Thanks to m for this link. Now, let's see what recommendations I come up with (this is a good adjunct to the previous book-tagging post):
Starship Troopers yields: 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke, Etica Para Amador - Fernando Savater, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom - Nik Cohn, Killing Time - Caleb Carr, Gateways - F. Paul Wilson , Legacies - F.Paul Wilson, Shalimar the Clown - Salman Rushdie, Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde, God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert, The Naked Sun - Isaac Asimov
Of these, I've read The Naked Sun (disliked it) and tried to read Killing Time (disliked it too much to keep going -- it felt very clumsy and unengaging).
Perelandra yields: The Skystone - Jack Whyte, Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds, The Hyperion Omnibus: "Hyperion", "The Fall of Hyperion" - Dan Simmons
Of these, I've heard of the Hyperion series.
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schrodingersgnu
2005-09-23 03:26 am UTC
Chasm City recently caused me to ask circehellene at what point do you as an editor say "NO. I refuse you to waste a good idea on this crappy writing. Go home. Keep the idea. Write a new story. Oh, and before I forget - Enough with the the fucking flashbacks, OK?"
The thing is, I REALLY wanted to like Chasm City. I just couldn't. There were two sets of alternating flashback scenarios, one of them only possibly relevant for the conclusion of the book.
Also have no idea how it is in any way similar to Hyperion... Very different books, IMO. If you haven't read Hyperion, you should give it a try. A tad dense to get into to, but picks up quite a bit 50 pages in.