And now for something Totally off topic :)

Resident Alien · #1 April 29th, 2001, 04:41 AM

Inspirations for SE4 games

The Culture novels by Iain M Banks (Consider Phlebas, Excession, Player of Games, Look to Windward)

Lensmen series by EE Doc Smith.

Other
Just started Game of Thrones, GRR Martin.

Jordan's Wheel of Time, got up to about vol 6 before it got too slow, slow, slow. Waiting for the final blow out and wrap up.... asuming he ever gets there!

Eddings - first Belgariard books.

Tad William's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series.

and many, many more.... I have been buying more books than I can read for 20 plus years now.

Trachmyr · #2 April 29th, 2001, 10:22 PM

The Dune series (Frank Herbert) is still my personal fav.

dogscoff · #3 April 30th, 2001, 10:09 AM

Resident ALien: I read the Memory, Sorrow, Thorn series too. Good stuff, but borrows too much from Tolkien. Ever read Tailchaser's song? Think "The Hobbit" but with cats. He has a new book out that looks more scifi than fantasy - can't remember the name of it.

Am also reading Dune (again.) Unortunately the only copy I have is in French so it's taking a little longer than it ought to...

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Resident Alien · #4 May 1st, 2001, 03:00 AM

Tad William's current series is "Otherland" - 4 thick volumes based on virtual reality technology and worlds of the not so distant future. I read the first volume ("City of Golden Shadow") and found it interesting but I haven't got around to the rest of them yet.

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
Resident ALien: I read the Memory, Sorrow, Thorn series too. Good stuff, but borrows too much from Tolkien. Ever read Tailchaser's song? Think "The Hobbit" but with cats. He has a new book out that looks more scifi than fantasy - can't remember the name of it.

Am also reading Dune (again.) Unortunately the only copy I have is in French so it's taking a little longer than it ought to...

nerfman · #5 May 1st, 2001, 05:52 AM

Honor - the lady, has no equal, not Captain Kirk, not Luke Skywalker, none!!

Lerchey · #6 May 1st, 2001, 06:02 AM

Can't argue with that. The Honor Harrington books by David Weber just rock HARD. Some of the best military fleet action stuff I've EVER read. He really knows his stuff, and his characters and story lines are great.

And since SE IV is about fleets of starships, it's the kind of stuff that gets one in the mood to play. Sadly, I don't think that there will ever be a game system that really captures the combat genre that Weber has created.

Major John

mac5732 · #7 May 1st, 2001, 03:47 PM

I read a lot of sci-fi and military history,
but sci-fi my favorite, I have read a lot of sci fi but some of my Favorites are

John Carter Warlord of Mars Series
Lensman Series
Tactics of Mistake by Dickson
Weber's Death Ground, Insurrection Series
The Fleet Series (like to see it finish out)
Lost Regiment Series
Fist Series
General Series
The Gor series until it got boring in the later books
Scorpio Series with Dray Prescot

just some ideas mac