Quoting funkmasterj@runbox.com:
> Hey,
>
> I just finished going through a few hard boiled SF & Fantasy books for
> something different.
>
>
> Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon - I can't say enough positives about this, a
> gripping book.
>
Well, the next two Kovacs books by Morgan and also Black Man
For quite varying degrees of hardboiled
Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Arab series.
Alastair Reynolds The Prefect
Neal Asher's Gridlinked
Walter Jon Williams Hardwired
Bruce Sterling's Mirrorshade anthology
There's A Mammoth Book Of Future Cops anthology by Maxim Jakubowski
C. L. Moore's Northwest Smith
Kristine Kathryn Rusch's (Kris Nelscott) Retrieval Artist
Christopher Hinz's Paratwa
Some fantasy of a different variety to Green (who has a similar to the
Nightside James Bondian fantasy series, and also the over the top SF
Deathstalker series).
Charlie Huston's Joe Pitt (a detective series)
George R. R. Martin's Skin Trade
Lucius Shepard - lots
Hellboy
The Shadow
F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack series
Glen Cook's Garrett (a detective series)
For varying degrees of hardboiled or other possibles along those lines
If it can be not contemporary urban
John Meaney's Bone Song and Dark Blood (a detective series)
Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos
Richard Morgan's The Steel Remains
Robert E. Howard's Conan and Kull and Steve Harrison
Leigh Brackett's Eric John Stark etc.
Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes In Amber
K. J. Bishop's The Etched City
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