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Old 02-07-2009, 09:52 AM   #24
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Very much like Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, just listening to Mote in God's Eye right now.

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Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan; haven't had a chance to read the remaining books in those series yet. Vernor Vinge is brilliant IMO
Agree that the Altered Carbon series was very cool, though it's pretty explicit sex wise which is different. Also agree with Vernor Vinge!

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For older stuff, I don't think anything compares to Dune. When I was younger I just liked the first books and didn't like the later ones, but re-reading them several years later I got much more of an appreciation of where he was going with the later books - too bad his son and Kevin Anderson botched the last one so badly.
Totally agree! The Dune series is the ultimate, and the new ones are so bad Herbert's spinning in his grave.

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No one has heard of Stephen Baxter?
Very much a fan, I love his stuff because it's HARD sci-fi, and lots of deep deep time.
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