Tag: scifi

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  • A Deepness in the Sky

    Posted on March 6, 2007 at 21:10 +0100 Tagged with , , , ,

    After quite some time I finally dared to look outside of my usual Star Trek and Star Wars books again and discovered A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge.

    The plot takes place in a very distant future (thousands of years). Earth is no longer all that important and a big part of humankind consists now of traders that make their living by finding new customers on other worlds. But in all these years, humankind has never met an advanced non-human civilization.

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  • Preparing for the next round

    Posted on Feb. 22, 2006 at 09:53 +0100 Tagged with , , , , , ,

    Damn, now I'm just half-way through the 2nd book of my previous order and now I already basically know, which books will make it into the next round:

    • Peter David's "Missing in Action" (Star Trek: New Frontier)
    • John Scalzi's "Old Man's War"

    Yes, another non-StarTrek book. Today Cory Doctorow post something about Scalzi's new novel "The Ghost Brigades" on BoingBoing. Since I've never heard of that author before, I went to check out Cory's post his previous book "Old Man's War" and found it quite interesting, esp. since Cory describes it as

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  • The Forever War

    Posted on Feb. 18, 2006 at 01:10 +0100 Tagged with , , ,

    Photo of the coverWritten in 1974 (basically at the end of the Vietnam war) and influenced by the authors experience during the same war, "The Forever War" describes a war, that lasts not for years, not for decades, but for milliena. The main character of the story is William Mandella, a young soldier who compulsory joined the newly formed UNEF to fight an alien race, the Taurans.

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