Action/Adventure Aficionados discussion

I've got 5 of the Death Stalker books on my shelves gathering dust and giving me nasty looks Darth. Hope I can get to them soon...as with all the books waiting on my shelves to be read. (And all giving me nasty "you're ignoring me" looks.)

Oh, my book mountains are cussing me, Mike!

So far...no vocal abuse, Then again I think they are refusing to talk to me.

Simon Green is awesome!

My mountain of books are conspiring against me. Every day when I wake up, some books have moved. They are getting closer and closer every day. Even when I put them back...

...please help...

@ Mike--LOL!
@ Jason--I agree!

Ooh, that sounds like a good horror short story, Jason!

Sounds like a Bentley Little short story. LOL

Sounds like everyday life for Goodreads.

LOL Too true, Mike. Too True!

I've known they were plotting for years.

And years, and years, and years! One day, they will win!

A world ruled by books... interesting thought. Low humidity, low temperatures, and open season on worms.

We would be their slaves! We'd also be the worms, I think. All non readers would parish, they would drown in words. lol

I think I may already be a sort of slave to books...but they have to share ruler-ship with the cats.

For a good action Sci-fi read I liked Conqueror's Pride by Timothy Zahn. Conquerors' Pride

Jason wrote: "My mountain of books are conspiring against me. Every day when I wake up, some books have moved. They are getting closer and closer every day. Even when I put them back...

...please help..."

Don't look away, don't blink!

My eyes are drying out! O_O

Is there a crack in your wall? Your only out may be to arrange it so they never existed...of course we'd appreciate it if you don't undo the entire universe.

LMAO @ Mike.

I think the books have the power to undo the entire universe on their own, if they wish it.

Jason wrote: "LMAO @ Mike.

I think the books have the power to undo the entire universe on their own, if they wish it."

Do yourself a favor, count the shadows.


Pax Rolfe

LOL that's funny, Pax!

Just started Trading in Danger.

That sounds good, Mike. Please let me know if it's any good.

Ha, that's on my list too.

You all know how I love the Paksenarrion trilogy. I hadn't had much luck getting into the Vatta books (though I plan to "re-try" them) so I thought I'd take a shot at this "space opera". Starts out a little slowly for me but okay. I'm interested in it, maybe a quarter of the way in.

I think when it comes to action adventure, I'm still liking "Allan Steele's Coyote series" as an action adventure thing. It reads like stories from the frontier. Good fun. (and the audio books are well done.)

Another I still haven't gotten to.

The audio books were good. The stories are told in first person by each of the colonists. The narrators changed so they had a bit of personality to them that you could recognize by the voice.

I'd also add, if I havent already, the best reluctant hero-thief in the galaxy....

The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison

Fun read.

Hugh love me some Rat I have a first edition. Alos Is it me or does SSR remind me of Agent Corey of De Mille fame?

I have to read De Mille, then I can tell you but I know we have at least one De Mille fan here...

For whatever reason, I've always liked 'space opera' and military sci-fi ... probably all the Hornblower novels I read in my pre-teens.

Some of the ones I own and re-read include a lot of the David Drake, David Weber, Eric Flint and S. M. Stirling books. Drake and Stirling dud a 5-book series "The General" that is always fun ... bloody, but fun. Weber's "Honor Harrington" series, of course.

One of my favorite series is the "Miles Vorkosigan" series by Lois Bujold. The character is a young, hyperactive military washout on a militaristic planet who slides sideways into off-planet covert ops and his solution to most problems is to move faster and six directions at once. The earlier ones, especially, are a lot of fun. He'd definitely an adrenaline junkie and you can really get addicted as you read. Suspension of belief, naturally, but fun.

In my youth, I read a lot of Ghost Legion by Margaret Weis. Well, not so much youth and between now and my "youth." Those were fun. A little Star Wars (ish) but I didn't care. Fun stories. Hung Out is a spin off of that with three (or 4) of my favorite characters from that series.

Santiago by Mike Resnick. A good quick read.

Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future

and the follow up

The Return of Santiago

Lee wrote: "I don't read a lot of Sci-Fi, but & had some good action.

I let my buddy at work (we swap books) read this & had some good action.

I let my buddy at work (we swap books) read this [bookcover:Death's Head|2..."

Lucifer's Hammer is a superb story. I met Jerry Pournelle once at a party Playboy hosted in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show about 30 years ago.

Larry wrote: "Lee wrote: "I don't read a lot of Sci-Fi, but & Footfall had some good action.

I let my buddy at work (we swap books) read this . It's from a different time and they may be more space opera or more "adventure" than action oriented by todays expectations but I'm really enjoying it.

(For some reason it won't let me put the hyperlink in, so here...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...

that's the website.

I've noticed that some of Matthew Reilly's work is more science fiction based in many ways. For instance Contest which I finished recently.

Soldier of the Legion turned out to be entertaining. And I'll add Dauntless lost fleet is great. I'm up to book 4 and, it may be more of a military space opera, but I like it. Fourth book is the best so far.

Catherine wrote: "How about the Repairman Jack series by F Paul Wilson? The series starts out pretty much action with a hint of something else (if you're paying attention) but the later books really layer on the odd..."


F. Paul Wilson has also written Sci-Fi novels. The LaNague series is interesting, the first book being "Healer", followed by "Wheels Within Wheels", and "Enemy Of The State".

I tried Honor Harrington. I have no idea how that has so many fans! I thought the first book was horrible! Infodump after infodump. But to each his own. The Vorkosigan books, on the other hand, I thought were worth the hoopla.

Have you tried the Lost Fleet series?

new_user wrote: "I tried Honor Harrington. I have no idea how that has so many fans! I thought the first book was horrible! Infodump after infodump. But to each his own. The Vorkosigan books, on the other hand, I t..."

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "Have you tried the Lost Fleet series?"

I'm with Mike, The Lost Fleet Series is tres COOl!.

if not that one maybe A Galaxy Unknown or, one of my favorites, but not one of Mikes, Soldier of the Legion and, a good one ot keep in your back pocket, an oldie but a goodie...

The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat

I added "A Galaxy Unknown" to my ever growing TBR list.

Thanks for the reco.

My library still doesn't have A Galaxy Unknown and I haven't bought it...may soon just out of frustration. I agree with you on the Miles The Vorkosigan series, good books.

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "My library still doesn't have A Galaxy Unknown and I haven't bought it...may soon just out of frustration. I agree with you on the Miles The Vorkosigan series, good books."

Kevin wrote: "I added "A Galaxy Unknown" to my ever growing TBR list.

Thanks for the reco."

If you wanted a recomendation, i'd say read the first one. I got it free on Amazon (but I doubt it is now).

If you like it keep going. The big mystery here is why I've liked it enough to look foreward to the next one enough to read eight of them. But, I have.

I liked Soldier of the Legion better (yes, review on that one somewhere). and one that I didn't mention...

Ghost Legion by Margaret Weis sure, it was a little Star Wars (ish), and also a little "Babylon 5" (ish) with that spin off from Babylon Five (ish) thrown in there.

Still, I found it to be a fun read, the lead character was a bit too whiney and the seasoned veteran across from him was a bit too "gloom-doom-and-more-gloom" but there were some really fun other characters and I thuroughly enjoyed it because of them (The Lodi and the Little one, with the Cyborg)

this produced a spin off that was a lot of fun Hung Out staring the Lodi, The LIttle one and the bald Cyborg guy. Those three were a trip!)

I'd rank "A galaxy Unknown" behind Soldier of the Legion, Hung Out and Ghost legion.

And TUnnel in the sky is a rockin classic as is The Adventures of the stainless steel Rat, which I rank maybe above the others by a narrow margin.

Just finishing up Old Man's War. It was a little slow in the action department at the beginning, but overall am enjoying the read.

Recently, I really liked Leviathan Wakes, part sci/fi-part detective.

I don't usually read tie in fiction, especially worlds that seem to have a massive amount of history/lore (Warhammer,Forgotten Realms), but I really like Dan Abnett and on a whim I picked up Ravenor: The Omnibus and loved it.

I really didn't get into Soldier of the Legion (I haven't belabored that because Huge likes it quite a bit). Don't know if that bodes ill for what I'll think about Galaxy U. K. or not.

Hugh--The Curmudgeon wrote: "Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "My library still doesn't have A Galaxy Unknown and I haven't bought it...may soon just out of frustration. I agree with you on the Miles The Vorkosigan series, good books..."

I read plenty of Harry Harrison books, great stuff. I tried Weis "The Lost King" and didnt care for it so I didnt finish the series.

if you feel forgiving, I'd give "hung out" a try. Those characters were more fun than the

Luke Skywalker and Lay-ya (with experience) Heroines.