I need book reccomendations

[Xon]

Be careful with those offers of copied books. While booksellers haven't been attacking people the way the MPAA or RIAA have, they still own copyright.

baen publishers doesnt.

Every ebook on their publishered CDs (which overs 70% of their stock) is 100% legal to copy & distribute.

[Xon]

Can I ask what do people think of David Brin and his Uplift novels?

The general consensuses I've seen on this board is he is a fairly descent writer, even if some of his ideas on his website are fairly stupid.

IMO the Uplift novels are fairly good.

I'ld also recommend the "Revelation Space" novels from Alastair Reynolds(5 that I know of). Easily one of the most dangerious forms of FTL iIve ever seen(To the point that no one uses it). Puts WH40K warp to shame.

After all; editing your civilization out of existance (that is it never ever existed) as a potential side effect and editing something out of existence as a likely side effect is enough to keep anyone with working brains from considering to use it.

[Bob the Gunslinger]

He writes these cute little columns in which he's gone off full-tilt at such crazy, stupid notions like the Democratic Party, or equal rights for homsexuals (which of course will lelad to the downfall of western civilization). I think he also equated Abu Gaihrab to Clinton's blowjob. And he wrote a serious article entitled "Zell Miller Tries to Save the Democratic Party", which I find hilarious for obvious reasons. He also wrote an absolutely hilarious little blurb in which he congratulates an Israeli military unit for making the difficult decision not to destroy a harmless Palestinian bottling plant, as if this was some sort of heroic, self-sacrificial action and then rants on about how there would all be peace in the Middle East if it wasn't for the evil, nasty Arabs.

Ah. I see. He's gone looney.

And I'll second Alfred Bester's works, especially the book full of his short stories that came out a couple of years ago.

[Vendetta]

I fully reccommend you read Foucault's Pendulum. It's a 'real world' book, in one way, but in most of the ways that count it's a mad as bastards story about all the mad conspiracies and secret societies you've ever heard of..

Either that or look for Infinite Jest, which may seem daunting at a good thousand pages, but is a delight of postmodernism and wild invention

[Lord Pounder]

Colony by Rob Grant is pretty good, unsuprisingly a very Red Dwarf feel to the book. Star Wartz by Patrick Tilley is also quite superior if you like sci-fi and humor If you're attending the EBC meet i'll lend them to you.

[2000AD]

Colony did rock, though i thought the ending was a bit lame.
I don't actually know about attending the EBC meet. While my mother is a bitch, the fact that she's just got out of hospital will mean that if i try to go anywhere when i get home from uni (especially since i'm staying at uni as long as possible!) will pretty much get me dis-owned (which right now has more disadvantages than advantages). My only hope of getting out is probably going on holiday with my brother and his mates since the family holiday ain't happening this year.

[The Morrigan]

If you're looking for something more comic fantasy, you can do much worse than Tom Holt.

If that's possible, I don't want to know about it...

I second that. Someone made a similar reccomendation to me once. I read Valhalla & loathed every moment of it.