Good fantasy/sci-fi books?

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Atlantean
Anything by Robert J Sawyer, Jack McDevitt, Stephen Baxter, Charles Sheffield, Larry Niven, Isaac Asimov... any of the classic authors are good.
Check out the Neanderthal Parallax (books hominids, humans and hybrids) by Robert J Sawyer. It is really quite good.

Jack McDevitt is indeed also an excellent author.

 

[Looney]

Oh, The Farseer Trilogy and the next trilogy (Tawny Man) by Robin Hobb was good... although the last book in Farseer was a bit rushed near the end imo.

 

[LuNoTiCK]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Song of Ice and Fire from George R.R. Martin... absolutely the best series of books i've ever read. Like Mucman, it too has ruined reading for me... since my bar for quality has been raised so high now.

Yea, I can't wait for his other books.

 

[MustangSVT]

MUADEEEB!

what was that quote from tv show? "I no longer fear fear, it goes thru me, blah blah blah..."

 

[Atlantean]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: Atlantean
Anything by Robert J Sawyer, Jack McDevitt, Stephen Baxter, Charles Sheffield, Larry Niven, Isaac Asimov... any of the classic authors are good.
Check out the Neanderthal Parallax (books hominids, humans and hybrids) by Robert J Sawyer. It is really quite good.

Jack McDevitt is indeed also an excellent author.

Yes I quite enjoy him, have you ever read Robert J Sawyer? You would probably enjoy him if you haven't well at least I did. As well Charles Sheffield is a great author.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Atlantean

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: Atlantean
Anything by Robert J Sawyer, Jack McDevitt, Stephen Baxter, Charles Sheffield, Larry Niven, Isaac Asimov... any of the classic authors are good.
Check out the Neanderthal Parallax (books hominids, humans and hybrids) by Robert J Sawyer. It is really quite good.

Jack McDevitt is indeed also an excellent author.

Yes I quite enjoy him, have you ever read Robert J Sawyer? You would probably enjoy him if you haven't well at least I did. As well Charles Sheffield is a great author.

I haven't read Sawyer, come to think of it. But Sheffield's been around for years.. I think I first read The Mind Pool about fifteen years ago. Funny how a lot of people here are into fantasy; I'm strictly hard SF myself..

 

[Iron Woode]

You could try the Bolo series by Keith Laumer. Way cool stories of super intelligent computerized tanks for the ultimate in warfare.

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: LuNoTiCK

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Song of Ice and Fire from George R.R. Martin... absolutely the best series of books i've ever read. Like Mucman, it too has ruined reading for me... since my bar for quality has been raised so high now.

Yea, I can't wait for his other books.

I check his website bi-daily to see if he's finished the 4th yet. Oh god, I've waited 2 years of this? I hate him, and yet i can't kill him

 

[xeno2060]

Eric Van Lustbader: The Sunset Warrior series Short reads, 5 books and it mixes Sci-fi & Fantasy

 

[abaez]

Originally posted by: Mucman
George RR Martins Song of Ice & Fire series! It's ruined fantasy for me since everything now pales in comparison!

I haven't anticipated anything more ever than a feast for crows.. man.. I've read the previous three over four times just to pass the time.

 

[Lounatik]

Oohh, oohh, I know! A Spell For Chameleon, by Piers Anthony. First novel in the Xanth series, but is a great stand-alone book. You don't have to read the others to understand everything. More than likely, you will want to, though. Also, it's not that long of a book, either

Yeah, Piers gets a nod here also. Check out the Apprentice Adept series too. I liked those as well.

Another author who has a massive series (the books are very long) is David Wingrove who wrote the Chung Kuo series. Fantastic storyline and about 500 characters to keep up with. Definitely not for the faint of heart. I think these books are some of the most entertaining novels Ive ever read.


Peace


Lounatik

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick

Originally posted by: LuNoTiCK

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Song of Ice and Fire from George R.R. Martin... absolutely the best series of books i've ever read. Like Mucman, it too has ruined reading for me... since my bar for quality has been raised so high now.

Yea, I can't wait for his other books.

I check his website bi-daily to see if he's finished the 4th yet. Oh god, I've waited 2 years of this? I hate him, and yet i can't kill him

LOL i just found out about him over the xmas holidays... i had the first book for awhile... like almost a year, and never got past the first few pages, because i thought it was too 'medieval' for me (i'm not that big of a Sci-fi/fantasy fan... at least not since childhood). But over the xmas holiday i had nothing to do, so once i got reading it, i couldn't stop! I went out the very next day and got book 2 and 3... and finished all 3 books, with only taking breaks to eat, sleep, and occasionally shower, in about a week... maybe a week and a half. I felt so disappointed after reading all 3 because i just NEEDED to know what happened to them all... What happened to Jon, Sansa, Tyrion, and my favorite, Arya. OMG i can't wait for book 4... and if it's anything like the first 3 books, i hope it's progressively longer than the others.

Like i said, my favorite used to be Dragonlance Chronicles... but once you read Song of Ice and Fire, you realize how much of a children's book Dragonlance was. Characters in Dragonlance were so superficial compared to the ones in Song. The fights and battles scenes were so simplistic and unrealistic once you had a taste for the ones in Song... there's no embellishment here... battles really were dirty and ugly. A simple wound to the arm could get infected and kill you days later. And the epicness of everything... nobody can ever say the story is predictable. Just a warning though... the book is an adult book, both in violence and sex.

Like i said, since reading Song, i've been looking for comparable books. Right after the series, i read Dragonlance again, but it just wasn't the same. The closes i would say would be the Farseer Trilogy... especially the next series that follows it, Tawny Man.

 

[Zugzwang152]

On pressure from some of my Slashdot junkie friends, I took up Snow Crash, supposedly the definitive sci-fi novel of the 1990's...it was awesome. I'm reading Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age right now, whihc is shaping up to be great as well.

 

[Swag1138]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic

Originally posted by: Swag1138
Dune is so worth it though. Its almost the LOTR of Sci Fi.

How the heck can you say Dune is like LOTR of sci-fi? What do the two have in common?

Well, they are both sprawling epics, inspiring a lot of current writing in their genres, and are pretty much must-reads.

 

[Gunbuster]

Peter F. Hamilton: Fallen Dragon, and The Reality Dysfunction series (6 books)

 

[Azraele]

For fantasy try Katherine Kerr's Deverrian series.

 

[RabidMongoose]

Originally posted by: Mucman
George RR Martins Song of Ice & Fire series! It's ruined fantasy for me since everything now pales in comparison!

I've heard that the Malazan Book of the Fallen series (first book=Gardens of the Moon) by Steven Erikson is really good if you like GRRM's books. I bought them from Amazon.ca (I don't think they're available in the US right now) but haven't read them yet.

 

[Ender]

Good stuff... keep it coming!

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: Mloot
The Magician series, by Raymond Feist. One of the best fantasy series ever.

2nd that.

 

[vi edit]

For more of a sci-fi type - try "The Widowmakers" by Mike Resnick.

 

[Avatar26]

If you want something a little more on the fantasy side of sci-fi, try "The Sword of Shannara" and the rest of the series by Terry Brooks. Wonderful author and the books are easy to find.

 

[Grey]

Do you like Military Sci-Fi? If so the StarFist series from David Sherman and Dan Cragg is a good read so far.
The Posleen books from from Johnny Ringo are awesome, he has a great sense of humor. The books are gust front, Hymn before battle and when the Devil dances.

 

[WarCon]

Some good old (almost ancient) sci-fi is the Lensman Series and Skylark Series from "Doc" E.E. Smith.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

Originally posted by: WarCon
Some good old (almost ancient) sci-fi is the Lensman Series and Skylark Series from "Doc" E.E. Smith.

There was a Lensman series??? I thought it was just an anime that I saw one time. Are they related or do they just share a common name?

 

[WarCon]

There was anime???? I wanna see it............ No clue if they are related. The Lensman is based on a war between two very ancient races, and they use humans and other planets beings to wage that war. The weapons get way out there.