Oh, if you love the Blood books, you seriously also need to read her Smoke series. Tony, from the Blood books is the hero of those. They're terrific. I may have to reread the Keeper series- I read them when they first came out but don't recall much about them.
Vinge- Deepness is kind of a sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep, but they're like 10,000 years apart and you really don't have to have read Fire first. Fire is excellent too, but deeply geeky, and rather harder to get into at first.
S.M. Stirling is probably best known for Island on the Sea of Time, a fantasy where he sends the island of Nantucket back to pre-colonial America. Good, but rather more conservative than Sky People.
I've read most of the Company books. All but the last one, or maybe two? I enjoyed them, but I didn't adore them the way some of my friends do. I didn't care for what'sername, Mendoza. I liked Joseph. Interesting ideas, but sometimes weakly plotted.
One of the things I really look for in fiction is plot and structure, preferably with ideas. Gratuitous POV shifts throw me out very quickly. And stories that just kind of wander around exploring their environment have to have a seriously cool environment to distract me from the lack of plot. I'm a bit more forgiving of stories with a novel structure, where character development is the main point, but I have to really like the character. I love mysteries, and SF mysteries especially. John Stith isn't the most lyric writer around, but I really enjoy his plots. Reunion on Neverend is probably his best work.
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Date: 2007-09-07 03:41 am (UTC)Vinge- Deepness is kind of a sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep, but they're like 10,000 years apart and you really don't have to have read Fire first. Fire is excellent too, but deeply geeky, and rather harder to get into at first.
S.M. Stirling is probably best known for Island on the Sea of Time, a fantasy where he sends the island of Nantucket back to pre-colonial America. Good, but rather more conservative than Sky People.
I've read most of the Company books. All but the last one, or maybe two? I enjoyed them, but I didn't adore them the way some of my friends do. I didn't care for what'sername, Mendoza. I liked Joseph. Interesting ideas, but sometimes weakly plotted.
One of the things I really look for in fiction is plot and structure, preferably with ideas. Gratuitous POV shifts throw me out very quickly. And stories that just kind of wander around exploring their environment have to have a seriously cool environment to distract me from the lack of plot. I'm a bit more forgiving of stories with a novel structure, where character development is the main point, but I have to really like the character. I love mysteries, and SF mysteries especially. John Stith isn't the most lyric writer around, but I really enjoy his plots. Reunion on Neverend is probably his best work.