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Try the Arisen series which I mentioned, 10 books and 2 spin off novels in the same universe so plenty to sink your teeth into (pun not intended). Lot of story arcs within and plenty of likable characters to boot, not to mention relentless pace. Realism does suffer at times but then again we are talking about books where dead walk the Earth.

Remaining series is also pretty good although far more small scale but enough in there to like it. Doesn't have the traditional zombies per se though but gist of the universe is the same.

Read one of the Walking Dead books which was good and apparently there's 6 of them so worth checking that out as well. If you burn through all these then can also check out Gathering Dead series by Stephen Knight.

EDIT: Ah yes forgot to mention Day by Day Armageddon, not bad series but fell on its bottom in the last book from what I remember.
 
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Halfway through 'The Bat' which is the first book in the Harry Hole series of books. Really enjoying it and had a few WTF moments already.

Discovered the GoodReads app recently and very handy with suggestions and keeping track.
 
regulus said:
Halfway through 'The Bat' which is the first book in the Harry Hole series of books. Really enjoying it and had a few WTF moments already.

Discovered the GoodReads app recently and very handy with suggestions and keeping track.
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If you like crime, try Stuart Mac Brides' Logan Mcrae series, very good imo with many lol moments.
 
Just finished Peter Hamilton:The Abyss Beyond Dreams.
Not bad , not enough Sci Fi though . too much like Edeards story in the void trilogy.
Will definatley get the second part though.
Going to give A Canticle for Leibowitz a go been putting it off for years.
 
leemk said:
Just finished Peter Hamilton:The Abyss Beyond Dreams.
Not bad , not enough Sci Fi though ...

Going to give A Canticle for Leibowitz a go been putting it off for years.
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If you don't like a book because it doesn't contain "enough Sci Fi" I'm fairly certain that you won't like Canticle, because it has only a little. Like all the best SF, the SF bits aren't that important. I would recommend Iain M Banks if you haven't read him yet - start with Consider Phlebas.


I'm two thirds of the way through Richard Morgan's fantasy trilogy that starts with The Steel Remains. So far, so Morgan: lots of sark, some sex, lots of cynicism, and shed-loads of extreme violence. Interestingly, Morgan has resurrected a sub-genre which has by moribund for a while: the far-future fantasy. As becomes clear during the first book, the series is set long into the future, and the "monsters" are in some case heavily adapted humans. The planet may be Earth, or it may not - at one point the people think so, but the plot make more sense as a regressed colony planet. But it is still pretty much a fantasy with swords.

Before that I read Mike Scott Rohan's "Winter of the World" trilogy again, for the first time since the Eighties when it came out. It's still fairly original, but not great. After that, I read a Rohan book written with Allan Scott, "The Ice King".

I've also read Katherine Addison's (a pseudonym for Sarah Monette - I don't know why) "The Goblin Emporer". Lots of good reviews, and several awards. And not available in the UK - I love silly copyright laws. I liked it a lot, which means most here will hate it. It's a "fantasy of manners" meaning little actually happens. But like all the best fantasies, it's the little bits which make it: ASoIaF is great despite the zombies and dragons, not because of them.

And I read an omnibus book of the first three of Simon R Green's Nightside books. Trivial urban fantasies. Think Jim Butcher, but less po-faced. To be clear though: Butcher has been writing urban fantasy three years more than Green, but Green started writing in general a lot earlier.
 
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If you don't like a book because it doesn't contain "enough Sci Fi" I'm fairly certain that you won't like Canticle, because it has only a little. Like all the best SF, the SF bits aren't that important. I would recommend Iain M Banks if you haven't read him yet - start with Consider Phlebas.


I'm two thirds of the way through Richard Morgan's fantasy trilogy that starts with The Steel Remains. So far, so Morgan: lots of sark, some sex, lots of cynicism, and shed-loads of extreme violence. Interestingly, Morgan has resurrected a sub-genre which has by moribund for a while: the far-future fantasy. As becomes clear during the first book, the series is set long into the future, and the "monsters" are in some case heavily adapted humans. The planet may be Earth, or it may not - at one point the people think so, but the plot make more sense as a regressed colony planet. But it is still pretty much a fantasy with swords.

Before that I read Mike Scott Rohan's "Winter of the World" trilogy again, for the first time since the Eighties when it came out. It's still fairly original, but not great. After that, I read a Rohan book written with Allan Scott, "The Ice King".

I've also read Katherine Addison's (a pseudonym for Sarah Monette - I don't know why) "The Goblin Emporer". Lots of good reviews, and several awards. And not available in the UK - I love silly copyright laws. I liked it a lot, which means most here will hate it. It's a "fantasy of manners" meaning little actually happens. But like all the best fantasies, it's the little bits which make it: ASoIaF is great despite the zombies and dragons, not because of them.

And I read an omnibus book of the first three of Simon R Green's Nightside books. Trivial urban fantasies. Think Jim Butcher, but less po-faced. To be clear though: Butcher has been writing urban fantasy three years more than Green, but Green started writing in general a lot earlier.
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When i meant not enough sci fi , his other books Nights Dawn and the void trilogy had plenty of Space action.
I can quite happily read sci fi without that but was expecting it in this one.
 
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When i meant not enough sci fi , his other books Nights Dawn and the void trilogy had plenty of Space action.
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Fair enough. Although I should point out that Hamilton didn't start with Space Opera, but with SF police books. But my recommendation for Banks stands.
 
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Fair enough. Although I should point out that Hamilton didn't start with Space Opera, but with SF police books. But my recommendation for Banks stands.
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Have to agree with the Banks recommendation does great space opera and doesn't just go in for "stand and bang" war novels and instead tells a very clever story in a variety of ways.
 
Binge reading the past two weeks.

Currently halfway through 'The Humans' by Matt Haig. Wonderful book and very funny in some places. Should finish the weekend then into a 'Cockroaches', the 2nd book in the Harry Hole series.
 
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Yeah I could have seen the Culture novels going on for a while longer as he had a pretty consistent (if vast) story arc he was dealing with.

Some of the characters and ships who kept reappearing as well!
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Aye, I've been rereading some of my favourite dead authors recently (Banks, Pratchette etc), and remembering why exactly they became favourites.

I suspect if he'd lived Iain M Banks could probably have written a new culture book on a regular basis for as long as he wanted, as it was an utterly vast and varied universe he was playing in with them, with everything from a medieval setting, to ring habitats and inverted dyson spheres, and pretty much everything in between. I've still got the promotional copy of "The state of the art" which introduced me to him about 20 years ago when it was free with a sci-fi mag.

As I say I'm currently reading the Discworld books, some of which I haven't read in ages (I'm on Moving Pictures and loving it).

I've also when I've had the odd few minutes read Ancillary Mercy by Anne Lacke which was very good, I really want to hear more of that universe (the suggestions about the non human races and history could be very interesting to see explored).
 
Just finished Fear of Physics - Lawrence M. Krauss
Good but rehashing most of the physics I've already read, Whish there where some new breakthroughs. Or accessible books like this but on more specialist subjects.



Now on to Horizon from the Arisen series, book 6 I belive
 
Currently reading 'The Name of the Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss, first book in 'The Kingkiller Chronicle'. Really enjoyable read so far, about 60% of the way through. I'm hoping the next book is just as good! :)
 
"Hammer of God" by Greig Beck. If you've read any of Beck's "Alex Hunter" series then you know what you'll get. Superhuman soldiers, monsters and military/gun porn. :)
 
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Finished this yesterday, I saw it when I was browsing to buy the Band of Brothers. As a fan of the series I really fancied actually reading the book (b of b) and this book leapt out at me. I had seen the above iconic picture and really fancied reading the story of the demo/pathfinders who saved the lives of the 101st in Bastogne.

Mostly anecdotes rather than a BoB story but I really enjoyed it and these books always choke me up at the end when they go through what happened to these guys post war.
 
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