sci-fi book recommendations

[aakibar]

Yes I know this has been done before but i need some recommendations and quick.
I have read most of heinlein and loved him, ditto on Douglas adams and clarke, and herbert (dune).

so recommend to me some sort of book....please?

 

[Jamboxdotcom]

Well, if you've read and liked some of those classics, the obvious suggestion would be Asimov. I particularly liked the Foundation series, but his Robot books were good as well. Also, Phil Dick, especially if you like your SF to be kinda trippy.

 

[-Samurai-]

Year of the Black Rainbow by Claudio Sanchez and Peter David.

The story of The Amory Wars is finished(in song form, and soon to be in comic book/graphic novel form, and hopefully fully novelized), but this book is the start, and it's amazing.

Synopsis:

Welcome to the world of Heaven's Fence, where a lattice of mysterious energy known as the Keywork binds and sustains life on a triangular network of planets--from the bleak and hellish Howling Earth to the spare beauty of Bendelesh. Beneath the Keywork's glow, under the governance of the twelve grey-skinned Mages and the watchful gaze of the winged Prise, humanity goes about it's daily life unaffected by the goings-on of the higher powers at work in the universe. Until the day when the ambitious Wilhelm Ryan, newest member to the brotherhood of Mages, acts on his growing discontent at being branded another ordinary Mage, ruling over one lowly Sector. Shrewd and silver-tongued, Ryan launches the Mage Wars: a devastating campaign to win control of the entire Fence and take on the legendary mantle of Supreme Tri-Mage, a position likened to God himself.

Spoiler: Novel Cover

My avatar is what they Keywork looks like.

 

[Stealthygamer]

The Mass Effect novels, I-Jedi and The Rings of Orbis series

 

[kalt_13]

Peter f hamilton's nights dawn is pretty good it you like space opera.

 

[Monty McDougal]

Timeline by Micheal Crichton
Kind of a cross between sci-fi and medieval but it is a time travel book that is extremely realistic and is one of my favorite books.
Just have to get past the first 100 pages or so and it gets interesting.

 

[Monty McDougal]

Timeline by Micheal Crichton
Kind of a cross between sci-fi and medieval but it is a time travel book that is extremely realistic and is one of my favorite books.
Just have to get past the first 100 pages or so and it gets interesting.

 

[Jodan]

DUNE! seriously tho the dune novels are awesome EDit sorry didnt fully read first post went all fanboy when i saw topic.

stranger in a strange land and the moon is aharsh mistress are classics well any of r.a. heinleins books are good but im a fanboy and if you doo read them be prepared for major culture shock. those two are good to start with though. as well as starship troopers. many of his juvennels are great for any age and are much deeper than they let on.

also the ender novels by orson scott card are really good. ignore his empire series

 

[ChildofGallifrey]

I'll copy/paste what I said in a similar topic earlier in the week.

This. It's excellent, it's easy to find, and it's about 7 bucks. Read this fucker now!

 

[Razzigyrl]

Try some Ben Bova. I can't recall most of the titles at the moment beyond 'To Fear the Light', but I've read a decent amount of his work, and it's usually fairly enjoyable. Also, Isaac Asimov's work, if you're going for classics.

 

[feather240]

Starship Troopers

Spoiler

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

I've heard Ringworld is quite good. But my personal recommendations would be Harry Harrison's Deathworld and Stainless Steel Rat series as well as Cities in Flight by James Blish.

EDIT: Also, Slan is quite good.

 

[aakibar]

DUNE! seriously tho the dune novels are awesome

stranger in a strange land and the moon is aharsh mistress are classics well any of r.a. heinleins books are good but im a fanboy and if you doo read them be prepared for major culture shock. those two are good to start with though. as well as starship troopers.

also the ender novels by orsonscott card are really good ignore his empire series

sadly i have read all of those and loved them. It took me two tries to get both of them at the time. and the ender series i read voraciously when i was in 8th grade. But thanks

 

[high_castle]

If you're into the classics, you can't go wrong with PKD. Start with A Scanner Darkly, The Man in the High Castle, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

If you're looking for more recent books, consider:

Warchild by Karin Lowachee. (Hands down one of my favorite books of all time. A great character-driven space opera and one hell of an emotional tilt-a-whirl.)

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. (Also a space opera, this one on the harder side than the above.)

A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt. (Mystery meets, well, space opera. Again.)

An Exchange of Hostages by Susan Matthews. (Hey look! Another space opera. This one has an interesting view on torture techniques...it's better than it sounds.)

 

[Noremac60]

"Enders Game" or anything by Michael Crichton

 

[feather240]

DUNE! seriously tho the dune novels are awesome

stranger in a strange land and the moon is aharsh mistress are classics well any of r.a. heinleins books are good but im a fanboy and if you doo read them be prepared for major culture shock. those two are good to start with though. as well as starship troopers.

also the ender novels by orsonscott card are really good ignore his empire series

sadly i have read all of those and loved them. It took me two tries to get both of them at the time. and the ender series i read voraciously when i was in 8th grade. But thanks

Did you read Enders Shadow?

 

[Condiments]

Here my recommendations for good sci-fi books.

-Altered Carbon
-Old Man's War
-Neuromancer
-Do androids dream electric sleep?
-Snow Crash

 

[Mr Thin]

I strongly recommend The Gap Cycle, a five-book series written by Stephen R. Donaldson. I recommend everything by him, actually, but I believe this is his only sci-fi work.

It's an epic, and it's meant for adults; a lot of nasty stuff happens in those books. But they're absolutely fantastic.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure they're hard science fiction, not soft, if that matters to you.

 

[Ravenseeker]

Armor by John Steakey and Hyperion by Dan Simmons are my top two

 

[Sam Plater]

David Zindell Anyone? No? Well then I don't know how you sleep at night calling yourselves Sci-Fi Fans...

Sincerely Random Internet Person