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"Lucifer's Hammer', by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Fantastic novel of the aftermath of a comet's fragmentary impact. The Apollo/Soyuz parts are also quite well done.
 

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"Lucifer's Hammer', by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Fantastic novel of the aftermath of a comet's fragmentary impact. The Apollo/Soyuz parts are also quite well done.

I like both those authors, but when they write together they come up with some great work. Read Footfall.
 

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I like both those authors, but when they write together they come up with some great work. Read Footfall.

I heard that Footfall was quite well done as well, and already purchased it. I'm keeping it in reserve for after Lucifer's Hammer.
 

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I'm on a sci-fi/military binge, reading Carnifex by Tom Kratman, book #2 of his 'Carrera' series. It's along the same type as David Drake's stuff (miltary porn if you will).
Not a lot of thought-provoking stuff, basically "kill all the bad guys".

If you like the Jack Bauer brand of "getting the job done" action, this stuff is pretty good. If you like pink fuzzy bunnies and everybody getting together to discuss how their "feelings", then this ain't for you.

There's some stuff I could do without, as it doesn't do anything for the story (primarily about revenge), but it's pretty good as mindless entertainment.
 

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Good Books

Reading ''Pushing Ice" by Alastair Reynolds

Also if your a Space nut

"Forever War" by Joe Haldeman
"Stars at war" by David Weber,Steve White Both 1 and 2 were great
also "Heart of the comet" i read years ago but cant remember who wrote it
 

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I'm currently seeking a copy of Expedition by Wayne Barlowe. Unfortunately it's in the out-of-print-and-outrageously-expensive category...
 

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Only on sci-fi I Just finished the 7th book's of the Lost Fleet by Jack Campbell.
It's simple but very nice for those that love space opera. (great fleet combat in space with relativity effects)

Before that I have read and excellent novel by Benford,Gregory & Brin,David [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_the_Comet]Heart of the Comet[/ame].
I enjoyed it so much that I was even thinking to make it the cover of Arrow's book, but no time for that.

heartofthecomet.jpg


Now I'm reading again some Asimov.
 
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Once the 2nd series of the "Lost Fleet" books are in paperback I'll be picking them up; I liked the first batch pretty well.

Since the forum is pretty quiet tonight, I'm reading (of all things) The Epic of Gilgamesh (again). This translation is online as a pdf from the Assyrian International News Agency (www.aina.org) and it's a pretty good translation (or so I think so, whatever that might be worth, there are some spelling errors, but they are easily forgotten). ;)
 
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Wow, "Dance, dance, dance" was such a trip!
Now I've just started Murakami's "[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka_on_the_Shore]Kafka on the Shore[/ame]".
 
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Just finished "Senna versus Prost" by Malcolm Folley. It was ok if you're an F1 fan and seemed to paint a slightly more skeptical (or more rounded?) impression of Senna. Also covered a lot of the background dealing and politics involved which explains a lot about F1 today and the backgrounds of several key players still involved at the top of various teams.

About halfway through "One Dog at a Time" by Pen Farthing. About someone who gets deployed to Afghanistan and ends up founding an animal rescue charity. A bit different if nothing else!
 

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I read it a while ago but I'd strongly recommend James P. Hogan's "Inherit the Stars." An overall good hard scifi story, been meaning to start the next one in the series.
 

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Just finished Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program by David Meerman Scott & Richard Jurek

This book is an oasis of information on an aspect of Apollo rarely covered, being also a great visual feast as well. A great time capsule of the 60's & 70's. I had my preconceptions about the subject matter not being as interesting as the technical side of Apollo, but was I sure wrong on that! That's one excellent book.

Just started Earthrise: My Adventures as an Apollo 14 Astronaut by Edgar Mitchell with Ellen Mahoney
 

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John Dies at the End by David Wong. I also bought my own copy of The Silmarillion, and will probably read that fairly soon.
 

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Keep in mind that the Silmarillion is a digest version of The Book of Lost Tales. Good reading though. I read "Lost Tales" first, and had to take a moment to figure out who the Thingol guy was during the story of Beren and Tinuvel (he'd be King Tinwelent in Lost Tales).

The Children of Húrin is a good read too, it really expands the short version.

For myself I'm in the early stages of Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp series.
 

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The multiple names across multiple stories thing is rather a problem, isn't it... Well, if you lived for thousands of years, you might consider mixing it up now and then, too. :p
 

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Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
 
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