My non fictions list is long, so I'm not as much interested in adding to that as I am to my fiction list. I like mysteries and sci fi the best though I often read from other genres, too. Currently I am reading "Ready Player One" and just finished the "Wool Omnibus" series.
Do you like your SciFi intimate or galactic space opera?
I would recommend
- Unholy Ghosts
- Unholy Magic
- City of Ghosts
- Sacrificial Magic
by Stacia Kane
About a drug addict church witch called Chess. She works for the Church of Truth where fact is truth and there is no god.
Is a ghostly adventure horror with a very flawed and urban hero. Very descriptive writing style, very, very good. 'Tis also a love story but not Mills and Boon rubbish.
Clarify both intimate and galactic space opera for me, please, Tank - I'm clueless here!
Cool, Stevil, thank you! I just bought Unholy Ghosts for my kindle!
Quote from: bisbell6 on July 25, 2012, 12:53:13 AM
Cool, Stevil, thank you! I just bought Unholy Ghosts for my kindle!
Be good to hear what you think of it. I really liked it, the next one was even better and the third was the best.
I wasn't super excited by the forth Sacrificial Magic as it seemed a bit of a let down after the excitement of the third.
The Fifth should be coming out in a couple of months time.
If you are into SciFi, I highly reccomend the X-Wing series by Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston.
Between them nine books of pure awesome!
As far as sci-fi goes, I am up to the 5th book in the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. Really amazing stuff that makes you think, and they're very accessible in my opinion.
Quote from: bisbell6 on July 25, 2012, 12:51:29 AM
Clarify both intimate and galactic space opera for me, please, Tank - I'm clueless here!
Galactic space opera is set against vast distances and time with big space ships and huge stories. Dune by Frank Herbert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert) would be an example.
Intimate SciFi would be localised and with a limited number of characters in a specific location. All John Wyndham's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wyndham) books are what I would call 'Intimate SciFi.
Wyndham's The Chrysalids is absolutely lovely, though perhaps the least well-known.
There were three Johns in English SF at that time, the others being John Christopher and John Lymington. You could do worse than try John Christopher's The Death Of Grass. Lymington is IMO the weakest of the three, but worth a look if you find any of his stuff.