Science Fiction Book Club

[tracysaboe]

Thanks Tracy.  I'll suggest it.

BTW, would you let you (hypothetical) 15 year old daughter read it, if it were you?

Yes.
It's hard science fiction. So it takes awhile to get into it. As it takes a bit to set up the setting and technological capibilities, etc. as he creates this world. The entire story takes place in the Solar System. He doesn't take any sci-fi shortcuts by assuming warp-travel is possible, or whatever like many pop space sci-fi does. The Sci-Fi stuff is a bit complicated. So if you don't like hard sci-fi that can sometimes be over your head unless you work at it a little -- maybe the book isn't for her. But I'm sure she's smart. 

There isn't anything immoral or sexual or whatever that you'd want you daughter to not be exposed to.

It's actually a trilogy. The Golden Age, The Pheonix Exultant, and The Golden Transendence. But Tor books did release a combined trade copy of it -- not in print anymore -- that has all three of them in one volume. But you can get them all individually.

Tracy

[Kat Kanning]

Great, thanks Tracy!

[VirUZI]

If you're looking for good libertarian sci-fi books you should really check out the Libertarian Futurist Society and their Prometheus Awards.

[Kat Kanning]

Good idea

[tracysaboe]

If you're looking for good libertarian sci-fi books you should really check out the Libertarian Futurist Society and their Prometheus Awards.

Speaking of the Prometheus Awards, John C Write, and the Golden Age. His 2 War of the Dreaming books Mists of Everness and The Last Gaurdian of Everness (In reverse order) both one the Promethius aware in two different years. But they're more fantasy. I liked them, but personally I liked The Golden Age Trilogy better. Numerous different "clans" for lack of a better word. All with completely different ways of seeing reality depending on how they've formated their brains and senses -- yet they all get along for the most part with-out hardly any gvernment forcing them to at all.

Tracy

[toowm]

Tracy, I read the Last Guardian of Everness and didn't enjoy it, especially the more horror/SF at the end. For fantasy, I much prefer Guy Gavriel Kay.

Does the Golden Age have a horror aspect?

BTW, finished Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge. Very good near term (30-50 years) SF. A little more government friendly than his others (he's won two Prometheus awards) but well worth reading. I will probably donate the book (and others) to the Renaissance Reading Room.

[tracysaboe]

Does the Golden Age have a horror aspect?

Not at all. The Golden Age is vastly superior in every way. The author was trying out a new Jaunra (Gaunra? I don't know how to spell it enough to even look it up.) with the Everness series.

I guess I felt the Everness series was a bit to hard-alagorical. The Benjimen Franklin thing at the end I thought was a bit cheesy.

However, I loved the Mysts of Everness. So, since you've plowed through the 1st half, you really should read the 2nd half.

I can't wait to pick up his Orpheon's of Chaos. when it comes out in paperback. It's a 3 parter. It's more of an ocult-fantasy from what I understand.

Tracy

[felix.benner]

I had the great and magnificent idea for which I will be hailed by future generations of creating a Science Fiction Wiki where we could try to create our own world and main characters and then we could try and write Science Fiction stories and novels. We could even try to make it a bit like roleplaying in that every user gets his own main character and has the final word in that character's stories. I'd really like seeing stories from different authors on the background of a common world. How's that? Anybody wants to help?    :meteor:   :pitchfork: :plane:

[Radical_Teen]

Well I like the book so far.

[tracysaboe]

Which book are you reading?

Tracy

[Kat Kanning]

Ender's Game.

[dalebert]

I had the great and magnificent idea for which I will be hailed by future generations of creating a Science Fiction Wiki where we could try to create our own world and main characters and then we could try and write Science Fiction stories and novels. We could even try to make it a bit like roleplaying in that every user gets his own main character and has the final word in that character's stories. I'd really like seeing stories from different authors on the background of a common world. How's that? Anybody wants to help?    :meteor:   :pitchfork: :plane:

Neat idea. I'm about to quit my job to do some writing for a while and this sounds like something I could get into. This is similar to a concept that a friend of mine is already using for a project of his, an online comic book called Pride High. He has a little extra ad space left open and is even offering the FSP a free spot for a little while until he fills it with a paid advertiser. I'm just trying to find a good image to use for a 2.5 inch wide by 4 inch tall space. Any suggestions?

Some of the role-playing going on there is pretty cheesy, but there's some good stuph too including a few fan fiction stories written by yours truly. People can post their own characters and stories, and there's a chance the writers will request your permission to use some or all of it in the actual comic.

[dalebert]

Oh, I forgot to mention that I'm talking to the comic creator about a character with an objectivist theme and he really likes the idea. That's all I can say or Tommy will have my head!

[Braddogg]

I had the great and magnificent idea for which I will be hailed by future generations of creating a Science Fiction Wiki where we could try to create our own world and main characters and then we could try and write Science Fiction stories and novels. We could even try to make it a bit like roleplaying in that every user gets his own main character and has the final word in that character's stories. I'd really like seeing stories from different authors on the background of a common world. How's that? Anybody wants to help?    :meteor:   :pitchfork: :plane:

The Star Trek community has been doing this for ages.  I've been doing it off and on for the past, oh, seven years?  A bunch of us get together each week in a chat room for an hour to an hour and a half and roleplay (without dice) a unique story plot.  Then, during the week, we write short stories about our characters, sometimes with other characters as well.

Alternatively, there is Play-by-E-Mail (PbEM), where the leader starts off a story plot line, then everyone takes turns adding to it from their character's perspective by either e-mailing what they write to the group or posting to a message board.

[Kat Kanning]

Ender's Game is really good.  I wish Kira would quit doing her schoolwork so we could read some more