(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best thriller & suspense books

You were created from stardust that fell to Earth from two planets colliding millions of lightyears away. As your dusty parts drifted through space, you passed many obstacles that made you the being you are now. You passed a mirror, which reflected yourself in a way you wanted to see. You passed emotions; clouds of thick feeling. Through sadness and anger, resentment and love, humility and courage, empathy and passion- those particles infused into you. Your being emerged sporadically, through bends of time and space you envisioned your future life full of love and equality. Somewhere around Jupiter, you felt your journey coming close. As you slid along the rings, contemplating your readiness, you felt a lump. Something wasn't right. Something was missing. The mirror you passed earlier swept by you with a gust of wind and sparkles. You pushed out from the spirals on which you stood and lept for the mirror. As you caught it, you turned it to see yourself. In it, you only saw a unicorn. A majestic creature of fairy tales. You didn't understand at first, but as you stared into it’s eyes, you saw yourself. Just like a unicorn, your beauty and grace swept through you. Like electricity in your body, like lightning rushing from your heart to your fingertips. Just like a unicorn, there is no one else like you. Just like a unicorn, you can bring happiness to those around you. As you looked into the mirror again, the unicorn had disappeared and once again you saw yourself, but still you saw the unicorn beside you. You glanced to your side and pet it's head gently. Anyone could've been chosen for this life. But it was you. You vowed to stand for equality and love. Those emotions that enveloped your soul as you passed them, you felt them now like a tornado surging through your blood. You climbed atop your unicorn, ready for the adventures in store for you. As you galloped along, rainbows lit up a path toward Earth. As you landed you found everything you'd ever dreamed of- but it wouldn't be easy. You had to put the pieces together, like a second-hand puzzle missing a few pieces.

Now, you're working on that puzzle. You’ve got the edge pieces lined up. You've got a lovely SO. 3 cats. A community of online strangers to support you. It's up to you to finish that puzzle. Fill the empty slots with whatever you choose, because it's your puzzle anyway.

TL;DR You're an alien-unicorn made from planets colliding.

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I think the best way is to suggest a few that got me into reading. One or two are YA, but well-written enough that I find it as worthwhile a read at 28 as it did at 14.

Ender's Game - Earth Has made contact with an alien species, and... It didn't go well. A program is started to teach a new generation of soldiers how to fight this alien threat. Children are not allowed to be children for long when the future of mankind is on the line. Also, it's being adapted into what is shaping up to be a pretty badass movie.

Snow Crash - Written in the 90's, but it essentially pioneered the concept of the online avatar, and predicted the rise of the MMO. Also, pizza-delivering ninjas. Trust me on this. It's good stuff.

Neuromancer Classic cyber-punk. Most sci-fi is like you see in star trek. Clean and sterile. Cyberpunk is the dirtier side of sci-fi. Organized crime, computer hacking, and a heist on a space station. And Molly. This book is the reason I have a thing for dangerous redheads.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Considered by most to be the very best in sci-fi humor. Lighthearted, hilarious, and I find I can read it in the course of about two days. It is absolutely, completely, and utterly amazing.

American Gods - What happens to the old gods when we start worshiping the new ones? Can the likes of Odin or Anubis compete with our new objects of worship. like television or internet? Remember, Gods only exist as long as folks believe in them. The old Gods aren't going down without a fight, though...

Hope some of these strike your fancy. It's admittedly more sci-fi than anything, but it's all soft sci-fi (Where the science isn't as important as the fiction, so story comes first), and nothing too out there. Please let me know if you decide to try any of these, and especially let me know if you enjoy them. I always like to hear if I help someone find a book they love.

Hello all! I'm Palm, and I write a high fantasy serial called By The Sword, of which I just published the first book!

The first book of it is titled "Blood and Steel" and I'm super excited to get to share it! The synopsis of it is:

> Death is a fickle thing.

> For most, it’s a force of nature, but Agil Novan sees the reaper in a different light. As the greatest swordsman of all time, he cherishes life, and he’s lived one full of both struggle and success. After all of his accomplishments, he too must face the reaper and its scythe.

> When challenged, however, the swordsman is not one to go without a fight. After parrying it once and impressing the reaper with a show of the blade, he is offered something more. A second chance at life—one that he is all but forced to accept.

> Now, stranded in an unfamiliar land with an unfamiliar body and far too many questions, Agil has his life threatened at every turn. Still, he is determined to survive. He knows what the reaper did to him.

> And he has never been one to let vengeance go unfulfilled.

And since I'm really gonna go all out for promotion and I have these links already on hand, you can find the book on Amazon in a bunch of different marketplaces!

Kindle Ebook

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Note: With Kindle’s Matchbook program, you can get a free ebook copy with any paperback purchase!

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If you end up reading it, please consider leaving a review! They're really crucial to the success of any indie book, so I would really appreciate it!

Okay, that's about it for my self-promotion. Thanks for reading!

Ha! Thanks for creating a subreddit dedicated to my very own series, PF. That's gotta count as a life achievement, right? (Nevermind that the subreddit is empty.) Seriously, though, thanks for the kind words.

I'm a Dresden fan myself but brand new to this subreddit, so looking forward to discussions. (Although, BLASPHEMY, I have yet to read the last 2 books of that series. I'm scared to go too far here for fear of spoilers.) On the flip side, I have a Dresden cooperative card game kickstarter reward coming my way soon, so I can pretend I still belong.

Oh, I'll actually be in an anthology with Jim Butcher releasing later this year too, so that's cool.

About my Black Magic Outlaw series, if anyone's interested: Cisco's a shadow charmer fighting on the streets of Miami. I like to keep things dark and kick my protagonist when he's down. Each novel stands alone as far as having a satisfying story, but the opening story arc was conceived to span 5 books. 4 of those books are out now and the last will be available in about a month, so there's a lot of good story for readers to plow through.

Also, for the first time ever, Book 1 (DEAD MAN) is available for free! (on Amazon and other sites)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B019ROIX8U

I'll keep an eye out for discussion on /r/BlackMagicOutlaw and respond if readers want to interact, but I'm just happy someone thought to create the sub. If anyone wants more info on me, the best first stop is DominoFinn.com. Cheers!

Okay - then to start, I will recommend Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood, both by Margaret Atwood. They're part of a trilogy, the third book is due out this fall. Atwood defines them as speculative fiction; they're set in the not-to-distant future, and follow the downfall of civilization. I like Year of the Flood better, but both are pretty awesome.

For fantasy, I really like The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay. It's a blend of celtic mythology, fantasy, and arthurian legend. Some people don't like that it's basically an homage to LOTR, but it's one of my absolutely alll-time favourites.

For YA dystopian fiction, I'd suggest Divergent and Insurgent - also a trilogy, not sure when the third one is due out, off-hand.

One of my favourite sci-fi series is Phule's Company and the following books, by Robert Asprin. I also love Time Scout by him and Linda Evans. His writing is ridiculously clever and witty, and he's one of last century's greatest writers, in my opinion.

And finally, I love anything by Terry Pratchett - his Discworld series is amazing. So very very British and hilarious.

Mosaic 17K written by Christopher Drake is a near future cyberpunk novel that was just published in the last couple of months. The tech in it is all pretty believable and definitely not in the super scary camp. There are many different types of AI in the book, some that are working for positive change and others that aren't. Pretty much everyone in the society has adopted newer technologies to help in their everyday lives. There are robots, cyborgs, virtual realms, and a lot more. The writing is solid and well-paced and has some really believable and awesome characters, too. Definitely recommend giving it a read.

Ignore the haters regarding Robin Hobb. I enjoyed all 3 books. There were some parts in the 2nd book I had to "just get through" but the conclusion of the 3rd is well worth it, trust me. Great fantasy.

Check out Kelly McCullough, notably his Webmage series!

edit: I highly recommend listening to THIS version of hobbs books.

> Your last point is interesting, and I do like the idea of using someone's reputation as a gauge for future interaction and trustworthiness. Cory Doctorow's novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom takes place in a society in which one's reputation level is used as both a currency and an indicator of character.

You can thank the original cypherpunks with coming up with the notion. Another useful novels playing with the idea are Daemon/Freedom by Suarez

http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/B003L1ZXCU/

http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-TM-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0525951571/

> albeit not tamper-proof, that you mentioned without being overtly totalitarian.

It is in principle possible to store information in a distributed cryptographic filesystem in a tamper-proof fashion. A precursor to such practical systems is e.g. Tahoe http://tahoe-lafs.org/~warner/tahoe.html

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Thank you for supporting small publishers, OP. :)

I missed the initial selection, but I'll throw this out there on the off-chance anyone else is interested. I plan to dig through and buy a few of the books that are listed as well, because frankly, they seem damn interesting.

A few months back I released Mosaic 17K. It's a near-future cyberpunk thriller about Sophie Locke, a hacker born in 2017 and coming-of-age in 2036. If any of us had a child this year, this book is timed to land as his/her potential future.

Mosaic 17K deals with artificial intelligence, virtual reality, advanced materials science, future medical advances, and the societal effects of rising sea levels. The first half is a mounting murder mystery, with the second half being a faster, more action-oriented pace. It's a long book (kindle estimates 13+ hours for some readers), for those who like a deep read.

Main reason it doesn't have a lot of reviews yet seems to be that people are taking their time with it. It's been a nerve-wracking few months, as I distract myself with writing my first fantasy novel.

I've read something similar by a well known submitter on /r/WritingPrompts.
Here's a link! Your idea seems sufficiently different, just thought i'd show you for inspiration if you need it :) good luck

Chris Weatherman, the author, is a good guy too. I agree with /u/TheGreyWatcher that the first book in the series was the best but they're easy reads.

While less about the prepper's mindset or the journey you encounter in "Going Home," you may also enjoy Matthew Bracken's series, beginning with "Enemies, Foreign and Domestic" -
https://www.amazon.com/Enemies-Foreign-Domestic-Matthew-Bracken/dp/0972831010.

Maybe not the same book, but Cyberdrome sounds similar. Great book, and a free read on Amazon Prime!

If you're looking for something really dark I'd suggest Harry Connolly's Twenty Palaces series. The first one is Child of Fire. I really enjoyed it and Jim Butcher has also recommend it. Keep in mind there are only 3 books and 1 prequel that Harry self published due to his publisher dropping him.

If you're looking for something stupid and funny I recommend John Dies at the End and it's sequel This Books is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It. I have to admit I'm a bit biased on those though, I won a free signed copy of TBiFoS by participating in an alternate reality game around the time of its release.

Holy Smokes, Batman! That suit looks awesome! :) Have fun dressing up as the Joker!

Insurgent! I am halfway through Divergent in a day and a half and I can't put it down!

> Have you ever commissioned illustrations for any of your pieces?

Yes, I commissioned the cover art for both of my books: [Prompt Me], and Rex Electi.

But I do wish that I got more fan art from people.

> In a similar vein, are you a visual-type of person, say, imagining what the characters actually look like when you write about them?

Yes, very much. I picture everything happening in my mind, and its often a question of how much I want to go into detail; I can't go off onto a tangent that isn't relevant to the story.

I've seen this before but it's still a fun read if you're familiar with Banks' Culture books. "Use of Weapons" and "Excession" are good places to start in the Culture universe.

Banks has a new book out, not in the Culture universe, that's quite good as well: The Algebraist.

Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson is a story about a WWII US Navy ship that gets pulled into an alternate Earth. The series now runs to eight or so books. Anderson is a squid, and this is military SF, so it's action-driven, with simple characters, but the plots are so interesting, I keep picking up each new book when it comes out. He has the annoying compulsion of feeling the need up update readers of every book on all the events that have occurred before in the entire series (for the benefit of all 4 of the readers that will start at book #6), so the more you read, the more skimming will be required. However, his writing style continues to improve over time, which actually makes up for it.

Vernor Vinge: The Peace War + Marooned in Realtime. Plot involves a technology of unbreakable stasis bubbles inside of which time freezes. Bubbles can be programmed for any length of time. The second book is more to your topic, but you need to read #1 first.

The Many-Colored Land by Julian May.

Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick.

You need to read Micheal Swanwick - Bones of the Earth. It is an awesome short sci-fi novel. The amazon description doesn't do it justice. Let's just call it paleontologist-time-travel-porn. You'll love it.

I am a big, big fan of the Twenty Palaces series by Harry Connolly. Pretty highly gritty IMO, but if that's what you like you should be fine. If you like Dresden Files, you may note that the first published book has a pull quote from Jim Butcher right up there on the front.

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I like a lot of Non-Fiction and just finished Think Like A Freak, by the Freakanomics authors and really enjoyed it! If you like novels, I highly recommend The Peripheral

I'm assuming that you're looking for stories set in a recognisable, modern or near-future setting, in that case:

• I enjoyed Gibsons other books; the remaining 2 in the Sprawl trilogy are great, there's also the Bridge trilogy and the Bigend trilogy (the last being in more or less modern times).
  
  
• You could try Halting State and Rule 34 by Charles Stross (we're reading Rule 34 in r/SF_Book_Club this month).
  
  
• Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley
  
  
• The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.
  
  
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
  
  
• The Dervish House by Ian McDonald

• Divergent/Insurgent (First two in an unfinished trilogy)
  
• The Maze Runner (This is a trilogy)
  
• Battle Royale
  
• I've heard good things about The Knife of Never Letting Go (The first part of the Chaos Walking trilogy)
  
  To be honest, these are just some dystopia themed books I recommended because of Hunger Games. However, I could give better recommendations if you tell me more of what she wants. Young adult? Fantasy? Romantic aspect?

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If he likes action movies, he may like the Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn. Very quick reads, suspenseful page-turners. The first one is about a hostage situation in the White House, Transfer of Power. It is 426 pages, but it really goes quickly.

(edit: to note- amazon link above says that is Mitch Rapp #3. This was the first one published in this series, and then 2 other books about the younger Rapp came out later. I think Transfer of Power is the better place to start.)

You might like this. It's somewhere in the middle between soft and hard sci-fi in my relative opinion, but I found it a good read.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Human-Omnibus-1-4-David-Simpson-ebook/dp/B00H0D5NTI - books 1-4

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inhuman-Book-Post-Human-David-Simpson-ebook/dp/B00HYLX4R4 - book 5

These are all great books too

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Forever-War-3-Book/dp/B00W6RJ6SC - Joe Haldeman's Forever War

https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Sins-Remembered-GOLLANCZ-S-F-ebook/dp/B005HRTA4I Joe Haldeman's All My Sins Remembered

Granted not exactly to your spec, as it's 1980's sci-fi and thus based around now, HOWEVER very good story.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00J3EU5RC - Greg Bear's Eon books

Check out the Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn, starting with Transfer of Power. It's good fun and Mitch Rapp is a badass. In my mind, he is the American James Bond. Long running series too, so there's plenty of content to keep you busy. Another great author to check out would be David Morrell, in particular, the Mortalis trilogy, though those three are more about assassins than spies, but you can't go wrong with Morrell.

Books! Yeah, baby! Here are three:

Daemon and
Freedom

by Daniel Suarez. The first was self-published, became a hit, and the second is the recently-released sequel. Excellent near-future SciFi about a tech billionaire who sets up an internet daemon to take over the world, basically, after he dies of cancer. Violent, thought-provoking, and absolutely worth reading. My wife liked them also.

The Unincorporated Man by the Kollin brothers -- also new authors; also very talented. The chapter on the "virtual reality plague" alone is worth the time and price of the book, but the whole thing is very compelling.

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Mosaic 17K by Christopher Drake definitely fits this description. Near future, dystopian SF. It's the author's first novel and, imo a damned good read. I've read it twice so far. Right now it's free through Kindle Unlimited not sure for how long though.

Daemon and Freedom comprise a two-part novel by the author Daniel Suarez about a distributed, persistent computer application, known as The Daemon, that begins to change the real world after the original programmer's death. I'm in the middle of Freedom and these books have effectively Blown My Fucking Mind.

http://www.amazon.com/WebMage-Ravirn-Book-Kelly-McCullough/dp/0441014259/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309619091&sr=8-1 It isn't the best written series in the world but it is good and its unique. Science fantasy is an under-explored genre for sure.

Also from SM Reine (author of The Descent): Preternatural Affairs, books 1-3 -- Tales of a top-secret government agency dedicated to fighting ghouls and demons.

I listened to this one last week during my commute: Black Amazon of Mars, by Leigh Brackett -- Well read, good sound -- enough to be heard above the clatter of the hunk of junk I call my car.

>It's a little below my level

Lol, sorry but that is super hipster sounding. =P

Awe, now you edited it. =P

It's a decent series, not amazing like the Enemies Trilogy. However the Divided we Fall series brings up a LOT of what you guys are talking about.

http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-Foreign-Domestic-Matthew-Bracken/dp/0972831010/ref=la_B00350B7EU_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1453305557&sr=1-1

Never been to a reading, date or otherwise. Are they any good? I tend to like just reading my books, you know.

I have no OKC dating-related reading stories. I saw a girl on tram reading 'Infinite Jest' once and I wanted to ask her out so bad. But rude, so I didn't.

Some girl came to me at the bookshop and started talking to me once. I think she was flirting, but honestly, I was too engrossed in my book so I blew her off. Reading is serious business.

Right now I'm reading 'The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift' by Helena P. Schrader and re-reading Charles Stross's 'Halting State'.

Inhuman by David Simpson. 5 books. Pretty good match to what you are after.

Nobody has mentioned Iain M. Banks yet, so how about

The Algebraist

Excession

Against a Dark Background

Another military sci-fi novel with several unique twists would be Vernor Vinge's:
A Fire Upon the Deep


Hard to beat Ender's Game, though. Old Man's War is really good; Armor is good but kinda depressing.

I can think of lots more, reply if you'd like more suggestions :-)

Kong Reborn by Russell Blackford starts out as SF about cloning King Kong, then turns into jungle thriller with dinosaurs.

Thunder of Time by James F. David is a dopey thriller about "time quilts" bringing dinosaurs to the present. I understand it's the sequel to his Footprints of Thunder.

Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick is a story of really cool dinosaur time travel adventure.

You might try The Jaguar Hunter collection of stories by Lucius Shepard, although I wouldn't call these thrillers. They're psychological and social. The title story is sort of magical, and a couple others are about future soldiers in Latin America. I'm just trying to think of jungle stories, but I don't suppose these are up your alley.

I take it you've already read Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" and L. Sprague de Camp's "A Gun for Dinosaur."

Would you be interested in William Gibson's Neuromancer? I have the paperback that I'm sure I'll never read. Let me know!

I love the Culture books by Banks, but I think The Algebraist is the best sf he's written to date. And to my mind, no dull parts anywhere, middle or otherwise. (Okay, to put a very fine point on it, I did think the "villain" was little more than a cartoon but the rest of the book is just about perfect).

Love reading on my kindle, and now prefer it to real books.


[Cyberdrome] (https://www.amazon.com/Cyberdrome-Joseph-Rhea-ebook/dp/B0012Q6G5Y)


[Old Man's War] (https://www.amazon.com/Old-Mans-War-John-Scalzi-ebook/dp/B000SEIK2S/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1524503897&sr=1-1)


[The Last Revolution] (https://www.amazon.com/Last-Revolution-R-T-Carpenter-ebook/dp/B00EFL3QK6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1524504042&sr=1-10)

[Bones of the Earth] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0380812894?pc_redir=1407391407&robot_redir=1) by Michael Swanwick.

My all-time favorite science fiction novel.

Iain Banks wrote a nice fat novel where the galaxy's primary religion had the same idea.

Try Harry Connolly's "Twenty Palaces" series. I'd suggest starting with Child of Fire and Game of Cages. Neat magic system and world building. Fair warning, the series is incomplete, but I think the existing books work well as is.

Finally finished my ASoIaF re-read, though I think that was before December. AFfC and aDwD are so fucking underrated. I seriously have a hard time figuring out who the hell is reading that series in the first place that somehow doesn't get those two books.

Kinda want to put some more fantasy/sci-fi in the rotation but over the last couple months I've made some attempts that remind me why I gave up most genre fiction. Started into Simmons' Hyperion and holy fuck if I never hear the word "cruciform" again . . . It seems like there could be a cool story under there, but the writing is clumsy as hell (yes, even after accounting for what's up with the stretch with all the "cruciform" bullshit). Listening to the audiobook might have aggravated the repetitiveness of some portions, but uggh. I feel like I'll eventually finish at least Hyperion just because of how much positive stuff I've heard about the story but I doubt it's gonna reel me in for the two sequels.

Also tried dipping my toe into the first of Sanderson's Stormlight books and goddamn I am not going to finish that one. Turns out everything in the world is a compound word, formed of the kewlest words Sanderson knows. Storm+light. Shard+blade. Oath+pact. "Oathpact." It's a compound word made out of fucking synonyms. It's super high fantasy, which makes me leery to begin with, but every other word is a proper compound noun that I would've made up for my D&D games when I was 11. Despite all the made up words there's still no useful descriptions of the world; I know the magic armor is scaled, but have no idea who the people being killed are or why I'd care. Like three chapters of this jargony bullshit and I still don't even know what the little fairies that apparently appear everywhere, constantly, in response to everyone's emotions, even look like. People sprinting across a battlefield can still casually converse about how clever their tactics are, even while too rushed to simply grip a shield. This is why genre fiction is a ghetto, people.

Got The Peripheral for my birthday a bit ago, and I'm about to be unemployed and sober for a bit so I'm going to be just straight blasting through this bitch. Got some book on a mathematical proof of natural selection for Christmas, should take about an afternoon it looks like.

After that I'm'a stack a couple serious sounding things -- Wittgenstein's Blue and Brown or Philosophic Investigations, go back and reread The Prince, like serious-taking-notes-and-shit style. Mebbe raid my buddy's library of political philosophy textbooks. And 1:1 salt in some lighter stuff -- still got a stack of Thompson's later shit to work through, still need to read Confederacy of Dunces, etc.

On the same wavelength, the Ravirn series by Kelly McCullough is about a supernatural coder. Ravirn is a descendant of the Fates, and uses code to accomplish magical effects. Not as low level as Wiz Biz, but not bad, either. WebMage is the first book, and there are currently 4 in the series.

Here's the book I've been talking about. It's Vince Flynn's Transfer of Power, staring his character Mitch Rapp. One of my all time favorite book series.

Just to inform you and all german redditors:

Amazon DE has your physical copy IN STOCK: https://www.amazon.de/dp/1540338371/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1479481605&sr=8-2&keywords=rex+electi

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Your book will be on my wishlist for xmas ;)

Sprawl Trilogy, if you've been living under a rock.

Halting state (http://www.amazon.com/Halting-State-Ace-Science-Fiction/dp/0441016073)vis apparantly good.

• Lights Out by David Crawford
  
• Going Home by A. American (and the whole Survivalist series that follows)
  
• Patriots by James Wesley, Rawles
  
• Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken
  
• The Postman by David Brin
  
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  
• Breakers by Edward W. Robertson (and the rest of the series; good deals on Kindle bundles)
  
  

> Also, what are you reading lately?

I got the first Saga book (already had #2 and #3) and blew threw that today. Getting ready to start The Peripheral.

I highly recommend this book (and the two that follow in the series):


https://www.amazon.com/Enemies-Foreign-Domestic-Matthew-Bracken/dp/0972831010

Yes. Neuromancer by William Gibson. Gibson is the father of cyberpunk.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MRM8394/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1RW2LKE7BT31L&coliid=I399H99I7NYGGO

IF that doesn't work, its the $4.99 Preternatural Affairs, Books 1-3: Witch Hunt, Silver Bullet, and Hotter Than Helltown [Kindle Edition].

My kindle is emptying faster than I can fill it!

Thanks for the contest! :-)

See Daemon and more importantly Freedom tm for how the world works with game theory. Read them before they become movies.

I see you like Dinosaur Fiction, if you haven't go get a copy of "Bones of the Earth" by Michael Swanwick

Bones of the Earth https://www.amazon.com/dp/0380812894/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_Wge4ybDEBYZW4

Here's a transcript and web audio / web video / download audio, 43MB MP3, 1hr 33min / download video, 197MB MP4, 1hr 41min of the full interview. He also reads a chapter from his upcoming novel The Peripheral, which you can now pre-order (Amazon.com / Amazon UK).

Rex Electi is a book she wrote based on a prompt here on reddit. There's also Prompt Me which is a collection of short stories from writing prompts. Here's her author page on Amazon.

I'd recommend Halting State and Rule 34 by Charles Stross. In form they are near-future poilce procedurals, in a world where virtual reality increasing impinges on the real world. "Halting State" involves a robbery in an MMORG that has real-world consequences. "Rule 34" involves a series of murders in Edinburgh, Scotland, that lead to a deep conspiracy rooted in a former Russian republic. The stories use the implications of virtual reaiity and online communications jumped up well beyond what we have now, and their representation of how virtual reality will affect everyday lives and police work will have you thinking.

If you want to a book by Stross that's just pure, balls-to-the-wall ideas, try "Accelerando" available for free, here. It's not representative of his later work, but if you want something to get you mind working ... it'll do.

Have you checked Web Mage by Kelly McCullough?

Rex Electi

That's part of the title

OP, I think you posted link to paperback book instead of Kindle edition.

I think this is the right link:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QCJZR6G/

• Neuromancer - William Gibson
  
• Dune - Frank Herbert
  
• Gateway - Frederik Pohl
  
• Halting State - Charles Stross
  
• Eon - Greg Bear
  
• Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
  
• Solaris - Stanislaw Lem

If you liked Hunger Games, try Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth. It's a trilogy, the third one isn't out yet. This series has similar themes and a very similar tone to Hunger Games.

Iain M Banks' has a book titled The Algebraist, there are aliens in it called Dwellers; each individual dweller lives for millions of years and the species has been around for 10 billion. Dwellers are...not what you'd expect from beings that old.

Doesn't look like it...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mosaic-17K-Christopher-Drake/dp/1521017220/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Indents are not necessary and I've read a lot of novels with no indenting whatsoever. For example Harry Potter: No indents and good enough to sell millions.

http://www2.sdfi.edu.cn/netclass/jiaoan/englit/download/Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Sorcerer's%20Stone.pdf

In other writing every paragraph is indented, regardless of dialogue or not, including the first paragraph. For example see the 'look inside' of Tom Sawyer

https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Tom-Sawyer-Biographical-Introduction-ebook/dp/B000FC1C46/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1542811211&sr=8-4&keywords=where+the+red+fern+grows+kindle

Final example/final edit: Dresden files indents every paragraph except the first paragraph of each chapter. Again you can refer to the 'look inside'.

https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Black-Magic-Outlaw-Book-ebook/dp/B019ROIX8U/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1542811463&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=dresden+files&psc=1

Just pick a convention and be consistent.

The Twenty Palaces series got me through those extra months between Changes and Ghost Story; and seeing as how I found out about the series from Jim's website that ought to say something.

http://www.amazon.com/Child-Fire-Twenty-Palaces-Novel/dp/0345508890/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1318576688&sr=8-4

You remind me of the villain in The Algebraist...his name escapes me.

Sometimes Stross is so accurate it hurts.

http://www.amazon.com/Halting-State-Ace-Science-Fiction/dp/0441016073

http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-Foreign-Domestic-Matthew-Bracken/dp/0972831010

And stop making up fly fishers look like crazy assholes.

'Soul' is now available from Amazon in print and kindle.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1092960295

https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Dave-Blackwell-ebook/dp/B07QCJZR6G/


A snowstorm. A body with the cause of death unknown. A bloody crime scene. A missing elderly woman. An unidentified young girl.

A young girl found naked and covered in blood at a crime scene harbours a powerful gift and a traumatic past that changes the lives of Marie and her foster daughter in ways they couldn't imagine.

Death is only the beginning.

This is the story of Kimimela.