Minnewildsota
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- Jun 7, 2010
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We have a video games thread, which is awesome, but I thought I would also create a book thread for those that like to read or are looking to get into reading.
I tend to gravitate towards Fantasy or Sci-Fi books so here are some of the books I have read that I would highly recommend with a short synopsis of them.
Red Rising by Pierce Brown - If you like The Hunger Games, you will absolutely love this book and series. Instead of society being split into districts in Hunger Games, people are divided into colors. There is a yearly(?) competition that instead of taking a week or two, unfolds over months. I literally could not put the book down.
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Humanity set to terraform other planets because Earth is becoming unlivable (if I remember correctly). The book follows a specific planet where the terraforming plans don't go according to plan. Children of Time and Children of Ruin were really good. I'm having a hard time getting through the third book Children of Memory. The first two books are very thought inducing, at least they were to me.
Hell Divers by Nicholas Sansbury Smith - This is a very long series. I believe there are 11 books in total so far. It's a fun series about a post apocalyptic Earth where humans survive in floating cities. The ground is nearly uninhabitable but a Hell Dive team must travel to the surface to scavenge. I like it because you can pick it up at any time and just go with it.
There are a few other books that I found interesting and fun but I'll add to this thread if people are interested.
What books have you enjoyed? Anything that piques your interest that others may give some insight on?
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I tend to gravitate towards Fantasy or Sci-Fi books so here are some of the books I have read that I would highly recommend with a short synopsis of them.
Red Rising by Pierce Brown - If you like The Hunger Games, you will absolutely love this book and series. Instead of society being split into districts in Hunger Games, people are divided into colors. There is a yearly(?) competition that instead of taking a week or two, unfolds over months. I literally could not put the book down.
Red Rising Synopsis said:Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet.
Darrow - and Reds like him - are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity's overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society's ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies...even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Humanity set to terraform other planets because Earth is becoming unlivable (if I remember correctly). The book follows a specific planet where the terraforming plans don't go according to plan. Children of Time and Children of Ruin were really good. I'm having a hard time getting through the third book Children of Memory. The first two books are very thought inducing, at least they were to me.
Children of Time Synopsis said:Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Who will inherit this new Earth?
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life.
But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.
Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?
Hell Divers by Nicholas Sansbury Smith - This is a very long series. I believe there are 11 books in total so far. It's a fun series about a post apocalyptic Earth where humans survive in floating cities. The ground is nearly uninhabitable but a Hell Dive team must travel to the surface to scavenge. I like it because you can pick it up at any time and just go with it.
Synopsis said:They dive so humanity survives …
More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago. The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers -- men and women who risk their lives by skydiving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need.
When one of the remaining airships is damaged in an electrical storm, a Hell Diver team is deployed to a hostile zone called Hades. But there is something down there far worse than the mutated creatures discovered on dives in the past -- something that threatens the fragile future of humanity.
There are a few other books that I found interesting and fun but I'll add to this thread if people are interested.
What books have you enjoyed? Anything that piques your interest that others may give some insight on?
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