So, I just finished "The Taste of Apples", excellent rec, thank you!
Bujold- I love her SF, but don't care for her fantasy at all. I read the first one of The Sharing Knife books (which I reviewed here (http://redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com/12169.html#cutid2)). It's frustrating, because she's a good writer in many ways. I just wish she'd bring some of the plotting and pacing skill she shows in SF into her other work.
I think what I've most liked in recent SF is Tanya Huff's Valor series. Classic military SF, with enough humor to make it enormous fun.
If I were going to recommend just one SF book for all time, I think it would have to be Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky. Big ideas, creepy bad guys, sense of wonder, terrific characters, and a twisty plot that keeps you on the edge of your seat. I keep trying to reread it to figure out how he did it- and every time, I lose track of what I'm doing and just get sucked into the plot.
Let's see... (one of my resolutions this year was to keep track of everything I read, which makes this whole rec thing so much easier!)... Oh! Yes, Steve Stirling's new book The Sky People was a lot of fun. Venus. Dinosaurs. Dirigibles! Okay, so not so SFnal. It's a 'what if the solar system had turned out to be like the writers of the pulps imagined it' novel. (Which I also reviewed. (http://redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com/12708.html#cutid1)) I'm looking forward to the next one of these.
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Date: 2007-09-07 02:40 am (UTC)Bujold- I love her SF, but don't care for her fantasy at all. I read the first one of The Sharing Knife books (which I reviewed here (http://redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com/12169.html#cutid2)). It's frustrating, because she's a good writer in many ways. I just wish she'd bring some of the plotting and pacing skill she shows in SF into her other work.
I think what I've most liked in recent SF is Tanya Huff's Valor series. Classic military SF, with enough humor to make it enormous fun.
If I were going to recommend just one SF book for all time, I think it would have to be Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky. Big ideas, creepy bad guys, sense of wonder, terrific characters, and a twisty plot that keeps you on the edge of your seat. I keep trying to reread it to figure out how he did it- and every time, I lose track of what I'm doing and just get sucked into the plot.
Let's see... (one of my resolutions this year was to keep track of everything I read, which makes this whole rec thing so much easier!)... Oh! Yes, Steve Stirling's new book The Sky People was a lot of fun. Venus. Dinosaurs. Dirigibles! Okay, so not so SFnal. It's a 'what if the solar system had turned out to be like the writers of the pulps imagined it' novel. (Which I also reviewed. (http://redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com/12708.html#cutid1)) I'm looking forward to the next one of these.