A reader needs some help

[rolanni]

As I prove every year with my Books Read list, writers -- or at least this writer -- have no time to read. You guys, though, read lots (*is jealous*), and are therefore in a unique position to help out a fellow reader.

The situation: Said reader has read and approves of Fledgling and Saltation; they have dabbled in Vorkosigan territory, but ultimately found that Miles didn't quite hit the spot ("slightly too Carl Hiaasen"). Their usual sort of pleasure reading tends in the direction of British and Scandinavian murder mysteries.

What science fiction titles, bearing in mind the above criteria, would you recommend to this reader?

I'm thinking maybe autopope's Laundry novels, and possibly CJ Cherryh's Foreigner novels, but after that, I'm stumped.

So -- go for it, Hive Mind. And thank you very much.

Comments

[reedrover]

I definitely second the Price of the Stars recommendation! My mother is a HUGE Liaden fan, and really liked the first three Mageworlds (by publication date). I might also recommend a light dabble in Vorkosigan by trying Shards of Honor.

If the reader is looking for younger and more "coming of age" challenge rather than anything deeper, there is the old Lightwing by Tara K. Harper. Or if we are really going light, how about the first of the Starbridge series by A.C.Crispin, or Hellspark by Janet Kagan.