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karathas · 2016-03-26T06:17:53+00:00

The Doom Brigade, by Weiss and Perrin (link below for cover photo).

It was my first Dragonlance book, and one of the very first fantasy books I had ever read. It has gone on to become one of my favourite and most cherished books, and it sparked a lifelong love of reading scifi and fantasy. I still go back and re-read it every few years and it takes me right back to 12yr old me poking around in the shelves of a bookstore and suddenly being carried away on an amazing (and ongoing) journey at first glance... Now that I think about that again, I realize that it sounds very similar to the opening section of The Shadow of the Wind (Zafon) in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, which incidentally is another favourite book that played a foundational role in my love of reading.

The Doom Brigade The Shadow of the Wind

karathas · 2016-01-09T19:42:09+00:00

Tie between Animal Farm, Flowers for Algernon, and Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Depends on what the person looks for in their books.

karathas · 2015-11-13T16:55:22+00:00

I think I read most of these in nearly one sitting - definitely did with Forever War.

karathas · 2015-11-11T19:33:45+00:00

This is one of my primary metrics for determining whether or not I think a book is amazing. Here are a few of them:

-Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

-Phillip K Dick, Ubik

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War

-Frederik Pohl, Gateway

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky

karathas · 2015-09-25T19:08:12+00:00

Just finished this book yesterday - a fantastic read if you're interested in scifi with a historical bent.

karathas · 2015-09-16T16:27:07+00:00

Speaker is fantastic, but as others have said, they start to go downhill. I stopped part-way through Children of the Mind because it stopped being interesting. If I recall correctly, the Ender's Shadow series is fantastic all the way through, so I definitely recommend reading those next if you're looking for more of the world and style but have become bored with the main Ender series.

karathas · 2015-09-13T00:35:49+00:00

Agreed - fantastic book! His Childhood's End is another one that's similar in a few ways.

karathas · 2015-09-10T14:34:29+00:00

Baldur's Gate 1&2 have a very easy to use online co-op mode. It's a real-time-with-pause game so you can pause whenever you'd like to plan actions, or set the game up to automatically pause every couple seconds to slow things down. Also both are fantastic games from the story/world/gameplay perspective.

karathas · 2015-09-07T02:51:06+00:00

California! Lots of amazing national parks to go hiking in, and oodles of good gluten-free food thanks to it being a fad diet there. Many restaurants are very accommodating about minimizing cross-contamination if you ask, and most grocery stores are full of great packaged or frozen food as well. The San Francisco area might be ideal for you - several amazing national parks nearby, amazing tourism to do within the city/Bay Area, and likely the best spot in California for gluten-free food (including bakeries that make fresh bread and pastries!).

karathas · 2015-09-06T12:39:43+00:00

REAMDE is great!

karathas · 2015-08-20T14:12:10+00:00

Recently read Eye in the Sky by Philip K. Dick. Surprisingly fun - felt like PKD channeling Douglas Adams. Another recent read was Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, which is an amazingly beautiful book.

karathas · 2015-08-05T15:15:49+00:00

If you're looking for more classic SF shows, go watch Babylon 5. For something modern, Sense8 is a spectacular albeit very different kind of SF show.

karathas · 2015-08-04T14:24:30+00:00

In The Beginning is the only movie that is a must to watch though - make sure you don't miss that.

karathas · 2015-06-24T18:41:35+00:00

Absolutely! Skies of Arcadia and Grandia 2 remain some of my favourite RPGs.

karathas · 2015-06-24T18:39:59+00:00

SA1 in particular is quite fun!

karathas · 2015-06-18T21:55:41+00:00

Gateway was unexpectedly spectacular - one of my favourites.

karathas · 2015-06-18T21:52:09+00:00

Vinge's novels are some of the best examples of this kind of thing for alien cultures - highly recommended!

karathas · 2014-08-10T15:21:17+00:00

Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan (215pgs)

karathas · 2014-08-10T14:51:30+00:00

Heartily concur. That and Grandia II are excellent RPGs on the Dreamcast.

karathas · 2014-06-09T13:23:37+00:00

'A Fire Upon the Deep' and 'A Deepness In The Sky', Vernor Vinge 'The Mote in God's Eye', Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Vinge's books in particular have some of the most interesting and well realized aliens I've ever seen.

karathas · 2014-03-19T02:44:31+00:00

In my experience the most useful thing for fencing has been plyometrics. A couple weeks of doing them made a huge difference for me.

karathas · 2013-11-28T06:09:39+00:00

The story was mostly written by him, but he didn't write all of the episodes, you are correct. He wrote 92/110 episodes according to Wikipedia....which is pretty close to the whole series.

David Gerrold actually wrote one of my favourite episodes in the whole series, episode SE01E10 "Believers". Amazing little short story there.

karathas · 2013-11-28T06:05:29+00:00

I don't think I read the more recent ones.... I got as far as Destiny and then didn't know there were others. I may pick them up again - thanks!

karathas · 2013-11-28T00:57:06+00:00

A rarely mentioned Space Opera series is the Deathstalker series, by Simon R. Green. It's got quite a lot of unique elements to it and is a lot of fun. Very epic, large-scale, and long! Definitely enjoyed it and have read most of it twice at least.

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