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    Slavic mythology

    Yes, and Slavic folk and fairy tales, folk songs and children's stories and songs. Please enlighten me on any and all. gary
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    revolution books

    Ken MacLeod - The Star Fraction, The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and The Sky Road.
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    e-books, hardbacks or paperbacks our thoughts.

    In one of the first science fiction stories I ever read people were "teleported" around from place to place by walking through the "Door". Houses also had a "door", but it was never used. One day the "Door" in one young boy's house wasn't working, and being late for school, he used the...
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    Weird, wacky and imaginative SFF short stories?

    Miles J. Breuer - "The Gostak and the Doshes" Philip K. Dick wrote some short stories.
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    There are "no more great writers," V S Naipaul

    Where is 'Hay'? Were the people who went there ugly before they went or did going there make them ugly?
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    Dystopian Sci-Fi

    'Accelerando' is a standalone. 'Iron Sunrise' doesn't depend on having first read 'Singularity Sky'. I read 'Singularity Sky' because I liked 'Iron Sunrise' so much and it wasn't until much later that I discovered I'd read them in reverse order. I didn't really like 'Singularity Sky' that much...
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    Dystopian Sci-Fi

    Look into 'Iron Sunrise' and 'Accelerando' by Charles Stross. Maybe 'Red Dust' and 'The Secret of Life' by Paul J. McAuley.
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    Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet

    I read and enjoyed the whole series. My only complaint is that maybe the books are a little too tightly woven. A little levity, a little lightness would benefit, IMO. (I'm a big fan of David Drake's RCN series but think it could benefit from a little less looseness in the writing.) I like the...
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    Contemporary Cyberpunk?

    I'm not sure if Morgan's Kovacs trilogy is "cyberpunk", but since it is cited here I think I'm safe in suggesting Chris Moriarty's "Spin State". Not "noir-ish" like "Altered Carbon", but many of the elements of Morgan's books are in Moriarty's 2002 book - an enhanced UN Peacekeeper is the...
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    Your 'top-5' Sf-Fi books (no fantasy books please)

    Could change at any moment... The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein Noir by K.W. Jeter (flawed but still a favorite)
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    Contemporary Cyberpunk?

    His "Market Forces" was kind of like viewing a dystopia from the point of view of the controlling elite. "Thirteen" was pretty close to cyberpunk. As good as "Altered Carbon", IMO. 2002 and 1995, respectively, so no FaceBook, but check out McAuley's "Whole Wide World" and MacLeod's "The Star...
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    Military SF

    I'm a big fan of David Drake's RCN series. Chris Bunch's Last Legion series is pretty good, too.
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    The Prestige

    I bought the book based on a forum recommendation. I've never seen the movie, in fact hadn't even heard of it. I started the book and just couldn't get into it. Nothing about it appealed to me. I skimmed a few pages to the end and put it in the "donations" box.
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    Military SF

    I've been enjoying John Ringo's Posleen War series.
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    Detective novels recommendation

    "Nightside City" by Lawrence Watt-Evans. A nice little book. Science fiction, even. Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Retrieval Artist series.
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    Detective novels recommendation

    Maybe casting the net too wide, but how about some noir by Jim Thompson or James M. Cain? Or maybe more recent crime stuff by Elmore Leonard or Dean Koontz?
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    Detective novels recommendation

    'Whole Wide World' by Paul McAuley is very good. The books of the Peculiar Crimes Unit Mysteries series by Christopher Fowler are also very enjoyable.
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    Elizabeth Moon

    The whole series is well worth reading. After you finish those read (or even better, read alternately) David Drake's "RCN series, starting with "With the Lightnings", Chris Bunch's "Last Legion" series, Tanya Huff's "Valor" series (starting with the omnibus "A Confederation of Valor") and...
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    Sci-Fi Recommendations - for the unenlightened

    Also, David Drake's "RCN" series - starting with "With the Lightnings".
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    Sci-Fi Recommendations - for the unenlightened

    I'd like to recommend Chris Moriarty's Spin Control and Spin State.
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