We’re giving away a hardcover copy of Joe Haldeman’s new novel Starbound.
Carmen Dula and her husband have spent six years travelling to a distant solar system that is home to the enigmatic, powerful race known as “The Others,” in the hopes of finding enough common purpose between their species to forge a delicate truce.
By the time Carmen and her party return, fifty years have been consumed by relativity-and the Earthlings have not been idle, building a massive flotilla of warships to defend Earth against The Others. But The Others have more power than any could imagine-and they will brook no insolence from the upstart human race.
Haldeman is known for writing fast, fun and accessible SF and this one looks to be no different.
To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment below. Name an author who you believe writes fast and fun SF. I’ll pick a winner next weekend and announce the winner in the comments.
Speaking of fast and fun, have you tried Prime by Nate Kenyon?
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It would be too egotistical to say ME, right? :) Fast and fun SF.. I really enjoyed Kristine Smith’s CODE OF CONDUCT and am looking forward to reading the rest of the series. I’m also partial to E.E. Knight, unless he counts as horror instead of SF with the Vampire Earth series.
Fun and fast. Let me see. M.C. Chambers has a great story in Return to Luna Anthology. Micheal Burstein has written a number of stories I enjoy as well.
My fastest, funnest, and furiousest sci-fi read of the past few years is Phillip Palmer’s DEBATABLE SPACE (2008). A scruffy hero/anti-hero that isn’t exactly, yet IS exactly, a space pirate. Space opera for those who usually don’t orbit space operas, with lots of action, twists, root-for-em characters, and a splash of romantic comedy.
I’d normally go for Greg Egan before anyone else but his work isn’t always the most fast-paced, even if it is incredibly good fun.
For fast and fun, I’d have to recommend Neal Stephenson. He might be a doorstop merchant these days but his books are fast, fun and very clever to boot.
Ha, “doorstop merchant,” I love that phrase, Zoe.
My choice is MM Buckner. She was a PKD-award winner a few years back.
He might not be one of the new kids in town, but I find one of the snappiest reads is always Spider Robinson. Perhaps partly due to his background as a musician, his writing has a strong beat that grabs you with an early hook and carries you quickly and comfortably to the end. I always find his books hard to put down because I don’t want to interrupt the flow. Even better when you can catch him reading his own work, like his audiobook version of “Variable Star”, his Heinlein collaboration, in which he proves Oscar Wilde wrong on the score of writing about music, and manages to shoehorn in a guest appearance by the Trailer Park Boys.