If you aren't necessarily looking for something with a similar theme, I just finished Leviathan Wakes and thought it was brilliant.
+1s for Leviathan Wakes and Snowcrash. Loved both books. Halting State is sitting on my Pile of Unread Shame. If you want to dive deeper into cyberpunk / dystopian noir... Neuromancer by Gibson.
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. It's an older "hard" sci-fi story but it felt very genuine, hopeful, unique (for its time) and I couldn't stop reading it.
Without a doubt, Neuromancer and Rendezvous with Rama are my two favorite books of all time. (Avoid the Rama sequels though! So terrible...)
+1 for Leviathan Wakes, and also The Long Price Quartet books by Daniel Abraham (same writer as Leviathan, different name), which has a fantastic, original take on magic, with well-written characters put in difficult moral conundrums.
Funny, I picked up Neuromancer on a whim in a second hand bookstore at least 15 years ago and never got around to reading it. In fact, I was able to pull it off my shelf just now. Guess I'll have to give it a go.
It's been mentioned around here before but if you haven't read The Alienist go check that out now. I couldn't put it down, and I rarely finish what I start before getting distracte
I read this book a while back about a blonde on a horse and a dwarf with a spider. It's called Game of Ice and Dragons: Crow Storm, I think. By George R. R. Tolkien.
Try Reamde (though I would be surprised if it didn't show up in Amazon's suggetions).
If you aren't necessarily looking for something with a similar theme, I just finished Leviathan Wakes and thought it was brilliant.
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Along the same lines I would recommend Snowcrash, or Halting State. For a non related book I would recommend The Knight by Gene Wolfe.
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Although all of his books are pretty great.
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+1s for Leviathan Wakes and Snowcrash. Loved both books. Halting State is sitting on my Pile of Unread Shame. If you want to dive deeper into cyberpunk / dystopian noir... Neuromancer by Gibson.
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. It's an older "hard" sci-fi story but it felt very genuine, hopeful, unique (for its time) and I couldn't stop reading it.
Without a doubt, Neuromancer and Rendezvous with Rama are my two favorite books of all time. (Avoid the Rama sequels though! So terrible...)
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+1 for Leviathan Wakes, and also The Long Price Quartet books by Daniel Abraham (same writer as Leviathan, different name), which has a fantastic, original take on magic, with well-written characters put in difficult moral conundrums.
-1000 for Reamde, which I found long and dull.
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The Name of the Wind (the first book in the Kingkiller Chronicles). Very well written, I just finished the second one.
72 Hours was written by a fellow Goodjer and is an awesome book that should be mandatory reading for everyone on this site!
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This. There's 113 pages of great books.
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Funny, I picked up Neuromancer on a whim in a second hand bookstore at least 15 years ago and never got around to reading it. In fact, I was able to pull it off my shelf just now. Guess I'll have to give it a go.
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That book is utter sh!t, the author's a tool, and I hear he uses the profits to buy puppies just to murder them.
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It's been mentioned around here before but if you haven't read The Alienist go check that out now. I couldn't put it down, and I rarely finish what I start before getting distracte
Totally not true.
He uses the profits to pay for the supercar he drives while stealing the puppies. Check your facts (like the author would)!
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John Varley's Titan series.
Heh, I'm going through the Hugo winners and just picked this one up myself.
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I can second this one.
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Souls in the Great Machine, by Sean Mcmullen.
Flashman, by George Macdonald Fraser.
Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh.
Anno Dracula, by Kim Newman.
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I read this book a while back about a blonde on a horse and a dwarf with a spider. It's called Game of Ice and Dragons: Crow Storm, I think. By George R. R. Tolkien.
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