Sci-Fi Novels

[CastorTr0y]

Can anyone recommend me one or a few really good sci-fi novels. I'm not too much of a big reader, and I only like reading/finish a book if it's really worth it.

Thanks for your input!

 

[shekondar]

Anything by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Frank Herbert (the Dune novels), Asimov, the list goes on...

Just finished Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds (I think) - good, but REALLY WEIRD...

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: CastorTr0y
Can anyone recommend me one or a few really good sci-fi novels. I'm not too much of a big reader, and I only like reading/finish a book if it's really worth it.

Thanks for your input!

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

anything by H.G. Wells, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett or Jack Finney

 

[CastorTr0y]

Yea, I bought Neuromancer a while ago, but never got around to reading it yet...

 

[conjur]

I know some up here don't care for him but I really enjoyed LArry Niven's Ringworld and Ringworld Engineers

He also wrote The Integral Trees which I enjoyed, too.

 

[MaxDepth]

Linkifizziled fo yo

 

[DurocShark]

It's hard to specifically point to anything and say you'll like it. Sci-Fi, like any other genre, has many sub groups, styles, and types. I range all over the map from Asimov to Herbert to Gibson (can't get over the one about the glasses (what was its name? Has the chick with the paper bike?)) to pulp cyberpunk to... you get the idea.

Maybe one thing you'll like is the Star Wars book Shadows of the Empire by Steve Perry. Fairly easy read, characters you already know, and an interesting plot.

 

[thirtythree]

This one's pretty good. 😀 I don't know. I'm more into fantasy. Actually, I don't usually read anything on my own.

 

[CastorTr0y]

Originally posted by: MaxDepth
Linkifizziled fo yo

Oh, wow, I'm dumb.

Well thanks for everyone's help. I'm sure I'll find something good out of this and the otro thread.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Authors to look for:
Harlan Ellison
Isaac Asimov
Ray Bradbury
Philip K. Dick
Fritz Lieber
Frank Herbert

 

[SaigonK]

The Hot Zone - by Richard Preston

 

[Iron Woode]

Try Rendevous with Rama by Arthur C Clark.

And any of the Bolo series by Keith Laumer

 

[Gunbuster]

:light: Peter F. Hamilton: Fallen Dragon :light:

 

[Schadenfroh]

Swan Song
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