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Level 1: Mashonei 2 Points 9 Years Ago
Level 1: Mashonei 2 Points 9 Years Ago
" It's by the guy who did Honor Harrington, which we also
hadn't heard of. We bought an old copy on a whim at a book reseller and it sucked us in. We immediately bought the next three in
The Safehold Series and are anxiously awaiting the fifth.
Warning: Reddit may not appreciate the thematic elements that underpin the series. I definitely did.
Warning 2: Books 2 & 3 aren't nearly as good as books 1 & 4.
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2 points·9 years ago
I dunno, he gets a lot of respect but it seems like he's rarely mentioned on r/scifi
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1 point·9 years ago·edited 9 years ago
Gideon's Wall by Greg Kurzawa. Absolutely best book I've read that nobody else has heard of.
An archaeologist finds an idol from an older civilisation. The idol tells the story about a military soldier in a dying civilisation sent
north to defend a wall from... well, the end of the world. The book is the soldier's story. I haven't read anything like it.
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elnerdo
1 point·9 years ago
Well, I'll definitely be saving this page.
I'm 371 comments late to the party, and Orson Scott Card isn't exactly obscure, but The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card is both my
favorite book, and the book of his that it seems nobody has heard of. I very very highly recommend it to anyone.
I am also currently reading S.M. Stirling's Dies The Fire, which is a very hard post-apocalyptic book about The Change, an event
which renders all electrical and explosive-based appliances inoperable.
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punninglinguist
1 point·9 years ago
Well Iain Banks is a hugely popular author, and one of the half-dozen that people actually talk about on this subreddit. I like his
work a lot, but I couldn't get through Consider Phlebas. Try A Player of Games for a much better introduction to the Culture universe.
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1 point·9 years ago
No idea if this guy is known or not, but recently read Michael Marshall Smith's Spares
loved it.
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1 point·9 years ago
Angel Mass - Timothy Zahn.
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1 point·9 years ago
Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge I don't hear it mentioned much but I was blown away by it
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1 point·9 years ago
Quick question, I love Hyperion and Endymion - is Illium and Olympus comparable?
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1 point·9 years ago
Frank Herbert's Under Pressure
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3 points·9 years ago
Larry Niven has been one of the most popular SF authors and Ringworld is probably his best known series. Great series but when
your book has been floating around Hollywood as an option for years it's not obscure.
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0 points·9 years ago
Not that obscure but I love 'I Am Legend' by Richard Matheson. The book is a hell of a lot different to the Will Smith movie and I
really recommend it.
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-1 points·9 years ago
I'd tell you, but you've probably never heard of it...
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