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I Love to Read Sci-fi and Fantasy

Life Of Fantasy And Sci-fi

By: rubyetuesday
Written on April 28th, 2012
When I was a teenager a friend of mine loaned me a copy of Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" my love of sci-fi and fantasy started there.

Have you read?

Heinlein's?

"Friday" or the "The Number of the Beast"

Jim Butcher's

"Dresden Files"

Roger Zalazny's

"The Great Book of Amber"

Have you any suggestions for off the track books?
By: rubyetuesday
Age: 56-60 , Female
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    Sarahbellas
    Sarahbellas

    My favorite genres too.

    Neil Gaiman's American Gods
    Frank Herbert's Dune series
    Orson Scott Card's Ender Games series
    Douglas Adam's Hitchihkers' guide to the Galaxy and also Dirk Gently's detective agency
    Kurt Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan is good too
    Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs "Relic" is good
    Richard Matheson's I am Legend
    Phillip K ****'s A scanner darkly is good
    Children of Men
    Edwin Abbott's Flatland
    There's some great Ray Bradbury too...Fahrenheit 451
    Any of Tamora Pierce's books are good, those are teen fiction. But I read them into my college years. The Alanna and the wild magic ones were the better ones in my opinion.
    That's all I can think of for right now...hope it helps you narrow down some choices.

    Happy Reading! :)

    May 14
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    rubyetuesday
    rubyetuesday

    Cool information. Thanks



    Have you read Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle the Ring World Series or the Mote in God's Eye series?

    Jun 21, 2012
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      Sarahbellas
      Sarahbellas

      I never tried reading the Ring World series.
      I do vaguely remember reading at least part of the Mote in God's Eye series. I skimmed though quite a bit of it. I mostly remember the descriptions of the aliens being rather unique and asymmetrical...It was different and rather interesting.
      I remember the space travel was described as being rather complicated at the time.
      I also liked the crazy eddie term. lol

      May 14
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      rubyetuesday
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      Asimov and Heinlein are two of my favorite authors. I like the robot series and pretty much all of Heinlein's books. Years ago I was reading Dune and left it in the on the signature files cabinet in the vault I was devastated I went to every library in Sacrament and they weren't open. I was obsessed and was surprised at how upset I was. I like a mixture of fantasy as well. Tad William's Otherland series.

      May 15
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    angusmcfarland
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    Go to Webscriptions - Baen books has a website - and you can download many of their books in an electronic format for FREE.



    also - Project Gutenberg - a lot of the classics - have been scanned in, and are also available for free.

    Jun 20, 2012
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    rubyetuesday
    rubyetuesday

    Keep posting suggestions for books I have a Barnes and Noble gift card my husband gave me for Mother's Day.

    Jun 17, 2012
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    rubyetuesday
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    I'm going to look up the authors and titles all of you have suggested. I need something new to read. I started over on the books we have in our book shelves it's been years since I read most of them.

    Jun 17, 2012
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    eklectikceliac
    eklectikceliac

    I have read pretty much everything Heinlein ever wrote.Friday,The Number of the Beast,Farnham's Freehold,Have Spacesuit will travel....it got weird when Lazarus started going back in time to have sex with his mother...but hey !



    I have both Amber series.I love Zalazny,including Unicorn Variations.



    I love Harry Dresden.If you like that try Simon R Green.Novels of the Nightside.



    I'm reading The Bride wore Black Leather.



    I'm also reading Black blade blues- I just finished it and I'm half way through Honeyed words by J A Pitt.



    There are some great new books out there.

    Jun 17, 2012
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      rubyetuesday
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      I wrote down the titles you suggested I'll check them out at Barnes and Noble.

      Jun 17, 2012
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    rubyetuesday
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    angusmcfarland and hrts you both seem to know your science fiction and fantasy. hrts what do you think about the science authenticity in Asimov's books? angus all of the books you list are books that I haven't come across yet.



    Do either of you like Heinlein?



    Friday

    Friday Jones an artificial person, battle carrier by career hides her strength and metal acuity from others to avoid persecution and possibly death for being who she is.



    The Number of the Beast



    Zebadiah John Carter, Dejah Thoris Burroughs Carter, Jacob Burroughs and Hilda Corners travel around the universe and alternate universes. My favorite visit is the visit to OZ where the couples converse with the denizens of Oz and their ship Gay Deceiver enjoys sharing time with Tick Tock. hrts I would like to hear your views on the science in this novel.



    Dresden Files



    Harry Dresden wizard and private investigator spends his time dealing with all sorts of demons, werewolve packs, fairies, shape shifters and magical monsters. He invariably gets the snot knocked out of him in his adventures. With a skull spirit as a source reference for magic arts and history he fights for humans in trouble from magic beings. The skull spirt has a taste for *********** and ravishing women. The spirit is sent out every once in a while to retreive infomation from sources only he can contact.



    Zalazny



    The book of Amber Series



    Nine princes of Amber Dworkin (grandfather) escapes from the Chaos realm creating a new realm he calls Amber. His son Oberon is born of himself and the white unicorn. The nine princes protect and fight over Amber from which all shadows originate. The family of Oberon must walk the pattern Dworkin created to be able to bend shadow and travel between shadows. In shadow they can live a chosen life, raise armys to fight each other, find protection from sibling rivalry which can be quite dangerous. Communication between family is accoumplished by a set of cards (trumps) that Dwokin and later one of the princes drew.

    Jun 17, 2012
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      Heinlein - The Grand Master - THE Best Ever. At least in my opinion.
      Some - well, a lot of it - is dated - a 1940s and 50s look at the future, you know? A future of White Americans in Space...even in "Starship Troopers" - where the hero is Juan Rico - a Filipino kid from Manila - he "sounds" like a White American kid from the Suburbs.

      The two you named - "Friday" - has its problems - it was written after his brain operation, and I think it wasn't proofread enough..."Number of the Beast" - eh, some people love it...it is one of his less memorable ones, in my opinion.

      One for you to look at - LM Bujold - The Vorkosigan Saga - Follows the Chronicles of the Vorkosigan Family on Barrayar, a world cut off from the rest of the galactic community for 900 years, and then re-discovered. Imagine going from 1880s technology to Starships in a single lifetime - that is Barrayar. Thing is Ms Bujold is an EXCELLENT storyteller - take any piece of biotechnology and imagine the social implications - she has written many fascinating stories on those premises.
      I can't heap enough praise on her work - and her story - "The Weatherman" - I got her permission to use that in a course on Military leadership and decision making. If you read nothing else of her work, read that one story.

      Jun 20, 2012
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    hrts
    hrts

    I like Sci-Fi and some Fantasy but oddly, even Fantasy is ruined for me if its science doesn't make sense. I know that sounds nuts but it's like Fantasy art where there's a dragon or human or something with wings but without the musculature to support them.



    I can usually enjoy a book if it leaves enough room for me to imagine a reason but if the author makes up an explanation that wouldn't work, I lose my willingness to suspend judgment.



    Sometimes with authors I haven't read before, I'll do an Amazon "Search inside this book" for words used in astro-physics theories, to see how plausible the plot might be.

    Jun 17, 2012
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      Grin - you'd like all the ones I mentioned above. Try the "Council Wars" by John Ringo...or, better yet, "The Wizard" series by Rick Cook. A bit dated, but in a world where Magic works, but Technology does not - a computer programmer gets pulled over.
      Instead of being lost, he discovers how to apply the principles of computer programming to Magic - and allow Magic or "magic technology" - into the hands of the common folks...and Cook does let us see the "law of Unintended Consequences" - and what happens when humans use the new magic to come back from the edge of extinction to needing to establish boundaries on themselves. Funny, and yet though-provoking.
      you might like "Demon Tech" by David Sherman. In an Alternate universe, Good and Evil are warring. The Forces of Good ask for Leadership - they get a Marine Gunnery Sergeant.
      The Forces of Evil ask for a Knowledge of War - they get a full Army Technical order Library - without translations.
      Twenty years later, the Forces of Evil are on the move - we follow two young Marines, cut off behind enemy lines by a blitzkrieg-like attack. They escape-and-evade the invaders using every trick on the book -"Lord Gunny Says- " the handbook every marine must carry all the time and consult constantly.
      I prefer "funny-but-thought provoking" - although some folks tell me that my idea of 'funny" is pretty gruesome.

      Jun 17, 2012
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    Grin - All of the Above - you're not specific enough to tell us what you like.



    Now me, I'm a hard Sciences Guy, who like a little - little - bit of fantasy in the mix sometimes. Ever read Carrie Vaughn's "Kitty Norville" series? - vampires and Werewolves are real, and form an unseen underworld to our mundane world...but Kitty, the main character, is a talk show host, who becomes infected with the werewolf disease, and goes public.



    Or - John Ringo's "Special Circumstances" - Princess of Wands" and "Queen of Wands" - Mississippi Soccer Mom Barbara Everette, a good Christian, god fearing woman, pillar of the community, mother of two kids and a sort of clueless husband - somehow finds herself as the Demon Slayer. Imagine the "Buffy" situation, but dropped on an even more out-of-the-box candidate. John is a good storyteller, so he makes it work, and makes you laugh.



    "Digital Knight" is a detective, working in the Information Age, using the Internet and high tech to hunt down supernatural bad guys - and there are supernatural good guys, also.



    One of my favorites - kind of gory, and brutal, though, is Larry Correia's "Monster Hunter's International" - Monsters are real, but the governments of the world don't want the public to know...they try to control outbreaks of dangerous monsters, but they also subcontract. There ARE bounties for killing dangerous supernatural creatures in the US, Canada and Mexico, so, there are several contractors that do so. These stories chronicle the lives of some of those people.



    Another of Larry's Worlds is "Hard magic" - an Alternate universe where - in 1830 or so, people started being able to do magic. As the years go on, more and more people develop magical skills, until, by 1935, almost 5% of the human population of the world can do some sort of magic. What does that do to civilization? What does a century of people that are nearly comic book super heroes and magicians do to history...this is Larry's look at his thoughts on the subject.

    Jun 16, 2012
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