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
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Warren
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All the best,
Loren Claypool genre-indifferent instrumental guitar music
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