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Well, just the whole premise, the storyline, characterizations, etc etc. Its been a long time since I read it, but I distinctly remember disliking it. Almost as much as Vector Prime...
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Okay, all over people are looking at the utter shit Hollywood is throwing up and saying "Sci Fi is dying" but I dont buy it for a second!
Tell me what your favorite "new" (as in within the past decade) Sci Fi is- it can be novels, cartoons, anime, comics- whatever.
I'll start (as I'm especial)- Charles Stross' Laundry series of noves (three so far but not a "trilogy or anything so snotty) The Atrocity Archives, the Jennifer Morgue and The Fuller Memorandum. It's sorta IT geek meets civil service meets Lovecraft and James Bond. Really incredible fun.
Any spy that can rant for pages about why MS Powerpoint is pure evil is awesome i my book.
For more epic sci fi, go with Dan Simmons' Illium and Olympos- it' the Illiad with the Gods useing super science, time manipulation, robots, extra dimensional aliens and all the heroes of the Illiad in real and believable characterization... plus a historian thrown into it all, with an intimate knowledge of the Illiad itself, looking to screw everyone's day.
SO PONY UP YOUR FAVORITES!
Well, if we're including all media, then for me it has to be the Mass Effect video games (and I suppose comics and novels too.) Easily the best new sci-fi IP since Firefly IMO.
In terms of novels, I came across an interesting one a few months back called The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Bit of an odd one, mostly about a post-digital/post-fossil fuel world driven by bio-tech and genetic engineering. Not a genre I often visit but it kept me reading. Sort of reminded me of the world PKD described in 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' but with aggressive GM crops & diseases in place of radioactive waste.
quote:Originally posted by Fabrux: Well, just the whole premise, the storyline, characterizations, etc etc. Its been a long time since I read it, but I distinctly remember disliking it. Almost as much as Vector Prime...
Ditto on both counts. Vector Prime was the last Star Wars novel I ever read. I realized when I finished that book that the Star Wars universe was pretty much played out and anything more was pointless.
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quote:Originally posted by Fabrux: Well, just the whole premise, the storyline, characterizations, etc etc. Its been a long time since I read it, but I distinctly remember disliking it. Almost as much as Vector Prime...
Ditto on both counts. Vector Prime was the last Star Wars novel I ever read. I realized when I finished that book that the Star Wars universe was pretty much played out and anything more was pointless.
I gave up before Vector Prime. Can't remember which was the last one I read because there were two or three that I never finished for lack of interest. The last "bad" one I read was I think 'Crystal Star'.
I gather since then they've switched from random standalones and trilogies to long sequences of multi author arcs. Probably for the best looking as where things were heading when I last checked.
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I have long since given up on SW novels. No idea what's going on, but I gather that the Yuuzhan Vong have been defeated, at the expense of the New Republic, which apparently has collapsed and there's a new political entity or some such thing.
On the other hand, I just read the 20th anniversary edition of Heir to the Empire and it still rocks hardcore. I still wonder what would've happened at Endor had Thrawn been in command....
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