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Hyperion is 4 books long, and each book is worse than the previous. Read the 2nd one if you want to see how the dangling cliffhangers of the 1st wrap up, it's still pretty good and provides a real end to the story. The 3rd and 4th are a sequel, so they stand alone - they aren't *bad*, but they don't measure up to the first 2.
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Hyperion is 4 books long, and each book is worse than the previous. Read the 2nd one if you want to see how the dangling cliffhangers of the 1st wrap up, it's still pretty good and provides a real end to the story. The 3rd and 4th are a sequel, so they stand alone - they aren't *bad*, but they don't measure up to the first 2.
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@ran88dom99
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@ran88dom99
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The 2nd Neuromancer book actually sticks out a bit because it's a bit more "teen lit" than the first - the protagonists are teenagers. I read it back in highschool and it was my favourite Gibson novel back then.
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The 2nd Neuromancer book actually sticks out a bit because it's a bit more "teen lit" than the first - the protagonists are teenagers. I read it back in highschool and it was my favourite Gibson novel back then.
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Anyhow, if you like the cyberpunk genre, I highly recommend Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash". It's a wonderfully weird cyberpunk book.
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Anyhow, if you like the cyberpunk genre, I highly recommend Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash". It's a wonderfully weird cyberpunk book.
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Also, everything @[DOOP]fortaleza mentions is awesome. I particularly recommend The Forever War. Also, if you get into Larry Niven's "Ringworld", it's good but I honestly think his short story anthologies are his best work - the various Beowulf Schaeffer and Gil Hamilton of Arm stories. That and "Protector".
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Also, everything @[DOOP]fortaleza mentions is awesome. I particularly recommend The Forever War. Also, if you get into Larry Niven's "Ringworld", it's good but I honestly think his short story anthologies are his best work - the various Beowulf Schaeffer and Gil Hamilton of Arm stories. That and "Protector".
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Also,
@[DOOP]fortaleza
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the
books
you're
thinking
of
are
"The
Mote
in
God's
Eye"
and
"The
Gripping
Hand".
A
collaboration
by
Larry
Niven
and
Jerry
Pournelle.
Pournelle
is
somewhere
to
the
right
of
Moussolini
politically,
so
many
of
his
books
are
thinly-disguised
unpalatable
political
rants,
but
when
he
has
Niven
present
to
lighten
the
tone
they
produce
some
great
stuff
together,
and
the
"Mote"
books
are
one
of
their
best.
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Also,
@[DOOP]fortaleza
-
the
books
sound
*knid
of*
like
the
"The
Mote
in
God's
Eye"
and
"The
Gripping
Hand",
but
some
of
the
details
are
different
so
I
could
be
wrong.
It's
about
aliens
living
in
a
nebula
and
trapped
in
a
cycle
of
nuking
themselves
back
into
the
stone-age,
but
the
nebula
doesn't
thin
and
there's
no
lottery
or
anything.
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Mote/Gripping Hand is a collaboration by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Pournelle is somewhere to the right of Moussolini politically, so many of his books are thinly-disguised unpalatable political rants, but when he has Niven present to lighten the tone they produce some great stuff together, and the "Mote" books are one of their best.
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Also, since we're talking about the classics (and if we're going to talk Heinlein, Moon is a Harsh Mistress is his best, not Starship Troopers) then I have to bring up the old Retief books by Keith Laumer. They're nice and light James-Bond-esque stories about a Diplomat of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne, as kind of a satire of cold-war diplomacy in various 3rd-world countries.
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Also, since we're talking about the classics (and if we're going to talk Heinlein, Moon is a Harsh Mistress is his best, not Starship Troopers) then I have to bring up the old Retief books by Keith Laumer. They're nice and light James-Bond-esque stories about a Diplomat of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne, as kind of a satire of cold-war diplomacy in various 3rd-world countries.
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Don't read anything Laumer wrote after his stroke, though. And honestly I can't stand his Bolo stories (about giant anthropomorphized tanks) but some folks love them.
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Don't read anything Laumer wrote after his stroke, though. And honestly I can't stand his Bolo stories (about giant anthropomorphized tanks) but some folks love them.
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