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| mornelithe said: A Universe from Nothing - Lawrence Krauss The Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan (last 3 books written by Brandon Sanderson) The Sword of Truth Series - Terry Goodkind The Otherland series - Tad Williams The Hyperion Quadrilogy - Dan Simmons This Alien Shore - CS Friedman Helmet for my Pillow (From Parris Island to the Pacific) - By Robert Leckie With the Old Breed (at Peleliu and Okinawa) by DB Sledge Biggest Brother (The Life of Major Dick Winters) - By Larry Alexander Band of Brothers - by Stephen E. Ambrose The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens |
Otherland is awesome, anyone with interest in openworld games and VR should read it. It's long (4 volumes) like most of those up there though.
Recommending the wheel of time is a bit cheeky. It's 12,000 pages, 14 volumes written over 23 years. I enjoyed every minute of it, but to recommend it as the 6th book to read in your lifetime :)
Otherland the video game still seems alive. I doesn't look or feel anything like the books however.
A free to play mmorpg stuck in development hell, the books deserve so much better.
Reminds me of the disappointment Rendezvous with Rama the video game was. All you did was find puzzle pieces to solve increasingly more difficult abstract logic puzzles. Felt more like taking an endless IQ test than exploring an alien ship.
The books are great though.
Starship Titanic had better luck getting converted into a video game. The last where you could freely talk to the characters and get a sensible response, not having to choose from preset dialogue options.
A remake of that with voice to text control could be very interesting.
I'm currently reading The witcher series. Playing the video game first does have its side effects. It's nice already knowing the characters, yet it also interferes with building my own impression of the world. Everything feels small now :/
Lots of games have been inspired by books. At least they generally fare a lot better than movie tie ins.
Oh and for a good detective thriller, read The girl with the dragon tattoo (don't watch the movie)
