What should I read?

External Since: Jul 22, 2003 Posts: 4

"Mysteron Agent" <mysteron_agent.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Andrew, you probably meant Alastair Reynolds, right?
> Smile

Yep, I just realised my mistake and was about to correct it when you beat me
to it!

>
> > If you want hard science fiction then I would give Alastair Taylor a
try.
> > His three novels "Revelation Space", "Chasm City" and "Redemption Ark"
are
> > all set in the same universe and are excellent hard sf, with lots of
> action
> > adventure and big ideas. In a similar vein the science fiction of Iain M
> > Banks is very good and I have to admit, having sampled his non-genre
> fiction
> > he is an excellent writer. "The Wasp Factory" is probably the one most
> > liekly to appeal to Barker readers but I've also enjoyed "Complicity",
> > "Walking On Glass" and "The Bridge", which has some superficial
similarity
> > to "Sacrament".
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
>
>

External Since: Jul 27, 2003 Posts: 8

"Giovanni Wassen" <info.RemoveThis@NOnmSPAMmusic.nl> wrote in message
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> On 21 jul 2003 Dickness used a few bytes in alt.books.clive-barker to
> let us know that:
>
  > > Hello,
  > >
  > > My first post!
  > >
  > > I read Books of Blood years ago. Great stuff. A friend recently loaned
  > > me Imajica. Wild ride,indeed!
  > >
  > > What should I read next?
>
> I'd say 'Dune' by Frank Herbert. Or did you mean a Clive Barker book?
> I'll go with the Hellbound Heart. Short and loveable.
>
> --
> Giovanni

I am new here as well.

I would recommend Barker's "Cabal."

DM