Recombination

[ewx]

Recombination was fun. It's been a while since I'd been to a con.

One of the things it made clear was that I've not been fully keeping up with really good SF and fantasy for some time now. Rather than attempt to remember all things that were mentioned over the weekend, would anyone care to recommend the highlights of the last decade of SF/F writing that they think I might have missed?

(Extruded fantasy product need not be mentioned l-)

Comments

[kjaneway.livejournal.com]

If you've got a while, and strong arms, I highly recommend Dan Simmons's Hyperion and Endymion series.

I second mstevens's recommendation of Peter F Hamilton, though I disagree that they're too long.

Both build extremely rich universes in which to play out their stories. (As, of course has Ian M. Banks with the Culture, though he's done it over more books.)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I'm up to date on Simmons, I read Hyperion/Endymion years ago and more recently Illium/Olympos.

[kjaneway.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I knew I was a little late to that party.

(Still not read Illium/Olympos...)