Yea Little Fuzzy was one of my favorite books as a kid. Can't wait till my son is old enough to read it.
For those of you who have read lots of these, a question:
Is there any battle better than the Rocinante versus the Protogen Base in Leviathan Wakes? I've never had to just put down a Star Wars book because I was overwhelmed at how incredibly kickass a battle was.
Also worth a go is China Mieville's Embassytown. Not quite a "first contact" novel, but a great story about a really weird alien race, and what happens when a fundamental shift in mankind's relationship with that race occurs...
Recently finished "Fortune's Pawn" by Rachel Bach. Really enjoyed it. Yes, it's unashamed space opera/adventure, but well written and paced just right. Am now looking forward to the next two in the series, having picked up the first on a random "hmm, this looks like it could be fun" whim.
I recall Starship Troopers being a good read. Key word is recall. Haven't reread it in a while.
It is good. so much better than the movie.I was gonna put that book on here, but you beat me to it.
To everybody else reading this: Go read this book! Starship Troopers, by Robert A Heinlein.
I might check those out then. I love Gibson.
Well i say that i've only read neuromance and the burning chrome anthology but i loved those.
I just keep forgetting i like Gibson until people talk about cyberpunk fiction, when im in the bookshop i get distracted by graphic novels and militaria books (work resource for the latter)
I gotta go find me a copy... downed the audiobook but that didn't do it for me.
the Horus heresy novels are good if you are into 40k.
Vary by author (obviously) though.
I found Graham McNeil to be very good, Dan Abnett to a degree (i used to edit some of Dans early gaunts ghosts books and that was *very* frustrating... trying to explain to him why you cant have a 'bolt action autogun'.... its either worked by a bolt or its automatic Dan...choose one...)
My other fave 'debate' i had with Dan was in 'necropolis' (he originally wanted to call it 'vervunhive' which was an awful title so we said no).
In that gaunts ghosts.. an elite recce unit with amazing hunting and tracking skills from a forest world fight side by side with a miners militia who, deafened by shell fire, use sign language when fighting through the rubble.... and they are *amazed*.
SORRY
Like since the first cave man sharpened a stick to throw at a deer he worked out really quckly that shouting 'uggo mate, get here quick i've found a deer' meant that the deer wouldnt be there for very long so worked out sign language.
*every* military unit since antiquity has had hand signals for scouting and every culture for hunting.
It was just ludicrous that an elite recce unit had not thought of this 'innovation'... perhaps they come from a world where all the animals are deaf too....
But that, that he wouldnt back down on and it got into the books.
facepalm
I mean dont get me wrong hes an amazing writer with some great ideas but could be very entrenched.
Vary by author (obviously) though.
I found Graham McNeil to be very good, Dan Abnett to a degree (i used to edit some of Dans early gaunts ghosts books and that was *very* frustrating... trying to explain to him why you cant have a 'bolt action autogun'.... its either worked by a bolt or its automatic Dan...choose one...)
I'm totaly with you on Mcneil: What he did with the origins of the noise marines in "Fulgrim". I always tought it sorta happened over time, marines getting corrupted and starting using these weird bass weapons. I wasn't expecting a bunch of III legion, marines impulsively grabbing some instruments and start rocking out! \m/ yeah!
I liked Dan's "Necropolis" becuase it almost reads like an historical account of the siege of Vervun hive, rather than a novel.
"At the closing of the gates there were such scenes of violence that would only be matched when the gates fell open again three weeks later." Thanks Dan, now i know what's gonna happen!
My other fave 'debate' i had with Dan was in 'necropolis' (he originally wanted to call it 'vervunhive' which was an awful title so we said no).
In that gaunts ghosts.. an elite recce unit with amazing hunting and tracking skills from a forest world fight side by side with a miners militia who, deafened by shell fire, use sign language when fighting through the rubble.... and they are *amazed*.
SORRY
Like since the first cave man sharpened a stick to throw at a deer he worked out really quckly that shouting 'uggo mate, get here quick i've found a deer' meant that the deer wouldnt be there for very long so worked out sign language.
*every* military unit since antiquity has had hand signals for scouting and every culture for hunting.
It was just ludicrous that an elite recce unit had not thought of this 'innovation'... perhaps they come from a world where all the animals are deaf too....
But that, that he wouldnt back down on and it got into the books.
facepalm
I mean dont get me wrong hes an amazing writer with some great ideas but could be very entrenched.
Well it is 40k, the imperium is made of STOOOOPID!
If you think about it: during the heresy (m31) space marines had bolters and imperial army had lasguns.
Now in the 41st millenium- TEN THOUSAND YEARS LATER- space marines still have bolters and imperial guard still have only lasguns! That's like if we still used thrown rocks and sharpened wooden sticks!
we still do but there's a time and a place to act like grade-schoolers..
We live in the age of Iain M Banks (RiP), Alastair Reynolds, Vernor Vinge and Peter F Hamilton. This is the second golden age
James SA Corey belongs in that list, I think. Even if he is actually two people.
Agree! Corey is good stuff.
Has anyone read any Phillip K D!ck novels? I've got all the movies based on his works and i love the titles
"Whe can remembere it for you wholesale" and "Do androids dream of electric sheep" but i've never got around to tracking down a copy.
Edited by Robin Graveswe still do but there's a time and a place to act like grade-schoolers..
Or training for world war IV
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
My other fave 'debate' i had with Dan was in 'necropolis' (he originally wanted to call it 'vervunhive' which was an awful title so we said no).
In that gaunts ghosts.. an elite recce unit with amazing hunting and tracking skills from a forest world fight side by side with a miners militia who, deafened by shell fire, use sign language when fighting through the rubble.... and they are *amazed*.
SORRY
Like since the first cave man sharpened a stick to throw at a deer he worked out really quckly that shouting 'uggo mate, get here quick i've found a deer' meant that the deer wouldnt be there for very long so worked out sign language.
*every* military unit since antiquity has had hand signals for scouting and every culture for hunting.
It was just ludicrous that an elite recce unit had not thought of this 'innovation'... perhaps they come from a world where all the animals are deaf too....
But that, that he wouldnt back down on and it got into the books.
facepalm
I mean dont get me wrong hes an amazing writer with some great ideas but could be very entrenched.
Well it is 40k, the imperium is made of STOOOOPID!
If you think about it: during the heresy (m31) space marines had bolters and imperial army had lasguns.
Now in the 41st millenium- TEN THOUSAND YEARS LATER- space marines still have bolters and imperial guard still have only lasguns! That's like if we still used thrown rocks and sharpened wooden sticks!
It because of 'supply and logistics'. the idea is that the astartes are a huge force but tiny compared to the guard which has *billions* of men.
Andy Chambers always used to say the lasgun is the 'ak47' of 40k...not litterally but more that it is ubiquitous, rugged and easy to make... perfect mass production weapons.
Later mythos also had it that the power packs could be recharged by warming them or by solar energy so it became a 'logisitics light' weapons (no pun intended)
It because of 'supply and logistics'. the idea is that the astartes are a huge force but tiny compared to the guard which has *billions* of men.
Andy Chambers always used to say the lasgun is the 'ak47' of 40k...not litterally but more that it is ubiquitous, rugged and easy to make... perfect mass production weapons.
Later mythos also had it that the power packs could be recharged by warming them or by solar energy so it became a 'logisitics light' weapons (no pun intended)
Yeah but c'mon, its been 10.000 years! the Tau went from black powder to pulse rifles in less time than that.
Ugh lazy mechanicum hogging all the trade secrets. 
And people wonder why i like chaos...
I read Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep when Bladerunner was released.
It is the only novel I've read that I like less than the film version!
Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree jr.), Robert Sheckley (someone very aptly called him "Voltaire with soda"), Jack Vance (especially the Alastor books) and, if you like space opera, the lensmen cycle by E.E. Smith.
In the summer, I went through Pierce Brown's Red Rising, which was fun, if a tad obvious in its "Ender's Game meets The Hunger Games meets Ancient Rome" mashup.
Recently, I've been reading/rereading several of Ursula Le Guin's Hainish novels - Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusion, and my very favorite, The Dispossessed. Quiet, slow, fantastical sci-fi with an anthropological/philosophical bent.
Also very much enjoy Greg Rucka's post-apocalyptic ongoing comic series Lazarus.
