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shiva opton....
« on: August 22, 2004, 11:16:51 am »
just finished reading "the shiva option" by david webber and steve white.

awesome book, i would recomend it to anyone!  what are your favorite
sci-fi books?
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Re: shiva opton....
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2004, 11:31:26 am »
Quote from: interloper on August 22, 2004, 11:16:51 am
just finished reading "the shiva option" by david webber and steve white.

awesome book, i would recomend it to anyone!  what are your favorite
sci-fi books?


Did you ever read its predecessor, In Death Ground?

Weber and White's Starfire-universe books are very good.  I also recommend Crusade.

Edit:  I understand that these two books are now available in one hardcover volume, The Stars at War.

I love Turtledove's "Alternate America" trilogies--"The Great War," "American Empire," and the new "Settling Accounts."

Another alternate history I recommend is James Hogan's The Proteus Operation.

Jack McDevitt combines archeology with sci-fi in The Engines of God.

All very good books!
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Re: shiva opton....
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2004, 11:33:47 am »
Check out Weber's series starting with Mutineer's Moon
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Re: shiva opton....
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2004, 12:34:10 pm »
Gene wolfe book of teh new sun.
Fantasy wise Reimond E. Feist
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Re: shiva opton....
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2004, 12:53:42 pm »
Favorite Sci-Fi currently...

Issac Asimov's

Starting in the Robot Novels and going all the way through the Foundation Series ending at Foundation and Earth!
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Re: shiva opton....
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2004, 12:55:33 pm »
Quote from: Dash Jones on August 22, 2004, 12:53:42 pm
Favorite Sci-Fi currently...

Issac Asimov's

Starting in the Robot Novels and going all the way through the Foundation Series ending at Foundation and Earth!

Asimov makes a cameo appearance in The Proteus Operation.  :)
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« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2004, 01:27:31 pm »
 Im finding out i love every thing by David Webber.
And i mean really love his work. :) I have been in the process of reading all of his works for the last year or so.
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Re: shiva opton....
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2004, 02:15:51 pm »
Nothing can replace (in my heart...wherever the SNCO board put it) is the Amber series...I've reread it numerous times (many for those in Rio Lindo)*  and always find something new..


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* Cheap shot...but I just dealt with too many people taking thier children grocerary shopping with them...leave them at home..duct tape them to wall if necessary..

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« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2004, 03:06:49 pm »
I'm also reading Foundation at the moment.  Thought I would go back read some of the classics. 
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« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2004, 03:10:54 pm »
Quote from: Ravok on August 22, 2004, 01:27:31 pm
Im finding out i love every thing by David Webber.
And i mean really love his work. :) I have been in the process of reading all of his works for the last year or so.

Same here.  Unfortunately, I have now read all of his books that I know of and have to wait for him to write new.
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Re: shiva opton....
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2004, 03:28:06 pm »
One can always read "Cities in Flight" by James Blish..kinda old and obscure..but then some of the best was written in the 50' s- '70's

Mike

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Re: shiva opton....
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2004, 06:57:34 pm »
Quote from: Sethan on August 22, 2004, 11:33:47 am
Check out Weber's series starting with Mutineer's Moon
read that one it was awesome
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Re: shiva opton....
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2004, 07:16:46 pm »
Quote from: Capt. Mike on August 22, 2004, 03:28:06 pm
One can always read "Cities in Flight" by James Blish..kinda old and obscure..but then some of the best was written in the 50' s- '70's

Mike


\ Citys in flight was awsome! I have been lookingfor a copy for years and have not found one yet.
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Re: shiva opton....
« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2004, 09:07:06 pm »
I'll look and see if I still have it..have over 30 years of stuff shoved in the garage...to quote

"what's the only city with two names the same?"


great stuff...

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Re: shiva opton....
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2004, 09:26:59 pm »
 Thanks!!! :)
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Re: shiva opton....
« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2004, 11:09:37 am »
My fav? "In Conquest Borne" by C.S. Friedman, and by a very large margin. The only flaw is that you can easily guess who's going to "win" in the end (but not how).
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Re: shiva opton....
« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2004, 04:41:42 pm »
There are three books out there about HALO (the X-Box game) the first and last book are incredibly good!  The middle on is written by another author and just follows the game to the T yet isn't as saticfying as Eric Nylund's writing. 

The authors I constantly re-read are Anne McCaffrey (Pern, the T&Ts and beyond), Andre Norton (her Witch World and anything to do with cats), and Laurell K. Hamilton but only her Anita Blake books.  Humm hey that's all women!  Let's see . . .  Oh I do read Terry Pratchet but then he isn't SciFi . . .  How about Spider Robinson and Neil Gaiman?
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Re: shiva opton....
« Reply #17 on: August 23, 2004, 05:31:36 pm »
You mean you haven't read Heinlien's "The Cat who Walks Through Walls"?   If not, shame on you :skeptic: ..the whole Lazarus Long series is well worth a read.

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Summum ius summa iniuria.

The more law, the less justice.

Cicero, De Officiis, I, 33

"It doesn't, and you can't, I won't, and it don't
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My chops were not as fast...[but] I just leaned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops.  I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes.
 --Les Paul

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« Reply #18 on: August 23, 2004, 06:29:21 pm »
Quote from: Capt. Mike on August 23, 2004, 05:31:36 pm
You mean you haven't read Heinlien's "The Cat who Walks Through Walls"?   If not, shame on you :skeptic: ..the whole Lazarus Long series is well worth a read.

Mike

Im going to secong that these books are a" must read" For any body who likes SF
 Lazurus Long is the Man! :)

 I also re read Ann MaCaffery on a regular basis, the woman is a god. :)
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Re: shiva opton....
« Reply #19 on: August 23, 2004, 06:38:24 pm »
And one should never forget the "Amber" series...can be confusing, but after you read it 12, 14 times..some things clear up...and the follow on by the new author (the pre-quill) is shaping up...


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Summum ius summa iniuria.

The more law, the less justice.

Cicero, De Officiis, I, 33

"It doesn't, and you can't, I won't, and it don't
it hasn't, it isn't, it even ain't, and it shouldn't
it couldn't"
FZ, 1974

My chops were not as fast...[but] I just leaned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops.  I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes.
 --Les Paul
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