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I'm looking for reccomendations for my Amazon wish list that I might not know I want yet.

My tastes:
SF: I tend to like like hard and military SF, near future, and cyberpunk/postcyberpunk - David Drake, Joe Haldeman, John Brunner, Larry Niven, Bruce Sterling, Kim Stanley Robinson, Neal Stephenson, Rudy Rucker and Heinlein are some authors I love.

Latest SF novel read: Kim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain. It was interesting, and Years of Salt and Rice is on the wish list already.

Fantasy: I get kind of picky here, and tend to stick with authors I knoe well, but would like some fresh blood - NO ROBERT JORDAN! :mad: Some authors I like: Steven Brust, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Glen Cook, Terry Pratchet, Lynn Abbey, Richard Adams, and MAR Barker.

Military Techno thrillers: Eric L. Harry, Ralph peters, Larry Bond, and the like.

Non-fiction: Military history, contemporary military affairs, general history, assorted science, and so on.

Porno's always good.

I'll write one of those.

I'm looking for reccomendations for my Amazon wish list that I might not know I want yet.

My tastes:
SF: I tend to like like hard and military SF, near future, and cyberpunk/postcyberpunk - David Drake, Joe Haldeman, John Brunner, Larry Niven, Bruce Sterling, Kim Stanley Robinson, Neal Stephenson, Rudy Rucker and Heinlein are some authors I love.

Latest SF novel read: Kim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain. It was interesting, and Years of Salt and Rice is on the wish list already.

Fantasy: I get kind of picky here, and tend to stick with authors I knoe well, but would like some fresh blood - NO ROBERT JORDAN! :mad: Some authors I like: Steven Brust, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Glen Cook, Terry Pratchet, Lynn Abbey, Richard Adams, and MAR Barker.

Military Techno thrillers: Eric L. Harry, Ralph peters, Larry Bond, and the like.

Non-fiction: Military history, contemporary military affairs, general history, assorted science, and so on.


If you like hard military SF, you absolutely need to read:

A Small Colonial War
Fire In A Faraway Place
Cain's Land

all by Robert Frezza

And for contemporary military stuff, the best "recent" read is:

http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=35146

I'm looking for reccomendations for my Amazon wish list that I might not know I want yet.

My tastes:
SF: I tend to like like hard and military SF, near future, and cyberpunk/postcyberpunk - David Drake, Joe Haldeman, John Brunner, Larry Niven, Bruce Sterling, Kim Stanley Robinson, Neal Stephenson, Rudy Rucker and Heinlein are some authors I love.

Latest SF novel read: Kim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain. It was interesting, and Years of Salt and Rice is on the wish list already.

Fantasy: I get kind of picky here, and tend to stick with authors I knoe well, but would like some fresh blood - NO ROBERT JORDAN! :mad: Some authors I like: Steven Brust, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Glen Cook, Terry Pratchet, Lynn Abbey, Richard Adams, and MAR Barker.

Military Techno thrillers: Eric L. Harry, Ralph peters, Larry Bond, and the like.

Non-fiction: Military history, contemporary military affairs, general history, assorted science, and so on.

Have you read any Neil Gaiman? Neverwhere and American Gods are very good, Anansi Boys is interesting, but isn't as good as his other stuff (Though it is still good).

If you enjoy fantasy in the vein of Terry Pratchett I'd recommend Tom Holt or Robert Rankin.

GK Chesterton is also very enjoyable, no mattter what your genre preferences are (in my experience anyway), with The Man Who Was Thursday and The Napoleon of Notting Hill being my favorite.

If you like hard military SF, you absolutely need to read:

A Small Colonial War
Fire In A Faraway Place
Cain's Land

all by Robert Frezza


Read the first one, will have as look at the other two.


And for contemporary military stuff, the best "recent" read is:

http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=35146

That also looks interesting.

Have you read any Neil Gaiman? Neverwhere and American Gods are very good, Anansi Boys is interesting, but isn't as good as his other stuff (Though it is still good).

If you enjoy fantasy in the vein of Terry Pratchett I'd recommend Tom Holt or Robert Rankin.

GK Chesterton is also very enjoyable, no mattter what your genre preferences are (in my experience anyway), with The Man Who Was Thursday and The Napoleon of Notting Hill being my favorite.

Also I'd add Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination. But I'm extremely biased regarding this book :D

:EDIT: Whoops, it appears I quoted my self rather then editing the original post :(

meh.

(Going slightly off topic I know. But I was just looking at my Amazon recommendations an got this which made me laugh.)

http://img275.imageshack.us/img275/4326/amazon0zv.jpg