roy@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy J. Mongiovi) (05/03/85)
So what was so great about "To Reign in Hell"? Except for the names,
it could have been a misunderstanding among a bunch of Old Jewish
Grandfathers. I mean, Yahweh is just sooooo incredibly stupid I
just couldn't see the point of the novel - "Oh, I'll just sit here
and imagine that my best friend has turned against me, no need to
bother with going out and trying to meet him myself and clear the
problem up...." Gimme a break. Or was the whole point of the novel
that Yahweh is a Cosmic Muffin that Brust isn't too fond of?
Don't get me wrong, I liked Jhereg, and I loved Yendi. I mean, if
you want to talk about books that grab you from the first page, I'm
absolutely wild about his onion paradigm of life. After that I
couldn't put the book down. And I also think that "God Slayer" is
an absolutely awesome name for a sword (I hope to encounter it again
in the remaining books in the series).
On a slightly different topic, does anyone have any suggestions for
good recent science fiction? Recently all the new books have been
fantasy, or at most science fantasy. Even Niven's "Integral Trees"
was pretty innocuous, although enjoyable. Maybe I have to wait for
that long promised sequel to "The Mote in God's Eye."
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Roy J. Mongiovi. Office of Computing Services. User Services.
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta GA 30332. (404) 894-6163
...!{akgua, allegra, amd, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!roybrust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust) (05/06/85)
> > On a slightly different topic, does anyone have any suggestions for > good recent science fiction? Recently all the new books have been > fantasy, or at most science fantasy. Even Niven's "Integral Trees" > was pretty innocuous, although enjoyable. Maybe I have to wait for > that long promised sequel to "The Mote in God's Eye." > -- > Roy J. Mongiovi. Office of Computing Services. User Services. > Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta GA 30332. (404) 894-6163 > ...!{akgua, allegra, amd, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!roy If you haven't read it, I STRONGLY recomment David Brin's STARTIDE RISING; pure science fiction at its very best. Similarly, Tim Power's DINNER AT DIVIANT'S PALACE, and going back a ways, Gene Wolf's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN. -- SKZB
freeman@spar.UUCP (Jay Freeman) (05/08/85)
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Add to recommendations of recent good SF:
David Brin's _Sundiver_;
Frederick Pohl's Heechee triology -- _Gateway_,
_Beyond_the_Blue_Event_Horizon_, and
_Heechee_Rendezvous_;
Dean Ing's _Systemic_Shock_ and _Single_Combat_;
John Ford's _The_Final_Reflection_
...sez who? ...sez me!
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-- Jay Reynolds Freeman (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)