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| 98.1 | | REX::GETTYS | | Tue Jun 26 1984 16:10 | 15 |
| What type are you looking for?? There are so many different types of
SF that it is hard to tell someone which are worth reading and which aren't.
So here is a partial list of authors I think are good!
Most anything by the following:
Ann McCaffrey
Andre Norton
Robert Heinlien
E.E. "Doc" Smith
My mind just went blank!! I'll try to add to this later.
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| 98.2 | | JUNIPR::AGUENTHER | | Thu Jun 28 1984 13:12 | 9 |
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Re: .1 Anything. I didn't want to recreate the "bests" from the earlier
note, just better than average.
John Brunner is another (might be in the bests list). Books - "Shockwave
Rider" (lets here it for computer networks), "The Jagged Orbit" (paranoia
anyone), "Stand on Zanzibar".
/alan
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| 98.3 | | PEN::KALLIS | | Tue Apr 16 1985 14:28 | 14 |
| An almost forgotten author, alas, is Eric Frank Russell. try
SINISTER BARRIER
SENTINELS OF SPACE
DEEP SPACE
for instance. Another is John Taine (actually, mathemetician E. T. Bell)
for example --
BEFORE THE DAWN
FORBIDDEN GARDEN
THE CRYSTAL HORDE
Steve
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| 98.4 | | NACHO::AGUENTHER | | Tue Apr 16 1985 18:06 | 7 |
| Thank you.
My collect includes a number of Russell's works. WASP is pretty good too.
On the other hand, I haven't run across Taine. I'll have to look.
/alan
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| 98.5 | | COUGAR::EDECK | | Fri May 24 1985 15:30 | 2 |
| Anything by Cordwainer Smith--as long as it's his short stories!
They're hard to find, but worth it!
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| 98.6 | Anything by P.K. Dick | COMET::BELKNAP | | Fri Nov 15 1991 13:18 | 4 |
| I see no mention of Phillip K. Dick. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
was the novel that "BladeRunner" was based on.
;^}
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| 98.7 | | MILKWY::EDECK | | Fri Nov 15 1991 16:23 | 9 |
|
Speaking of whom, a collection of his short stories has
just been issued in 5 volumes. Some of his earlier novels
have also been recently reissued. I've seen _The World That
Jones Made_ somewhere. I imagine that more of his novels will
be issued soon, following the article in the NY Times Book
Review last week.
E
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| 98.8 | | GAMGEE::ROBR | Sailing the seas of cheeze... | Mon Nov 18 1991 02:29 | 10 |
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re: .6
wasnt some other recent movie also based on a work of his? im think it
was a schwartzenegger movie... running man was king... anthony did
total recall AFTER the fact... perhaps total recall was based on a dick
work? then he wrote a halfway decent book in conjunction with zelazny
if i recall (deus irae or somethingl ike that)
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| 98.9 | | MILKWY::EDECK | | Mon Nov 18 1991 16:20 | 5 |
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Total Recall was based on "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"
I think the title is (Haven't gotten to that volume yet :) )
"Flow My Tears, the Policemen Said" is also based on PKD.
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| 98.10 | | BSS::C_OUIMETTE | Holographic Interference Repository | Tue Nov 19 1991 19:08 | 11 |
| Re: .9,
> "Flow My Tears, the Policemen Said" is also based on PKD.
I believe that *is* the name of the PKD book, I've got it at
home... Are you aware of another name, or (I'm hoping) that there's a
movie made from the book?
chuck
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| 98.11 | | RUBY::BOYAJIAN | History is made at night | Wed Nov 20 1991 00:05 | 6 |
| re:.10 re:.9
Yes, that's the title of the book. *I* wasn't aware that there was
a movie made from it.
--- jerry
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| 98.12 | no movie | MILKWY::EDECK | | Thu Nov 21 1991 08:33 | 5 |
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Nope, not a movie. It's an opera or oratorio--something along those
lines.
E.
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| 98.13 | < Other good reads....> | KAOOA::HOLLISTER | HOLLISTER | Thu Feb 13 1992 15:03 | 247 |
| Here are some more Authors and Books that I will recommend to other
Fantasy.
Tom Deitz ---> Tales of David Sullivan
---> Windmaster's Bane
---> Fireshaper's Doom
---> Darkthunder's Way
---> Stoneskin's Revenge
This saga is about a young youth name David Sullivan who travel
to the otherworld called Tir-Nan-Og the realm of the Sidhe and get
involved in the conflict against the forces of chaos and death with
the help of moral and Faerie.
Katherine Kurtz ---> The Legens of Camber of Culdi
---> Camber of Culdi
---> Saint Camber
---> Camber the Heretic
---> The Chronicles of the Deryni
---> Deryni Rising
---> Deryni Checkmate
---> High Deryni
---> The historyies of King Kelson
---> The Bishop's Heir
---> The King's Justice
---> The Quest for Saint Camber
---> The Heirs of Saint Camber
---> The Harrowing of Gwynedd
---> The Deryni Archives
---> Lammas Night
Is the stories of a race of humans with strange, magical powers
who fought perjuiced and other forces of evil.
Melanie Rawn ---> Dragon Prince:
---> BOOK 1: Dragon Prince
---> BOOK 2: The Star Scroll
---> BOOK 3: Sunrunner's Fire
---> Dragon Star:
---> BOOK 1: Stronghold
---> BOOK 2: The Dragon Token
These books opened an enchanted gateway to a spellbinding universe
of Sunrunner;s magic and sorcerous evil, of a ruler fighting to bring
peace to a world of warring kingdoms, amd of the dragons - deadly
dangerous yet holding the secret to wealth beyond imagining.
Jennifer Roberson --> The Novels of Tiger and Del
---> Sword-Dancer
---> Sword-Singer
---> Sword-Maker
---> Sword-Breaker
The Stories of Tiger and Del, he a Sword-Dancer of the South, she
of the North, each a master of secret sword-magic. Together, they
would challenge wizards' spells, each other, and other deadly perils on
a desert quests, as well as, snow bound quests.
---> The Chronicles of the Cheysuli
---> Shapechangers
---> The song of Homana
---> Legacy of the Sword
---> Track of the White Wolf
---> A Pride of Prices
---> Daughter of the Lion
---> Flight of the Raven
---> A Tapestry of Lions.
This superb fantasy series about a race of warriors gifted with the
ability to assume animal shapes at will presents the Cheysuli, fated to
answer the call of magic in their blood, fulfilling an ancient prophecy
which could spell salvation or ruin.
Glen Cook ---> From the Files of Garrett P.I.
---> Dread Brass Shadows
---> Cold Copper Tears
---> Old Tin Sorrows
---> Bitter Gold Hearts
---> Sweet Silver Blues
---> Red Iron Nights
These book are a mix of mysteries and magic (sort of a Tomas Magaum
meets Tolken) with a hard-boiled detective in a warring land of magic,
elves, vampires and other deadly peoples.
Robert N. Charrette-->Secrets of Power
---> Shadowrun: Never Deal with a Dragon
---> Shadowrun: Choose your enemies carefully
---> Shadowrun: Find you own Truth
In the year 2050, the power of magic has returned to the earth.
Elves, Mages and lethal Dragons find a home where technology and human
flesh have melded into deadly urban predators.
R.A. Salvator ---> The Icewind Dale Trilogy
---> BOOK 1: The Crystal Shard
---> BOOK 2: Streams of Silver
---> BOOK 3: The Halfling's Gem
This trilogy is about of a group of adventures who sets out to rescue
a friend.
---> The Dark Elf Trilogy
---> BOOK 1: Homeland
---> BOOK 2: Exile
---> BOOK 3: Sojourn
This trilogy is about a honourable and kind Dark Elf name Drizzt
Do'Urden. Who leaves the cruel and dishonourable Cities of Dark Elves
to begin with a new live on the surface.
Gary Gygax ---> Gord the Rogue
---> Saga of Old City
---> Artifact of Evil
---> Sea of Death
---> Night Arrant
---> City of Hawks
---> Come Endless Darkness
These stories thakes place, in part, in the local described in the
World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting, which was created by Gary Gygax.
It revolves around a young theive who must find and vanquish the inhuman
beast who is working to unleash the power of Ultimate Evil.
Teresa Edgerton --->The Green Lion Trilogy
---> Child of Saturn
---> The Moon in Hiding
---> The Work of the Sun
The Trilogy is about a young Sorcess and a Young Werewolf Knight
who batters a treacherous Princess, who is force for destruction.
Tanya Huff ---> Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light
---> Child of the Grove
---> The Last Wizard
---> The Fire's Stone
Aaron (Clan Heir), Darvish (Prince of Ischia),Chandra (Prices
and Wizard of the Nine)--three strangers whose fates were about to become
interwined. For someone had stolen THE STONE, the magical talisman
which stood between Ischia and the volcano's wrath. And unless the
tree could learn to work together on a quest to find THE STONE, Ischia
whould drown in a sea of lava.
---> Blood Price
A Mystry involving a private investigator, and a vampire who try to
solved homicides in the Toronto area.
P.N. Elron ---> The Vampire Files
---> Bloodlist
---> Lifeblood
---> Bloodcircle
---> Art in the Blood
---> Fire in the Blood
A vampire Detective who with a human partner solve mystries.
Andre Norton ---> The Crystal Gryphon
---> Flight in Yiktor
---> Grphon's Eyrie
---> The Witch World
---> Tales of the Witch World 1
---> Tales of the Withc World 2
---> Four from the Withc World
---> Tales of the Witch World 3
---> Storms of Victory
She is the grand dame of all Fanstay writers. A list on Andre
Nortons other book are in notes file 871 in this conference.
Mercedes Lackey---> The Heralds of Valdemar
---> BOOK 1: Arrows of the Queen
---> BOOK 2: Arrow's Flight
---> BOOK 3: Arrow's Fall
---> The Books of the Last Herald-Mage
---> BOOK 1: Magic's Promise
---> BOOK 2: Magic's Pawn
---> BOOK 3: Magic's Price
---> The Mage Winds
---> BOOK 1: Winds of Fate(Hard Cover)
---> BOOK 2: Winds of Change *
---> BOOK 3: Winds of Fury *
( * forthcoming form DAW books in Hardcover)
---> The Mage Winds
---> BOOK 1: Winds of Fate(Hard Cover)
---> BOOK 2: Winds of Change *
---> BOOK 3: Winds of Fury *
---> Vows and Honor
---> BOOK 1: The Oathbound
---> BOOK 2: Oathbreakers
---> BOOK 3: By The Sword
---> The Lark and the Wren
---> BOOK 1: Bardic Voices
---> Knights of Shadows and Dreams.
Her style of writing is all her own. Her characters are wide
range and themselves unusal. If anyone that use to read Horse stories
will enjoy her first three series, The Last series "The Lark and the
Wren" are about musicians. I should warn parent that her books
are NOT met for young adult (15 and under) because she deals with some
adult themes such as Rape, Death, War, Love, and Homesexuality.
She has also written books about a Witch decitive. I do not
have the list of the books, but are also good reading.
Elizabeth Moon---> The Deed of Paksenarrion
---> BOOK 1: Sheepfarmer's Daughter
---> BOOK 2: Divided Allegiance
---> BOOK 3: Oath of Gold
Her books listed above are similar to many women writers who have
a female as a main character and who are warrior. Thou her characters
are not Superwoman or Amazons but who are treated the same as any warrior.
Robert Jordan --->The Wheel of Time
BOOK 1: The Eye of the World
BOOK 2: The Great Hunt
BOOK 3: The Dragon Reborn (Hard cover)
This series is similar to the T.R. TOLKEN's Lord of the Rings
and of David Eddings BELGARIAD and MALLOREON series.
Enjoy!!
Terry
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| 98.14 | | TORRID::lee | At least ROLL OVER once in a while! | Thu Feb 13 1992 16:29 | 7 |
|
Is "A Tapestry of Lions" out then? I haven't seen it anywhere
yet. (but then, I haven't really been looking).
*A*
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| 98.15 | < A Tapestry of Lions > | KAOOA::HOLLISTER | HOLLISTER | Fri Feb 21 1992 23:06 | 13 |
| RE: 98.14
Sorry to disappoint you but it has not come out yet, I think she
is working on another book of The Novels of Tiger and Del series.
Personaly I like her Tiger and Del series much better than her
Shapechanger series. If you notice each new novel involved a new
character, but the characters in the pervious novel always seems to
die. IT IS DEPRESSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What do you think?????????
Terry
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| 98.16 | T & D over shapechangers | TINCUP::XAIPE::KOLBE | The Dangerous Debutante | Mon Feb 24 1992 16:58 | 9 |
| I vote for another Tiger & Del. I really enjoy that series. I haven't read
LIONS yet. I bought and haven't been interested enough after the last one, whose
name I can't remember. I kind of like my protagonists to live. It may not be
very reality based but this *is* fantasy afterall.
Tiger is a great character. He grows and learns. I was mighty disgusted with Del
for awhile. I wanted to smack and her tell her to straighten up and drop the
past. I guess the fact that I could feel so strongly about the character is a
mark of the quality I felt these stories have. liesl
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| 98.17 | < Is Tiger the Thinker??? > | KAOOA::HOLLISTER | HOLLISTER | Wed Feb 26 1992 11:17 | 11 |
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I agree with you, I think Tiger is the most agreeable of the two
characters. Also. most of the time, he thinks thing through more often
then Del, who is ready to go out and fight or whatever.
I like strong female characters, but Del doesn't know when to use
her head and not her brawn. But, I think her character makes Tiger
think thing through more often. What do you think?
Terry
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| 98.18 | < Tiger and Del's new book > | KAOOA::HOLLISTER | HOLLISTER | Wed Feb 26 1992 13:06 | 11 |
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RE:17
I forgot to mention that she has come out with the Fourth book to
the series of Tiger and Del. If you want more information about the
book check out Note 717.18 in this conference.
Enjoy
Terry
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| 98.19 | | MILKWY::ED_ECK | as in agED wrECK | Mon Mar 02 1992 08:47 | 7 |
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I saw an ad for the (final?) collection of Heinlein stories,
so I guess it's out. Includes the story that became the movie
_Destination Moon_, and a few other stories and novellets
(Probably not __The Stone Pillow_, alas...)
Ed E. (note the change in account name)
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| 98.20 | Fionavar Tapestry | WOOK::LEE | Wook... Like 'Book' with a 'W' | Thu Mar 19 1992 17:40 | 2 |
| Guy Gavriel Kay wrote the Fionavar Tapestry which is one of the better fantasy
trilogies.
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