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Ok you are a sudden superstar in the scifi/fantasy/horror business...you can choose to collaborate a book with anyone you choose...who will you consider to be your partner on your latest masterpiece? I would love to write with Brian Aldiss...his style is always inovative, and his use of...

Now reading Kevin J. Anderson´s Saga Of The Seven Suns: Book 5: Of Fire And Night.

The book that got me started on SF was Arthur C Clarke´s, The City And The Stars. A beautifull peice of scifi that shows us that what ever happens in the future there will always be hope for a better tomorrow. Another such book is the more recent, Terraforming Earth, written by Jack Williamson...

As I said in another thread, I compare his style to the tv series Farscape. Fast and colorfull. If you don't like Golden Age SF, you may just have read the wrong books...there are many amazing books out there. But if you consider golden age and StarTrek to be a bit on the iffy side, then I can...

if his books could be compared to a tv series, it would be Farscape. He loves to use high levels of adrenalin in his action, and his cinematic way of writing makes everything a wonder to behold; everything from space stations large enough o gather atmospheres to sleezy bars.

Autumn Windfall

Currently reading a *gasp* wild western book. Deadwood, by Pete Dexter. Yes the book that inspired the cozy tv series. This is the first western book I´ve read since the 70´s.

Or how about the classic Asimov book; The Caves Of Steel?

I loved it as a kid...but after having read a few scifi books I realised how much more the genre had to offer besides the action movies.

By "cheap" I mean fairly simplistic. Lets face it, the only reason people love the series is because: 1) It was the first major scifi movie series ever. 2) All the blasters. 3) Standard story of farm boy saving the galaxy/world. 4) All the blasters. 5) The special effects. 6) Did I mention all...

Almost finished with We Claim These Stars (Poul Anderson). After that I will begin reading At Midnight On The 31st Of March (Josephine Young Case).

I can recommend the Guin Saga. A japanese fantasy about a man in a leopard mask...filled with evil dark (and literally rotten) lords, ghosts and colorfull settings. There are almost 100 books in the original series, but so far only 5 have been translated to english. Thay can be found at...

I can strongly agree with Werthead's post. The Night's Dawn trilogy is one of the best out there.

Living in Sweden is catastrophic when it comes to scifi. Nobody likes it, (except the cheap Star Wars movies) nobody understands it. With nobody I mean the overall population. Most people sneer or even snicker ( a guffaw has been noted) when somone reads a scifi on the local train. So in my...

Now I'm reading the classic first Flandry book; We Claim These Stars, by Poul Anderson. One can certainly see how the writer has developed over the years. This book is certainly much more juvenile in tone than his more recent work.

My favorite this year (so far) was the cozy The Years Of Rice And Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson. A amazing book that follows a entire alternative history and a handfull of characters who are reincarnated in several key epochs. Very atmospheric and there is so much happening that you can read...

I recommend The Night's Dawn trilogy. A huge space opera on the grandest scale you can imagine...with tons of nifty everyday tech ideas, and a story that would be enormous as a tv series. Written by Peter F. Hamlton.

My favorite scifi city is Diaspar (from Arthur C Clarke's book The City And The Stars)...I would do anything to live there.

The Glass Harmonica, written by Louise Marley.

The Gateway books are perfect for rainy autumn afternoons. Nice settings, just enough suspense to wet your interest but not overdone. Mystical yet not so ubercosmic as Baxter's Xeelee books (allthough I like those too). Allthough this can be said about most of Pohl's books.