dbcooper Posted May 9, 2014 Author Share Posted May 9, 2014 Thank you all for your suggestions. I know rec threads can be a drag but I promise you, I had exhausted all other options for filling out my to-read queue. Iain M, Banks Culture series seems like a glaring oversight on that list, though I can't think of any of them that is strictly all set on a single ship, I guess. Yeah, there's one book who's name I can't remember where a good portion of the plot was moved while on ships. In any case, it's the Culture series so there's no harm in tossing it in. More Details Inside would actually make a splendid name for a Culture ship, so the thread title is great! Ha, that's a good one. If by some chance I ever have a vessel that I need to name, More Details Inside will be it. Never mind. Passage At Arms by Glen Cook is the best book about being in a spaceship ever written. Try that. This is book 4 in a series, would I have to have read the first 3 to enjoy it? Also I absolutely hated Glen Cook's Tower of Fear, is the writing any different? Short on time, will respond to the rest later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbcooper Posted May 9, 2014 Author Share Posted May 9, 2014 Solo, much like with Culture, R. Scott Bakker’s books are not entirely set on a spaceship, so it’s not quite what the OP was looking for. (Otherwise Bakker and Banks have much in common. Spaceships, huge AIs with entertaining speech patterns, a lot about the use of weapons, occasional humour, moral ambiguity, female characters with agency and healthy sexual appetites.) AI's in RSB's books? Are we talking about PoN/Aspect-Emporer here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 They're kidding(I think). Bakker theories are kind of like an in-joke around here. They get weird and leak into other topics. Passage of Arms has very little to do with the other 3 Starfisher books. From what I recall PaA is set during a war that gets mentioned maybe twice offhandly in book one. I read it not knowing it was part of the series. AS for the writing, I dunno, Tower of Fear is absolutely one of my favorites, but Arms is 1st person POV and Cook's 1st person tends to be a lot different then his 3rd. Passage of Arms is often described as Das Boot in space, if that helps any. Also you could watch Alien, which is the best film ever made. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 AI in RSB is skinspy stuff! and capslock dragon, maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rababal Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 I would recommend On the Steel Breeze by Alastair Reynolds (though you need to read Blue Remembered Earth first). Also, Chasm City and Pushing Ice fulfill your requirements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Ent Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 AI's in RSB's books? Are we talking about PoN/Aspect-Emporer here? There’s plenty. Most notably, in boldface capitals, TELL ME! WHAT DO YOU SEE! RSB has deep and useful thoughts about how AI can be controlled (something with Banks seems to ignore—exactly what is the reason that his AIs don’t just Kill! All! Humans! I haven’t read all of Banks, so perhaps I’m wrong.) RSB has AI point-of-view chapters (the thing called Sarcellus!), and fascinating conversations between Cnaiür and the skin spies. The dragon isn’t an AI, as far as I can tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatúrinbor Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Eärwa is a simulation so everyone can be seen as AI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Sail 25 (sometimes titled Gateway to Strangeness or Dust of Far Suns in certain editions) by Jack Vance, who also wrote Ports of Call and Lurulu. John Maddox Roberts has two 80's-tastic sets of spacefaring novels. Space Angels:Space Angel (1979)Spacer: Window of the Mind (1988) Island World Series:Act of God (1985) (with Eric Kotani)The Island Worlds (1987) (with Eric Kotani)Between The Stars (1988) (with Eric Kotani)Delta Pavonis (1990) (with Eric Kotani) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentRoamer Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Off topic - mod please delete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatúrinbor Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 This isn't a Bakker thread... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WrathOfTinyKittens Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 That can't be true. This is Lit - everything here is a Bakker thread to one degree or another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatúrinbor Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Yeah, I was joking. Why people thought I was being serious is beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serious Callers Only Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 C. J. Cherryh Voyager in the Night.Gene Wolfe New sun series trololol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 I really would love to figure out the WHAT DO YOU SEE thing. It has been around long enough to officially bug the hell out of me that I don't get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 That can't be true. This is Lit - everything here is a Bakker thread to one degree or another. True. On the slog of slogs, all threads belong to Bakker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddington Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle might fit your needs. There was a follow up The Moat around Murcheson's Eye, can't honestly remeber if it was good or bad. I like The Mote though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt b Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 There was a follow up The Moat around Murcheson's Eye, can't honestly remeber if it was good or bad. I like The Mote though. In the U.S. they called that The Gripping Hand. It was okay, better than most scifi sequels, but mostly forgettable. I actually checked it out of the library a second time, a couple months after I first read it, because I completely forgot I already had. Took me a few chapters before it hit me why everything seemed so familiar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rababal Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 C. J. Cherryh Voyager in the Night. Gene Wolfe New sun series trololol Do you mean Book of the Long Sun cause the rest of the solar cycle I took as happening planet side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Try Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge. I think it ticks all your boxes and is great besides. Walter Jon Williams Dread Empire Falls trilogy takes place in a lot of spaceships, but it's a bit more military, less exploration-y. David Brin's two Uplift trilogies match the criteria as well. Iain M, Banks Culture series seems like a glaring oversight on that list, though I can't think of any of them that is strictly all set on a single ship, I guess. I remember liking Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy, though it might have been more of a juvie (and...disturbingly capitalist? I don't remember any more) and Timothy Zahn's The Icarus Hunt is a quick read of a Fireflyesque sort of vein. The capitalists in the book were secretly funding the slave trade and the protagonist used their own methods against them. Consider it an analogy to pre Civil War United States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Oh, yes... I guess I had better put in a recommendation too. Try The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. The Cities In Flight series by James Blish would also fit the bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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