hobb books, and it is a lot. I think my two favorite trilogies within it were the liveship one and the rainforest one; basically, the ones without Fitz, that whiny prick.
I liked The Lies of Locke Lamora, but the second and third books were definitely better.
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Just started reading William Gibson's latest Agency and there's a neat little reference to Self Edge in Chapter 5.
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Just started reading William Gibson's latest Agency and there's a neat little reference to Self Edge in Chapter 5.
I have it in the pile but I keep on moving it down as a new Gibson novel is such an event for me that I want to be in a position to savour it. Given the number of kids both small and tall I have around me that may not be until 2022.
That being said, after some lighter, somewhat derivative sci-fo reads over the summer, I’ve just kicked it up a notch with this:
Late to the party, but I’ve been excited about it for ages, and two chapters in I know it is going to be quite the experience.
