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Post  Tia Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:07 pm

This is just like the Fanfiction exchange except here you can post public fiction. This is likely going to be for mostly sci-fi considering our star trek association.
Name of book: Ender's game
Author: Orson Scott Card
Genre: Science fiction
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Post  Light Shine Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:59 pm

Barrier wrote:This is just like the Fanfiction exchange except here you can post public fiction. This is likely going to be for mostly sci-fi considering our star trek association.
Name of book: Ender's game
Author: Orson Scott Card
Genre: Science fiction
Such a great book! I also recommend his Alvin Journeyman series. More fantasy themed, but great all the same.
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Post  Shooting Star Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:33 pm

I've been meaning to get Enders Game, glad someone recommended it on here as i've heard mixed things so far Razz
If your into zombie books, then i'd recommend Mark Tufo's Zombie Fallout series. I got the first one on my kindle when it was on offer, read it in one sitting then bought the rest straight away Very Happy

Name of Book: Zombie Fallout 1-5 (6 is out October-ish i think)
Author: Mark Tufo
Genre: Zombie, horror, drama
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Post  Stormy Seas Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:01 pm

Ender's Game is actually on the Navy's reading list for junior enlisted sailors. I read it back in OCS on night's I couldn't sleep and found it to be a very interesting look at the mindset of warfare fought from a distance and as though it were a game. It's kind of eerie how many similarities exist between that future war and the movement of modern warfare from personal to impersonal through the use of automated systems and unmanned craft.

And to speak of zombie literature, World War Z was an impressive and surprising read.

I read much more fantasy than I do science fiction, so any recommendations from me will usually be towards that genre. That being said, if you enjoy fantasy and history, I can't recommend a series more highly than Naomi Novak's Temeraire series. If you're unfamiliar with the setting, imagine the Napoleonic War with dragons as an Aerial Corps and you'll get an idea.
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Post  Tia Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:44 pm

Pride and prejudice and Zombies is pretty entertaining read. Also Ender's shadow is about as good as ender's game it follows the same story but from Bean's point of view it's well worth the read.
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Post  Light Shine Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:57 pm

For those who like alt. history/sci-fi, Look up Destroyermen by Taylor Anderson. Excellent crossover book about an aging destroyer in World War Two being whisked away to an alternate timeline where humans never evolved.
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Post  Shooting Star Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:07 pm

Stormy Seas wrote:Ender's Game is actually on the Navy's reading list for junior enlisted sailors. I read it back in OCS on night's I couldn't sleep and found it to be a very interesting look at the mindset of warfare fought from a distance and as though it were a game. It's kind of eerie how many similarities exist between that future war and the movement of modern warfare from personal to impersonal through the use of automated systems and unmanned craft.

And to speak of zombie literature, World War Z was an impressive and surprising read.

World War Z was fantastic Very Happy
Lotta ponies recommending Ender's Game, so i'm gunna give it a go Very Happy
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Post  Scootaloo Tue May 01, 2012 12:05 am

I'm a really big nerd, but...

The Safehold Series by David Weber is just awesome. It's basically 18th century sailing ships on a colony that is the last great hope for humanity.

I thought it would go without saying, but Frank Herbert's Dune. Just... yeah.

Also, the Hungry City Chronicles by Philip Reeve. They're a bit hard to find, because I guess they had to be imported from the UK? But they were a really cool steampunky quartet of books.
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Post  Stormy Seas Tue May 01, 2012 12:29 am

Scootaloo wrote:I'm a really big nerd, but...

The Safehold Series by David Weber is just awesome. It's basically 18th century sailing ships on a colony that is the last great hope for humanity.

Once I finish the Song of Fire and Ice series, I'll have to look that one up; sounds really interesting. Right now I just have to pull my head out of fantfics long enough to finish a regular piece of literature.
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Post  Tia Tue May 01, 2012 2:19 am

the three worlds series is ridiculously long and difficult to find but it's a good read and I do recommend it.
Ian Irvine is the author
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Post  Light Shine Tue May 01, 2012 3:28 am

If you can handle the swearing(which I couldn't, it was a little over my tolerable limit) the 1632 series is a really good time-travel/alt history storyline
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