Kingkiller is awsome, stormlight I just started so can't judge, wheel of time was my 14 book long guilty little pleasure, dark tower was good. The prince of nothing series by R Scott Baker was interesting as well and worth my time.

Westy

England808 Posts

July 01 2014 02:21 GMT

#482

Looking for some new fantasy book suggestions. Have read and enjoyed Kingkiller Chronicles. Stormlight Archives, Prince of Thorns trilogy. Looking for something along those lines.

I have been considering Lies of Locke Lamora or Malazan, book of the fallen for my next read, but can't decide which to bother with first!

intothewhite

Australia60 Posts

July 01 2014 02:49 GMT

#483

Lies of Locke Lamora is a LOT shorter,

Nyovne

Netherlands19137 Posts

July 01 2014 07:54 GMT

#484

Malazan, do it. Do it now.

h41fgod

Sweden377 Posts

July 01 2014 09:31 GMT

#485

Cant go wrong with either.

SirJolt

the Dagon Knight4010 Posts

July 01 2014 10:39 GMT

#486

I'm currently reading a collection of Robert Sheckley short stories that just keeps blowing my mind. There are stories written in the first half of the twentieth century that work around the idea of a future where police work is done by a network of automated, flying drones that are in constant communication via a wireless* data network.

Fascinatingly prescient, wonderfully weird :D

There's also one of his short stories about a computer that knows everything there is to know about our universe and how it works. The short story follows characters who are on a journey to ask it the meaning of life. I would be staggered if it weren't what Douglas Adams based he Hitchhiker's Guide on.

*Written at a time when "wireless" meant "radio."

{CC}StealthBlue

United States41117 Posts

September 17 2014 17:43 GMT

#487

Does anyone know any good first contact books or Alien among us type of stories?

Sermokala

United States14076 Posts

September 17 2014 17:59 GMT

#488

I was very satisfied with the mistborn series.

Powerpill

United States1693 Posts

September 17 2014 18:11 GMT

#489

On September 18 2014 02:43 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Does anyone know any good first contact books or Alien among us type of stories?

There you go

(Seriously though, anyone else read those when they were kids? lol... ah the good old days)

SK.Testie

Canada11084 Posts

September 17 2014 18:23 GMT

#490

On July 01 2014 16:54 Nyovne wrote:
Malazan, do it. Do it now.

MajuGarzett

Canada635 Posts

September 18 2014 03:21 GMT

#491

On September 18 2014 02:43 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Does anyone know any good first contact books or Alien among us type of stories?

You could try The Mote In God's Eye.

Just_a_Moth

Canada1964 Posts

September 18 2014 03:54 GMT

#492

On September 18 2014 02:43 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Does anyone know any good first contact books or Alien among us type of stories?

Blindsight. By Peter Watts.

It's weird as fuck. But it's fucking beautiful.

Xxio

Canada5565 Posts

September 18 2014 21:15 GMT

#493

On September 18 2014 02:43 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Does anyone know any good first contact books or Alien among us type of stories?

Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
The Puppet Masters (Robert A. Heinlein)

Enjoyed these three

Just_a_Moth

Canada1964 Posts

September 19 2014 01:52 GMT

#494

Oh, yeah Childhood's End is the only one I've read out of those three, but it is really good.

Djzapz

Canada10681 Posts

September 20 2014 02:29 GMT

#495

I don't know where to ask this so I figured I'd ask here. I'm buying the 10 Malazan books, I have the first 4, the books 6 to 10 are available in the edition that I have. But 5 isn't.

This is the layout of the books of my collection (available for books 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10):
These are all available from amazon.ca and other retailers. As you can see, there's a "banner" type thing at the top and the title of the book at the bottom.
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This is the layout of the book 5 that's available on amazon.ca:
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So I'm looking for the right one: + Show Spoiler +

but it's no where to be found

. Is this the worst feeling or what.

GGQ

Canada2653 Posts

September 20 2014 02:38 GMT

#496

I hate that. Here's a nasty little tidbit to make you a bit more cynical: sometimes publishers change the layout partway through the series just so people who bought the earlier books have to rebuy them if they want to complete set in one layout.

Djzapz

Canada10681 Posts

September 20 2014 02:50 GMT

#497

On September 20 2014 11:38 GGQ wrote:
I hate that. Here's a nasty little tidbit to make you a bit more cynical: sometimes publishers change the layout partway through the series just so people who bought the earlier books have to rebuy them if they want to complete set in one layout.

Thankfully it's not the case here but it's close. The 5th book, Midnight Tide with the purple cover that I want does exist and it has been printed, there are some floating around for 2-3x the price of the other 9. I'm not sure if it was under-printed or what but I know it's annoying as hell and I'd rather not have to import a book from a Canadian author from Australia.

VorGirL

72 Posts

September 20 2014 07:30 GMT

#498

Temeraire series for historical dragons cuz its super cool

Mistborn trilogy for cool steampunk awesome

vorkosigan saga for, um, idk...romance, plots, humor, sci fi, everything

honor harrington series, like 12 books and counting of military sci fi, amazing series

Manit0u

Poland17613 Posts

September 25 2014 06:33 GMT

#499

Blindsight by Peter Watts

Blew me away. Borrowed it to a couple of friends and it blew them away too.

Zealously

East Gorteau22261 Posts

September 25 2014 08:53 GMT

#500

On September 20 2014 11:50 Djzapz wrote:

Show nested quote +

I bought all ten books when The Crippled God was published and it still bothers me that my Reaper's Gale is the wrong edition. If you're obsessive about your bookshelf, just buy the "right" edition (NO MATTER THE COST)