<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>If we're going to look into the past, I'd suggest pairing <i>The Shockwave Rider</i> with <i>The Stone That Never Came Down</i>
-- very similar skeletons (individuals fixing a broken near-future
Earth), written in the same time period (early-mid 1970's) with very
different approaches. The two together are shorter than some recent
reads (e.g. <i>A Memory Called Empire</i>). Mentioning now because I will not be dialing in to tomorrow night's session.<br></div><div><br></div><div>/CHip<br><br></div>
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Subject: [nesfa-reading-group] Suggestions for next books to read<br>
From: "David G. Grubbs" <<a href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com">dggrubbs@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Thu, November 05, 2020 7:24 pm<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><ul><li>John Scalzi - The Last Emperox (third in a series and I enjoyed the first two: The Collapsing Empire and The Consuming Fire)</li><li>Martin Shoemaker - Today I Am Carey</li><li>Blake Crouch - Recursion (I absolutely loved his "Dark Matter")</li><li>James S. A. Corey - Leviathan Wakes (I brought this up before -- I'd like to see if the first volume of the series is good)</li><li>Patrick S. Tomlinson - Gate Crashers</li><li>Alastair Reynolds - Elysium Fire (6th in a "series", but his novels can stand alone -- I've read the first three and would love to go fill in the gaps too, so not next month please)</li><li>Andy Weir - Artemis (we read The Martian)</li><li>Susanna Clarke - Piranesi (I liked her Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell. And my wife, who is not a normal sf/fantasy reader, but who has really good taste in mainstream literature says it is great)</li><li>Alix E. Harrow - The Once and Future Witches (I liked her Ten Thousand Doors of January).</li><li>Derek Künsken - The Quantum Magician</li><li>David Gerrold - Hella</li><li>Kim Stanley Robinson - Ministry for the Future</li><li>Michael Swanwick - The Iron Dragon's Mother (I liked The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993))</li><li> Richard K. Morgan - Black Man (also called Thirteen) (I liked several of Morgan's books)</li><li>Donald Kingsbury - Psychohistorical Crisis</li><li>Walter Jon WIlliams - Quillifer (I suggested this once before)</li><li><br><br></li></ul><div><br></div><div>Maybe:</div><div><ul><li>Martha Wells - Network Effect (fifth in the Murderbot series, but the first novel -- I've read the first of the four novellas).</li><li>Mary Robinette Kowal - The Relentless Moon (third in the Lady Astronaut series -- I've read the first two.)</li><li>Timothy Zahn - Thrawn (Yes, a Star Wars book, first in a trilogy. But I always liked Zahn's writing.)</li><li>Naomi Novik - A Deadly Education (I liked her Uprooted and her dragon books.)</li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>Some older books I'd like to reread and discuss:</div><div><ul><li>John Gardner - Grendel</li><li>Lester del Rey - Nerves</li><li>Poul Anderson - The Broken Sword<br></li><li>Brian Aldis - The Long Afternoon of Earth</li><li>John Brunner - The Shockwave Rider</li><li>L. Sprague de Camp - Lest Darkness Fall</li><li>David Gerrold & Larry Niven - The Flying Sorcerers</li><li>Harry Turtledove - The Guns of the South</li><li>John W. Campbell, Jr. - Invaders from the Infinite</li><li>Emma Bull - War for the Oaks</li><li>Michael Moorcock - Elric of Melniboné</li><li><br></li></ul></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></div></div> <hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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