the Kushiel's series is a good one but its not for people uptight and prudish about sex. its has a lot of sex in it and not the lovey dovey kind no we're talking about whips and chains and shit. this more so in the first 3 books.
Yeah, it was awesome. He's also written other good books, such as nymphomation and automated alice, but of the 3, I think that vurt was my favourite. I think pollen is part of the vurt universe, and atleast one review says its better then vurt, but I haven't read that one yet.
One of my favourite reads lately has been the Dawn's Night Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. Pretty fair lump of paper (about 1200 pages each), which has been described as a space opera. Despite that, the books kept me hanging on throughout. I really liked the imagined technology, which I thought was handled believably; the characters were a bit stereotypic but varied, and included sentient habitats; and the style veered towards a Terry Pratchet sex romp at times, with some demonic pocession thrown in for good measure. Very enjoyable, made better by picking it up randomly at a secondhand book shop!Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
If you Google +torrent +"science fiction and fantasy" +13130 You can find a lot of out of print books in PDF format. How long will it take you to read 4 GIGABYTES? psik
The ideal reading medium for PDFs would be a Netbook laptop. Light weight enough to relax on a lazyboy or on the bed.... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I convert the PDFs to TXT files and use this to read them. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! http://www.lordpercy.com/archos_pma400_review.htm I have installed the program JustReader for the text files. The only problem is that it doesn't have automatic scroll. It is also an MP3 player so I use it for audio books. What I find incredible these days is little kids going to school with these HUGE back packs. It is like half of the kid could fit in these things. Like, what do they need with so much stuff? And then I have got 200 megabytes of e-books in my pocket, plus a couple of gig of audio books and seven gigabytes of music and 5 gig of Stargate Atlantis videos. What is wrong with these kids? OK, its not the kids. Its the schools and their parents. psik
Quirky Sci-Fi Writers I liked Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons, they were really original and quirky. I also liked Cordwainer Smith I think everyone who really into science fiction should read he’s short story “Scanners Live In Vain” it’s amazing and he wrote it in 1945!
Finished Anathem last week. Also read Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon and his System of the World Trilogy. And In The Beginning Was The Command Line.
It's atypical Stephenson novel: information dense with a good story. It's not his mathematics. He's just using and passing on existing concepts.
