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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:13 am
by DaddyHoggy
El Viejo wrote:Rxke wrote:Frank Herbert wrote some interesting stuff besides his Dune novels.
That's for sure... 'The Dosadi Experiment' is one of my favourites.
Whipping Star (part of a series I think), is excellent (in concept at the very least)
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:36 am
by JazHaz
JazHaz wrote:Ahruman wrote:With such a ridiculously vague clue, it could only be Philip K. Dick, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale – except that’s a novella normally (only?) published in collections.
Yes, you got it too quick!
The film of course was the Arnie flick,
Total Recall.
Over to you Sir!
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:26 pm
by JensAyton
Oh, right. Er…
A man! A jungle! A species of insect men! Very long swords! And most frightening of all, seven sequels!
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:16 pm
by snork
Alan Dean Foster - Spellsinger ?
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:11 pm
by Zieman
Ahruman wrote:Oh, right. Er…
A man! A jungle! A species of insect men! Very long swords! And most frightening of all, seven sequels!
Somehow this brings Edgar Rice Burroughs to my mind.
Alas, AFAIK there were no insect-men in his Mars -books or Pellucidar -books. A man! and Swords! do fit though...
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 4:19 am
by JazHaz
Ahruman wrote:
A man! A jungle! A species of insect men! Very long swords! And most frightening of all, seven sequels!
I'll try
The Eric John Stark Saga by
Blue Tyson.
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:06 am
by JensAyton
Nope. Burroughs was definitely an influence, though.
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:33 am
by Disembodied
Jandar of Callisto (and the seven sequels) by Lin Carter, I think!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 12:29 pm
by JensAyton
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:58 pm
by Disembodied
All right!
OK, it's a Hugo-award-winning story. On a distant planet, an isolated human colony – perhaps the last human outpost in existence – struggles to survive. Scattered and divided, they fight amongst themselves, using strange cross-bred creatures for transport and combat. Long ago, humanity lost a war with an alien race: now every few generations the aliens harry the planet, capturing any humans they find and preventing the colony from developing. And it looks like they might be due to return ...
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:13 pm
by Zieman
Reminds me of Mick Farren's "Their Master's War"
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:33 pm
by Commander McLane
The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance?
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 1:13 am
by JazHaz
Is it Brightness Reef by David Brin?
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:08 am
by Disembodied
Commander McLane wrote:The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance?
Commander McLane makes the score! It is indeed Jack Vance's gem of a novella
The Dragon Masters.
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 1:14 pm
by Commander McLane
Okay, me again.
Will a superweapon, controlled by three philanthropic individuals, be able to force the UK and the US to abstain from a bloody war against each other?
Author and title of this quite early SF-novel, please.