Sara W asked me to recommend some science-fiction titles to her. An insto-list of good SF follows. I’m limiting myself to ten titles or I’ll be here all day.
- A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge
- Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
- Drinking Sapphire Wine, Tanith Lee
- Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (short stories), James Tiptree Jr
- Palace, Katherine Kerr and Mark Kreighbaum
- Permutation City, Greg Egan
- Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge
- Steel Beach, John Varley
- The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin
- Xenogenesis trilogy, Octavia Butler
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I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve been on your blog. I can no longer complain about not knowing what to read.
ENDER’S GAME! One of few novels that has managed to impress me post-discovering Hex, hurrah. What did you think of Ender’s Shadow, lovely Rhi?
Hi, really glad to see you here. I should let you know though that this is the older version of the blog. The new one is here: http://blog.rhiannonlassiter.com/ They look really similiar so easy to mistkae but I’m not updating this one any more.
I didn’t really like the Shadow sequence. I thought the revised history with Bean being brighter than Ender, better than Ender and aware of much more than Ender was didn’t really work for me. I read it mostly because I wanted to know more about Petra Arkanian.
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