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The GOT Book Club
- Thread starter chicoazul
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If you like sci-fi then there are two classics that still stand the test of time. You've probably already read them but if not.
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting.
Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die.
The second one is basically The Count of Monte Cristo in space. Hard going at first because the main character speaks in patois, but it's only the first part of the book.
Both of these are absolute classics and should be on the reading list of any sci fi fan.
Lickle eric
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random
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And finished the last 2 in the series
I would rate them as follows in order of how good they are
1. Old Mans War (book 1)
2. The Ghost Brigades (book 2)
3. The Human Division (book 5)
4. The End of All Things (book 6)
5. The Last Colony (book 3)
6. Zoe's Tale (book 4)
I don't think its essential to read book 4 for books 5 & 6 to make sense, so my advice would be to swerve it unless you like completeness.
I would rate them as follows in order of how good they are
1. Old Mans War (book 1)
2. The Ghost Brigades (book 2)
3. The Human Division (book 5)
4. The End of All Things (book 6)
5. The Last Colony (book 3)
6. Zoe's Tale (book 4)
I don't think its essential to read book 4 for books 5 & 6 to make sense, so my advice would be to swerve it unless you like completeness.
Philw
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You read pretty quick!! I'm still working through 'The Moonstone', tho I do only really read for 10-15 minutes before I go to bed most nights.
Grew up on these and all the other 40's, 50's and he's Giants.If you like sci-fi then there are two classics that still stand the test of time. You've probably already read them but if not.
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting.
Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die.
The second one is basically The Count of Monte Cristo in space. Hard going at first because the main character speaks in patois, but it's only the first part of the book.
Both of these are absolute classics and should be on the reading list of any sci fi fan.
If you like space opera get into the Kristina Longknife series.
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