Books - Science Fiction and Fantasy Thread #4

Soz · 02-06-2007, 12:40 AM

Continuing thread.

Stefy, I really want to read Kindred. I was just reading a discussion about it online. I'd have to be sure that a college SF lit class included female authors because one of my pet peeves is when women authors are left out, especially considering that Frankenstein is considered the original SF novel and it was written by a woman! The college I attempted to go to offered an SF class that filled up fast, but most of the books were Golden Age SF, which I avoid like the plague.

Love & Passion · 02-06-2007, 04:42 AM

I'm currently reading a lot of Robin Hobb...

Stefy · 02-06-2007, 05:11 PM

Yay new thread.

Soz I completely agree. I was really glad that the Professor chose to include women's writings in this class. Actually, for our next class we are going to discuss 2 short stories written by women. I just have to go now and read them.

You should pick up Kindred. I don't want to give much away, but it's really a quick and enjoyable read. The main character is a modern day African-American woman, which would be a woman of the '70s because that's when the novel was written, who keeps going to the past in order to help out a boy, whose father owns a plantation during slave owning times. I would never have thought of combining a slave narrative into a sci-fi. It's really interesting.

Rachel · 02-06-2007, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by bones_em_temp (View Post)

I'm currently reading a lot of Robin Hobb...

I just started Assassin's Quest last night and I just want to do nothing besides read it so that I can finally see Fitz happy and settled. I'm at the very beginning where's he's all alone and not making the greatest decisions. I just feel so bad for him. Did you like the Fool trilogy?
--Rachel

Shera · 02-07-2007, 10:26 AM

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I just started Assassin's Quest last night and I just want to do nothing besides read it so that I can finally see Fitz happy and settled. I'm at the very beginning where's he's all alone and not making the greatest decisions. I just feel so bad for him. Did you like the Fool trilogy?
--Rachel

I LOVE Robin Hobb. I've read both Fitz trilogy's plus the Liveship Trader series and have just started the Soldier Son (this one set in a new world). I find Hobb's story telling mesmerizing and I always seem to fall in love with the main characters.

Soz · 02-07-2007, 12:39 PM

Hmm, maybe I should start reading Robin Hobb then?

I've read a few of her stories as Megan Lindholm from the old Liavek shared-world anthologies.

Stefy, that's really cool. I actually have Kindred, as well as all of Butler's other books, except her final book Fledgling, which I keep missing out on when it becomes available on trade sites. I just wasn't in the mood to read her books for a while.

**TheAngel** · 02-08-2007, 08:02 AM

I'm reading Matthew Lewis's The Monk for an introduction to fiction class. It's a pretty good gothic novel and while so far it doesn't have any fantasy elements, apparently there are ghosts in the chapter I'm on. I'm reading so many things for other classes that right now I really don't have time to read what I actually want to read. I have an urge to go out and buy a couple good books, but I know I won't read them so I'm sitting on my hands and keeping myself from doing so. After this week everything will be a lot better.

Soz · 02-10-2007, 05:08 AM

I finished Green Rider and I liked it, so I will probably read the second book First Rider's Call next month.

Now I'm starting Exile's Honor by Mercedes Lackey. I've been in such a Lackey mood lately, so I figured I'd catch up on the Valdemar books, plus I'm going to catch up on her Five Hundred Kingdoms series too.

**TheAngel** · 02-10-2007, 08:46 AM

My parent's are coming into town today. I may drag them to the bookstore and buy a couple of things so they can take them back home for me. I don't really have room in my dorm or time to read them but the bookstore here is a lot nicer than the one back home unless I go into the city, which is always a traffic hassle. I also need to tell them to preorder the new Harry Potter book for me. When the 6th one came out two years ago I actually had a friend's wedding to go to and ended up getting up really early the next day and reading for about two days straight until I was done.
I really want to start on The Clone Republic by Steven Kent
This is what the back jacket says:

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Private First-class Wayson Harris was raised in a UA orphanage among thousands of clones born and bred to be the ultimate soldiers. But Harris isn't like the other marines: He has a mind of his own. He figures he's paying for that independent streak when his first assignment out of boot camp is the smallest Marine outpost in the whole UA.
When a rogue general surfaces, the remote desert world Harris thought was a dead-end posting becomes anything but. Fighting off the general's raid gains Harris a promotion. But is also brings him the attention of some unfriendly UA leaders. They have their own plans for the military-plans Harris disrupts by his very existance. For in an army of clones, the one unforgivible sin is to be different...

Sounds like a fun book to me. And occasionally I like military sci-fi. Maybe I'll get to it in a couple months...urg.

Soz · 02-14-2007, 09:27 PM

Exile's Honor is pretty good, although I'm glad I took an extended break from reading Lackey's books. Her use of italics can get on my nerves, plus I have a feeling that certain events might not match up between this book and others in the series (this is a prequel), but I can't remember minute details from the rest of the series now.

--JessiCA-- · 02-16-2007, 09:13 AM

im reading Isaac Asimov's ''I,Robot'' now. this book is perfect. i watch this film a year ago film is good too.

**TheAngel** · 02-16-2007, 12:40 PM

I haven't read that yet, mainly because while I thought the movie was Ok, it wasn't great and if I see the movie first it normally takes me a while to read the book.

**onionroach** · 02-18-2007, 05:16 AM

The Green Rider sounds familiar. Hmm...

I'm rereading The Scar by China Mieville. I love that book. I just wish I knew someone else who's read it so I can discuss some points. Oh well. I'm also reading Xmen Fairy Tales. It's interesting.

Soz · 02-19-2007, 01:06 PM

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The Green Rider sounds familiar. Hmm...

I know someone who posts on this thread has read Green Rider. It's about a girl named Karigan who is running away from school and gets herself tangled up in her country's intrigue when she meets a Green Rider on the road. It's somewhat similar to Lackey's Valdemar books.

I finished Exile's Honor and I liked it. I think the extended break from Lackey and this series really benefitted me (although I found myself trying to remember events from the other Valdemar books so I will have to dig them out and flip through them).

Now I'm reading Shadows of Myth by Rachel Lee (another Luna book) and so far, it's pretty good. It's much more interesting than the last Luna book I read and it's short so it's pretty fast-paced.

**onionroach** · 02-20-2007, 05:03 AM

Yeah, I did read that book! LOL I'm so bad with titles.

I know I've read a Rachel Lee book, but I don't think it was a Luna. I'll try to find her Luna at the library.