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Re: Good Books (Scifi)

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 12:47 am
by Gabriel
Wow, I really enjoyed the Honorverse series, though I must say it is really is great to have something else to read while awaiting for Fel's next chapters.

thanks for coming up with this thread everybody. :lol:

Re: Good Books (Scifi)

Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 12:06 am
by boballab
There is three new entries int he Baen Free Library.

Marc Stiegler, Earthweb

David Drake, Starliner

David Weber, The Shadow of Saganami (believe this one has been available at the fifthimperium site.)

http://www.baen.com/library/

Re: Good Books (Scifi)

Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 5:55 am
by dellstart
boballab wrote:There is three new entries int he Baen Free Library.

Marc Stiegler, Earthweb

David Drake, Starliner

David Weber, The Shadow of Saganami (believe this one has been available at the fifthimperium site.)

http://www.baen.com/library/

thanks They are such awesome authours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Good Books (Scifi)

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:57 pm
by shane771574
A new trilogy called The Night Angel by Brent Weeks

Re: Good Books (Scifi)

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:30 am
by boballab
Bean Free Library has 3 new books on it:
We've added three new titles to the Library today. The First three books in Jeffery Carver's "The Chaos Chronicles":

Jeffery A. Carver, Neptune Crossing, Strange Attractors, The Infinite Sea
http://www.baen.com/library/

Hilarious and exciting sci-fi ebook

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:17 pm
by Edengrave
The second chance series by R Richard on fictionwise

http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/rrich ... .htm?cache

I almost posted it in "link to good reading" but the trend there seem to be for free web-reads. so this thread is probably the correct one, as it's not quite free :?

A nice e-book I discovered a while ago. Nothing earthshaking and certainly not high litterature, but an hilarious funny and fresh read. just good and very original yarn.
How original? well the hero or antihero as the case might be, has absolutely no morals 8) lol
For the themes, you have magic, space ships, martial arts, politics, alien civilizations, high tech, and psionics. there are currently 6 ebooks in the series:

Anyway, I greatly enjoyed them. I thought I'd share. Try the first book for size. it's a bit like the Stainless steel rat on steroids :D

Re: Good Books (Scifi)

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 4:55 pm
by boballab
The Torch of Freedom eARC by David Weber is now available from Baen with a Hardcover release set for November for all the Honorverse fans.
You can get it at:

http://www.webscription.net/

For those Honorverse fans that have had a few questions about background information on the Honorverse there is this site:
http://infodump.thefifthimperium.com/
It also contains background info on all his other series as well.

Re: Good Books (Scifi)

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 2:36 pm
by zedd
2 more books for the list

-Skinwalker from Faith Hunter
-Mercedes Thompson serie from Patricia Briggs

The scenario for both are modern times, where vampires and other magical creatures have started to come out of hiding.

Re: Good Books (Scifi)

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 5:18 pm
by firedrake3
I've just finished reading "Sandman Slim" by Richard Kadrey. Excelent book, modern time fantasy.

Re: Good Books (Scifi)

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:47 pm
by TStyle
Oddly enough, I just finished reading "Sandman Slim" as well and I agree, very good book.

I recommend checking out "A Madness of Angels" by Kate Griffin. Very good read - it has an interesting take on modern day magic.

Also check out the "Death's Head" books by David Gunn. 3 Books so far, not sure if this is meant to be a trilogy or series. These are military/sci-fi.

Re: Good Books (Scifi)

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:59 pm
by firedrake3
Currently I'm reading Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith - Pride and Prejudice - and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now With Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem. :mrgreen:

Re: Good Books (Scifi)

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:48 pm
by reborn
shane771574 wrote:A new trilogy called The Night Angel by Brent Weeks
i must have read this like 5 times if you like dark fantasy

amazing trilogy if you liked those try the prince of nothing trilogy and the painted man series (only 1 book out so far), theres also the chronicles of the necromancer book which is kinda similar. Also the sundering (2 book series) by by Jacqueline Carey, composed of Banewreaker, and Godslayer are really really good reads.

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The deaths head books are amusing, reminds me of the orphans series by Buetner, the Clone series by Kent and the Vampire Earth series also.

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Edited by Spec8472: No offering of copyrighted works to which you don't have distribution rights, thanks.

Re: Good Books (Scifi)

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:36 pm
by Greywolf
I have enjoyed some books by

R.A. Salvatore
Terry Brooks
Laura Harris
Anne Rice
David Weber
Jaquelyne Frank
Nora Roberts writting as J.D. Robb
Michael Slade
Kelly Armstrong
Keri Arthur
Dennis L. McKiernen
J.R. Ward
Erica Spindler
Karen MacInerney
Rachel Vincent
L.E. Modestitt jr
Heinlein
Asimov
Tolkien
Andy McDermott
C.S. Lewis
Sherrilyn Kenyon
John Sandford

I hope you like them

Re: Good Books (Scifi)

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:34 pm
by Greywolf
depomm wrote:You can try the stardancer series by ellagon posted on http://storiesonline.net/home.php also on http://www.ewpub.org/ewpub.html. why not try baen books free library http://www.baen.com/library/ have fun Tony ;D
I think ewp has been gone for a while

Re: Good Books (Scifi)

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 7:53 pm
by Phantom
Greywolf wrote:
depomm wrote:You can try the stardancer series by ellagon posted on http://storiesonline.net/home.php also on http://www.ewpub.org/ewpub.html. why not try baen books free library http://www.baen.com/library/ have fun Tony ;D
I think ewp has been gone for a while
yes it has ...it took me a bit to find what you quoted it's was qrininaly posted by depomm on 11 Mar 2005
almost as longs as you've been a member here .......so it's kinda understandable that things change in 5 years.
you have to always check the dates on things here.

Hell the author dosen't even go by the name ellagon any more ...he's now known as Sir Winston and has his own site.
http://newtalos.com/

i know a lot of these may be outdated but others aren't and haveing them is always nice when your looking for
something posted long ago..or something you may not have read yet

it's alwasy nice to still be able to find clues to where and when to start looking ...also others here can lots of times
be big helps in remembering this and that and knowing tid bits as well.

thanks for helping though it would have been useful to know.



Phantom