Sci-Fi Bender

[bloodyrosemccoy]

So I finally got to Chanur's Legacy. I never read it before because honestly Hilfy was insufferable. And I stand by that assessment, though she seems to finally be getting the glimmer of a clue through her thick skull. And I do love getting deep into alien minds.

Definitely going to go on to Cherryh's other stuff, too--the Alliance/Union universe to find out Tully's context, and also I've got Foreigner here. (Tried to get into it once and never got very far.) But I'm wanting other sci-fi, too. Definitely on a kick. You nerds got any recommendations?


PS: LOOK AT THIS FUCKING COVER I FOUND. Suddenly I want to learn French just to find out what the everloving hell the translator who described Pyanfar THAT way to the illustrator was on about.

Comments

[fractalwolf.livejournal.com]

I'll tell you exactly what the illustrator was told... "female humanoid cat"

Have you read any of Bujold's stuff? If not, the Vorkosigan series is great. I used to adore Alan Dean Foster's Flinx series, too, so I recommend at least sampling one.

[fractalwolf.livejournal.com]

Oh, and if you like classic scifi, check out the Little Fuzzy series if you can find it.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

The weird thing, though, is that they obviously did mention the multiple gold earrings and the pearl drop--they aren't set up correctly, but they're there--so they clearly got SOME detail out. I'm just curious where the breakdown lies. (Also: big 80s hair! It never stops being funny!)

I read Cordelia's books, tried to read one of the Miles books and couldn't quite do it because I missed Cordelia, but I think it's been long enough that I can start something new. Little Fuzzy is great, as is Scalzi's retelling of it. I haven't read Flinx, though; I'll look into it!

[baby-rissa-chan.livejournal.com]

Miles is fun, but you REALLY have to treat his stuff as a completely different world from Cordelia's. I think you'd enjoy Falling Free, too, which is TECHNICALLY a prequel to the Vorkosigan stuff but entirely disconnected. It's about bioengineered kids who have arms instead of legs so they're better designed for working in space transitioning from being chattel to independence.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I may look into that one!

[fractalwolf.livejournal.com]

...wow, you're right. The earrings were so not-right I didn't even register them except as being appropriate for the 80's hair. And my wife pointed out that the hair might be from the 80's, but that rocket ship is pure 60's.

...now I want to go back and read Chanur again. Darn it, I don't have time to get sucked into a book right now!

[baby-rissa-chan.livejournal.com]

Are you familiar with Nancy Kress? I really enjoyed Beggars in Spain. Babies engineered so they don't need sleep and the rest of the world's reaction to them, starting in their infancy with the parents having an increased tendency toward abuse because they NEVER GET TO SLEEP.

Elizabeth Moon has some pretty good space opera stuff. Might be worth a read. I like her take on Most Dangerous Game.

If you don't mind that the books all have plots interlaced with romance, Sharon Miller and Steve Lee's Korvald series has some fun alien races and cultures. I go back and forth between loving them and having trouble reading them depending on how strongly ace I'm feeling at any point, though, because they're definitely all love stories as well as sci-fi stories.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I tried reading the Korval stuff and wasn't sure how much I liked it. The pacing seemed a bit off from what I like. But maybe I should try some others!