BooksWe love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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Charles StrossHe writes in a couple of sub-genres: alternate Earth, very near future, comic horror.
The Merchant Families I couldn't get into, but Accelerando, which starts about 5 years from now and extends into the next 200 years is very good, along the lines of Greg Egan's Diaspora. Halting State and Rule 34 are set 10 years from now in an independent Scotland: very funny detective stories.
The ones I really like are the Laundry novels: the Lovecraft universe superimposed on the Ipcress File.
For a taster look up "A Colder War" available online.
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HELL YES to The Laundry stories.:D
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:16,
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