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First and foremost thank you for the suggestions, and after some consideration I chose Snow Crash. From the description and reviews the book currently fits in my wheel house. I was also intrigued by Iain Banks’ Culture Series, Horus Heresey Series and Armor and have put them on a shortlist. Lastly, the list that you all provided was a very good list.
Just a quick update as to the quick trip. My niece is studying this semester in London and has been diagnosed with gall stones. She has endured this condition for two weeks and Doctors keep sending her home with pain medication without any resolution in sight. To compound matters, her father has stage four melanoma in the lungs and spent the weekend in intensive care. My sister asked me to go in order to help.
Wish me luck navigating the British healthcare system and any thoughts and prayers for my sister’s family would be appreciated.
Heartfelt thanks for the suggestions.
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Solid choice, SC is a great read. The Culture books, as well as Banks's other books are IMHO some of the most underrated of all modern Sci-fi. Which, is kind of cool, because then when you run across other people that have read them, you get to be all in club/ secret handshake about it. The HH series, and all the war hammer 40K books for the most part are pretty solid, and share a pool of outstanding authors. Armor... is Armor. It's like the best porn clip you've ever seen, you know where it's going but at the end you're still like "damn...".
Also, Good luck helping your family, hope you have a great trip, enjoy the other side of the pond, and help get everything resolved!