OT: Intro

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> wrote:
> 
> ***Current/recent reading:
> Can't find anything good lately. Can someone recommend a recent,
> really good SF?
> 

What style do you favour?

Hard SF - try Al Reynolds's 'Century Rain'
Space opera - hang on a few weeks, there's a new David Weber due.
Or while you wait, Iain M. Banks's 'The Algebraist'
Borderline SF - Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle - 3 hefty books.
Fantasy isn't to my taste - even so I was impressed with 'The Light Ages'
by Ian MacLeod - sort of a cross between Gormenghast and Dickens.

Alternatively grab this month's Locus - they're reviewing books
published over the past year.

Kneasy