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Pastimes : For Science Fiction (and Fantasy) Reading Enthusiasts
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To: Bob Lao-Tse who wrote (57)6/15/1999 12:19:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 73
 
Heigh-diddly-ho, BLT!
Brin. "Startide Rising" is awesome. It is dense-pack space opera from stem to stern. I would recommend reading "Sundiver" first. While it's a bit slower than "SR", it precedes the former in the first Uplift Trilogy - and thus provides some useful context. The third book, and also a very enjoyable read, is "The Uplift War".
Benford and Brin did a collab called "Heart of the Comet". Dazzling good.
David Brin's "Earth" is, alongside Strieber and Kunetka's "Warday", perhaps the definitive work of ecofiction.

Bear. I read "Queen of Angels" and I barely remember it. It didn't do it for me. Eon and Eternity were very good. But imho his finest form comes with "Blood Music" and with the twins "The Forge of God" and "Anvil of Stars". I just borrowed "The Forge of God" from the library for my fourth read. I got to see Yosemite for the first time last fall, and some of that book happens in the park.

I tried once to read Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris". I couldn't Get It. It was a recco from a fellow grad student. An impenetrable book about an inscrutable planet orbited by a space station full of unhappy people slowly going insane. Bwdik

Have you read "Janissaries"? Pournelle I think. Big big fun.
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