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>>684204125
Really enjoyed this series

>pic related

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>>684204125
/b/ I'm looking for a book basically it's about energy spheres that are created and freeze time inside, they are basically silver spheres from outside. has two major parts. cover is a futuristic jet fighter with a tree growing in the cockpit. seriously can't fucking find this book again.

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>>684204455
Also Cobra is pretty good
>>684204763
Elaborate?

The Redwall series nigger its like lord or the rings but with animals BEST BOOKS EVER!!!

>>684205791
Watched the tv series back in the day, the books any good?

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all of them are great, except for the 8th book. it takes place between books four and five and it's just... filler, doesnt really advance the plot. it's just about one of the main characters backstories. if you get to book four and dont like the idea of a story being told within a larger story then skip 8 altogether/read it out of order of chronological events.

>>684206076
Yes nigger The Long Patrol and Salamadastron i say and maybe Martain the Warrior!!!!

>>684204763
I have that on audio book. It's pretty good, but I think the 7 hours of underwater sounds went on a bit much.

>>684204125
related (through marriage) to Robert Heinlein. Excellent author

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>>684204125
ASOIAF can go suck a dick

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This shis is GOAT when it comes to books

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This one is pure gold

>>684206772
Doesn't he always end his plots with some kind of magic that has nothing to do with the story, but is just there to end the book? Example: The two armies meet on the battlefield, the hero is about to kill the evil guy, and BAM! God smites everything, the end?

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Classic nigger

>>684208056
Without trying to spoil anything there are books that end with something like what you describe, a "twist" if you will, but pretty much every time it leads to something in a different book. It's never just "I ran out of ideas so let's end it here" kinda thing. And there's never any real heroes or evil guys, just the story being told from one perspective most of the time.

>>684205655
The world comes up with some kind of zero point energy shit that basically eliminates threats. The power applied makes a bigger/smaller sphere. Bomb going to go off? Seal it in a sphere. Enemy soldier approaching? Seal him in a sphere. Whole navy coming at you? Use a really, really big sphere.

Basically the technology isn't quite understood and the spheres have a mirror finish and are permanent. It's a pretty drastic measure, and nobody knows what is happening inside the spheres, only that no energy can get in or out.

The whole first half of the book explores the idea and the increasing commonness and also the size of things that can be sphered. You know at first it's tiny things in a lab, soon it's a part of warfare, becomes common enough to be used for self defense and large enough to trap a whole fleet.

The second half
===========SPOILERS INCOMING=======
I hate to post if someone hasn't read it but the spheres start popping. The protagonist basically wakes up in his plane with a giant tree growing in the cockpit 30 years later and is the first person to figure out that the spheres pop. Science gets a lot more elaborate with the spheres now that it's known they are temporary, and they are used for new things (drop nuke, sphere up for explosion, sphere expires, sphere aka ship propelled with no damage, repeat) It goes into a pretty wild chain of events throughout history then and trying to save the human race.

It's not sphere by michale criton, it's not forever war, it's not seeds of time by kay kenyon (but that 's a great book as is anything by kenyon)

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Jordan can't write women for shit, but this was an amazing series.

>>684209094
repeating plot snooze fest

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Really enjoyed this and the book that follows it.

Sci-fi book that deals with humanity vs. an unknown alien race that is just as evolved as humans.

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Gets a little slow in the middle but makes the ending great

>>684209431
Anything he has done, sans Great North Road, had been fucking amazing

>>684204125
Anything written by Hunter S. Thompson.

I hate to thread my own post, but...C'mon.. It's fucking hunter

/thread

I'd like to start reading books to expand my world view. I'm talking perspective changing books. Any recommendations?

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This shit is good too niggers even though its not cannon

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here fags

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No comment needed.

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever is a pretty solid fantasy series

>>684210080
wat is cannon

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>>684210009
I recently read How to make friends and influence people and the Bhagavad Gita and both of these had an influence on me

>>684209369
fucking this. sad but this.

>>684210107
This.

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>>684210009

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love this series so much. cant wait for the 4th book

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>>684210168
It means its not official star wars lore

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>>684210581
Awesome Book.

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This whole farkin' Series.

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>>684210009
Check this one out. Harris has some very interesting ideas.

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ive said it many of times and ill say it again. also trilogy

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>>684210009
This blew my mind though I'm not sure it has that effect on everyone

>>684210080
Fuckin loved those booksread every single one when i was 10

Im i the only nigger who knows of the redwall series besides that one dude

>>684210759
This. I couldn't recommend the Hyperion series enough.

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This, and most books by Glen Cook

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>>684204125

I thought this one was better honestly

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>>684204125

Another good one

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>>684204125
this book sucked. theres like 3 action scenes the rest is just heinleins case for fascism and militarism. try haldemans The Forever War if you havent already

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> This right here

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>>684211276
Also this trilogy. it's view on magic was quite refreshing.

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Orson Scott Card is a terrible person but a fantastic author

>>684210744
Pre Disney or Post tho

>>684211299
yes agree. starship troopers is meh see my post above

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>>684210581
another good one from niven

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>>684211204
I've read them all. Great YA series.

>>684211268
The whole series is simply amazing.

>>684211388
The Forever War is my favorite SF out of that era.


Iain Banks' Culture is the best space opera. Anyone know of other good ones?

>>684211529
That book is old man

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>>684204125
its starship troopers but with action

>>684206485
Lord Brocktree was the best one

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>>684209094
My nigga

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are we only posting science fiction?
cause this book is the shiz nizty but its not scifi...more like existential angst with a little fantasy towards the end

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>>684211523
>go to preschool soccer
>kids parents all saying their names
>weeb looking chick
>ENDER
>kid's fucking name is ender
>my kid born in 2013
>movie came out in 2013
>fucking weebs named their kid because of the fucking movie

>>684206288
I've been meaning to read these and still haven't gotten around to it.

So many good books mentioned, but one great author left out.
Everything by Terry Pratchett, except Unseen Academicals.

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>>684204125

"The Fall of Reach" by Eric Nylund

Yes its a Halo book but give it a chance Nylund is an amazing sci-fic writer

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>>684210009
Check out this. Long-winded, but awesome.

Pinker's How The Mind Works is next on my list.

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I still have these on my toilet. I love a good read when i shit.

>>684212876
Holy fuck, I remember reading that book when it came out...

>>684212626
You have no idea what a weeb is.

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>>684212713
>tfw read whole series in order last year

also everything by kurt vonnegut jr but especially:
>cat's cradle
>slaughterhouse 5
>timequake

>>684212876
awwww u beat me to the halo novels

>>684213032
no, I do. the father showed up to one of the sessions. they're weebs.

>>684213322
Why wouldn't they name their kid after some jap shit?

>>684213322
A weeb is someone who's obsessed with Japanese culture.

>>684211299
no such thing as a free lunch.>>684213112

>>684213112
currently reading galapagos and its fantastic

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Gotta pimp the best series I've read in years

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Read this shit niggers

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this fucking shit right here.

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i really really liked this series

>>684213558
>>684213655
ok whatever they're nerds but I respect nerds to much to call these people that. they're like if basement dwelling neckbeards came out into the light and made a baby and named it katniss

>>684214033
trash

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>>684214176
One can be just as big a fag being a weeb as a regular basement dweller. How did he even reproduce...

>>684214080
Check this out.

>>684211523
Read the first formic war trilogy.
Really good read.

Can't wait for the second trilogy

>>684214695
she's like a 4/10 with the glasses, which honestly improve things

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>>684214438
Excellent book.

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>all the Heinlein books but not a mention of this

I know it's not his best, but I think I got lucky by reading it when I was 14. The way it talked about how normal sexuality was, was pretty helpful at that age. And I think it helped me move me past alot of the "know one understands me" and "eveyone sucks" edgy teenage angst that everyone goes through.