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I recommend the following Coyote : Allen Steel - "interstellar exploration and settlement" The stories of the journey to the new planet and the perils and battles to form a colony are wonderful. Hyperion : Dan Simmons - outstanding story written in a pilgrim's progress style. Several unc

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Of course, I'd recommend SINS & LOVERS my follow up to ORANIT || CROSSED LINES Both dirt free in KINDLE :) Michael Dr Michael Benjamin, Community Psychiatrist ​0505317772 - Oranit || Crossed Lines Amazon

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I'll second BMW's suggestion, but not really in the genre you're looking for. Anything by Peter F.Hamilton would be good, I'd probably start with Great North Road as a stand alone novel, or if you're really interested, try the commonwealth & void trilogy's in that order. Cheers, Andy C Sent f

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"The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August"  by Claire North. Very entertaining indeed. BMW PS probably better if we turn this Leeds list into a Book/Wine/Holidays forum. On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:51 AM -0700, "Nick Allen" wrote: Philip K Dick JG Ballard American Gods by Gaiman

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Seconding Asher - he's basically Banks but with a conservative philosophy. There's also Alastair Reynolds, who does big ships, AIs, etc, but in a relativistic universe. And Ann Leckie's "Imperial Radch" trilogy, the first book of which won every SF award going. A ship's AI escapes destruction

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Philip K Dick JG Ballard American Gods by Gaiman is pretty good despite the lousy last 30 pages. Sent from my iPad > On 11 Apr 2016, at 16:23, {broken-address} Graham White > wrote: > > If you prefer authors with a bit of a reputation then anything by Neal Asher > or Gary Gibson, with the Ne

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I thought all his stuff, enjoyable though it was, was juvenile. For me "Time Enough For Love" was by far his best (with an intriguing take on incest) But the SF writer who really has stood the test of time (and obviously isn't HG Wells) is Jack Vance - I think that he was Californian which pro

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rything I take on my > pushbike and have to carry my tablet for other reasons and I'm not sure my > local library does ebooks. > > > > From: John Boocock [mailto:j...@boocock.net] > Sent: 11 April 2016 16:21 > To: Richard Naef; leeds list > Subject: Re: [LU] NON LU: b

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ell made, but I'm having to carry everything I take on my pushbike and have to carry my tablet for other reasons and I'm not sure my local library does ebooks. From: John Boocock [mailto:j...@boocock.net] Sent: 11 April 2016 16:21 To: Richard Naef; leeds list Subject: Re:

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I find Heinlein's adult stuff dated and politically very incorrect, his juvenile stuff has stood the test of time much better.  Graham White On Monday, 11 April 2016, 17:21, John Boocock wrote: Absolutely recommend Robert Heinlien  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro

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If you prefer authors with a bit of a reputation then anything by Neal Asher or Gary Gibson, with the Neal Asher books you need to read them in the right order. Also the Humanities Fire trilogy by Michael Cobley is pretty good - proper galaxy spanning space opera! If you are willing to give an

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Absolutely recommend Robert Heinlien  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein always dies it for me and use yer library! Sent from Samsung Mobile ___ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/lee

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Hi all, I'm off for a few days holiday and struggling for a couple of books to take with me - tho cos I'm cycling it'll be electronic versions. I'm into Science Fiction and recently amused myself with re-reading all of Iain M Bank's books. Now for obvious reasons he's not going to write an