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dustydigger
Posted 2012-07-14 1:38 PM (#3737)
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Location: UK		Well this group is finally getting in to shape.We have a What are you reading? thread,a monthly book read is starting up with Omon Ra,so all we are missing now is a fun quiz!.I'll start off and I hope some of you will join in ,or I will look like an idiot( no sniggering at the back there!)
Its quite simple.I choose a subgenre-Big Dumb Objects,space pirates,first contact noves,cyberpunk,high fantasy,sword and sorcery ,elves,witches alien attacks etc etc etc.all you do is post an appropriate book,then choose another sub genre
eg Big Dumb Object
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Eon ,by Greg Bear.

next : military science fiction
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The great thing about this is that you can contribute even if when you come online,there are no new posts elsewhere.Its surprising what interesting books turn up and end up on the TBR unfortunately...sigh...

So lets have a go.

Space Station
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Posted 2012-07-14 2:24 PM (#3738 - in reply to #3737)
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Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh

Downbelow Station

This is the only C. J. Cherryh book I've read so far and I thought it was really good though it did drag in spots.  Its very dense with a wealth detail.  The massive abject human missery was wearing but felt very realistic given the circumstances. I gave it a 4 which puts me square in the middle of the WWEnd average for the book.

Terraforming

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Emil
Posted 2012-07-14 3:04 PM (#3739 - in reply to #3738)
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Location: Grootfontein, Namibia		I hope Red Green Blue Mars is allowed to count for terraforming. I must still complete the trilogy with Blue Mars, but that's looming soon at the rate I'm reading now.

As next sub-genre I chose Slipstream.
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Engelbrecht
Posted 2012-07-14 6:02 PM (#3740 - in reply to #3737)
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When Kelly Link's Stranger Things Happen (2001) first came out, it really opened peoples eyes as to what could be done with genre writing.  It's truly a seminal book in the history of SF&F.

Next, Steampunk - toot, toot! 

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Rhondak101
Posted 2012-07-14 8:54 PM (#3741 - in reply to #3737)
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Location: SC, USA		I bought a steampunk book today: Bookman by Lavie Tidhar
Next Genre: generation ship
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dustydigger
Posted 2012-07-15 2:57 AM (#3742 - in reply to #3737)
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Location: UK		Brian Aldiss Non Stop.
This genre seems great in theory,but not so much in practice.I tried Blish's Cities in Flight many years ago,and just couldnt get into it.

next ; a female commanding officer on a battleship
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Posted 2012-07-15 2:31 PM (#3744 - in reply to #3742)
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I'll point out the most obvious example I can imagine:

On Basilisk Station by David Weber

On Basilisk Station

This is the first book of his Honor Harrington Series which now encompases 13 volumes.  I read this not too long ago out of curiosity, having not read Weber before, and found it guite better than I expected.  A solid rousing adventure!

Next up:  Sword and Sorcery

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Scott Laz
Posted 2012-07-15 6:28 PM (#3745 - in reply to #3737)
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Location: Gunnison, Colorado		Another pretty obvious one: Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock. An early Elric book, it's named after the soul-stealing sword...

Can anyone name a cozy catastrophe?
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Engelbrecht
Posted 2012-07-15 9:03 PM (#3746 - in reply to #3737)
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On the Beach (1957) by Nevil Shute.  Cozy catastrophes were a 1950s British specialty, and this one is among the best, certainly the most moving.

Next, and keeping the alliteration alive, let's try humorous horror.

@Rhonda:  I've been curious about Tidhar, please let us know how you like it!

@dustydigger:  You might try Elizabeth Bear's Jacob's Ladder trilogy - it's quite an interesting use of the generation starship trope.

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Emil
Posted 2012-07-16 1:30 AM (#3747 - in reply to #3746)
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Location: Grootfontein, Namibia		That's a tricky one, @Engelbrecht. I guess the immediate choice is Good Omens. I'm sure there are better contenders. We can probably also mention Koontz's Tick Tock.

Next: Occult

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dustydigger
Posted 2012-07-16 5:03 AM (#3748 - in reply to #3747)
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Location: UK		I recently read the seriously creepy The Talisman,by Stephen King and Peter Straub.Then there is surely something dark and sinister about the carnival in Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.

next - flying saucers
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DrNefario
Posted 2012-07-17 8:13 AM (#3760 - in reply to #3737)
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Location: UK		The Wanderer by Fritz Lieber. I don't particularly recommend anyone reads it, but at least it will count towards the GMRC and the Hugo list.

Next - Post-apocalypse
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Scott Laz
Posted 2012-07-17 10:11 AM (#3762 - in reply to #3737)
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Location: Gunnison, Colorado		Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. That one sticks in my memory.

How about a myth-based fantasy?
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Rhondak101
Posted 2012-07-17 11:09 AM (#3763 - in reply to #3762)
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Location: SC, USA		Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock

How about Young Adult Wizardry not written by J.K. Rowling or Philip Pullman?
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dustydigger
Posted 2012-07-17 12:23 PM (#3764 - in reply to #3737)
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Location: UK		A Wizard of Earthsea,by Ursula Le Guin..

next - set on Venus.
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Posted 2012-07-17 1:05 PM (#3766 - in reply to #3764)
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Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus by Isaac Asimov

Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus

This is book 3 of the Lucky Starr series of juveniles from Asimov.  Great fun to read but not much more than old time action adventure. 

Next: Human Development

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Rhondak101
Posted 2012-07-17 3:30 PM (#3768 - in reply to #3737)
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Location: SC, USA		Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm

Next: Alternate History written by a woman
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Allie
Posted 2012-07-18 4:24 AM (#3775 - in reply to #3737)
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Farthing by Jo Walton

Next: First Contact
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Engelbrecht
Posted 2012-07-18 7:17 AM (#3778 - in reply to #3737)
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Blindsight by Peter Watts

Next, something featuring a jinn

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Emil
Posted 2012-07-18 9:19 AM (#3781 - in reply to #3737)
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Location: Grootfontein, Namibia		I can only think of Gaiman's "Ramadan" in The Sandman: Fables and Reflections
https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?id=3333

Next: something with marine biology
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whargoul
Posted 2012-07-18 9:29 AM (#3782 - in reply to #3737)
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Location: Dallas, TX		Starfish by Peter Watts

Next: Mythic Fiction
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dustydigger
Posted 2012-07-18 11:11 AM (#3787 - in reply to #3737)
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Location: UK		For me,this has to be one of my all time favourites - Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light.

next - cyborgs

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Rhondak101
Posted 2012-07-18 1:05 PM (#3788 - in reply to #3737)
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Location: SC, USA		Cinder by Marissa Meyer. I just finished reading it.

Time Travel
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Posted 2012-07-18 1:19 PM (#3789 - in reply to #3788)
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Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick

Bones of the Earth

Paleontologists travel back in time to study dinosaurs in the flesh and things, as you can imagine, go horribly, horribly wrong.  A very entertaining read if you like dinosaurs, which Swanwick clearly does, and if you don't mind the concomitant time paradoxes.

Next: Steampunk

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Scott Laz
Posted 2012-07-18 1:43 PM (#3790 - in reply to #3737)
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Location: Gunnison, Colorado		Warlord of the Air by Michael Moorcock -- steampunk before it had a name...

New Space Opera, anyone?
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