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Ursula LeGuin's great! Try "The Left Hand of Darkness" or "The Dispossessed", both classic novels or if you prefer to stick with her short stories try the "Orsinian Tales" or "The Wind's Twelve Quarters".

Pick _any_ LeGuin. They're all good. It's just that they have weird titles and I can't seem to remember any at the moment...but there was one I think where the main character was having all these dreams that were altering reality...anyway, it was good.

I'm reading Pratchett at the moment. It's my first time. I've only read three, which is good because then I have soo many left

Other that that I've been reading books on Algebra and Euclidian Geometry, but the exam was yesterday so there won't be more of that for a good while now.

/Freedom

For anyone interested in expanding your list of authors without a large cash input I have a suggestion.

I recently finished an anthology edited by Robert Silverberg entitled Far Horizons. This book contains short stories by some of Science Fictions greatest authors, and all the stories reside in their most popular universes. Far Horizons gives you a peak into universes or authors that you have heard about but never read.

Another plus of Far Horizons is that before each story there is an intro written by the author along with a complete listing of all books in the universe in order.

The authors and their book/universe follow:
David Brin - The Uplift Universe (I recently bought and read the first book, Sundiver, after reading Far Horizons, great read!!)
Orson Scott Card - the Ender universe
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Ekumen
Anne McCaffrey - The Ship Who Sang
Greg Bear - The Way
Gregory Benford - The Galactic Center
Nancy Kress - The Sleepless
Frederik Pohl - The Heechee
Robert Silverberg - Rome Eterna
Dan Simmons - The Hyperion Cantos

Sorry for the long post, but a great book to own!

Courtesy

Principal photography for the Dune miniseries on the Sciene Fiction channel, has finished. It is slated for a December release as a 3 part 6 hour show

Hopefully they will do the book justice.

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I hope so - I can't wait to see it...
Do you know if there is any truth to the rumours that, if succesful, they may do "Dune Messiah" too?

I had not heard about that ..... I hope it's true. I personally think that Messiah and Chidren were the weakest of the books, but if they make those then God Emperor would be next, and that's my favorite after Dune.

Personally, I think that the Sci Fi channel would do it. They seem to make movies, and series that the public wants to see, and there is a HUGE market for Dune.

There certainly is a huge market for Dune, as proved by the "success" of "Prelude To Dune: House Atreides".
So, when's "House Harkonnen" out? Have we heard any rumours on what that is about? (Apart from a continuation of the story in "House Atreides")

I actually quite liked Children of Dune --
I hope we get the Dune Miniseries here...

~Nathan

Both Dune Messiah and Chidren of Dune were good, don't get me wrong. They just didn't have the sweeping majesty I found in Dune and God Emperor. I don't hate them, I just like the others better I mean it's Frank Herbert, as far as I'm concerned he could have dipped a cats paws in ink and had it walk across some paper and that would be better than some of the Sci Fi produced today

As for the miniseries. I will record it. If you don't get it then you might just get a christmas present from uncle courtesy

I've just got a book similar to this (still to start reading it ) called Legends, edited by Robert Silverberg. The authors and story universes are;
Stephen King, The Dark Tower
Terry Goodkind, The Sword of Truth
Orson Scott Card, Tales of Alvin Maker
Robert Silverberg, Majipoor
Ursula K. Le Guin, Earthsea
Raymond E. Feist, The Riftwar Saga

Certainly availiable in the UK.

Phil -

That sounds like an anthology I had heard about by him. Apparently it is the Fantasy side. So Far Horizons is a different book, aimed towards the Sci-Fi market, but with the same idea.

Please tell us about this book. Would you think about writing a review of it for the POST?

Due to the length of the thread and the slowness of the servers recently, I have moved the thread to the following

http://www.h2g2.com/forumframe.cgi?forum=29359&thread=52740

We are starting our 11th forum

Courtesy

Lathe Of Heaven

Is the title I think.

I remember reading that one, but many years ago now.