A Ride Around Mars — sci-fi authors
Posted on March 11, 2006
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I watched the NASA TV coverage of the Mars Recon Orbiter’s orbital insertion yesterday while at work. It was so very very cool and even a bit emotional when the orbiter popped out from the other side of Mars and they confirmed it was right where it was supposed to be! So nice to see that Mars won’t eat every thing we throw at it. Speaking of which, hilarious comment at slashdot. Man, I can’t wait for some of the mission data from this one.
The New Horizons (Pluto) mission is going to be great too. In 9 years…
Which reminds me: I need help finding some “new” sci-fi authors. I grew up reading Larry Niven and Robert Heinlein (among quite a few others, but they were the faves) so I like a bit of hard sci-fi and a bit of social/speculative sci-fi. If you have any author ideas, leave a comment please.
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Uhm….read my blog?
Almost any author from Baen’s stable would be a good read (I can’t say all because I haven’t read them all)…I particularly enjoy David Weber, David Drake and John Ringo…they are, IMNSHO, the best “new” (Weber and Drake have been writting for ages, but I found them 3 or 4 years ago) talent in SF.
http://www.dodgenet.com/~moonblossom/heroesof.htm has some links to classic fantasy and GREAT information about the worlds et. Ignore the fact that it’s made by a friend of mine. I’m unbiased as always.
BTW: I know it’s not sci-fi, but I can’t remember the last sci-fi author I read and loved… Orson Scott Card, but it was YAEN (Yet Another Ender Novel) so it doesn’t really count.
I anxiously await your findings on the stuff you read.
well lookie there… if you check out baen’s site, and then snoop around until you find the “Free Library” you can download a couple of their offerings in e-book format for the everyday low low price of NOTHING!
I’ve grabbed a couple for my trip to Connecticut.
http://www.baen.com/library/ for the library and
http://www.baen.com/library/series.htm to see which series was by which author hehe.
Good stuff, to be sure. I used to have a link to that on my old (and long gone) “pocket pc / e-book reading” web page.
But… which author’s to try? I have this odd “phobia”… I hate to try a new author cold — without someone nudging me in that direction. But, I see much new stuff there so… I’ll poke around a bit I suppose.
*vox - I need more reviews! Get writing, you slacker.
David Drake first.
I’ve had someone previous to Vox recommend him to me as worth the read.
David Drake, David Weber, Eric Flint, John Ringo…that’s the order of discovery for Baen authors…once you are done reading everything by them, you read all the others…but those four are the basis of modern SF {btw, you and Rich need to read Asimov’s coments about “sci-fi”
