User blog comment:TheUnknown285/What Other Sci-Fi or Fantasy Do You Like?/@comment-2088100-20130220024355/@comment-1221773-20130220031114

"A Fire Upon the Deep" is one of my favorite sci-fi books (there are a lot...)! Have you read the sequel Vinge published recently, "The Children of the Sky" (it's not as sci-fi-y and it ends on a cliffhanger set-up for a sequel, but it's more stuff in that universe)?

I've read A Game of Thrones, too, but I'm not that into it. In order to avoid spoilers for the uninitiated, I'll just say I find it a smidge too dark (or maybe depressing, frustrating...) for my taste. I may eventually get around to the other books, though (if Martin ever publishes the final two in the series).

And while we're on the subject of good reads, I recommend "Perdido Street Station", "The City and the City", and "Embassytown" by China Mieville. Actually, there's a heck of a lot of other books I'd recommend as well, but that would fill an entire blog post, let alone a comment like this.