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Recommend a good Science Fiction book!

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I am a big fan of almost anything by Robert A Heinlein, especially "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress". If you want to try out some early non-Dune Frank Herbert check out "The Santaroga Barrier". My favorite Asimov is "The Gods Themselves" and I saw another of my favorites "The More In Gods Eye" mentioned already. Also I really liked Poul Anderson's "The Dancer From Atlantis".
 
anything by Isaac Asimov, Vernor Vinge, or Greg Bear...especially good if you like more hard science fiction
 
Iain M. Banks, he's great. Also a second vote for the dark tower series by Steven King although it's not really sci-fi.
 
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Pandora's Star, by Peter F. Hamilton. Actually, pretty much anything by that author.
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It was either you or someone else that recommended that in another thread, so I went to Waldenbooks at my local mall, and they didn't have it. 🙁 Actually, they didn't have much of anything... I was going to get that and Ringworld, but all they had were some of the sequels to ringworld.
 
Dune is an excellent Sci Fi series, lots of politcal machinations, etc. The prequels written by his son and Kevin J. Anderson are also good, but different from the orginals.

The Dark Tower by Stephen King is probably on my top 3 for favorite series ever. I won't spoil the end, I promise!

Another series thats kind of a mix between Sci Fi and fantasy is the Amber series of books by Roger Zelany. There are 10 of them, but since they're only about 150 pages a piece, they come in one giant volume (Big Book of Amber). Some people like the series some don't, so YMMV.
 
Only science fiction I've read that I can remember is War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, which is really good.
 
Anything by Neal Stephenson, but especially Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash (Crypto is the better book, but Snow Crash is a faster read and lots of fun).
 
Go to Books a Million and buy a couple of months of Analog and Asimov's magazines.

Harry Hamilton "Stainless Steel Rat" series.

Anything by Terry Pratchett for tongue and cheek.

Peter F Hamilton
Spider Robinson
 
Awesome guys, i just went to my multi-campus search and requested 6 books.


1 The gunslinger / by Stephen King.

2 The Andromeda strain.

3 The foundation trilogy : three classics of science fiction / by Isaac Asimov.

4 The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy / Douglas Adams.

5 1984 / George Orwell.

6 The terminal man.
 
Originally posted by: Linflas
I am a big fan of almost anything by Robert A Heinlein, especially "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress". If you want to try out some early non-Dune Frank Herbert check out "The Santaroga Barrier". My favorite Asimov is "The Gods Themselves" and I saw another of my favorites "The More In Gods Eye" mentioned already. Also I really liked Poul Anderson's "The Dancer From Atlantis".
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If you liked The Santaroga Barrier, you should also check out Herbert's excellent Hellstrom's Hive, and some of his other fiction, like The Dosadi Experiment and the Pandora series (The Lazarus Effect and The Ascension Factor, written in collaboration with Bill Ransom). Some of Herbert's best work goes unnoticed because of all the attention heaped on Dune.

If you liked The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, check out John Varley's outstanding and compelling Steel Beach, and other Varley works.

In some respects I hate threads like this because everyone usually mentions the same books, over and over. How many times can you recommend Ender's Game, when there is better work out there? Check out author Jack McDevitt for some really deep work. Check out the late Jack L. Chalker for some lighter, yet well-written action. Walter Jon Williams has a novel titled Aristoi that blew me away, and his older Hardwired and Voice of the Whirlwind helped usher in the cyberpunk era back in the '80s.

And what about Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series? These play well in some respects with the fantasy crowd, while remaining science fiction.
 
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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YES! YES! Ender's Shadow is also a GREAT book.

the whole series is wonderful in the sense of character development and just for the sake of a good story.

I met the author at Comic Con. Great story teller. Great character developer.

Ender's Game = BEST book ever. I'm dead serious.
 
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