According to Wiki, Dead Like Me was based on the first book On a Pale Horse.

Herp derp, you're right. I wasn't thinking and put "Zanth". I bought and read the first chunk of the series, but I think I gave up around "The Color Of Her Panties". The puns were weighing it down so much and the stories were just too simple. I really enjoyed Bio Of A Space Tyrant, Incarnations Of Immortality and Battle Circle though. I have a hard time recommending his body of work because there is just so much utter crap littered around, and the quality of his work within series wavers a lot.

I'm going to have to grab that. I absolutely loved his concept of God, or I should say who replaced that position in that novel.

I just stumbled across this while looking at another thread and had to put it in here. If you're more into the prose that goes into SciFi/Fantasy, and you like an author with more of a poetic style (women) then this is the guy for you:


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Wow, Under A Velvet Cloak got some really shitty reviews. I am thinking of just skipping it.

Bradbury's pretty great. Read Farenheit 451 if nothing else.

Haven't read it in years, but 6th grade me enjoyed Ben Bova's Jupiter.

The Stand is so god damn good so far, and I haven't even got to the part where everyone dies.

The Stand is good. King has a rare gift for characters.

If only he had a rare gift for satisfying endings. :shake:

I think its hard to pick up a series again after 15 years.

I laughed when I saw that God had been contemplating his own greatness since the 15th century and kind of let things go from that point.

Thanks. I read the first WOT book he wrote. He did as well as anyone could have.

Damn. I hope GRRM doesn't pull this die-before-done shit with us.

Amen to that. I am hoping that the fact Game of Thrones is such a hit on HBO, that he will finish the books sooner rather than later. No one knows though.

Finished Crucible of Gold the most recent of the Temeraire stories by Naomi Novak. She hasn't lost her touch, I enjoyed it as much as His Majesty's Dragon. There were some good twists in the story and left me anxious for the next one.

I do have a pet peeve though and this just isn't about her...I hate when a series starts out in paperback and becomes so popular that midway through the series they switch to hardback. Makes my bookshelves look disorganized.