NP: Stephen Baxter

[Dave Monroe]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:12 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> I just finished reading Evolution, by Stephen Baxter and thought it was fantastic.  It's a well-written(by sci-fi standards)fictionalized account of primate evolution, starting with a lemur-like ancestress to us all and going on into the distant future.  The account of the dinosaur-destroying comet event is truly tragic. Baxter's written quite a few books, many in collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke.  Can anyone recommend any others?

I, on the other hand, eventually lost interest in both his Voyage, and
his and Clarke's Time's Eye.  I however read a shoirt story by him
yesterday morning that made me want to give him another shot, so ...

Meanwhile, allow me to recommend, say, just about anything by Frederik
Pohl, perhaps in particular his very great Jem, as well as, with Cyril
Kornbluth, The Space Merchants, which remians funny and relevant a
half a century after publication ...

Also, A.A. Attanasio, Legends of Lost Earth (as well as its precursors
in its tetralogy, Radix, Arc of the Dream, and In Other worlds, though
LLOE can be read as a standalone); and Wm. Gibson's All Tomorrow's
Parties is still his best novel, as far as I'm concerned ...

And, if only for just plain fun and/or adventure, Tim Powers, the
Anubis Gates, and S.M Stirling, The Peshawar Lancers (both on teh
steampunky side, a la Against the Day)  ...

I've been trying to get back "into" SF in general, so any
recommendations'll be appreciated ...