jasonw1239 wrote:Joe Haldeman's "recent" worksAccording to the bibliography list on his Wikipedia entry:# The Coming (2000)# Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (2001) - as editor# Guardian (2002)# Camouflage (2004)# Old Twentieth (2005)# War Stories (2006) - short story collection# A Separate War (2006) - short story collection# The Accidental Time Machine (2007)
Keith the Thief wrote:Have you read The Accidental Time Machine? I love time travel stories.
jasonw1239 wrote:No I have not read that one. I'll have to add that to my "must acquire" list. Thanks Keith!
jasonw1239 wrote:g026r That sounds an awful lot like The Fire of Assurbanipal by Howard.
Straight Adventure Version
jasonw1239 wrote:According to the bibliography section of The Last Celt by Glenn Lord (Berkley Windhover Book 1977) the was in The Howard Collector Spring 1972.
Many readers and former readers expressed dissatisfaction with Hamilton's increasing focus on her character Anita Blake's infection with the ardeur (a supernatural hunger necessitating the person to feed it via direct or vicarious sexual energy) and added metaphysical powers. Some readers contend that these situations occur without the development of character or plot, and also force sex and dependency on a formerly independent female character. [4] Others have commented upon the exploitation of sexual abuse, incest, and rape through its casual use in later books.
In a post in her blog made in December 2006, apparently aimed at a small number of participants on the Laurell K. Hamilton forums[6], Hamilton acknowledged readers who, disappointed in recent Anita Blake novels, have chosen to stop reading her work altogether. She added that "life is too short to read books you don't like," and acknowledged that the books are "not comfortable." She suggested that these readers would prefer to read "books that don't make you think that hard."
silver_beetle wrote:Oh yeah, someone mentioned Laurell Hamilton. I looked her up on Wikipedia to see what D&D book it was she wrote, and I found some amusing information: I always find it entertaining when authors react to criticism by insulting their critics. I listed to one of her books on tape, Danse Macabre, I think, and it was supposed to be about strippers getting murdered, but it seemed to be more of Penthouse Letters meets Cemetery Dance. Not mention loaded with enough cliches to choke a horse. My motto: Avoid cliches like the plague.
jkason wrote:Has anyone mentioned Dune (Frank Herbert)?Earthsea (Le Guin)?Or the continuation of the Star Wars saga by Timothy Zahn?All very good reads in my opinion.
FormCritic wrote:I agree with Philip K. Dick, who's main character in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? wonders why anyone would want to have sex with a replicant. Personally, I wonder what makes a vampire sexually attractive.