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... SF than contemporary), I've a whole pile of recent SF books lined up, including Stephen Baxter's Flood, Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns, Alastair Reynolds House of Suns, Greg Bear's City at the End of Time and Greg Egan's Incandescence. This will probably grow as I'm likely to pick up a ... Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder
Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
Hey, Hey, We're the Monkees
Two Brothers: One North, One South by David H. Jones
Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire ... the Stars by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Han Solo at Star's End by Brian Daley
Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder Got an eBook of Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns. #53
FYI- Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns is available online at
http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/video/olmk/tor.com/SchroederSOSHTML/Schroeder,%20Karl%20-%20Sun%20of%20Suns.html
I think Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns has also been described as planetary romance. ... there are still some decent work being produced. Here are some suggestions.
In War Times by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Sun Of Suns by Karl Schroeder
Mathematicians In Love by Rudy Rucker
Counting Heads by David Marusek I've just finished Sun of Suns (B+).
Also, not to be critical, I'd suggest that the on-going political debate probably belongs in another thread, if only because this thread will otherwise reach about four-hundred messages by the end of March! ... least give you a good taste of SF as space fiction and of military SF.
As for what I'm reading right now, I just started Sun of Suns, though I'm finding non-fiction more interesting at this moment. ... Off the top of my head: Jerry Oltion, Joe Haldeman's Camouflage was serialized a while ago, Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns and Queen of Candesce were also serialized.
I also recommend Robert Reed and Carl Frederick as great writers who don't get as much publicity as they ... ... much I pay attention. I hand wrote the list of Hugo nominees (I thought) from one site or another. For some reason I have Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder on the list. I read it instead of His Majesty's Dragon. Was Sun of Suns even eligible this year? It was pretty damn good. Off to find HMD ... I've read Permanence and Sun of Suns. I quite enjoyed both, and will probably read Queen of Candesce when it comes out. These two probably don't have the mind melting qualities that you detect in the other books you mention - the Singularity stuff is either absent or offstage in both. Permane ... It is my understanding that he has Ventus, Permanence, Lady of Mazes, Sun of Suns and in August here in the US, Queen of Candesce a sequel to Sun of Suns. There is also a couple of lesser knowns on www.karlschroeder.com. ... of several months, perhaps) they came to the same positive conclusions. Dukedom_enough has read several, most recently Sun of Suns and has liked them (I'm sure he'll get around to posting evenually). ... idea to write sequels!
Stross and Scalzi are shoe-ins for nominations this year. My husband also thought Schroeder's Sun of Suns a great read. And Andyl, we have two votes for Vandermeer between us!
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