From: Heivilin, Jim [banzai@missouri.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 8:20 AM To: 'blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com' Subject: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - Reading suggestions > -----Original Message----- > From: Atti2dboy@aol.com [mailto:Atti2dboy@aol.com] > Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Reading suggestions > > For light reading I recommend Steve Perry, either the Matador > or Stellar Ranger series. > I heartily endorse anything Perry has written. > David Drake and David Weber right interesting military > sci-fi. > I'm just finishing the Raj Whitehall series and I recommend it although it has little BP type influence in it. Anyone read any of Sterling's other work? Of course there is always the Hammer's Slammers stuff if you haven't read it by now. Top notch military science fiction. > Oh yes, for grins and giggles, The Dilbert Principle. :-) > Anyone have any comments on "The Dilbert Future"? Jim *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Michael Czaplinski [MCzaplinski@npr.org] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 6:28 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - Reading suggestion > From: Jay Moore [mailto:jay@mizzou.org] [snip] > Reading the first book of the series is definitely not > necessary to enjoy > the second, but if you're a completist (I am) it's called > Sundiver. The > third book of the series is called The Uplift War and was, > frankly, very > disappointing to me. There's this really cool plot in the > second book that > just leaves you hanging, and the third book doesn't address > it at all. I'm > trying to decide now if reading the "Second Uplift Trilogy" > is worth it or > not. The last book of the Second Uplift Trilogy (the name escapes me for the moment) features the return of the Starship SEEKER, when it crashes on the planet that is the setting for the Trilogy, so I may pick that one up and read it (I have read SUNDIVER and STARTIDE RISING, but have no desire to read THE UPLIFT WAR or the rest of the 2nd Trilogy).... MikeC, popping up from Lurk again.... *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Michael Czaplinski [MCzaplinski@npr.org] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 9:22 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - Reading suggestions > From: Heivilin, Jim [mailto:banzai@missouri.edu] [snip] > Anyone have any comments on "The Dilbert Future"? Actually, Mr. Adams puts forward the thesis that, in the future, due to the phenomenal success of the various 'Save The Whales' campaigns, that the world will be plagued by too many whales, not too few. Certainly, this would have implications for BP... MikeC *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Christopher Sakal [c_sakal@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 10:28 AM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - Reading suggestions > > Anyone have any comments on "The Dilbert Future"? > > Actually, Mr. Adams puts forward the thesis that, > in the future, due to the phenomenal success of > the various 'Save The Whales' campaigns, that the > world will be plagued by too many whales, not too > few. I find that unlikely, as whales are at the top of the food chain, requiring rather large amounts of smaller sea creatures to sustain them, so for the world to be plagued with too many whales the oceans would have to be productive like they have never been as long as humans have been around to check. And just what would a "plague" of whales do that's harmful anyway? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Leif Magnar Kjønnøy [leifmk@pvv.ntnu.no] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 11:43 AM To: Blue Planet mailing list Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Reading suggestion On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Nelson Lamoureux wrote: > > Maybe a top ten list of your best books or something similar. I'm > currently reading the Mars trilogy by Robinson and I think it really > is a great read. You can be quite sure I will buy and thoroughly read > BPV2 as soon as its available. But what else do you have to suggest? Ken MacLeod. Currently has four books out (_The Star Fraction_, _The Stone Canal_, _The Cassini Division_ and _The Sky Road_), with another coming later this year (_Cosmonaut Keep_). Many-faceted political SF in a complicated future history (actually at least two alternate versions of future history). Trans- (and post-)humanism is a major theme. Best place to start is probably _The Stone Canal_ (at least for many American readers, I fear the Trotskyism of the first novel might be a bit difficult). Vernor Vinge. Especially _A Fire Upon the Deep_ and _A Deepness in the Sky_. Also goes very interesting places in the transhuman landscape. Puts the "space" back in "space opera", as it were. *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Atti2dboy@aol.com Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 5:10 PM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - Reading suggestions In a message dated 6/8/00 5:48:46 AM, banzai@missouri.edu writes: >Anyone have any comments on "The Dilbert Future"? Um, yes, that's the one I meant. Just started reading it. Also, Hyperion, and fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (I recommend avoiding the third and fourth books in the series). The Founder series by Christopher Rowley has a few similarities with BP. First extra solar colony discovers longevity drug, fighting ensues. Rich "I know I put that brain around here somewhere ... " *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Kevin L. Nault [jskln1@uas.alaska.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 10:41 PM To: blue_planet@lists.imagiconline.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Reading suggestion Jay Moore wrote: > > I just finished reading the first Uplift trilogy by David Brin. The first > and third books aren't that great, IMO, but the second book, Startide > Rising, is excellent. Many of the main characters are genetically modified > dolphins, and the author does a great job of exploring the dolphin psyche. > You can get some great ideas for how to roleplay a dolphin. The story is > very good and fast paced, and the human characters are interesting, too. Book two is definitely the high point, but I really enjoyed all six books. The Uplift War highlights intergalactic politics more, Sundiver sets up the role of humanity and is a closed-room murder mystery, and the last three are all one story (which I liked quite a bit). If you're only going to read one, though, read Startide Rising. *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.imagiconline.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.