Aerothorn on 27/10/2009 at 21:50
I like how dethtoll didn't address my first question and answered only half (albeit the significant half) of the second.
FISSION MAILED
dj_ivocha on 27/10/2009 at 22:11
Just finished reading the last of the main books from the (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorverse) Honorverse. I love me some good military sci-fi with a touch of space opera and big ass space battles between ships on the order of some 50.000 to 8.000.000 tons! :cool:
Took me whopping 30-40 days to go through all 11 books (which started at around 300-400 pages but went up to 800 towards the end). :eek:
On a totally unrelated note, anyone got a suggestion for a good military sci-fi and/or space opera series that's not the Honorverse, Vorkosigan Saga or The Saga of Seven Suns?
[EDIT]You can get all but the 11th books and most of the anthologies for free (
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/01-HonorverseCD/HonorverseCD/) here - there are versions for Microsoft Reader (.lit), Mobipocket (.prc), HTML and RTF. There is no DRM or rootkits or any other filthy content controlling devices - read more about why and how all those books are available for free (
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/) here (click on Site Information).
theBlackman on 27/10/2009 at 22:31
Quote Posted by dj_ivocha
Just finished reading the last of the main books from the (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorverse) Honorverse. I love me some good military sci-fi with a touch of space opera and big ass space battles between ships on the order of some 50.000 to 8.000.000 tons! :cool:
Took me whopping 30-40 days to go through all 11 books (which started at around 300-400 pages but went up to 800 towards the end). :eek:
On a totally unrelated note, anyone got a suggestion for a good military sci-fi and/or space opera series that's not the Honorverse, Vorkosigan Saga or The Saga of Seven Suns?
STEN. If you liked Honor Harrington you will like STEN. Also take a look at the McCaffrey series. Dinosaur planet and the 4 sequels ending with Generation Warriors.
Have you signed in at (
www.honorverse.com) ?
I also suggest the BOLO series started by Keith Laumer and continued by many others as well as the MANKZIN wars series.
Namdrol on 27/10/2009 at 22:34
Quote Posted by dj_ivocha
On a totally unrelated note, anyone got a suggestion for a good military sci-fi and/or space opera series that's not the Honorverse, Vorkosigan Saga or The Saga of Seven Suns?
Stephen Donaldson's The Gap Cycle.
Great overblown themes that work.
The first book is just a novella but the next 4 have plenty of meat on 'em.
(And you can't get much more space opera, Donaldson loosely based the series on Wagner's The Ring, as he explains in the afterword to the first book.)
metal dawn on 27/10/2009 at 22:51
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
ba da ba ba ba i'm lovin' it
(hi dethtoll)
june gloom on 27/10/2009 at 23:02
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
I like how dethtoll didn't address my first question and answered only half (albeit the significant half) of the second.
FISSION MAILED
I don't know how you expect me to answer "what makes you think people are praising Stephenson without reading his books" in any way other than what I did. There's a large contingent of people who enjoy discussing/praising things they've never actually read (or watched, or whatever) as if they actually have. So yes, there are goons out there who like Snow Crash because they've never actually read it, or have only read part of it.
I didn't actually see your second question somehow (I had ten minutes before class and had just woken up from a 3-hour nap in the back of my car) so I'll answer it now: I don't dislike all post-modernist fiction. I just don't like Stephenson. He's overrated as fuck and his books are boring sacks of bullshit. I don't like any of his books, but Snow Crash left me feeling especially cheated.
metal dawn on 27/10/2009 at 23:18
Hey hey, easy there.
I love Stephenson's work, but I have no trouble admitting he/his work is overrated.
While we're talking overrated...
James Ellroy
He's a great writer, but he's still a big asspipe as a person.
...
Oh, I'd like some advice...
I've been pondering about trying out Dan Brown (the Lost Symbol sounds fairly interesting). But Brown himself has me on the fence. I mean, I don't want prejudge, but God he's a prick. He seems to be oozing with self-importance and that's really setting off alarm bells with me.
Scots Taffer on 27/10/2009 at 23:31
I started to read my first fiction book to read in a while, since maybe The Road, which had been gathering dust on my bookshelf.
june gloom on 28/10/2009 at 00:00
THIS:
Quote Posted by metal dawn
I love Stephenson's work
explains THIS:
Quote Posted by metal dawn
I've been pondering about trying out Dan Brown (the Lost Symbol sounds fairly interesting).
But I would be doing you a disservice if I did not tell you, right now, to RUN THE FUCK AWAY. Dan Brown is to literature as a pedophile is to sex. They both have the basic concepts down but are doing it in such a completely wrong way that they make people very uncomfortable or very angry. Dan Brown is the worst writer on the planet. You'd be better off reading
Stephanie Meyer for God's sake- she's merely a Mary Sue who made it big. Dan Brown is so bad as to cause apoplexy and madness in those unfortunate to read it while possessing IQs greater than 100. If someone tells you a Dan Brown novel is the best book they ever read,
they're probably not lying. Avoid like bubonic super-AIDS.
dj_ivocha on 28/10/2009 at 00:03
I don't want a MMO browser Honorverse game, I want movies and TV series instead. :(
(honorverse.com mailing list kru represent as of now. Any idea on when it'll be done?)
Quote Posted by Namdrol
Stephen Donaldson's The Gap Cycle.
Sounds interesting, adding it to the backlog of books to read, along with tBm's suggestions. :thumb:
Also added a link to download all of the Honorverse books and anthologies for free in my previous post. Agogogogo
