Hey, i'm a dedicated sci-fi fan and love books by Iain M. Banks, and his 'regular' fiction, too. I Just wanted to let anyone who's looking for a good book know that his books are amazing, he's possibly my favorite author. His style is a bit dark, and his writing has a force and flow to it that's rare to find, and iv'e never been disappointed by one of his books. Truly imaginative. Not to mention they're great to read after smoking, and have just the right amount of sex and drug use. Some of my favorites by him are: Use Of Weapons (sci-fi) Complicity (fiction) Walking On Glass (fiction) Look To Windward (sci-fi) The Bridge (fiction) Consider Phlebas (sci-fi) And I'd love to hear some of your guys' favorite books and authors in the same vain.
I'm a big fan of SM Stirling, especially his emberverse series. He's not the greatest author, and the series has plenty of problems, but for some reason I love the series. It's some what sci-fi/fantasy The Emberverse series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I live in the Wilamette Valley, used to live in Corvallis, and the fact that that series is set in my area definitely makes it appealing to me. Thanks!
haha that's awesome man! because of the series, every time I hear about the wilamette valley area I'm always interested in learning more about it.
Havent read to much sci fi, but when I do I try to stick to sci fi written in the last decade or 2. I feel sci fi books begins to expire over time, just like normal books except faster than normal ones. Concepts that were original at the time become trite in the current time. And also, when authors take multiple old concepts (virtual worlds, bio augmentation, anti-capitalism, anti-socialism, etc.) and weave them together they sometimes become better than their previous threads, the classic novels. I hope that made sense, semi blazed here. And I am definately gonna get crusified by those who love classics. Here are some of my takes: altered carbon- very good others in series are good but 1st was best -also it may seem to be a relatively regular sort of plot/ basic action writing but there are some real deep undertones here; watch how the main character kovacs develops over the 3 books, its cool snow crash- was ight, sumerian legend background sorta got draggy to me, he could have summarized there philosophy up much faster That's my take on sci fi so far, maybe I'll dip into the classics since quality modern sci fi seems to be in short supply. peace
[quote name='"Adi"']Neuromancer, if you're looking for that old school cyberpunk.[/quote] All of willam gibsons books are awesome. Snow crash is along the same lines of his books but by a different author.
I'm certainly going to check out William Gibson, three recommendations are enough to convince me. I'd recommend the future history novels by Heinlein, for classic stuff, just can't be beat. Does anyone read Robert Charles Wilson? I've only read one short story, but his stuff seems legit, just wondering if that holds true with his novels, too.
[quote name='"Gr33nD420"']The Halo books are good, even if you're nit a fan if the game the books are still good[/QUOTE] The books are freaking amazing. I'd re-read them again but I'm already reading a book.
I know a lot of people look down on Star Wars books, and I've only read a couple myself. But Star Wars, Dark Lord - The rise of Darth Vader was pretty good. Starts right after the events of Revenge of the Sith, with Vader adapting to his new body and hunting down jedi.
Just throwing some Peter F. Hamilton love into the thread cause I finished the void trilogy recently and loved it. Favourite sci fi remains dune. World building and Herbert's voice are amazing, but I also have nostalgia bias cause it was the first real sci-fi epic o ever discovered, also first vg I played ever was Dune 2, grandaddy of all rts
I just started reading Dune last week, which is on the difficult side to read, but it is extremely good and rich in the building of Paul and companies narrative.
If you want a little military sci fi. David Weber and john Ringo have both published some awesome works
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson Its about the colonization of mars. Its considered hard science fiction Foundation by Isaac Asimov Psychohistorians trying to save tje galactic empire. Robot Series by Isaac Asimov Three laws of robotics Dune of course War of the worlds by hg wells Enders game Reading all these series/trilogies this summer