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Recommend a good Science Fiction book!

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He'll likely get bored with neuromancer. It's a difficult and confusing read. I would try "Enders game" by Orson Scott Card, or "When Gravity Fails" by George Alec Effinger
 
Best hard sci-fi imo (recent reads of last few years)

1. The Time Ships, by Stephen Baxter
2. Ring, by Stephen Baxter
3. Revelation Space, by Alastair Reynolds
4. A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge
5. A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge
6. Night's Dawn Trilogy, by Peter F. Hamilton
7. Pandora's Star, by Peter F. Hamilton
8. Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Charles Sheffield
9. Forge of God, by Greg Bear
10. Vacuum Diagrams, by Stephen Baxter
11. The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
12. Speaker For the Dead, by Orson Scott Card

Every single one of the above has been an excellent read, and provide some of the most satisfying stories I have experienced. You cannot go wrong with any of the authors.
 
You left it a little open-ended. A couple off the top of my head that were more than one book.

Comedy - Robert Asprin's Phule series (SF) or Myth series (Fantasy)

Battle - David Drake's Slammers series, John Dalmas' Regiment series; Rowley's Basil Broketail series (fantasy battle). Pournelle - Janissaries series, Falkenberg series.

Alternative Universe - Flint, Ringo, Weber 1632 Series; Harry Turtledove's Guns of the South; Lest Darkness Fall (DeCamp); H Beam Piper Paratime series including Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (any H Beam Piper book is good - I have reread the Little Fuzzy series and Space Viking many times).

Heinlein - other mentioned already, also Starman Jones, Stranger in a Strange Land (stand alones), The Rolling Stones

Wizardry - also see Lawrence Watt-Evans

Sci Fi general - Alan Dean Foster if you want to test your vocabulary. Recommend the Flinx series and the Spellsinger series (currently being reprinted - is Fantasy).
 
Ive already read enders game like 8 years ago . Maybe ill get back into that series after i read the books i requested from the school library in my previous post.
 
a few good ones...

Anything by Kim Stanley Robinson - The Three California series(Gold Coast is the first one), and the Mars books...excellent...newer books continue to be excellent as well...A Sign of Rain is the latest

East of Eden, Winter in Eden, and Return to Eden - by Harry Harrison...the premise is that Dinosaurs never went extinct...and how they dealt with those pesky primates....

Mote in God's eye is a classic - Niven & Pournelle have several excellent books they collaborated on....Footfall is a good one...so is the Legacy of Heorot

The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson - a little bit of the 'Highlander' story in that it deals with immortals living through various times...great book...

Nightfall by Asimov

Beyond the Fall of Night, by Arthur C Clarke and Greg Benford, and Across the Sea of Suns by Benford...





 
Originally posted by: ZOOYUKA
Is the Wheel of Time series worth reading?
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Maybe. But by book 8, I got frigging tired of it going into detail over little that I quit it.


Oh, seeing Kim Robinson, add Spider Robinson for humour (her hubby).

 
I have the first two books of the Dark Tower series. Neither one of them are the new expanded version. Should I get the new versions or will the old ones suffice?
 
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.

 
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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Also the posleen series (ie. A hymn before battle) kicks arse.
 
Originally posted by: MattCo
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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Also the posleen series (ie. A hymn before battle) kicks arse.
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ACS kicks butt! John Ringo lives just to the north of me. I have 3 of the series with his signature in them in paperback 😉

 
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
 
Originally posted by: JoeKing
Any William Gibson book
I would start with Neuromancer

"The Mote in God's" eye is also another good one.
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Both of those are great. Another Niven/Pournelle great is "Lucifer's Hammer" - great end of the world book.
 
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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