Looking for good scifi literature - threat containment!

[l3p3r]

This is a very hopeful request,<br /><br />I recently read <i>The Mote in God's Eye</i> by Larry Niven and Jeremy Pournelle, and the sequel <i>The Moat around Murcheson's Eye,</i> as well as the <i>Night's Dawn</i> trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton.<br /><br />Both series deal with empires struggling to contain some form of large unusual problem (like a disease, or an alien invasion), and this is the style of story I am looking for. The greatest thing about these two series was that the containment was often if not always handled <i>competenly</i>, the security forces were <i>organised</i>, and there was an epic feel to the containment movements in all cases. <br /><br />It's difficult to describe, but an example would be from the Night's Dawn trilogy, where an 'infected' individual was detected on a supposedly clean planet, and instead of attempting to arrest the suspect, or force the ship that the suspect was on to land, or resort to any other method that would preserve the lives of the other people on board, they recognize that the risk is too great and decided to simply vaporize the entire ship and everything around it. <br /><br />If you know of any other books out there that are similar to what I have described, please let me know! <br /><br />Cheers!! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[chitman13]

Peter F Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga (Pandora's Star & Judas Unchained) might be a good place to start, especially as you've read and enjoyed the Night's Dawn Trilogy - I personally prefer the Commonwealth Saga. I really couldn't offer much else, I'm still fairly new to most SF and generally read a book at a time if I find one in the library that takes my fancy....

 

[l3p3r]

thanks! I'll give the commonwealth saga a go... well done for finding me on both boards by the way =)<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>