Authors I've never seen Quinn talk about that I think are great:
Stephen Baxter
Alastair Reynolds
Iain M. Banks
and my favorite author nobody's ever heard of Richard Calder
Quinn or anybody read these?
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Oh, just saw Quinn has "Consider Phelbas" there.
Hi, I just wrote a post asking if Quinn has read the Iain M. Banks book he bought yet! Love the Culture series. Which are your favourites?
I've only read Moonseed by Stephen Baxter but I thought it was excellent. Oh, and I've read some of the Long Earth series with Terry Pratchett but I felt it lost its way after the first couple.
Not tried Alastair Reynolds or Richard Calder before. Who would you compare them to?
My favorites from the Culture are Look To Windward, Excession, and The Player of Games.
Stephen Baxter writes really hard science based sci-fi and it's always about how biology always wins out in the end. Kind of the Opposite of the Culture.
His Xeelee Sequence is a sprawling sci-fi epic. You can jump in anywhere. I recommend Ring.
I also like his book Evolution a lot.
Alastair Reynolds also writes a really hard edged space opera. With some...gothic horror elements? Maybe Lovecraftian horror. His Revelation Space universe starts with Revelation Space.
He has some other books too that I haven't read yet.
Richard Calder is often compared to J. G. Ballard but I haven't read him so I have to take their word for it.
He writes more cyberpunkish sci-fi with nanotech, robot girls, information viruses, etc. The best place to start is his trilogy Dead Girls, Dead Boys, Dead Things.
Awesome, thanks dude! Excession was so good - my favourite characters in Culture novels are usually the AIs, and they make up the majority of Excession's cast!