Finished reading William C.
Dietz's "By Force of Arms" (
BFOA), part of his Legion of the Damned series. It was the follow up to "By Blood Alone" I had read last summer.
BFOA didn't have the wide ranging characters and depth of situations that it's predecessors did but was an exciting read none the less. This series as does Neal Asher, Iain Banks, Peter Hamilton and other writers really do a great job incorporating artificial intelligences (AIs) into their stories. Asher and Banks in particular put a lot of personality and strong roles into their AIs involvement of a story. In
BFOA there is an entire race of robots called the Sheen controlled by an AI called the
Hoon which presents one of the great threats to the Confederacy (species including humans from
acrossed the galaxy) who have just survived a massive attempt to be overthrown. "For More Than Glory" is the next book in the series.
Next in line is "The Draco Tavern" by
Larry Niven. Niven has provided tons of great science fiction of which I've barely scratched the surface. The "
Ringworld" series send the reader's imagination soaring about a world with a wide range of humanoid species built on the inside of a ring that surrounds a sun and the mysteries of how the
Ringworld came abouts. I've also read "The Protector", "Destiny's Road" and off and on I'll read one of the many short stories of "N-Space". Here is a
Wikipedia link with a description of
The Draco Tavern.
Finished reading William C. Dietz's "By Force of Arms" (BFOA), part of his Legion of the Damned series. It was the follow up to "By Blood Alone" I had read last summer. BFOA didn't have the wide ranging characters and depth of situations that it's predecessors did but was an exciting read none the less. This series as does Neal Asher, Iain Banks, Peter Hamilton and other writers really do a great job incorporating artificial intelligences (AIs) into their stories. Asher and Banks in particular put a lot of personality and strong roles into their AIs involvement of a story. In BFOA there is an entire race of robots called the Sheen controlled by an AI called the Hoon which presents one of the great threats to the Confederacy (species including humans from acrossed the galaxy) who have just survived a massive attempt to be overthrown. "For More Than Glory" is the next book in the series.
Next in line is "The Draco Tavern" by Larry Niven. Niven has provided tons of great science fiction of which I've barely scratched the surface. The "Ringworld" series send the reader's imagination soaring about a world with a wide range of humanoid species built on the inside of a ring that surrounds a sun and the mysteries of how the Ringworld came abouts. I've also read "The Protector", "Destiny's Road" and off and on I'll read one of the many short stories of "N-Space". Here is a Wikipedia link with a description of The Draco Tavern.
4 comments:
if the old soldier . . . i say let him march in the parade.
i noticed a brownout on the internet due to all of your recent blogging activities!
perhaps you are experimenting with:
"a combination of advance medical technology and boosterspice?"
i'll have to check your office for genetically engineered ragweed seed droppings...
I would hazard a guess searching for those quotes contributed to that brownout my friend. A little boosterspice will keep you online in more ways than one ;-)
Mmmm must check Dietz out.
Boostah Spice Breath
i have copies of "Ringworld and Ringworld's Children" , but i have been wanting to get both "The Ringworld Engineers" and "The Ringworld's Throne", before reading RC - then i can have an intelligent conversation with you about the series... still concentrating on my current book lists ;)
i've always been intrigued by science fiction creativity!
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