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Reading Gridlinked by Neal Asher - just came across few Polity-series novels in the local bookstore so I have quite a list for the coming days :) ... - Iain M. Banks
Welcome Chaos - Kate Wilhelm
The Fresco - Sheri S. Tepper
Thirteen - Richard K. Morgan
Gridlinked - Neal Asher
Cowl - Neal Asher
The Morcai Battalion - Diana Palmer
The Stars Down Under - Sandra McDonald
Warchild - Karin Lowachee
The Falling Woma ... OK -
Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
Four ways to forgiveness, by Ursula K Le Guin
Gridlinked (first in a series, ongoing), by Neal Asher
Cowl, by Neal Asher
The end of eternity, by Isaac Asimov
Forty thousand in Gehenna, by C.J. Cherryh
... more ... #4o
I have been trying to get my hands on the sequel to The Skinner but am worried by how much I don't like either Gridlinked or Brass Man. It might Escape from LA the book I do like. (Which is to say, Escape from LA broke the time/space barrier and made Escape from New York retroactively ... ...
9. Butcher Bird by Richard Kadrey
10. A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
11. Renegade's Magic by Robin Hobb
12. Gridlinked by Neal Asher
13. The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
14. A Sword from Red Ice by J.V. Jones
15. The Escapement by K.J. Parker
16. Julius Winsome by G ... ... The Skinner and it was so good I ordered the sequel (The Voyage of Sable Keech) from the U.K. and started re-reading Gridlinked. I may have to go on an Asher buying spree before I get back to my TBR piles.
Other than that, I don't have the latest from Charles Stross, Iain Ban ... ... of Polity OK/Good, but Asher is not for everyone; he's very.. splattery/gory. 2nd of the Agent Cormac books (First is Gridlinked)
Neal Stephenson -
Zodiac Environmental thriller; kind of OK but there are better books out there
Interface Political thriller, ... ... Wess'har wars, and Elisabeth Bear's Carnival.
Alastair Reynolds (Revelation Space) and Neal Asher (Gridlinked, The Skinner) are good too.
Walter Jon Williams's Metropolitan is not as definitely science fiction, but takes place in a very different futuristic ... ... George Eliot
To Die in Italbar by Roger Zelazny
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gridlinked by Neal Asher
Idoru by William Gibson
The Time of the Dragons by Bruce Venables
And three Gary Jennings books: Aztec Autumn, Aztec Blood ... Gridlinked by Neal Asher
Crystal Line by Anne McCaffrey
N-Space by Larry Niven
The Zenith Angle by Bruce Sterling
Slant by Greg Bear
... out coming out in bookstores stateside, like The Line of Polity and Prador Moon aren't new at all over there. I mean, Gridlinked was published in 2001!
And yes, you're right - the qualifier does make it OK -I guess I just didn't think of needing to limit "new" authors to ones that are ... Oh and second Neal Asher though he's really not new anymore is he? I read Gridlinked years ago... and no, I'm not in the UK. How could I forget about Neal Asher?! Skip The voyage of the Sable Keech, though. I'd recommend The Skinner, plus Gridlinked and Cowl.
reading_fox and I are known to disagree on Neal Stephenson - while Snow Crash is excellent I think the quadruple of Cryptonomicon, Quicksilve ... ... a lot of his stuff, he's also penned some things that are not... well, let's be diplomatic... ..."as good as the rest".
Gridlinked, Skinner, Brass Man, The Line of Polity and Cowl ranges between good and very good. But avoid the collections and if you're not into supergory ... ... for Pashazade... I also sort of like/appreciate the covers of some of Ashers' books, like Gridlinked, even if I agree with Bookmasterjmv that too busy covers is turning me off.
Also, I like nice typography. Le Guins' books are almost always set in a font ... ... over,Breakaway,Killswitch
Ken MacLeod sure. Have read a few of his. A Deepness in the Sky? Yeah, ,definitely. Gridlinked was ok for me.
Just read Declare, similarly. Might prefer my John Le Carre or Len Deighton how they are, perhaps. How that was handled was a little ... Yes, Gridlinked was good, and Skinner. I'm ambigous on the rest, and I still has to finish The Voyage of the Sable Keech, even if I bought it the minute it was released... ... Accelerando.
Some of the others I feel are worthy in no particular order -
Air
A Deepness In The Sky
Declare
Gridlinked and some of the rest of the Neal Asher polity universe stuff.
River Of Gods
Bold As Love and sequels
Pashazade and the sequels. I would also ...
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