I really like the Eden Trilogy by Harry Harrison. Its premise is that the giant meteorite that killed the dinosaurs and other giant reptiles never hit the Earth. Instead evolution just kept on and finally there arose a sentient race of lizard people called the Yilane. They developed a kind of biotechnology where they grew things that has its counterparts in technology, for example living dart guns, ichtyosaurs that is used like boats and similar things.
At the same time, isolated in North America, which have a colder climate than the tropical regions of the old world where Yilane arise, mammals and finally humans have developed. The humans live a stone age life. Finally these two species meet and start to fight each other.

It is exciting books, with very good descriptions of the natural environments. Also the descriptions of the Yilane and their society, living conditions (they use gigantic trees as their homes) and language is very inspiring.

The books in the trilogy is West of Eden, Winter in Eden and Return to Eden.

Also I really like the Night´s Dawn Trilogy, by Peter F Hamilton. This is a really good Space Opera, with amazing technology, hyper space travel, space empires, interesting alien species and a mysterious threat.
Also Hamilton describes two different cultural branches of humanity, the Edenists who rely on bio tech with living spaceships and space-habitats, biologically induced telepathy and biocomputers, and the Adamists, who rely on classical technology with spaceships, neural implants, cybernetic reinforcements and super-advanced electronic computers.

The books in the trilogy are: The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God.

All these books will really blow your mind, they are awesome.

More about these books:

Eden trilogy
West of Eden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winter in Eden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Eden_(novel)

http://www.iol.ie/~carrollm/hh/n25-1.htm


Night´s Dawn trilogy
The Night's Dawn Trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The world of Night´s Dawn
Confederation Handwiki

Man's Search for Meaning:

A WW2 concentration camp story and psychology book combined. One of my favorite books especially the final section on logotherapy. Gave me the basis for several of the views I have today.

"An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize values in creative work, while a passive life of enjoyment affords him the opportunity to obtain fulfillment in beauty, art, or nature. But there is also purpose in that life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces. A creative life and a life of enjoyment are banned to him. But not only creativeness and enjoyment are meaningful. If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete."

by barry miles

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I read West of Eden over 20 years ago. I can't remember if I only read the first one or I read the others too. I also can't remember the ending.

I do remember the Lizards liked using bio-technology, there were a couple of interesting "firefights" with lizard guns and there were couple of dodgy inter-species sex scenes.

But it was quite an interesting alterantive history novel.

One of my favourite books of all time is actually a book from the Battletech series called Exodus Road.

I loved it. I was full of action, intrigue and betrayal with a tragic hero. In fact there were a couple of decent books from that series, as well as quite a lot of mediocrity.

I just finished reading this :



The novel is so great, kinda different from the movie tho'... but it's better reading the book and having a picture with a red '58 Plymouth Belvedere near you, brings some atmosphere

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Mine are:

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Deviant Art

"The curious incident of the dog in the night time" by Mark Haddon
"Got fight?" by Forrest Griffin

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There are many dangers on Pandora, and one of the subtlest is that you may come to love it too much.

Anything Poe Especially around this time of year

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"Pandora is right in your backyard. You just have to find it."

"Becoming a Na'vi" - Avatar Short Film

"I'd rather live in her world, than be without her in mine."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

Staying with my "I Want to Be Six Again" Day/Weekend, been reading through my huge collection of children's storybooks that I had collected for my granddaughter! (Well that and technically weeding the collection down) I'm busy making up storysacks to take down to charity to donate and promote reading literacy! So far I have about 15 bags with 10/12 books in a bag, and that's not like even maybe 1/4 of the books, LOL!

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The last thing this world needs is more pundits and prophets!

What this world really needs is more artists and environmentalists!


"Its only 'here' that we lose perspective, out at the Cosmic Consciousness Level things get a lot clearer. For example, there is an actual star pattern that is traced in the shape of a Willow Tree, across the breadth of the Milky Way! And no wonder Indigenous peoples refer to the 'here after' as the Happy Hunting Grounds! Has it ever occured to anyone why the bioluminescence dots, on the Na'vi!"

I haven't read a book in a while, the last book i read was the Novel belonging to Assassins creed II. My favourite book though is Bram Stokers Dracula. It always will be

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Me lubbs myTsu'tey :3

"Toruk Makto, I will fly with you."



"I will be remembered. I fought with Toruk Makto. We were brothers. And he was my Last Shadow."

The Artemis Fowl series..

I'm currently reading "Up in the Air" by Walter Kirn

hmm, i have so many favourite books , sci-fi, horror, romance, history,psychology and etc
so, these are my favourite list:
- The Harry Potter Series
- A Child Called It
- Laskar Pelangi Trilogy
- The Chicken Soup for the Soul
and many more ...

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Just as their are soul songs, so too I think there are soul stories.

Years ago I found this children's story book, and it sings the story of my soul.

Is the most breathtaking, moving, and emotion filled book I have ever read. I cannot read it and not weep, every time.


The Mountain that loved a Bird - by Alice McLerran, Illustrated by Eric Carle. (the original version by my favorite illustrator)






short video, (different illustrator)

Is a story about love, joy, hope and transformation across the spans of time.

There was once a mountain made of bare stone. It stood alone in the middle of a desert plain. No plant grew on its hard slopes, nor could any animal, bird or insect live there. The sun warmed the mountain and wind chilled it, but the only touch the mountain knew was the touch of rain or snow. There was nothing more to feel.

All day and all night the mountain looked only at the sky, watching for the movement of the billowing clouds. It knew the path of the sun that crossed the sky by day, and the course of the moon that crossed the sky by night. On clear nights, it watched the slow wheeling of the far-off distant stars. There was nothing more to see.

But one day a small bird appeared. She flew in a circle above the mountain, then landed on a ledge to rest and preen her feathers. The mountain felt the dry grasp of her tiny claws on the ledge; it felt the softness of her feathered body, as she sheltered herself against its side. The mountain was amazed, for nothing like this had ever come to it from the sky before.

Joy sings a song to the mountain, the first music it has ever heard!

And from that moment forward, the mountain's life will never be the same.

Joy cannot stay, but returns each year in the spring, until finally the mountain, unable to bear the heartbreak of her leaving, cracks from deep within and begins to weep.

The next spring Joy returns and sings to the mountain. The mountain only cried. Joy looks at the river of tears which was shed by the mountain. She said softly, “I will return next year,” and flys away.

Another spring came, and the Joy returns with a small seed. She carefully put it by the river which ran down the mountain.

Each spring Joy brings another seed and places it near the river.
In time, the mountain was covered with plants and trees.

Each year, more rivers ran down the mountain, and more trees and plants grew. And at last, the mountain became full of life.

Then one spring she returns to the mountain, and begins to build a nest. “I am Joy,” she sings, “and I am here to stay.”


And as I sit in my living room amongst my paintings, and think of these line from "Beautiful Day"

And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out

That day has come!

:')

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The last thing this world needs is more pundits and prophets!

What this world really needs is more artists and environmentalists!


"Its only 'here' that we lose perspective, out at the Cosmic Consciousness Level things get a lot clearer. For example, there is an actual star pattern that is traced in the shape of a Willow Tree, across the breadth of the Milky Way! And no wonder Indigenous peoples refer to the 'here after' as the Happy Hunting Grounds! Has it ever occured to anyone why the bioluminescence dots, on the Na'vi!"