[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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