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Veteran Posts: 207 | Do you have any books that you think are absolutely fantastic that you would score a 10 but for some reason they never got any awards? Mine would be Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan. I'm interested to know what others think. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 202 Location: Sacramento, California | Armor, by John Steakley. I love this book, but don't believe it won any awards or anything. | ||
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Member Posts: 17 | Deven Science - 2010-01-03 4:24 PM Armor, by John Steakley. I love this book, but don't believe it won any awards or anything. I second that! Armor is a great book. The battle scenes are very well written. This is one of those books I hated to finish. It shares many of the same elements as Starship Troopers and Forever War as far as technology goes. It is much darker, though. Too bad, Steakley has only written two books, Armor and Vampire$ (very liberally adapted into John Carpenter's Vampires). | ||
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Uber User Posts: 202 Location: Sacramento, California | @MT in Austin, Yeah, once I finished, I was bummed that he didn't have more books to pick up and read. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | @htaccess: I've never read Egan before but have heard good things about him. We've only got Permutation City in the DB right now. @Deven Science and MT in Austin: I was really intrigued with Armor when it came out but had forgotten about it. Thanks for the reminder. Too bad there was no sequel. So, what do you guys think of an "Overlooked Books" list? We can use this thread to post recommendations and then vote or something to determine a list of say 50 books. I'll add them to the DB and build a list page for them. It could be a running list that we can add to as we go along until we reach 100. Some thoughts:
Do you think we can get enough participation to make a go of this? I'm not so sure but it's fun to think about at any rate. What do you guys think? Any suggestions?
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Member Posts: 17 | Sounds good to me. "Overlooked" could also mean forgotten. Not necessarily from unknown authors but lesser know books as well. I like the "not nominated" criteria although there are so many awards that it's hard for a good book not to at least get a nod from somewhere. | ||
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New User Posts: 2 Location: Suzhou, China | David Wingrove's Chung Kuo series is one of my all-time favorites. And I hardly see it mentioned anywhere! | ||
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Member Posts: 17 | I would submit Craig Shaw Gardner's original work as overlooked as a whole. His writing is similar to that of Terry Pratchett. Silly English humor (though he is American) and loads of fun. The first two, The Ebenezum Trilogy and The Ballad of Wuntor, are my favorites. These series, in particular, are much fun. Ebenezum 1. A Malady of Magicks (1986) 2. A Multitude of Monsters (1986) 3. A Night in the Netherhells (1987) Wuntvor 1. A Difficulty with Dwarves (1987) 2. An Excess of Enchantments (1988) 3. A Disagreement with Death (1989) The Cineverse Cycle 1. Slaves of the Volcano God (1989) 2. Bride of the Slime Monster (1990) 3. Revenge of the Fluffy Bunnies (1990) Arabian Nights 1. The Other Sinbad (1991) 2. A Bad Day for Ali Baba (1992) 3. The Last Arabian Night (1993) CSG also wrote "serious" fantasy and several film novelizations. I haven't read those. Edited by MT in Austin 2010-05-29 9:19 AM | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | BigBen - 2010-05-20 7:04 PM David Wingrove's Chung Kuo series is one of my all-time favorites. And I hardly see it mentioned anywhere!
I found this old thread the other day and I thought I'd get some of these books added to the database. The Chung Kuo series is in now. Gardner is next. If you've got any series that you like that we don't have in our database post it here and I'll get it added.
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Admin Posts: 75 Location: Dallas, TX | Administrator - 2011-03-13 11:33 AM If you've got any series that you like that we don't have in our database post it here and I'll get it added. I hear the Twilight series is quite popular | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | whargoul -I hear the Twilight series is quite popular That's the sort of thing that could get you banned. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | MT in Austin - 2010-05-29 9:19 AM I would submit Craig Shaw Gardner's original work as overlooked as a whole. His writing is similar to that of Terry Pratchett. Silly English humor (though he is American) and loads of fun. All the Gardner books are in now: 5 trilogies. The first of each are pictured above and link to the trilogy list for each set. Enjoy! | ||
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | How about Madeleine L'Engle's time Quintet? No nods from the SF awards but boatloads from the childrens book awards. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | There's John Christopher's Tripod foursome. It's fading away. I don't know if that qualifies as overlooked. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | I've got one more, at the moment. Alexander Key's, The Case of the Vanishing Boy. I just read the reviews of the book over at Amazon. All three had a fondness for this book. I agree. This one is something kids reread and adults pass on to the kids, even if it hasn't been reprinted in years. An overlooked classic. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | @galleyangel: I'm in the middle of putting all the "SF Mistressworks" books into the DB right now. I'll check out these recommendations once I'm through with that. Thanks for posting. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | gallyangel - 2011-03-27 3:09 AM There's John Christopher's Tripod foursome. It's fading away. I don't know if that qualifies as overlooked. Tripods are in now with some nice 2003 reprint editions from Simon Pulse. We definitely want to get more Young Adult books in our DB but the other books you mentioned are more for children than YA which is outside our baileywick. Thanks for the recommendations and keep them coming! | ||
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | How about C.J. Cherryh's Wave Without A Shore? That's another one which is long out of print, but probably could support a larger circle of readers. One of the themes of the book is unseeing parts of reality, which is exactly what drove Mieville's The City and The City. I wonder if Mieville has read Wave or took inspiration from it? Unseeing reality, since the main character is an artist, that sounds like a very stupid or at the very least, a limiting position for any artist to take. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | How about these two from Hal Clement: Needle and it's sequel, Through the Eye of the Needle? Doesn't Needle have the first use of a symbiotic parring between a human and an alien? That would make it slightly important in the history of SF innovation. You only have two books in the database by Clement and he's seems to be one of the golden age authors who's fading fast. Adding another two by him might be a good idea. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | I was wondering about the Hitchhikers series. Are you going to include Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing... as well since it does continue the series? | ||
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | Have you considered adding the second Foundation Trilogy? Foundation's Triumph by Brin Foundation and Chaos by Bear Foundation's Fear by Benford Three heavy hitters at work there. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | @Galleyangel: Lots of Hal Clement coming, stay tuned! I just put Hitchhiker's in last week. Guess I should have included And Another Thing! I'll get it soon. The Killer B's! Another obvious series I've overlooked... and I read them too! Thanks for the suggestions. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4003 Location: Dallas, Texas | Ask and ye shall receive.... | ||
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Uber User Posts: 237 Location: Grootfontein, Namibia | The Man Who Fell To Earth - Walter Tevis | ||
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