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[sebab]

As usual, nothing's ever all good or all bad. Currently I'm full of profound sadness, much anxiety, moderrate happiness, great anticipation, etc. The more things change, the more they stay the same, and all that

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[tully_monster]

Glad to hear from you. Hope the great anticipation and moderate happiness are sufficient to offset the profound sadness...I've gone through such periods now and again

[firecat]

Hal Clement

Richard K. Morgan (start with Altered Carbon)

Alfred Bester

John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar

Doris Piserchia

Octavia Butler (not hard SF, but lots to think about)

C. J. Cherryh (although she tends toward the "zillion people to keep track of" side of things)

Joe Haldeman has a time travel book that's OK (Accidental Time Machine)

[operatic]

Another plug for Kim Stanley Robinson: definitely the Mars trilogy, also Antarctica, to a lesser extent the Science in the Capital trilogy, Galileo's Dream, and Years of Rice and Salt.

[lehah]

How about some Leigh Brackett? Her stuff is more pulpy than "hard" but very enjoyable.

And I know my friend Michaela would be disappointed if I didn't mention Jack Vance's Durdane series.

I'd also be at a wrong not to plug my favorite author of all time Robert E Howard. But he wrote fantasy, westerns, boxing... maybe one or two sci-fi stories. But like King put it - Howard was the Thomas Wolfe of the fantasy genre.

[lehah]

(I rather like some of Heinlein's stuff, though I think I threw The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress at the wall before I was finished. Starship Troopers is an amazing book but very, very dry.)

Check Baen books

[anonymous]

They have a lot of free books in ePub (and other) formats at: http://www.baen.com/library/

Some of them are the first book or two in a series. Others are stand alone. They also sell a lot of books, again in a lot of formats including ePub. And their prices are better than Amazon Kindle or iBooks in many cases. I've download quite a few, both free and purchased, for my iPad to read on planes.