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Re: LOOPERS DELIGHT LIST of RECOMMENDED NEW & NEWISH SCIENCE FICTION



Just finished Neal Stephenson's latest novel "Anathem" - I am stunned by the brilliance of the book. 
On May 25, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Warren Sirota wrote:

Thanks for compiling this - I think I have my next 3 years of fiction planned now.

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
Thanks, everyone,   
Here is a hastily collated list for future reference
of all the recommendations everyone sent in (I love this list!)
Forgive me if I missed something and thanks for your help.
Rick Walker


LOOPERS DELIGHT LIST of RECOMMENDED NEW & NEWISH SCIENCE FICTION

Margaret Atwood        Oryx And Crake
Iain Banks
                      Consider Phlebas
Stephen Baxter
           Manifold: Space
                                              Manifold: Time

Stephen Baxter      Timelike Infinity 
Gregory Benford                  Galactic Center (series)
David Brin                           Startide Rising
                                                 Earth
Orson Scott Card           Enders Game (series)
Jay Caselberg                  Wyrmhole    
Jack Chalker               Midnight in the Well of Souls    
Douglas Coupland         Girlfriend In A Coma 
Thomas M Disch             The Genocides    (old school dystopian)
Greg Egan              Diaspora  
William Gibson                    Pattern Recognition
                                                     Idoru   
Cormac McCarthy              The Road 
Ian McDonald                  River of Gods
Jack McDevitt               Seeker 
Audrey Niffenegger         The Time Travellers Wife 
Jeff Noon                               Pixel Juice   
                                                    Needle In The Groove      
Frederik Pohl                  Gateway (Heechee series)
Philip Pullman              The Golden Compass  (fantasy)  
Kim Stanley Robinson  The Planet on the Table
                                                     Red Mars (the trilogy)
 Neil Stephenson              Diamond Age
                                                     Snow Crash 
George Saunders             Civilwarland In Bad Decline
Clifford Simac               Way Station       
Dan Simmons                     Hyperion   (series)  
Ian Stewart/Jack Cross    Wheelers
Charles Stross               Singularity Sky      
                                                     Accelerando
                                                     Glass House
Michael Swanwick            Stations of the Tide 
John Varley                          Millenium  (Novella)
                                                     Persistence of Vision (short stories)
Vernor Vinge               Fire Upon the Deep  
Robert Charles Wilson    Spin
David Zindell                    Neverness







--
Warren
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http://www.warrensirota.com

All the best,

Loren Claypool
genre-indifferent instrumental guitar music
www.lorenclaypool.com and links from there