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Thread #66468 Message #1103856
Posted By: Midchuck
28-Jan-04 - 07:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: suggest some great books
Subject: RE: BS: suggest some great books
The Gabriel DuPre mysteries, set in Montana, by Peter Bowen. The first two in the series are Coyote Wind and Specimen Song, and they're out as a double in trade paperback. There are 9 or 10 of them out now altogether.
The Honor Harrington books are good, but not the best. Try the Belisarius alternate history series by Drake and Flint - An Oblique Approach, In the Heart of Darkness, and so on.
The "Vlad Taltos" fantasy novels by Stephen Brust: Jhereg, Yendi, and so forth. Or his Dumas takeoffs set in the same universe, but earlier: The Phoenix Guards, Five Hundred Years After, et. seq.
Concur on the Kate Shugak Alaska mysteries. My wife found those, and, as W. C. Fields said when he explained that a woman drove him to drink, I never did thank her properly.
But my big thing this winter is the new Neal Stephenson books: Cryptonomicon>, set alternatively in the present and WWII, and the sequel, Quicksilver, set in England just after the Restoration, through New England in the seventeen-teens. Take you a while, and most of us have to skip over the math, but worth it.
Peter.