Recommend me some good Science Fiction Novels

[Soviet Heavy]

I'm looking for some new stories to add to my collection. At the moment, I'm reading Gaunt's Ghosts, and loving the hell out of it. I've also delved into the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and a couple of Asimov's short stories. And The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

But I want something new.
I've heard good things about Ender's Game, but they also say the later books become gay bashing rants

Likewise, I've heard that the Honor Harrington books are good, but they too decline in quality the later they go on.

This wouldn't be too much of a problem if I ignored the shitty ones, but as I am wired, I need to finish a series once I start it.

Got any recommendations?

 

[Kahunaburger]

Series-wise, Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe is worth checking out. It's epic in every sense of the word. I also liked as an individual book Embassytown by China Mieville.

 

[LoFr3Eq]

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is very good, The oldschool stuff like that is where it's at.

 

[chaosyoshimage]

Well, I'm reading The Hunger Games series right now and I really enjoy them. The only other Sci-Fi stuff I've really read is some Star Wars stuff and you seem to already have that covered. I know what you mean wanting to read something else, I have stacks of Star Wars novels I still need to read, but got burnt out on the stuff. That said, I had to make an exception for the new Darth Plageuis novel which is now on my Kindle ready to be read after the last Hunger Games book...

 

[WolfThomas]

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, sort of a homage to/opposite version of Starship Troopers (which you should also read), about conscripts drawn from the best humanity has to offer in a war against aliens. Deals with relatively seriously, the soldiers by speeding time in spaceships close to the speed of light experience less time than those on earth, so every time they return home everything is drastically different. Hence the name Forever War.

 

[Tanis]

Peter F. Hamilton - The Night's Dawn trilogy.

Good luck, it's a bit...complex.

 

[WeAreStevo]

I've heard good things about Ender's Game, but they also say the later books become gay bashing rants

I was going to recommend Ender's Game. Loved that book, heard the same thing about the later series books and just left it at Ender's Game.

Aside from that, I really liked "The Talisman" which was a collaborative effort by Stephen King and Peter Staraub (sp?) about an alternate world where we have a "twinner" version of us and there's crazy shit that goes down. I think there's a werewolf, and possibly lizard people. Great book though, but not so much the alien/outer space type of sci-fi.

 

[InsanityRequiem]

If somewhat realistic military Sci-Fi is your cup of tea, I recommend the book series STARFIST. Written by Veteran Marine David Sherman and Veteran Army Officer Dan Cragg. Both also did Jedi Trial for the Star Wars universe.

Another set of books I recommend are from L.E. Modesitt, Jr. It's called The Ecolitan Matter Series. Basically imagine spies in space and spies going rogue to help establish a world as an independent world.

 

[JJMUG]

I'm looking for some new stories to add to my collection. At the moment, I'm reading Gaunt's Ghosts, and loving the hell out of it. I've also delved into the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and a couple of Asimov's short stories. And The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

But I want something new.
I've heard good things about Ender's Game, but they also say the later books become gay bashing rants

Likewise, I've heard that the Honor Harrington books are good, but they too decline in quality the later they go on.

This wouldn't be too much of a problem if I ignored the shitty ones, but as I am wired, I need to finish a series once I start it.

Got any recommendations?

The Martian Chronicles, and that is all i really have to say about that.

 

[GrimTuesday]

Right now I'm reading Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (a pen name used by co-authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), its pretty good so far, I know I'm enjoying it.

 

[derob]

someone already recommended Zamyatin's "we" which is an awesome novel, so I'll just go ahead and recommend a "clockwork orange" by Anthony Burgess.

Pretty cool little read.

 

[Odinsson]

If you like Gaunt's Ghosts, you might enjoy Ciaphas Cain. The series takes a rather humourous view of the 41st Millenium, but still has more action than you can shake a chainsword at

 

[Old Father Eternity]

Can not comment on newer literature but can list some more classics. Asimov There is more then just a few short stories, the Foundation and Robot series for example, Strugatsky brothers While some of the books carry the image of the ideology of their time, that was needed to get stuff published and can easily be overlooked in regards to the stories themselves, Lem, Jemtsev and Parmov, Simak, Clarke, Herbert, Crichton.

 

[Goro]

L.E. Modesitt, a good writer with a good style, also Richard Morgan, very noir, lots of guns sex and sci-fi... for something a little harder Ian M. Banks' 'Culture' books are excellent. And Alistair Reynolds, another great writer. Otherwise, head over to good reads, and sign on to the Sword and Laser. ~Shameless plug for them~

 

[DisasterSoiree]

This is a little far removed from the military sci-fi you said you were interested in, but I'd like to suggest a novel by the little-known horror author Robert McCammon titled Swan Song. Straddling the line between science-fiction and fantasy, it riffs on themes present in Stephen King's The Stand about the possibility of good in a post-apocalyptic world. Highly recommended.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

Metro 2033 is pretty good, if you're into post-apocalyptic sci-fi. Yes, the same Metro 2033 as the game. The book came first.

 

[Reiterpallasch]

DUNE

Arguably one of the most influential sci-fi novels ever written.
FUCKING READ IT

 

[Axolotl]

We, Farenheit 451 and Brave New World are great classics for distopias. Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon is a criminally underrated book that covers as it's plot the complete history of intelligent life in the universe. Behold the Man is really good but only reccomended if you're not a Christian. Asimov's Foundation is a classic, as is Dune and you really should read both. The Culture Series by Ian M Banks is probably the best modern space opera series. Kurt Vonnegut's works especially The Sirens of Titan and Cat's Cradle are all amazing. I'd also reccomend The Stars My Destination, Neuromancer, Snow Crash, The Drowned World, Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep, The Man in the High Castle, I Am Legend, Ringworld and Blood Music.