Lookin for some new reads, Comics, novels, other epic forms of literated nerdery Options

[SinN]

Hey Gents and Ladies
Been deployed for a few months and have read every single book I own. And the donated books at the USO are slim pickins for anything interesting. So I decided to cave and start ordering books to read. So I thought Id ask the genius's of the Dumpshock kind for some suggestions. So, thoughts?

[Brazilian_Shinob...]

Neuromancer (duuuuh)
Dune (only the ones writen by Frank Herbert)
A Song of Ice and Fire
Lord of the Rings
The Borne novels by Robert Ludlum

[Stahlseele]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Angels..._fiction_novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_(novel)
Longer Time reading?
Start with the WH40K novels for example . .

[pbangarth]

Paul J. McAuley, An Invisible Country.

The Invisible Country. London: Gollancz, 1996. ISBN 0-575-06072-7 -- Philip K. Dick Award nominee, 1998

A collection of short stories by McAuley, covering a range of his series. The series that pertains the most here is the one that imagines a near future in which surgical/genetic/chemical modification has dramatically altered human experience. I have never read any story, in SR fiction or otherwise, that captured for me better the feel of a dystopian future in which the little guys struggle to make it through the shadows cast by the powerful than the title piece for this anthology.

And where he sees bio-modification going is fucking scary and horrifying.

HERE is the author on Wikipedia.

[Jhaiisiin]

Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher

[SinN]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/love.gif) Im in love with all of you. These all look excellent.

[Bigity]

As a military guy, you might like The Black Company series, by Glen Cook.


BTW: Come back safe soldier. Or airman, or sailor or whatever ya are (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[SinN]

Airman (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

A guy I work with has told me about the black company series. Im intrigued by it. Just may pick it up.

[Tanegar]

If you can find them, grab a series called The Exordium, by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge. There are five books: The Phoenix in Flight, Ruler of Naught, A Prison Unsought, The Rifter's Covenant, and The Thrones of Kronos, and they are hands-down the best space opera I've ever read. Well-drawn characters, an excellent plot expertly paced, high political intrigue, awesome action scenes, and a master-crafted setting. They've been out of print for years, but they are more than worth the effort of tracking down a set.

[Bigity]

Airman (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

A guy I work with has told me about the black company series. Im intrigued by it. Just may pick it up.

You aren't a COMM trooper by any chance are ya? 3C0 here, or I was anyway (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Stahlseele]

if you don't mind some kinda slow reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Comsto...Century_America

[SinN]

Nope, dont work comm.

[pbangarth]

Hey, guys, "Loose lips sink ships!"

I know it's unlikely that nasties are following Dumpshock, but I'm wondering whether we might be approaching useful information on DS.

Too many years of SR paranoia, maybe, but just sayin'.

[SinN]

This is why I havent said Where i am, what unit im with, and what my job is. Situational Awareness is your friend (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[Wounded Ronin]

What you clearly need is The Penetrator.

http://www.amazon.com/Purple-Northwest-Con...8980&sr=1-8

[Critias]

Hey, guys, "Loose lips sink ships!"

I know it's unlikely that nasties are following Dumpshock, but I'm wondering whether we might be approaching useful information on DS.

...where, exactly?

I don't ask to be grouchy and hostile or sarcastic, but simply because I don't see what's been anything worth any sort of concern.

[SinN]

...where, exactly?

I don't ask to be grouchy and hostile or sarcastic, but simply because I don't see what's been anything worth any sort of concern.

I was going to ask this as well, but decided Id better take a nicer aproach. Ol' Sinn is hangin up his "King of the assholes" crown (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[Bigity]

I know all about what to say and what not to say, and knew better to ask where (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

BTW a comm trooper is anyone who worked in a communications job, like folks updating the base webpage to the saps changing out toner cartridges. No big secret force or anything (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[SinN]

[quote name='Bigity' date='Sep 7 2011, 08:34 AM' post='1104047'

BTW a comm trooper is anyone who worked in a communications job, like folks updating the base webpage to the saps changing out toner cartridges. No big secret force or anything (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Oh come now, without you guys, who would i borrow a pen from?

[Bigity]

A pen? Feh. Who is gonna hook you up with the rolling chairs and air conditioning, that's the question (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[pbangarth]

... but I'm wondering whether we might be approaching useful information on DS.

Approaching, not there yet. Seems as if my comment was unnecessary. Apologies.

[Bigity]

Nah no worries. I wasn't offended or nothing in any case.

[fistandantilus4....]

As a military guy, you might like The Black Company series, by Glen Cook.


BTW: Come back safe soldier. Or airman, or sailor or whatever ya are (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Sinn, I've read at least the first of the Black Company. I've still got the book so I'll send it out to you. Also, can't believe no one recommended the Night Angel Trilogy to you. I still have Nightlife to, from that series you were reading. I'll send you out that one as well.

I know it's unlikely that nasties are following Dumpshock, but I'm wondering whether we might be approaching useful information on DS.

There's a surprising (or maybe not so) number of military on here. DS might not be a data mine of information, but mil types always have to be careful . You don't want to be the one guy that said something stupid in the wrong place and someone just happened to find it, and then someone dies. That's Bad Karma.

[hermit]

Well.

The WH40K Horus Heresy Cycle and the Gaunt's Ghosts series are pretty good (they keep their incompetent authors to other novels).

A Song Of Ice And Fire is definitly a worth read too. Just hope the old man can complete the series until he dies. Currently, he takes 7 years to write a book, with five in the planned 7 novel cycle complete.

By the Ice and Fire author, the Wild Cards universe is worth a look, too. This is what sURGE should have been like.

Dune is also good, but I find I don't like it as much as I used to. And stay the HELL away from the Prequels. they're total rubbish.

The Harry Dresden novels are great urban magic noir.

And if you like military fiction, there's always Bernard Cromwell's Sharpe series.

[Stahlseele]

When it comes to WH40K, try and read the Dan Abnet Novels.
They call it the Daniverse for a reason.