Posted - 2007.01.15 15:31:00 - [32]

 

Originally by: RuleoftheBone

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Very fair comment. Hamilton must have got sick of keeping track of the whole story...but still-Al Capone as the leader of a gang of space-nasties? Now thats cool .

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At least the amount of gangster smacktalk could be the most striking resemblance to EVE.

Posted - 2007.01.15 16:11:00 - [34]

 

Originally by: Eris Discordia

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Mentioned here before but I second the Gap cycle. It's one of the best series I have read in years. Thanks to other devs who recommended it to me I can recommend it to you

The start:
Morn Hyland, an ensign with the United Mining Companies Police, is on her first mission aboard the UMCP destroyer Starmaster. When they arrive at Com-Mine Station, a ship, Bright Beauty, piloted by the pirate Angus Thermopyle, flees, and Starmaster follows. Witnessing Angus slaughtering a small mining settlement. Starmaster attempts combat, but is almost destroyed by a massive internal explosion.


The who and why you'd have to read yourself but there are some nice twists in all of the books.

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meh I'm not sure, the author seems to be far to interested in dreaming up really horrible things to do to Morn in preference to furthering to the plotline, I gave up after book 3 feeling that all I'd read is Donaldson's perversions printed...

Posted - 2007.01.15 17:08:00 - [36]

 

Originally by: Dark Shikari

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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 15/01/2007 01:23:06
Iain M. Banks.

Stephen Baxter.

David Brin.

Larry Niven.

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Greb Bear.

Posted - 2007.01.15 17:25:00 - [38]

 

Originally by: Dau Imperius

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I've got much better recommendations:
1.) How to be a Human-being for dummies.

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you could start by treating poeple with respect?

Quote:

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3.) How not to whine and complain on forums about every single thing you see.

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Oh the irony.

anyway onto the reading, Ian. M Banks and Alastair Reynolds will blow your mind into little pieces and then serve it to you in a smoothie, my 2 favourite authors I would say. Also John Le Carre for all you people with tinfoil hats (and for those of us without as well, great reading doesn't have to be sci-fi). Finally Douglas Adams but that goes almost without saying. (and I still think he was better on the radio)

Posted - 2007.01.15 18:36:00 - [40]

 

William Gibson's Neuromancer

Posted - 2007.01.15 18:53:00 - [42]

 

I really like Ben Bova's 'Grand Tour' series, set in our solar system.
I started with Mars and Return To Mars, then the Asteroid Wars trilogy followed by Moonrise and Moonwar, and I have now read most of the series.
Asteroid Wars is probably the most Eve-like of the lot, although they get to turn their mining lasers on ships!

Posted - 2007.01.15 20:11:00 - [44]

 

I'll 2nd Elizabeth Moon - Vatta's War & raise you The Serrano Legacy. Could be a dicey suggestion though, but it gives an interesting point of view on a contreversial sport.

Also just reading Crossover by Joel Shepherd. Very interesting take on humanity's potential attitudes toward AI & cyborgs.

My personal problem is I read too quick, so I'm already through most of the good stuff!

Posted - 2007.01.15 20:25:00 - [46]

 

I think EVE was described in PC Gamer as 'Live the Iain M. Banks dream' :)

Posted - 2007.01.16 00:08:00 - [48]

 

Edited by: Flapp on 16/01/2007 08:29:02
I am hereby hijacking this thread:
What you need to know to survive EvE instead of what you'd like to read. Let's go:

Frank Herbert - "Dune" (mentioned already)
A complex universe indeed. So many different characters and factions interacting with each other, you won't believe it. That's why people said it was impossible to make a movie out of it. And they were right.
Find out why it takes your CEO 3 hours in the alliance meeting only to agree to the next roid to mine. Also, why it took BoB 4+ months to wardec ASCN.

Frank Herbert - "The Dragon in the sea"
Short novel about psychological warfare.
Spies, treachery, pewpew. Just like Eve.

C.J. Cherryh - The "Union" series (mentioned already)
Entertainment at it's best: Easy to follow yet very enjoyable, developing around a few selected points of view. My recommendation for new readers.
Name your ship "Norway" and i'll blast you to Jove space BTW. No offense ofc.

Arthur C. Clarke - Various titles. The older, the better. (mentioned already)
Classics in SciFi here, like "A fall of moon dust" about a tourist ship cruising the seas of dust on our moon getting into real trouble. Old "Airport" movie style, good to begin with.
Eve related, what every FC should know about panic and boredom.

Shinishi Hoshi - Various titles, mostly his "short short" stories.
Classic SciFi but really short, exactly what you need between 2 cycles of Ice sucking. Nuff said.

"Ender's game" - don't remember the author atm (Orson Scott Card?)
About young boys being trained by the military by making groups of them fight each other in mock combat. A common reference on the internet, yet most people i talked about it so far seem to be lacking the consequences the story tells. Read at own risk.

Wil Gibson - "Neuromancer" and follow-ups. (mentioned already)
High tech living mostly about hackers in the future. If those book are too hefty, try "Burning Chrome" first.
Eve-wise, spies and corp. thieves.


Now for some important reading, as any of these will give you access to new skills (in paranthesis):
Maquis de Sade - practically everything (Excentric CEO Evasion)
Sun Tzu - The Art of War (Forum Spamming)
George Orwell - 1984 (Political Correctness, Word Filter Analysis)


Hey, i'm getting a 5% total on all book sales, right?
Flapp

(Sorry about typos and such, this was all out of a drunken brain. But if you insist, i'll crawl up the shelves tomorrow and hit you with exact information, wrecking for total get-out-here-iness.)

Posted - 2007.01.16 00:48:00 - [50]

 

Originally by: Twilight Moon

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Edited by: Twilight Moon on 15/01/2007 12:31:56
Anyone know if Ian M. Banks has another book in the works? I've read the lot.

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I'm afraid Iain M Banks missed his Christmas deadline for his new book because he got addicted to Civilisation III.

From http://news.independent.co.uk/people/pandora/article1220060.ece

"Iain Banks has committed the cardinal sin of failing to meet a deadline.

The award-winning novelist's latest work, Matter, was due to hit the shelves in a couple of weeks as a shoo-in for the Christmas bestseller lists.

It now won't be released until some time next March.

"It's all because I became a serial addict of the computer game 'Civilisation'," Banks said at this month's Edinburgh book festival.

"I played it for three months and then realised I hadn't done any work. In the end, I had to delete all the saved files and smash the CD.

"It is very unprofessional of me. I had to ask for an extension for the first time, which made me feel just like I was a student again."


In other bad news for Banks fans, he writes one sci-fi then one mainstream novel (though he doesn't really accept the distinction), and since his last one was sci-fi, Matter must be a mainstream one.

I wouldn't like him to discover Eve because he might never write another novel again, and there's no CD to smash!

As for recommendations, just start with the first one in the "SF Masterworks" series published by Gollanz, and work your way through...

And why has no-one mentioned Philip K Di_ck yet? "A Scanner Darkly" is hilarious, while "Clans of the Alphane Moon" takes place on an abandoned mental-asylum planet where the inhabitants have formed social groups based on their psychiatric problems, (like we do in this game) and features a telepathic purple jelly creature. What more could you want?

Posted - 2007.01.16 02:17:00 - [52]

 

David Weber

Posted - 2007.01.16 02:55:00 - [54]

 

Stephen R Donaldson's Gap Cycle is an absolute must.

Orson Scott Card's Ender Saga is incredible.

Donaldson's fight scenes, both physical combat and spaceships, is something to behold.

Card's work on combat tactics and planetary politics is really fantastic.

Posted - 2007.01.16 03:09:00 - [56]

 

William Gibson (Neuromancer, Burning Chrome)

Isaac Asimov (The Stars Like Dust)

Tom Clancy (Red Storm Rising)

Make sure you play Fallout series

Dues Ex

System Shock

Doom3

Elite

Wasteland

God I love Sci Fi

Posted - 2007.01.16 05:01:00 - [58]

 

Read "Theodicy" under the short stories section in the EVE Online backstory. It's fairly long for a short story, and it quite a good read. Made me want to train for Amarr just for their "glory." Even if they are pieces of...

Posted - 2007.01.16 05:47:00 - [60]

 

Originally by: Mikal Drey

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Raymond E Feist- Throughly Recomend "Magician"

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Yeah, not Sci-Fi (though it does have aliens from a different world), the Riftwar saga you are referring to is my favorite book series of all time.