I need some fresh reading material, suggestions appreciated

[blindpig]

I generally browse the new books section at my public library but it's been real slow lately. My taste tend to Delaney, Stephenson, Simak, Herbert and some John Brunner. Weird, I know. Please help!

[phantom power]

1. another calibration point: what's your opinion of David Brin?

[blindpig]

2. well, I really liked The Postman

and was totally pissed off by the movie. May have read others but can't remember.

Maybe this will help: in the greater realm of fantastic fiction I think China Mieville is the best thing since sliced bread.

[Salviati]

3. Have you read Altered Carbon?

By Richard K. Morgan. It's kind of a gritty cyberpunk detective story. There's a sequel as well, Broken Angels... Both are very good.

[blindpig]

4. thanks

cyberpunk I like, law enforcement protagonist can be iffy. I may have seen it on the shelves, I'll give it a shot.

[Salviati]

6. He's not so much law enforcement...

as a one man shitstorm for hire...

[phantom power]

5. You might like Linda Nagata.

"Limit of Vision", "Tech Heaven" or "The Bohr Maker" seem like they might be up your alley.

[blindpig]

7. on the list, many thanks n/t

[SlackJawedYokel]

8. Scott Westerfeld.

In particular, the Risen Empire books.
An intriguing trilogy, if a bit heavy handed, Hybrids/Hominids/Humans by Robert J. Sawyer.
Neal Asher, Gridlinked.
Kage Baker's Mendoza series.
Vurt by Jeff Noon.
Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space books.

Cletus

[blindpig]

9. I've read Hominids

but didn't realise that there were sequals. Intriguing, indeed! Homosexual Neanderthals living in a Deep Ecologist's utopia. Plenty food for thought there but found the writing uninteresting. I'll have to check the rest out. Thanks for all.

[CBGLuthier]

10. Michael Marshall Smith

Haven't read any of his other than Only Forward (in fact going to the bookstore in an hour to find some others) but it was a really good read with a very good style.

Here is an abbreviated desription of it;

Set in a stylized future City where individuals live in neighborhoods organically responsive to their moods and lifestyles, the story begins as a routine missing persons case for its narrator, Stark, an irreverent soft-boiled detective type who specializes in "finding people, or things." Stark's retrieval of Fell Alkland, a scientist who has fled the driven environment of Action Center for the placid Stable neighborhood, proves relatively easy. But pursuit by Action Center operatives and Alkland's crippling work-related nightmares force Stark and his quarry to escape to Jeamland....

To say more would ruin it.

[Technowitch]

11. Dan Simmons - Empyrion series

Great stuff, and he's a wonderful writer, IMHO

[blindpig]

12. liked them

the last book seemed a little rushed. I often find this in series, seems like the writer runs out of steam, starts reaching for boiler plate, cliche, deus ex machinas, whatever. Maybe it's just me, I dunno.

I'm greatly looking forward to the sequal to Ilium due out this year, hope it doesn't disappoint.

[Kellanved]

13. Reynolds: Absolution Gap

A great piece of Sci-Fi, not unlike the Peter Hamilton Books. To a certain degree in the Dune tradition.

[Swede]

14. I recommend Vernor Vinge.

"A Deepness in the Sky" and "A Fire Upon the Deep" are pretty good.