Going to spend a week in the Adirondacks with my folks and sister and her family. I need a book to read.
My favorite authors:
C.J. Cherryh
Neil Gaiman
Jacqueline Carey
George R.R. Martin
Steven Brust
Jim Butcher
William Gibson
Peter Hamilton
Laurell K. Hamilton
Charles DeLint
Kelley Armstrong
Sue Grafton
Any suggestions?
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Order quick and you can have something for the trip! You could see how Gygax writes, go for some Moorecock, or C.L. Moore. I don't have a recommendation beyond that but I thought I would try to pimp out some Paizo stuff....
Chief Technical Officer
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Order quick and you can have something for the trip! You could see how Gygax writes, go for some Moorecock, or C.L. Moore. I don't have a recommendation beyond that but I thought I would try to pimp out some Paizo stuff....
I like the cut of your jib, Mr. Healer.
Going to spend a week in the Adirondacks with my folks and sister and her family. I need a book to read.
Steven Erikson: Gardens of the Moon.
For non-fantasy try of one Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch books. Those are fun.
I thought it was a pretty good book. Richard Baker is a great writer and game designer. I'm looking forward to playing a genasi swordmage in the 4E Forgotten Realms.
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Empyrion by Stephen Lawhead.
It was originally two books: The Search for Fierra & The Siege of Dome.
Probably my favourite book of all time. So much so that after I lent it to a friend who moved away, I went out and bought it again. (Although originally I had both books, and now they only sell it as an Omnibus Edition... grumble, grumble).
I forgot China Mieville.
Anyways, lately, I've been big on urban fantasy, low-magic character-driven epic fantasy, and bizarro steampunk. And anthropological alien stuff.
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Roger Zelazney Lord of Light
Lois McMaster Bujold Spefically The Warrior's Apprentice
William Gibson Burning Chrome
Harry Harrison
Joan D. Vinge
Peter Straub
Stephen King's Gunslinger Stories
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Order quick and you can have something for the trip! You could see how Gygax writes, go for some Moorecock, or C.L. Moore. I don't have a recommendation beyond that but I thought I would try to pimp out some Paizo stuff....I like the cut of your jib, Mr. Healer.
You sound like my wife.....only more.....bookish-mousey.
Stock up on Planet Stories - it's a pleasant change of writing style from the churned-out mass markets of today, plus it's a thrill to see where some of their greats got their RPG inspirations from.
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Chief Creative Officer, Publisher
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Plus, your favorite author C. J. Cherryh writes an introduction to one of them, saying "This is an important book. Read it. Make sure your kids and grandkids read it. It's timeless, and it's that good."
You don't want to disappoint C. J. Cherryh, do you?
Here's the book: Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith, by C. L. Moore.
Or, you know, I hear there's a new Halo 3 novel out.
--Erik
Raymond E. Feist's _Magician_. The BEST fantasy book of the modern era, imo. Also, it's huge (600 plus pages). In the US, it's sometimes sold as two books, Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master. I'd get those before buying the Author's Preferred Edition hardback. You should be able to find them at any decent book store. If you like it, there are a ton of sequals (A Darkness at Sethanon is pretty damned good).
If you like Gibson, go grab Philip K. Dick's _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep_ (aka Blade Runner), or any of his other works.
If you are into Star Wars, Zahn's trilogy that is set after Return of the Jedi is the way to go.
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Well, if you like Steven Brust, see if you can get your hands on his "To Reign in Hell". One of my favorites.
Another good series is Glen Cook's Black Company Trilogy (The Black Company, Shadows Linger, and the White Rose). Fred Saberhagen's Empire of the East trilogy, which is then followed up by The Book of Swords. If you like Steven Brust for his brief to-the-point writing style, you will like Saberhagen and Cook.
What I took on vacation this year is Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint, the Fall of Kings, and the Privelege of the Sword. Another good series.
Oh, and while it's older, I also would recommend Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber. I found it as an e-book and loaded it on my Treo Phone to re-read whenever I'm stuck somewhere I don't want to be ... :)
Well, if you like Steven Brust, see if you can get your hands on his "To Reign in Hell". One of my favorites.
I was happy to see that this was back in print as of a couple months ago. Great read.
If you like The Black Company books, Archade, then I'll reiterate the recommendation of Steven Erikson that I made to Smilodan. Good stuff.
The Kushner books you mention are excellent. Gotta love those characters.
Going to spend a week in the Adirondacks with my folks and sister and her family. I need a book to read.
My favorite authors:
C.J. Cherryh
Neil Gaiman
Jacqueline Carey
George R.R. Martin
Steven Brust
Jim Butcher
William Gibson
Peter Hamilton
Laurell K. Hamilton
Charles DeLint
Kelley Armstrong
Sue Grafton
Any suggestions?
On a completely different track (since your list is pretty eclectic) would be the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters.
One by Niel Gaiman that I really liked was Stardust. They just made a pretty good movie out of it as well.
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Erikson's stuff is amazing. I'm going the other way, having read all of the current Malazan stuff, then reading the Black Company, and it's a lot of fun to see where a lot of Erikson's inspiration comes from. Highly suggest both series to anyone who likes seeing how mostly normal people deal with situations way beyond extraordinary.
Just be sure not to get bogged down by a couple of the less than wholely intelligent characters in Deadhouse Gates. It's still good, and it all picks up in Memories of Ice.
I ended up bringing "Moonheart" by Charles DeLint, but ended up reading a bunch of Newsweeks.
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Going to spend a week in the Adirondacks with my folks and sister and her family. I need a book to read.
My favorite authors: \
For my vacation, I painted the basement stairs 'Adirondack Green'. ... That's almost the same thing, right? ... Right?
No?
Okay. How was the vacation.
Robin Hobb: A prolific, character driven, and unique author. The newest trilogy is her masterpiece:
The Soldier Son trilogy.
Richard Morgan: Brutal, realpolitik cyberpunk with plots like chandler. The genre is called cybernoir. I recommend:
Market Forces.
Altered Carbon.
The smartest historical sci-fi I have ever read, a rip roaring tale, and a very cerebral adventure, is the Baroque cycle by Neal Stephenson. It will blow your mind, and make you look at most genre fantasy with distaste afterwards.
The Baroque Cycle
Simply beautiful. A heartbreaking work of staggering genius:
Shantaram.
If you like well researched sci fi, try this:
Kim Stanley Robinson.
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Great suggestions here - my vote would go to Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy (unless you haven't read Cryptonomicon - in which case read CRYPTONOMICON), or Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (or the more recent 40 signs, 50 degrees, 60 days books), OR...
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski!
Another one for Neil Stephenson - "Snow crash" In the not so distant future a swordwielding hacker / pizza delivery guy, saves california!
Joe Abercrombies - "First Law Trilogy: The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged and Last Argument of Kings." Fantasy with a mean streak.
Charles Stross - "Atrocity archives", Men in black on a shoestring budget:)
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Terry Pratchett's "The Colour of Magic". I have no idea if it meshes well with your list of authors, but i just finished it and it was a delight to read, so i'm basically suggesting it to everyone who's asked me for book reccomendations.
One that I take with me every vacation or trip is Shogun by James Clavell or any of the Dave Barry books. they are all quite funny and a light read. again, no idea how they fit in your list. i'm just sayin.
Steven Erikson: Gardens of the Moon. [...]
I agree. Either this or The Black Company by Glen Cook.
The Black Company series is complete (unless he writes more). Erikson's Malazan series comprises ten books, with the eighth just coming out now. He has consistently written one a year so expect it to be complete in the fall of 2010.
whoa...now i want this. two of my favorite authors working together? awesome.Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
Quick read. Damn funny.
Probably the best part of the novel is the about the authors section. I've read a couple different versions of them, but my favorite was something like this:
Terry Pratchett doesn't really believe anyone else reads these things, but in case he's wrong, he likes it when fans get him banana splits.
Neil Gaiman doesn't think anyone reads these either, but in case he's wrong, he likes it when fans give him scads of cash.
