The Sci-Fi Book Thread
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Reading the 2nd Hyperion book. Much better than the first one. First one was enjoyable but a slog.
Issues of the old sci-fi magazine 'IF' have been made available to download from archive.org. "Old" in this case covers the years 1952 to 1974, so adjust expectations accordingly.
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I just finished the Hyperion books. Need a new series. Can't seem to find anything that looks interesting and I'm not sure I want to go back to fantasy.
Nester
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Have you read Ian M Banks yet?
I also really enjoyed the "mote in gods eye" series by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle which I consumed shortly after Hyperion.
I did a quick goodreads lookup of the sparrow and got a copy. Looks promising. I'll keep your recco on my short list.
Ukerric
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16? Try more like 25 plus short stories collections and novellas
It's another series where the character ended up devouring the series. I'll try to avoid spoilage, except for the fact that she doesn't die. His model was Admiral Nelson, and he intended her to die at around fourth book or so in a massive and glorious battle and to switch to her heirs from Grayson, but no luck. She was waay too popular to kill off. On book 3, he would probably still be trying to set her for that death.
So instead, he's writing spin-offs that focus on other parts of the Honorverse (and has other people writing those parts), and tries to keep her as much away from the main action in the main series. He's dialed the series back because he has more fun writing the Safehold series.
It's fully open-ended, don't expect any resolution or whatnot. But it's not 50 shades of Drizzt, Harrington is basically a background secondary character in the last books.
Spin-off series after the main series are:
- YA prequel trilogy about Harrington's ancestor and first contact with the Treecats. Which feels forced since we do know that treecats are fully sentient, and the series is not allowed to have the main characters guess it. Skip.
- "Saganami island" series revolving around Michelle Henke, which are ok, loosely tied to the other spin-off.
- "Crown of Slaves" series which is basically boring attempt at having a bigger and more dangerous threat to the growing Star Kingdom. I'd mostly say "stay away", except this looks like the main series.
- "Call to Arms" prequel trilogy about the rise of the Star Kingdom before they discover their wormhole junction. Fully disconnected from the series (no Harringtons anywhere), more or less ok.
The series is still good mil-fi, but the latter bits aren't as good as the original run.
kaid
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Plus side apparently it looks like the next honor harrington book due out this fall brings the various side spin offs together with the main line again and there will be one more honor harrington mainline book after that to "complete the series" He may wind up going with his original plan to spin off the new series focusing around her kids after some time jump but apparently two more books is it for the mainline honor harrington story line.
gogusrl
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Gonna quote myself. Started on book two, covers all the good parts from book one, it's officially awesome.
assfucking an alien priest inspired a cultural revolution. can't get any better than that
Read the first book of the Ancillary series. Enjoyed the second half...the first part was a LONG set up. Anyone got any further in it? Worth continuing?
Tastes vary, but I would say no. A huge percentage of the second book is tea parties.
No, seriously, literally tea parties.