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Originally posted by: Apathetic
Originally posted by: MechxWarrior
I personally love David Weber and John Ringo. Read their combo series March Upcountry, March to the sea, March to the stars. Really good. Then if your into AI and space warfare, then read the series Mutineers moon, the armageddon inheritance, and heirs of empire.

Then if your into space warfare and deep mindsets/politics/description and details then the Honor Harrington series is a must read.
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The Mutineer's Moon series was excellent.

Dave
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I thought so too. I'd like to see a couple more in the series, but doubt they will ever reach the light of day.
 
Originally posted by: Bryophyte
Originally posted by: gsellis
Oh, seeing Kim Robinson, add Spider Robinson for humour (her hubby).
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Kim Stanley Robinson (IRL he goes by Stan Robinson) is a HE. I've met him, he lives in Davis CA where I used to live. So it follows that Spider Robinson wouldn't be his husband.. 😉
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You are right.... It is Jeanne. SHE co-wrote a couple with him. Callahan's Bar series is the fun one from Spider.

Edit - was just checking on Jeanne and saw that Spider recommends this book as one of the best he has ever read. I wish David Palmer would write again!

Emergence

 
Another vote for Orson Scott Card, Larry Niven, Philip Dick (author of Minority Report and Total Recall), Asimov, Heinlein (Starship Troopers the book is nothing like the movie), Ray Bradbury, and Frank Herbert.
 
Originally posted by: Apathetic
Originally posted by: MechxWarrior
I personally love David Weber and John Ringo. Read their combo series March Upcountry, March to the sea, March to the stars. Really good. Then if your into AI and space warfare, then read the series Mutineers moon, the armageddon inheritance, and heirs of empire.

Then if your into space warfare and deep mindsets/politics/description and details then the Honor Harrington series is a must read.
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The Mutineer's Moon series was excellent.

Dave
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I also enjoyed it very much! Still not done with the 3rd one though.

just finished the 3rd one. WOW!!! the ending is a little less climatic than I expected but still very satisfying
 
Originally posted by: BD2003
Hyperion, and the fall of hyperion.

Great books, but long, complicated, and actually somewhat literary.
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There's more to the series than those two. Read the whole damned series.
 
Originally posted by: stratking
Just finished "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. Great book. I've never been much of a Sci Fi fan at all and while this book is in the "Sci Fi" section, I wouldn't consider it heavily in that genre. Anyway, it's a great book. Just picked up the second of the series, "Ender's Shadow" but haven't gotten a chance to get started on it.
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*sigh* Ender's Shadow is not the second in the series. Speaker For The Dead is the second book. Ender's Shadow is a parallel novel and that series seems like OSC is beating a dead horse. I really enjoyed the Ender series. I wanted to hear more of the DNA/RNA communicating aliens mentioned at the end of Children Of The Mind.

OSC's Alvin Maker series is pretty decent. I liked his book Treason as well.

If you don't mind fantasy, George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series is EXCELLENT.
 
Originally posted by: JoeKing
Any William Gibson book
I would start with Neuromancer
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Agreed. However, his book of short stories (Burning Chrome) is also a good place to start if you're not sure about it. His most famous story to non-readers is Johnny Mnemonic, you'll find the original 10 pg or so version in that book.

Other authors/books that you might enjoy if you enjoy Gibson's works:
Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash or Diamond Age (Illustrated Primer...) or essentially anything he has written, although not all of it is Sci-Fi.

Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon was also something I found enjoyable along the same lines.

This stuff is generally classified as Cyberpunk, a subdivision of Sci-Fi, which you can find out more about on Wikipedia if you're interested.

 
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