Recommend me some SciFi books

Snow

Snow

Joined
Jun 3, 2001
Messages
2,233
I have been reading a lot of SciFi lately. I'm finishing up 2001: A Space Odyssey right now and really enjoying it. I have also recently read The Killing Star, which was awesome, and The Mote in God's Eye. Based on these, can anyone give me a few recommendations?

Thanks in advance!
 
Snow said:
I have been reading a lot of SciFi lately. I'm finishing up 2001: A Space Odyssey right now and really enjoying it. I have also recently read The Killing Star, which was awesome, and The Mote in God's Eye. Based on these, can anyone give me a few recommendations?

Thanks in advance!
Click to expand...

"A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge is a good one ("A Deepness In the Sky" is almost as good). You might also enjoy the "Ilium" series and the "Hyperion" series by Dan Simmons. Take a look at the "Old Man's War" series by John Scalzi as well as "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman.

You have to read "Dune" by Frank Herbert!

Enjoy!
 
Last edited:
The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley. It came out in 1977 and was nominated for a Locus award. It's on my top ten favorite books list. It's violent, thrilling, and has a genuine edgy coolness about it. If Quentin Tarantino has been a science fiction writer this is the kind of thing he would write. Of course I'm not saying Varley was influenced by Tarantino, if anything vice versa.
 
Trent Rock said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick

Scanner Darkly is a good one
Bladerunner was based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Click to expand...

IMO pretty much all of Philip K. Dick's books (and short stories) are worth reading. The two mentioned are particularly exceptional.
He's arguably the leading sci fi writer of all time - not so much because his writing style was so great, but because his ideas were incredible.
And original as well. He left behind a vast body of work.

My personal favorite is not one of his best known: "The Unteleported Man".
 
Some older sci-fi classics you might find interesting: Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov and Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.
 
"Starship Troopers" so much better than the movie, although I did enjoy the film.
H. P. Lovecraft wrote some darn fine stories.
"Slaughterhouse-Five" also good.
 
the R.A Salvatore books they are all very good
couldn't put them down once i picked them up
 
Hoo boy. I own Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and have tried at least four or five times to get through it (without success) - though The Peace War is a pretty good read. Ditto for The Forever War - I swear he called it that because it seems like it takes forever to read it. (Truthfully, the first one isn't half bad, but avoid the sequels like the plague.)

My recommendations:

Isaac Asimov, the Foundation trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation).

Frank Herbert, Dune.

Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (Yes, I know I'm duplicating previous suggestions.)

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

Larry Niven, Ringworld

Joan Vinge, The Snow Queen

Connie Willis, The Doomsday Book

Robert Silverberg, Tom O'Bedlam or The Book of Skulls
 
We need some Zelazny in here too, but I'm not sure which one I'd start him off with. Any ideas? (Maybe some Ursula LeGuin too?)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top