RE: FN-FORUM [Way OT] Sci Fi recommendations Was: OT SETI Was: United Devices Cancer

date posted 4th December 2002 23:24

Ok you asked...

Firstly for pure sci-fi

Orson Scott Card - Enders game (first in set of 4 or 5 books)
Robert L Forward - has a few books out.
Ben Bova
Alan Dean Foster - Especially "the man who used the universe" if you can
find a copy
Mick Resnick - Santiago

(I have lots more but they do not spring to mind at the moment)

For fantasy

Raymond E Fiest - Magician and the rest of the series (quite a few now)
David Eddings - anything he writes is great especially the Belgariad
series.
Piers anthonty - Esp the incarnations of imortality series
David Gemmel - Anything he writes tends to be good


For humour

Robert Asprin - myth series or Phules series


Should give you some to start with.



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> What with my library of Sci-Fi novels
> and short stories and obsessively reading them and occasionally
> writing them I think that may explain why I haven't found the time.

Being two months into a new business venture and having a wife expecting
twins within the next 6 weeks AND only moved house a few weeks ago, I've
got a whole half hour a week to spare on new Sci FI. :)

However I'm officially on pass #4 on my collection and would really dig
some new recommendations, preferably hard Sci-Fi or Space Operas.

Into the pot I can recommend anything by:
Azimov
Clarke
Larry Niven - Ringworld rocks
Harry Harrison
Greg Bear
Stephen Baxter
Alister Reynolds
Ian M Banks
Neil Stephenson, Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon particularly William Gibson
- 'nuff said

Obviously the above is just a quick braindump, there are more that I
could come up with if I thought about it...

And as long as it's not that dragon stuff, there are a load of *superb*
books by Peter F Hamilton, the Nights Dawn Trilogy is awesome

Anyone got anything to add please? Prefereably a good thick triliogy or
ten

ta

;D

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