Main Area and Open Discussion > Living Room

Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading List

<< < (3/8) > >>

rjbull:
I thought Fred Pohl's Gateway one of the best SF novels I've ever read, and have great respect for Ursual K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness.  But there are plenty of good SF novels not on this list:


* Paul McAuley - I specially enjoyed Fairyland and White Devils.
* Ian Macdonald - River of Gods and Brasyl.
* Adam Roberts - especially Salt, On, and Stone.
* Chris Wooding - Retribution Falls and its sequel, The Black Lung Captain.  These are actually fantasies in a steampunk SF leather jacket with a skull and crossbones on the back.  Great fun.
But the list started with SF.  I really love fantasy, and there's a lot of overlap, but it's really a different list.

phitsc:
When a fantasy writer meets the web:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/11/110411fa_fact_miller?currentPage=all
-zridling (April 27, 2011, 08:15 AM)
--- End quote ---

Now that was interesting (although a bit lengthy). I started reading the series about 1 1/2 years ago and am now somewhere into the 3rd book (or is it the 4th?). I stopped reading a few months ago having got really bored with the book. The reason is not the story though, as it is really cool, unusual, well written and absorbing. The problem I have with it is the shear number of parallel story lines. There can be 7 or more at the same time, all telling the same story with the view of different characters. Now that is no problem if you can read a lot. But if you have time for only a few pages a day, it can take weeks until you can read on on certain characters. This started to bother me so much that I decided to put the book aside and read something else first instead.

Now, after reading the linked article, I might even wait reading on until the story actually has an ending ;)

wraith808:
A bit OT:
I just saw the greatest thing I've ever seen, courtesy of that article.  I've seen it over and over in the form of
entitlement- people expecting George R. R. Martin to devote his entire life to finishing the series.  Apparently Neil Gaiman received an e-mail in regards to this whole issue, and his response is priceless! 

He had one blurb that I loved: SpoilerGeorge R. R. Martin is not your bitch

Classic!

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html

Renegade:
Kind of off topic, but some of my favorite artist are Boris:
Spoiler

http://vallejo.ural.net/

And Frank Frazetta:



And just because it is one of the most important images in fantasy art:



http://frankfrazetta.org/

And another brilliant artist, Ian Miller (my #1 favorite):



And even geniuses like Ian Miller worship at the altar of he who must not be named:



http://www.ian-miller.org/


Absolute brilliance.

wraith808:
^ Maybe relink them as thumbnails instead?  Takes quite a while to load them...

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page