Hopefully, I can do it. (My BrailleNote reads at rate 16, which is about 500 words per minute.) I'll definitely check out those books. I love anything epic, but until recently I read more epic fantasy. But those novels look cool.
----- Original Message ----- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date sent: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:46:45 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wishlist Request
Wow! If you can finish that in one weekend, then you're a much
faster reader
than I am.
There's quite a lot of epic space opera out there. I'm not sure
if all of
these are on Bookshare, but I know that some of them are. I get
stuff from
wherever I can, Bookshare, NLS, RFB&D, and then forget who has
what.
You might like David Brin's Uplift books: Sundiver, Startide
Rising, The
Uplift War.
Then there's Alastair Reynolds' series starting with Revelation
Space,
Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap. Those are all on Bookshare.
I'm not sure
as to what kind of shape Revelation Space and Redemption Ark are
in--I read
those on tape. But I submitted Absolution Gap myself after
reading through
it, so I know it's in good shape.
You might also like Iain Banks' Culture novels. I don't think
they're in any
particular order. Use of Weapons, Player of Games--which I
proofread for
Bookshare--Consider Phlebas, and the newest one, Matter's End,
which I'm
sure is not on Bookshare yet. This is not a complete list of
Culture books
either. I'm sure there are others I'm missing.
Gregory Benford's Glactic Center novels are truly epic in scope,
but there
are no aliens in them. They depict the struggle, over thousands
of years,
between humans and advanced mechanical intelligence. I think
they are
extremely good, except for the end of the final--sixth--book. I
thought that
was truly awful. But there's a lot of good stuff up to that
point, and your
mileage may vary with regard to the end of the story.
I'm sure there are many other titles in this category out there.
Perhaps
some other SF readers will contribute their favorites. Those are
just some
of the most prominent titles that came to mind.
However, my all time favorite novel in the space opera subgenre
has to be A
Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. That one was scanned by
Carrie and
proofread by me. It is one of my favorite SF novels, and a lot
of other
people liked it as well. It won a Hugo award back in the early
1990s. It is
truly awesome, and I don't use that word as lightly as many
younger people
seem to these days.
That should get you started. However, at the rate you read, that
may not
keep you going for long. <smile
Evan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelby Carlson" <kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 9:01 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wishlist Request
Evan,
That's really cool. I've heard fantastic things about most of
Hamilton's
books. I don't know of any other author who writes epic space
opera like
Hamilto does. (If you know any, please tell me as I don't have
as much
epic SF as I would like.) I'm going through the Reality
Dysfunction now,
and my goal is to finish the whole novel in one weekend.
----- Original Message ----- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date sent: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:56:36 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: e: Re: Wishlist Request
Kelby,
Since you've asked about a lot of Peter F. Hamilton bookslately, I shouldmention that I have scanned The Dreaming Void and am abouthalfway throughreading it. Shouldn't be more than another week before I submitit. Then Iwill be scanning and reading through The Temporal Void, whichlooks to be abit longer than The Dreaming Void's 630 pages. Those are thefirst two booksin The Void trilogy. The third book is due out some time nextyear.
These books take place in the same Commonwealth universe asPandora's Starand Judas Unchained, but about a thousand years in the future. Ireallyliked Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained, but I think I like TheDreamingVoid even better. Those two earlier books were pretty muchstraight spaceopera--extremely well done space opera indeed in my opinion..But inaddition to the character development and imaginative worldbuilding thatare hallmarks of his earlier work, The Void trilogy has themes ofhumanevolution and transcendence through various means, themes whichare notpresent in those earlier books. For me, those themes make whatwould havealready been engaging books even more interesting.
Evan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelby Carlson" <kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 8:12 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] e: Re: Wishlist Request
That's great! Thanks for letting me know about it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date sent: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:57:40 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wishlist Request
I scanned Pandora's Star. It is currently being proofread. WhenI say"proofread", I mean it. The guy who took it is actually readingthrough it.It is a rather long book, 758 pages, 353,000 words. It might beanothercouple of weeks before he finishes it, but it will be of trulyexcellentquality. Be assured of that.
Evan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelby Carlson" <kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;<bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxSent: Friday, July 31, 2009 4:21 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Wishlist Request
Dear Booksharians, I'd like to request the following book be added to thecollection:
Pandoras Star by Peter F. Hamilton
The second book in this dulogy, Judas Unchained, is already onBooksharein excellent condition.
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