[thechat] sci-fi recommendation (was LotR)

Jesus G. Gorriti Jesus.Gorriti at iconmedialab.es
Tue Jun 5 06:24:05 CDT 2001


>At 05:28 PM 6/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
>>Can anyone suggest any current authors who are real science 
>fiction writers
>>(not fantasy)?


My all-time favourites:

a) Lois McMaster Bujold / The Vorkosigan Series
	Great storytelling + thrilling plots.
	You won't get hard sci-fi in these ones,
	but an enjoyable and rather cool sherlock-like
	stuff	with some politic schemes going around.
	Though she also has some fantasy books.

URL: http://www.dendarii.com/

b) Iain Banks / The Culture Series
	A bit more complicated than the previous.
	And more hard scifi in these ones. My favourite
	is the 2nd volume: The Player of Games.

URL: http://www.sfsite.com/isfdb-bin/exact_author.cgi?Iain_M._Banks

c) Robert Heinlein + Jack Vance. But this two ain't "current".




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