Very much like Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, just listening to Mote in God's Eye right now.
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Originally Posted by Ashartus
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan; haven't had a chance to read the remaining books in those series yet. Vernor Vinge is brilliant IMO
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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.
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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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Originally Posted by Daradon
No one has heard of Stephen Baxter?
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Very much a fan, I love his stuff because it's HARD sci-fi, and lots of deep deep time.