Stannis wrote:
stardraigh wrote:
Some of my favorite novels are:
Eye of Cat - Roger Zelazny (I've read this six times. Only story I've cried over when I finally figured out the last chant/song meant)
Emphyrio - Jack Vance (I liked Emphyrio as a character. I hated to watch what happened to him, what he has to go through. Few characters draw a connection with me like I found with him, also I like Vance's style of writing)
Jagged Orbit - John Brunner (Despite having a really weird flow and chapter contents, I found I really liked this novel especially for the flow.)
Confessions of a D-List Supervillian by Jim Bernheimer (This is really funny. I'd say that to me, I found it just as funny as Pratchett's Discworld series, or Cook's Wizardly Quested series. And it's a superhero story. I recommend this to everyone who wants a superhero story and a laugh at the same time.)
Illium & Olympos by Dan Simmons (These two books are a series. I felt the defining moment where I knew I loved these two novels, was when Harmon, called out Moira & Prospero and the rest of their version of humanity for being stupid for what is really a very dumb thing they did, and all they could come back with was to explain theirselves is an ad hominem attack on his version of humanity being inexperienced and ignorant, and then so many things clicked in the story as to how humanity got f****.)
Star Rangers/The Last Planet - Andre Norton (The first novel I fell in love with as a teenager and got me hooked on Andrew Norton as a writer. Survivors of the Star Rangers are sent on one last mission as galactic civilization falls into the long dark night. I found that despite being dated, I still enjoy the story, and have re-read it several times.)
I have enjoyed many of his novels. Though, you might want to check out the message boards at this website. He's a tea party guy!
I don't really have a problem if Dan Simmons is a member of or aligns with the Tea-Party. I don't really pay attention to any authors political activism or political alignment unless it's a specific genre/theme I'm looking for such as military/action(which I was obsessed with reading for a while, like Ringo(Posleen, Citadel), Drake(Hammers Slammers, Redliners), Kratman(Desert called peace), and others), or when a book sucks because an author breaks the flow of the story by inserting a politically aligned idea that doesn't really fit the story. I've seen the later done a few times(Cold war era sci-fi did it a lot) and if an author had forgone the propaganda, the story could have been much better. What I mean by this is that if the writer would have spent more time writing on what the characters were doing, or some other aspect of the story. I don't mean that replacing one politically motivated idea/aspect with another one. I prefer authors that ditch the propaganda at the door, and write a good story.
10 Feb 2014, 7:18 am
