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Science Fiction

eppur_se_muova

(38,254 posts)

6. No, you don't, but Player of Games and Consider Phlebas are both awesome reads.

Reply to semillama (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 10, 2012, 06:21 AM

Mar 2012

His later works don't carry quite the same fire -- I'm thinking particularly of The Algebraist.

I ended up reading his books in more or less the order of publication, except that I read Phlebas first.

BTW, his earliest works were reprinted in QP not that long ago, so you should be able to find it. I never read books twice, but for Phlebas and Games I'd be willing to make exceptions.