These are some of my favorite authors as well. I have a lot of issues with Hamilton, though. I loved Pandora’s Star/Judas Unchained. I liked (but did not love) the Void books. I just recently read The Reality Dysfunction and have started The Neutronium Alchemist, but I really don’t like them very much. My main issue with his writing and the thing that is getting in the way of my enjoyment of the Night’s Dawn books is simply that he seems to be a massive pervert. Like, it is constant and it is gross. It really detracts from the story at times.
Banks and Reynolds are absolutely amazing though, as is Asimov. I haven’t read anything by Neal Asher yet but I plan on it.
Yeah that’s a fair criticism. I can see how it would be polarising. Personally, I don’t mind a bit of slap and tickle in books and I think it thematically fits the hyper-individualist universes in each series.
Megan O’Keefe’s Protectorate Trilogy is a fun read that reminds me a bit of Hamilton’s writing without all the sex.
These are some of my favorite authors as well. I have a lot of issues with Hamilton, though. I loved Pandora’s Star/Judas Unchained. I liked (but did not love) the Void books. I just recently read The Reality Dysfunction and have started The Neutronium Alchemist, but I really don’t like them very much. My main issue with his writing and the thing that is getting in the way of my enjoyment of the Night’s Dawn books is simply that he seems to be a massive pervert. Like, it is constant and it is gross. It really detracts from the story at times.
Banks and Reynolds are absolutely amazing though, as is Asimov. I haven’t read anything by Neal Asher yet but I plan on it.
Yeah that’s a fair criticism. I can see how it would be polarising. Personally, I don’t mind a bit of slap and tickle in books and I think it thematically fits the hyper-individualist universes in each series.
Megan O’Keefe’s Protectorate Trilogy is a fun read that reminds me a bit of Hamilton’s writing without all the sex.
Sweet, thanks for the rec!