All Things Sci/Fi-Fantasy

psionandy · Dec 22, 2016

NightAngel79 said:
I still love having a packed bookshelf. I like to buy the physical books and pirate the ebooks (sue me)

I'm a big fan of Cory Doctorow.... he gives most of his ebooks away for free...
So I buy the paper copy to put on my shelf (I think of it as a down payment on whatever he's writing next)

NightAngel79 · Dec 22, 2016

I went to half price books couple weeks ago... lets just say I dropped more than a C note

dontpanicbobby · Dec 30, 2016

Conan the Barbarian:
The Complete Collection

Is available for free download at the Amazon Kindle store. You'll need the Kindle app on your Android device to read it. Here's a link to the stories and get the Kindle app for free in the Play Store.

Dngrsone · Dec 30, 2016

Thanks for that heads-up. You can get Tarzan, John Carter collections for cheap, as well as an H. P. Lovecraft anthology.

NightAngel79 · Dec 30, 2016

dontpanicbobby said:
Conan the Barbarian:
The Complete Collection
Is available for free download at the Amazon Kindle store. You'll need the Kindle app on your Android device to read it. Here's a link to the stories and get the Kindle app for free in the Play Store.

Has to be kindle app? Can't use a kindle? (reading article now)

NightAngel79 · Dec 30, 2016

NightAngel79 said:
Has to be kindle app? Can't use a kindle? (reading article now)

Never mind, you can buy right from browser and deliver to any of your linked devices. I just sent it to my kindle.

Great find bobby

dontpanicbobby · Dec 30, 2016

Why can't you get the Kindle app NightAngel79? Is it a work phone/device?

NightAngel79 · Dec 30, 2016

dontpanicbobby said:
Why can't you get the Kindle app NightAngel79? Is it a work phone/device?

No, I just don't like reading on a phone screen. Kindle cloud reader in a pinch, but *nothing* compares to my Kindle Paperwhite

dontpanicbobby · Dec 30, 2016

I've been happily reading e-books since the Pocket PC days on those smaller screens. How big is a Kindle Paperwhite screen?

NightAngel79 · Jan 3, 2017

dontpanicbobby said:
I've been happily reading e-books since the Pocket PC days on those smaller screens. How big is a Kindle Paperwhite screen?

6" But it isn't really about the size. Prolonged use staring at LCD screens can tire the eyes out. The E-Ink screens are amazing, and damned near like looking at a real book. You can also read them in direct sunlight (try that with a smart device screen) and the paperwhite has a built in light for reading in the dark, that isn't so bright it hurts the eyes.

Deleted User · Jan 14, 2017

I've finished reading all of the Game Of Thrones books. So while I'm waiting for Mr Martin to conclude the series with the last two books, I'm looking for a good book series that I can really get into. Any recommendations?
Preferably Sci-Fi/Fantasy, but will consider something different.

Dngrsone · Jan 14, 2017

Any particular sub-genres?

I got a list a mile long...

Deleted User · Jan 14, 2017

Dngrsone said:
Any particular sub-genres?

I got a list a mile long...

Hit me. Start with your best recommendations

dontpanicbobby · Jan 14, 2017

If your into Military Sci-fi and if you haven't read them yet try the Vorkasigan Saga. Been e-books has them and you can try Good Reads. If I were to start it over again I'd star with "The Warrior's Apprentice". Lois McMaster s Bujold is the author.

Dngrsone · Jan 15, 2017

Okay, if you are looking for series...

First, the standard against which nearly all fantasy is compared: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit is a children's book, but almost a mandatory read before you tear into the Lord fo the Rings trilogy. Similar series in the Fantasy Genre (and which have all been compared to LotR) include Terry Brooks' Shannarra series, and Stephen R. Donaldson's Thomas Covenant books (Donaldson has some pretty good science fiction, too. I just finished reading his Gap Cycle series).

Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy is also good, and of course there is the now-ubiquitous Potterverse of J.K. Rowling.

In sci/fi, there are the military books like the aforementioned Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold, which I have yet to read myself, but it is highly regarded, as well as David Weber's Honorverse and Elizabeth Moon's Serrano books (Moon also has a great fantasy series, The Deeds of Paksenarion).

For hard sci/fi, there are a few standalone books which I like: Bones Burnt Black by Stephen Euin Cobb, and []The Martian[/i] by Andy Weir.

I like everything C.J. Cherryh has done, though I am a few books behind in her Foreigner series. I also read anything put out by C.S. Friedman.

Mind you, this is only the tip of the glacier... I can make more specific recommendations if you are into certain genres, such children's literature, hard sf, space opera, steampunk, super-powered fiction, urban fantasy, non-fic, etc.

Deleted User · Jan 15, 2017

Thanks, some good ideas to look into there. I read LOTR and The Hobbit a long time ago, and also the Thomas Covenant series. I never re-read a book.

Dngrsone · Jan 15, 2017

I have gotten old enough that I can reread favorites, because I've forgotten most of the details.

I read this wonderful biography about Tolkien, which inspired me to reread his books, but not only the Hobbit/LotR, but The Silmarillion even, which reads more like a history book, but is the greater background upon which the other books are set. Unfortunately, his stuff is so well-written, I had to take a month off from reading anything else in order to not be disappointed with whatever I picked up next . :rolleyes:

NightAngel79 · Jan 17, 2017

Brent Weeks NightAngel series (where username comes from

His LightBringer series is also excellent, book 4 (5 book series) just came out.

dontpanicbobby · Jan 17, 2017

Came out as an e-book?

Dngrsone · Jan 17, 2017

dontpanicbobby said:
Came out as an e-book?

Was in the closet for a while, is all...

dontpanicbobby · Jan 17, 2017

I'll check it out tomorrow.

Davdi · Aug 17, 2020

Philip K Dick, Murray Leinster, Roger Zelazny, Charles Stross, Christpher Priest, Paolo Bacigalupi, Piers Anthony.
Specific books -
Body of Glass - Marge Piercy
The Year Of The Flood - Margaret Attwood
Tiger Tiger - Alfred Bester
Nonstop and Greybeard - Brian W Aldiss

I could go on almost indefinitely.....

NightAngel79 · Aug 17, 2020

There's a great group on FB run by a bunch of independent Epic Fantasy authors, Epic Fantasy Fanatics. SOme great discussion and great group, stop by and tell them NightAngel sent ya!!!

Dngrsone · Oct 7, 2020

I'm excited to be reading the latest Bobiverse book, River of Heaven on audiobook. It is making my commute go fast, though I tend to spend more time in the parking lot, Hah

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