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Maybe this will get moved to the off-topic section i can't find. "general discussion"

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CETA Elitist
The Prometheus Society
#1 - 2013-12-05 19:29:23 UTC  |  Edited by: CETA Elitist
Hello fellow capsuleers. i have a little request. I am out of books to read and am looking to improve my reading experience.
This being Eve, i would expect that at least some of you reading this know some good sci-fi authors.

My reading background: starting off with Jack McDevitt then moving on to Iain Banks' Culture Novels and finally to Tony's Templar One novel and Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star and Great North Road novels.

I have already received a recommendation for a book called Learning the World independent of the above information.

I hope some of you would be willing to recommend an author that would present a challenge, or at least serve as a step up fom the above authors I mentioned.

note: While i became invested in Peter Hamilton's novels, I care little for investigation-style plots. I was more interested in......everything else.

also I'm asking because i assume most people here are older and more experienced than I. I am what you people would call a "kid" despite my legal status.

thanks! \o/
Destination SkillQueue
Doomheim
#2 - 2013-12-05 19:44:51 UTC
For the future, off-topic is called out of pod experience or OOPE.
Caviar Liberta
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2013-12-05 19:46:36 UTC
CETA Elitist
The Prometheus Society
#4 - 2013-12-05 19:50:27 UTC
Destination SkillQueue wrote:
For the future, off-topic is called out of pod experience or OOPE.

oh, thanks :P
CETA Elitist
The Prometheus Society
#5 - 2013-12-05 19:51:15 UTC
Caviar Liberta wrote:
Greg Bear

His name is familiar.....thanks for link Big smile
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#6 - 2013-12-05 20:32:41 UTC
Check out this old thread-- 3 pages of sci-fi reading recommendations.
Ezekiel Ironstone
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2013-12-05 21:22:26 UTC
Caviar Liberta wrote:
Greg Bear


+1

Eon and Eternity are some of my favorites. The Forge of God and Anvil of Stars are a good set as well.

OP: If you've not read the Nights Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton, that's a nice set of books also (some refer to it as the "Reality Dysfunction" series)
Ursula Thrace
Dreamland Augmented Consortium
#8 - 2013-12-05 21:32:42 UTC
here's one of my favorite sci-fi books.

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Garric Blackk
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-12-05 21:41:14 UTC
Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series is really good. A little bit of heavy reading but interesting.
Ocean Pollen
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2013-12-05 22:19:07 UTC
John Ringo. You can tell you're reading a Ringo book as 1) hey have you heard of this cool Goth band called Cruxshadows?, 2) a major focus will be the creation and tribulations of a military organization/group/squad, 3) a character will start singing inappropriately, 4) a character will display seriously jarring, unbelievable behavior. (But at least he's not Devid Weber.)

But they're pretty good books. Take a look at Through the Looking Glass, March Upcountry, and Troy Rising. There Will Be Dragons has some super futuristic SF elements, but is basically fantasy. Under a Graveyard Sky somehow isn't terrible even though it's a zombie book, and it also has some pretty good SF elements in the vaccine production and analysis of the virus.
Miss Cattniess
Doomheim
#11 - 2013-12-05 23:07:34 UTC
Big smileThe Chanur novels is a series of five science fiction novels (forming three separate stories) written by science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh, Alliance-Union universe, The Pride of Chanur, . Chanur's Venture, The Kif Strike Back, Chanur's Homecoming, Chanur's Legacy, The Chanur Saga & Chanur's Endgame.
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#12 - 2013-12-05 23:09:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Ocean Pollen wrote:
John Ringo. You can tell you're reading a Ringo book as 1) hey have you heard of this cool Goth band called Cruxshadows?, 2) a major focus will be the creation and tribulations of a military organization/group/squad, 3) a character will start singing inappropriately, 4) a character will display seriously jarring, unbelievable behavior. (But at least he's not Devid Weber.)

But they're pretty good books. Take a look at Through the Looking Glass, March Upcountry, and Troy Rising. There Will Be Dragons has some super futuristic SF elements, but is basically fantasy. Under a Graveyard Sky somehow isn't terrible even though it's a zombie book, and it also has some pretty good SF elements in the vaccine production and analysis of the virus.

Prince Roger and Bravo Company of the Bronze Battalion FTW, the whole Empire of Man series is pretty good.

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NightCrawler 85
Phoibe Enterprises
#13 - 2013-12-06 00:28:10 UTC  |  Edited by: NightCrawler 85
You should also take a look at this thread.
While it covers movies and TV shows as well you should find some decent books there.

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The Eve Reader -  Audio Recordings of Eve Chronicles
Jeffrey Asher
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2013-12-06 01:17:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Jeffrey Asher
Neal Asher is favourite of mine, oddly enough. Brutal space opera at it's best, if you liked Banks you will most likely enjoy Asher. The Spatterjay series, containing one of my most favourite characters ever, Vrell, is a must - The Skinner, Voyage of the Sable Keech and finishing with Orbus.

Alastair Reynolds is brilliant - start with his book Revelation Space - very hard sci-fi, grand concepts and time-scales.

The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
Meskiaggaseir
Doomheim
#15 - 2013-12-06 12:54:58 UTC
CETA Elitist wrote:
Hello fellow capsuleers. i have a little request. I am out of books to read and am looking to improve my reading experience.
This being Eve, i would expect that at least some of you reading this know some good sci-fi authors.

My reading background: starting off with Jack McDevitt then moving on to Iain Banks' Culture Novels and finally to Tony's Templar One novel and Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star and Great North Road novels.

I have already received a recommendation for a book called Learning the World independent of the above information.

I hope some of you would be willing to recommend an author that would present a challenge, or at least serve as a step up fom the above authors I mentioned.

note: While i became invested in Peter Hamilton's novels, I care little for investigation-style plots. I was more interested in......everything else.

also I'm asking because i assume most people here are older and more experienced than I. I am what you people would call a "kid" despite my legal status.

thanks! \o/


i have a noval eve book i bought 5 years ago thinking it was a eve guide , but it wasnt , empyrian age it called , wanne have it? i can sent it to you
CERA Elitist
The Prometheus Society
#16 - 2013-12-06 13:27:19 UTC
Meskiaggaseir wrote:
CETA Elitist wrote:
Hello fellow capsuleers. i have a little request. I am out of books to read and am looking to improve my reading experience.
This being Eve, i would expect that at least some of you reading this know some good sci-fi authors.

My reading background: starting off with Jack McDevitt then moving on to Iain Banks' Culture Novels and finally to Tony's Templar One novel and Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star and Great North Road novels.

I have already received a recommendation for a book called Learning the World independent of the above information.

I hope some of you would be willing to recommend an author that would present a challenge, or at least serve as a step up fom the above authors I mentioned.

note: While i became invested in Peter Hamilton's novels, I care little for investigation-style plots. I was more interested in......everything else.

also I'm asking because i assume most people here are older and more experienced than I. I am what you people would call a "kid" despite my legal status.

thanks! \o/


i have a noval eve book i bought 5 years ago thinking it was a eve guide , but it wasnt , empyrian age it called , wanne have it? i can sent it to you

^scam
CETA Elitist
The Prometheus Society
#17 - 2013-12-06 13:30:55 UTC  |  Edited by: CETA Elitist
Meskiaggaseir wrote:
CETA Elitist wrote:
Hello fellow capsuleers. i have a little request. I am out of books to read and am looking to improve my reading experience.
This being Eve, i would expect that at least some of you reading this know some good sci-fi authors.

My reading background: starting off with Jack McDevitt then moving on to Iain Banks' Culture Novels and finally to Tony's Templar One novel and Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star and Great North Road novels.

I have already received a recommendation for a book called Learning the World independent of the above information.

I hope some of you would be willing to recommend an author that would present a challenge, or at least serve as a step up fom the above authors I mentioned.

note: While i became invested in Peter Hamilton's novels, I care little for investigation-style plots. I was more interested in......everything else.

also I'm asking because i assume most people here are older and more experienced than I. I am what you people would call a "kid" despite my legal status.

thanks! \o/


i have a noval eve book i bought 5 years ago thinking it was a eve guide , but it wasnt , empyrian age it called , wanne have it? i can sent it to you

thanks for the offer :P I wasn't exactly blown away by Templar One though, and that was written after Empyrean Age? From the same author right?
Rhes
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2013-12-06 13:35:00 UTC
I only read the Bible.

EVE is a game about spaceships and there's an enormous amount of work to do on the in-space gameplay before players (or developers) are ready to sacrifice it for a totally new type of gameplay - CCP Rise
CETA Elitist
The Prometheus Society
#19 - 2013-12-06 14:21:13 UTC
Rhes wrote:
I only read the Bible.

that caught me off-guard XP
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#20 - 2013-12-06 16:29:06 UTC
Jeffrey Asher wrote:
Neal Asher is favourite of mine, oddly enough. Brutal space opera at it's best, if you liked Banks you will most likely enjoy Asher. The Spatterjay series, containing one of my most favourite characters ever, Vrell, is a must - The Skinner, Voyage of the Sable Keech and finishing with Orbus.

Alastair Reynolds is brilliant - start with his book Revelation Space - very hard sci-fi, grand concepts and time-scales.

I'd recommend Neal Asher as well. It's space opera, but it has kind of a fantasy world feel. Very colorful worlds, and lots of wry humor worked into the cartoony brutality. EVE players should read The Skinner just for the drones aerial combat scenes.
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