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charlesdee |
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Uber User Posts: 39 | How about David Ohle? Motorman. The Age of Sinatra, The Pisstown Chaos. Loosely a trilogy. | ||
nate1234 |
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Member Posts: 29 | against a dark background by iain m banks (sf but not culture series) | ||
gallyangel |
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | It's good to see Crichton on the list. My personal favorite is Sphere. Have anyone asked about the chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander? The book of three, the black caldron, the high king - they're classics in fantasy. And hey, just looking them up for this post, I found out that Alexander wrote a sixth Prydain book, re-released in 2006 - The Foundling and other tales of Prydain. I had no idea. I'd just knew about the five main books. Edited by gallyangel 2011-09-07 1:01 AM | ||
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Admin Posts: 4006 Location: Dallas, Texas | gallyangel - 2011-09-07 12:51 AM It's good to see Crichton on the list. My personal favorite is Sphere. Have anyone asked about the chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander? The book of three, the black caldron, the high king - they're classics in fantasy. And hey, just looking them up for this post, I found out that Alexander wrote a sixth Prydain book, re-released in 2006 - The Foundling and other tales of Prydain. I had no idea. I'd just knew about the five main books. I've never heard of LLoyd Alexander so I looked him up. Looks like his books are more kids/tweens, 9-12, but I have been putting a few younger than Young Adult books in so I'll likely add these too. We're going to have to do something about the YA and younger books though to differentiate them from the adult books first. I'll have to noodle on that. The Crichton books have been added as well as a bunch of the other books in this thread. I'll post the updated list tonight or tomorrow. | ||
charlesdee |
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Uber User Posts: 39 | Do none of the major awards have a YA category? | ||
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Admin Posts: 4006 Location: Dallas, Texas | charlesdee - 2011-09-07 8:09 AM Do none of the major awards have a YA category? Hugo does. It's one that I've been keen to add to the site too. Just haven't found the time yet. What I think we'll end up doing is adding a few more categories for books. I want to split Horror out from Fantas so we can have sub-genres for those. Right now they're all just lumped in as Dark Fantasy. Then create Young Adult and Youth? categories so you can sort for just those books. The more I think about it the more I like having some younger books in the database to help parents find books to start their kids on genre fiction. My 10 year old daughter just picked up The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and she's excited to be reading a book from daddy's web site. I have to admit I'm excited too. | ||
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Admin Posts: 4006 Location: Dallas, Texas |
List Update:
My thanks to jynnantonnyx for doing the data entry on the last batch! I'll start a new list with the last few you guys have submitted. Keep 'em coming! | ||
nate1234 |
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Member Posts: 29 | a clockwork rocket by greg egan | ||
Emil |
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Uber User Posts: 237 Location: Grootfontein, Namibia | Speaking of Greg Egan, there is an accessible collection of short stories by him, originally published in 1995(?) and then again reissued in 2008 named "Axiomatic" that is a considerably easier introduction to his work than any of his other novels. Anyone who wants to comprehend Egan's artistry and audacity needs to read this collection. | ||
Rhondak101 |
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Uber User Posts: 770 Location: SC, USA | The Mythopoetic Awards (which I know is on Dave's list to add) has a YA category that started in 1992. http://www.mythsoc.org/awards/fantasy/ | ||
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Admin Posts: 4006 Location: Dallas, Texas | Rhondak101 - 2011-09-10 9:03 AM The Mythopoetic Awards (which I know is on Dave's list to add) has a YA category that started in 1992. http://www.mythsoc.org/awards/fantasy/ I've not gotten very far with the Mythopoetic Awards because of the convention and other site updates etc. but you're right - they split the award into 2 categories in 1992. They call the category "Children's". I wonder how they define it? It looks like a mix of YA and children's to me. I've got 96 books left to add for the adult list and 95 for the children's. Egads! | ||
nate1234 |
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Member Posts: 29 | i think this is all the gene wolfe still missing: Novels: Operation Ares (1970) The Devil in a Forest (1976) Castleview (1990) Pandora, By Holly Hollander (1990) Story collections: The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980) Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988) Endangered Species (1989) Castle of Days (1992) Strange Travelers (2000) Innocents Aboard (2004) Starwater Strains (2005) The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009) | ||
htaccess |
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Veteran Posts: 207 | nate1234: Not sure a clockwork rocket by greg egan can be considered overlooked as its pretty new, I'm hoping it won't be overlooked | ||
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Admin Posts: 4006 Location: Dallas, Texas | nate1234 - 2011-08-28 5:19 PM vortex by robert charles wilson lovecraft? | ||
gallyangel |
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | How about: Don't Panic The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion by Neil Gaiman. Two points: the whole six part trilogy is part of the database and Gaiman has contributed how many books to this database? Two pennies drop. | ||
nate1234 |
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Member Posts: 29 | eyes of the dragon by stephen king? | ||
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Admin Posts: 4006 Location: Dallas, Texas | nate1234 - 2011-10-12 10:15 PM eyes of the dragon by stephen king? We just added a ton of Stephen King books as part of the Bram Stoker Award but not Eyes of the Dragon which happens to be the only Stephen King book I've ever read. Now that the Stoker is up and running I'll start getting some of these books added. I've got some catching up to do! | ||
gallyangel |
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | Cherie Priest, her clockwork century series is expanding to five books. So says her website. Fiddlehead (steampunk: fall 2013, Tor) Inexplicable (steampunk: fall 2012, Tor) Ganymede, Tor Books 2011 Dreadnought, Tor Books 2010 Boneshaker, Tor Books 2009 She's just-a pounding that keyboard. You go, girl. | ||
gallyangel |
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | Frederik Pohl The gateway trip: tales and vignettes of the heechee this one seems to be left out. | ||
gallyangel |
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | You've got Dracula in the system. How could you not when dealing with horror? So how about the sequel from an actual Stoker descendant. It's the right time of year for it. Dracula: the Un-dead by Dacre Stoker | ||
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Admin Posts: 4006 Location: Dallas, Texas |
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gallyangel |
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | How about the rest of the Professor Challenger stories by Doyle? You already have the lost world and the poison belt in the database. Doyle only has three other Challenger stories: when the world screamed, the disintegration machine, and the land of mist. I think it's interesting SF from the 20ies, which shows where SF and science was then. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbook... This book contains those three. Or there are books which contain all of the challenger stories. | ||
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Regular Posts: 63 Location: Zagreb | Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes: Legacy of Heorot. http://www.amazon.com/The-Legacy-of-Heorot-ebook/dp/B004Q9TC8C/ref=... It's neither my favor book nor my favor subgenre, but its well written and fun read. Probably it could be in Larry Niven page. It's about isolated colony somewhere in space fighting alien monster. But this alien could really eat for breakfast one from Cameron movie. I like most the cover for Kindle. | ||
gallyangel |
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Uber User Posts: 857 Location: The Wilds of Washington | The earthsea cycle by Le Guin is incomplete. Tales of Earthsea is missing. The cycle is six books not five. Edited by gallyangel 2011-11-07 6:27 PM | ||
Emil |
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Uber User Posts: 237 Location: Grootfontein, Namibia | Excellent! Axiomatic is in, so now I can read it | ||
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