After reading almost nothing but SF and Fantasy for too many years to remember, I finally shifted over to the mystery genre. Lots of good stuff, but I still drift back to the SF section in the book store now and then to see if Richard Morgan, David Weber or Elizabeth Moon have anything new to offer. I recently read Weber's Born in Fury, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's really space opera stuff, but he writes it very well.

>I used to read a huge amount of SF. Can't ever seem to find anything new in that vein that I want to read now. But I recently read this
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>http://www.amazon.com/Polysyllabic-Spree-Nick-Hornby/dp/1932416242
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>basically its a year long account of books he's bought and books he's read and what he thought of them.
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>and thats really helped me open up a bit on what books to read after a long period of reading very little.
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>>>>In my case, I read the books by myself, and rather quickly. The last issue (Year 7 - Deathly Hallows) took me about 4 days to read. This was because I was quite busy with other things, otherwise I would have probably read it in 2 days.
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>>>Just like the Dune prequels and sequels written by Herbert jr and that guy Anderson. Real page turners, specially when you learn to recognize the which paragraph (usually 3rd or 4th) in a chapter is a recap of what was said before, and which phrases are simply inserted at random. You turn the pages so fast, that you almost forget that it's supposed to be a book you're reading :).
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>>I got bored of the series after god emperor of dune or whatever it was called. "That guy Anderson"? There are a few Anderson novelists. Might you refer to Paol Anderson? I can't find much about him on the web but one of his books "The End of Time" (I think), about time travel (and all the paradoxes inherent) is brilliant and one I wish I'd never allowed ex libris, as I never got t back and haven't seen the novel for years. I can't find ref to it on the web either. Another old hoot was Harrison's "Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers" - a SF spoof, that I let go, rediscoverd in a shop, re-read, then let go again, getting neither back. Never lend books to anyone!
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>>>>It still helps to re-read, because some details become a little confusing.
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>>>Could that be that they are actually contradictory, but a deadline is a deadline and they didn't have the time to fix the bugs?
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>>>Oh, sorry, for a moment I thought we were talking about the Vista ;).