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Fishing for recommendations
Mar. 1st, 2007 03:39 pmI'm after some book suggestions - but not just any books!
I've almost finished reading Last Call, which is awesome, and before that it was Johnathon Strange and Mister Norrell. Now I'm in the mood for something shorter.
I've talked before about how I wish more authors were putting out good, shorter SF&F books (or at least ones that get enough coverage that I hear about them - it's all epic this and trilogy that). So I'd like something ... let's say under 300 pages. Pretty much any sort of speculative fiction (although I'm not that big on horror), new or old. As an extremely vague guideline to my tastes, some of my favourite books are Snow Crash, Dune, The Farseer Trilogy, Slaughterhouse 5, Alice in Wonderland and pretty much everything I've read by Tim Powers.
Note that I'm not talking about short stories. I like those too, but at the moment I'm after novels. Just, you know, short ones. I'd prefer it if they were stand alone stories, too - no Book 1 of blah, unless reading Book 2 of blah is completely non-essential.
If they happen to be books that are easily obtainable from public libraries/unisfa or something you can lend me, then that'd be even better.
Please, suggest away!
I've almost finished reading Last Call, which is awesome, and before that it was Johnathon Strange and Mister Norrell. Now I'm in the mood for something shorter.
I've talked before about how I wish more authors were putting out good, shorter SF&F books (or at least ones that get enough coverage that I hear about them - it's all epic this and trilogy that). So I'd like something ... let's say under 300 pages. Pretty much any sort of speculative fiction (although I'm not that big on horror), new or old. As an extremely vague guideline to my tastes, some of my favourite books are Snow Crash, Dune, The Farseer Trilogy, Slaughterhouse 5, Alice in Wonderland and pretty much everything I've read by Tim Powers.
Note that I'm not talking about short stories. I like those too, but at the moment I'm after novels. Just, you know, short ones. I'd prefer it if they were stand alone stories, too - no Book 1 of blah, unless reading Book 2 of blah is completely non-essential.
If they happen to be books that are easily obtainable from public libraries/unisfa or something you can lend me, then that'd be even better.
Please, suggest away!
