Hey, can't call George RR Martin prolific. He's got out three books in seven years (although I will allow you that the books are huge). Before that, he spent ten years without any book at all, because he had to write TV screenplays to feed himself ("Beauty and the Beast", anyone?)
Richard Morgan is THE newest sci-fi author come out of the UK in 2002. His first novel "Altered Carbon" just blew my mind away. Strong language and well constructed story, on top of great originality. Check it out, all of you.
I'm so glad I live in Europe. Here the caller pays for all the charges in a call to a cell phone. And quite expensive at that (about 20 or 30 cents a minute). I never have and never heard of anyone receiving a telemarketing call in a cell phone...
How can you call Spanier nice?? I don't know of anybody who's been able to read more than two pages! It's dense and very confusing in its "great generality"! Completely unreadable!
Look for W. Massey's books: "Algebraic Topology, A First Course" and "Singular Homology Theory" in Springer's Graduate Texts in Mathematics. That's where I learned all my Algebraic Topology.
I thought "The Curse of Chalion" was quite orginal and well written, and I am a BIG fan of the Vorkosigan series...
But if you people think there isn't any good or
original fantasy nowadays, you just need to pick
up George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" saga, made out of three books so far: "A Game of Thrones", "A Clash of Kings" and "A Storm of Swords". Amazing characters, incredible plot with millions of subplots. Best fantasy I've ever read since LOTR, and it is comparable. Yes, comparable to LOTR. It is that good.
You guys may know George R.R. Martin already from his science fiction, "Tuf Voyaging" or "Fevre Dream". Read this. Believe me.
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Hey, can't call George RR Martin prolific. He's got out three books in seven years (although I will allow you that the books are huge). Before that, he spent ten years without any book at all, because he had to write TV screenplays to feed himself ("Beauty and the Beast", anyone?)
Richard Morgan is THE newest sci-fi author come out of the UK in 2002. His first novel "Altered Carbon" just blew my mind away. Strong language and well constructed story, on top of great originality. Check it out, all of you.
I'm so glad I live in Europe. Here the caller pays for all the charges in a call to a cell phone. And quite expensive at that (about 20 or 30 cents a minute). I never have and never heard of anyone receiving a telemarketing call in a cell phone...
How can you call Spanier nice?? I don't know of anybody who's been able to read more than two pages! It's dense and very confusing in its "great generality"! Completely unreadable!
Look for W. Massey's books: "Algebraic Topology, A First Course" and "Singular Homology Theory" in Springer's Graduate Texts in Mathematics. That's where I learned all my Algebraic Topology.
I thought "The Curse of Chalion" was quite orginal and well written, and I am a BIG fan of the Vorkosigan series...
But if you people think there isn't any good or
original fantasy nowadays, you just need to pick
up George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" saga, made out of three books so far: "A Game of Thrones", "A Clash of Kings" and "A Storm of Swords". Amazing characters, incredible plot with millions of subplots. Best fantasy I've ever read since LOTR, and it is comparable. Yes, comparable to LOTR. It is that good.
You guys may know George R.R. Martin already from his science fiction, "Tuf Voyaging" or "Fevre Dream". Read this. Believe me.