book recs from WorldCon 2009

[zephre]

E has been pestering me about this (and doing the Eyelash Flutter of Doom since we're in the same room for once), so here is a list of the various books and authors recommended by panelists at the various panels I attended at the 2009 WorldCon in Montreal. (Note: occasionally the authors on the panel would make a plug for their own work...  I didn'

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[calloocallay]

Atlas of the year 1000 is more approachable and breathtakingly good. And I can wholeheartedly recommend anything the Opies put together, ever. Some of their stuff is even illustrated by Maurice Sendak!

[muppetk]

I've read some of those! And enjoyed them. Hellspark by Janet Kagan & the Robert Sawyer series & the Naomi Novik series are all good. And while I haven't read it yet, T says the Neuromancer is wonderful.

[ajax]

I wonder, could you have meant Joe Abercrombie under "Archetypes Without Stereotypes"? His trilogy "The First Law" was the best fantasy series I read last year, and probably for some years before that. I've read the stand-alone novel Best Served Cold since then, and it meets the same high standard. This guy is an exciting talent!

--- Ajax.

[zephre]

i'll bet I did. That's either a handwriting thing or just an episode of misunderhearing.
Thanks!

[ajax]

I'll also mention that "Legal Systems Past and Future" sounds like an intriguing topic; I was thinking as I watched an episode of Enterprise the other day that Star Trek really doesn't ever need to show us another episode where somebody in the cast is put on trial by aliens. They're all the same! And Deep Space Nine did all the good ones anyway (well, maybe "Encounter at Farpoint"...)

Lastly, I utterly failed to get into Neuromancer. I'm just not interested enough in tech to get into cyberpunk novels -- the Brawne Lamia bits of The Hyperion Cantos are probably as close as I'll ever come to enjoying that milieu. :)

--- Ajax.

[owlfish]

*adds not-previously-read food books to list*