John Scalzi bookage
Nov. 29th, 2008 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mymatedave10I've been a reader of John Scalzi's blog for nearly a year now. I'm not sure how I first found it but it was interesting enough for me to continue coming back to it and add it to my LJ feed.
I didn't however, read any of his books, at least not until recently. I was in a second hand book shop nearby and found Old Man's War for sale at 2 pounds. I was hooked and then went back to find the two sequels which the didn't have, so I went to Waterstones where I was able to buy both of them for a tenner. After devouring them in a weekend, I went to audible.co.uk and downloaded Zoe's Tale which is about the adopted daughter of the main protagonists.
I would highly recommend these books for all and sundry who enjoy good entertaining scifi. Brilliantly done.
Also, a request. Does anybody have any world building scifi they could recommend to me? Audible did a recent collection called Metatropolis that was edited by Scalzi with stories by him, Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, Elizabeth Bear and Karl Schroeder about future cities and it's really got me into that kind of fiction.
Cheers!
I didn't however, read any of his books, at least not until recently. I was in a second hand book shop nearby and found Old Man's War for sale at 2 pounds. I was hooked and then went back to find the two sequels which the didn't have, so I went to Waterstones where I was able to buy both of them for a tenner. After devouring them in a weekend, I went to audible.co.uk and downloaded Zoe's Tale which is about the adopted daughter of the main protagonists.
I would highly recommend these books for all and sundry who enjoy good entertaining scifi. Brilliantly done.
Also, a request. Does anybody have any world building scifi they could recommend to me? Audible did a recent collection called Metatropolis that was edited by Scalzi with stories by him, Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, Elizabeth Bear and Karl Schroeder about future cities and it's really got me into that kind of fiction.
Cheers!
