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Post by funkenstein on Dec 2, 2005 12:14:24 GMT -5
Or is science fiction getting really crappy lately? Fantasy seems to be taking off again, and though I do enjoy the occasional romp with hot elf bitches and such, I need my alien invasions and exploding planets!
Case in point- one of my favorite authors, David Drake, has been doing an OK kinda space opera thingy (the Lt Leary series) simultaneous to an OK fantasy series (the Lord of the Isles series). While I do enjoy reading his stuff, I need more military scifi! Where the hell has it all gone?!? And I don't mean space opera poo, I want gritty, bleeding on an alien planet, perpetrating a warcrime kinda stories.
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Post by sc00ts on Dec 2, 2005 13:46:50 GMT -5
i don't really read any "new" authors/books in either field, but i've always preferred swords and sorcery to sci-fi.
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Post by thrashed on Dec 2, 2005 16:45:03 GMT -5
Harry Potter was the shit in grade 5!...That's fantasy isn't it?
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Post by funkenstein on Dec 3, 2005 2:04:14 GMT -5
Harry Potter can lick my lefticle.
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Post by Shevy on Dec 3, 2005 12:54:56 GMT -5
I'm practically a moron when it comes to sci-fi, but the thought of hardcore alien warstories in vein of Starship Troopers is pretty cool. Even though I have a stack of lit I'm working on right now, would you care to rattle off a few essentials?
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Post by funkenstein on Dec 3, 2005 14:15:20 GMT -5
Look at the Hammers Slammers series by David Drake. Yes, the name is kinda gay, but the stories are COOL. SM Sterling's War World series and Man-Kzin War series are cool. William Dietz's Legion series is pretty good. And those should tide you over for a few months.
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Post by Shevy on Dec 3, 2005 15:56:32 GMT -5
Thanks, bro. And Hammers Slammers sounds like a cool name to me. Mainly because large hammers are probably the coolest of all blunt weapons.
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Post by funkenstein on Dec 4, 2005 17:32:33 GMT -5
The series involves tanks, bloodshed and warcrimes. All pretty cool. And Drake has been doing the series since like the mid-70s.
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Post by unclemeat on Dec 4, 2005 18:52:05 GMT -5
[thread hijack]
Has anyone read The Moon is Harsh Mistress? My wife borrowed it from someone at her work, its buy the guy who wrote Starship troopers. I heard its tought to get into because of the language that the Lunar people speak
[/thread hijcak]
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Post by funkenstein on Dec 4, 2005 19:43:00 GMT -5
I've never been impressed with Heinlein. Yeah, yeah, god of the sci-fi world and all that crap, but his high horse moral positions have left me with a bad taste in my mouth. If I want to be preached to, I'll read a Bible.
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