Sat Apr 19, 2014 8:57 am
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The two authors whose books I buy as soon as they come out are:
* C J Cherryh. Most of her books are about relationships in alien societies although she does have some hard sci fi and fantasy in her back catalogue. She's stuck to a single Japanese style milieu - which I think she got from her father, a diplomat - for her last 15 books, but the earlier ones from Downbelow Station up to Merchanter's Luck are all set in a gritty world of patched up ships and space stations. The tech is mostly in the background, but there.
* Alastair Reynolds. They're more like the late Iain M Banks - very high tech but also human. The books of his I like the most are The Prefect, probably the first successful sci-fi police procedural, and House of Suns, which is a sci-fi survival love story, but has decent phyics type stuff.
Working through the sub-pound Kindle authors at the moment. The only one that's stuck out is Randolph Lalonde but its still pretty poor stuff compared to the above.
* C J Cherryh. Most of her books are about relationships in alien societies although she does have some hard sci fi and fantasy in her back catalogue. She's stuck to a single Japanese style milieu - which I think she got from her father, a diplomat - for her last 15 books, but the earlier ones from Downbelow Station up to Merchanter's Luck are all set in a gritty world of patched up ships and space stations. The tech is mostly in the background, but there.
* Alastair Reynolds. They're more like the late Iain M Banks - very high tech but also human. The books of his I like the most are The Prefect, probably the first successful sci-fi police procedural, and House of Suns, which is a sci-fi survival love story, but has decent phyics type stuff.
Working through the sub-pound Kindle authors at the moment. The only one that's stuck out is Randolph Lalonde but its still pretty poor stuff compared to the above.
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