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A new fantasy or sci-fi book.

March 19, 2009 10:00:00 AM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

I enjoy reading fantasy and sometimes depending on how good the book is sci-fi.

 

I was wondering if anybody can offer a suggestion on what to read next.

 

I've read Robert Jordan, the wheel of time, Terry goodkind the Sword of Truth, David Eddings, Belgariad and Malloreon. I've also read the Story of PUG and Thomas (which I found excellent.)

 

As for Sc-fi I've really enjoy Rama. Hyperion and a few others.

 

Thanks for all your suggestions

 

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Reply #1 March 19, 2009 10:19:04 AM
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Fantasy: Terry Brooks - Shannara Series

Science Fiction: Alastair Reynolds - series starting with Revelation Space

That should keep you busy for at least half a year

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Reply #2 March 19, 2009 10:36:05 AM
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I am Legend is essential reading.  The film bares no relation to the book.

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Reply #3 March 19, 2009 10:37:41 AM
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If you wait a few years you can read mine.  I'm working on one that is an alternate Earth and another is in a series in the future about Mankind following the life of a soldier.

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Reply #4 March 19, 2009 10:47:04 AM
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Solam - for Fantasy check out Steven Erikson and Glen Cook 

For Science Fiction have you read Dan Simmons' other stuff?  What about Iain M Banks?

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Reply #5 March 19, 2009 11:11:11 AM
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+1 for Ke5trel's suggestions:

 

Sci Fi: Iain M. Banks. He's an excellent choice. I also like Peter F. Hamilton.

Fantasy: Glen Cook's 'Black Company' seires. Great stuff. Something older that you should read if you haven't yet: Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser series.

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Reply #6 March 19, 2009 11:46:31 AM
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I'm not sure which catagory it falls into, but Benighted by Kit Whitfield was an excellent read.

It takes place in an alternate world where 99% of the populus are werewolves.  The stories main char is a 'bareback', a normal human as we'd say.

I've been bouncing on my heels waiting for some scrap of news about Warner Brother will do with the IP for the movie.

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Reply #7 March 19, 2009 11:55:16 AM
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My favorite Sci-fi is David Weber, awesome futuristic spaceship battles.  Also another really good author is Keith Laumer, he does a great series on Bolos, futuristic self-aware tanks.  He also does some satyrical stuff called Retief for an interstellar diplomat.

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Reply #8 March 19, 2009 12:25:45 PM
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Looking at your reading list, multi-book series seem to something your into. I'd suggest looking for The Saga of Seven Suns series by Kevin J Anderson here.

While not sci-fi and certainly not fitting into the high fantasy that you said you've read, I can also recommend the The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. Look here.

I've enjoyed both of these immensely and if I was sat at home at the moment, I'd happily sit down and list off what is filling my bookshelves. Hope these help though  

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Reply #9 March 19, 2009 12:37:33 PM
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Quoting piderman,
reply 1

Science Fiction: Alastair Reynolds - series starting with Revelation Space
 

Piderman.. I picked up the Revelation Space book once on a whim, I found it just plain odd.  Do they get any better?  I've held off on buying them because that one didn't exactly intrigue me as much as i'd hoped.

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Reply #10 March 19, 2009 12:41:01 PM
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For fantasy I definitely have to recommend the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.  I know you have already read it, but for anyone else looking for a good fantasy series you should check it out.

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Reply #11 March 19, 2009 12:58:07 PM
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Some of the big SciFi/Fantasy series I've read in my life since a teen were the following.  I tend to like to read books that are parts of bigger series:

  • Dune (Herbert)
  • Foundation/Robots/Empire novels (Asimov)
  • Xanth (Anthony) - Entertaining and very light
  • Dragonriders of Pern (McCaffrey) - I'm actually currently reading the books I never got around to reading before
  • Ender's Game series (Card) - Although I'm not so hot on the "Shadow of..." series.
  • Shannarah (Brooks)
  • Harry Potter (Rowling) - Of course
  • Hobbit/LotR/Silmarillion (Tolkein)
  • Wheel of Time (Jordan)
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Reply #12 March 19, 2009 12:58:12 PM
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For urban fantasy try Night Watch, Day Watch, Twilight Watch and Last Watch by Russian author Sergey Lukyanenko. Each book has a common theme and 3 linked stories. VERY well written with twists and turns.

Here is the wiki link to Night Watch. It does contain spoilers though so be careful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(Russian_novel)

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Reply #13 March 19, 2009 1:17:20 PM
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Thanks everybody. I'll be looking at those suggestions through my library. This way I can see if I like them befroe I buy them

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Reply #14 March 19, 2009 1:57:28 PM
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Solam, I can also recommend checking out the Baen site, they have a free library of books online you can read.  Great way to see if you like an author, and they're not all the ancient out of print books either.

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Reply #15 March 19, 2009 2:01:42 PM
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Fantasy: from easy reading to heavy stuff

all of this are first class IMHO

 

-Joe Abercrombie "The first Law Trilogy" (finished)

-Scott Lynch "The Gentlemen Bastards Sequence" (first 2 (selfcontained) Books out) HIGHLY recommend

-Patrick Rothfuss "The Name of the Wind" HIGHLY recommend

-Steve Erikson "Malazan Books of the Fallen" (this will finish soon, read only if you are a fast reader or have MUCH time   as this will clock in at 10 Books of 1000+ pages each)

-George RR Martin "A Song of Ice and Fire" (this take with a grain of salt as the next book in the series takes forever to get finished...., but) Very HIGHLY recommend

-R. Scott Bakker "The Prince of Nothing" (This is very heavy stuff and in my experience a hit-or-miss Thing. If you get it, you will love it)

oh and i can second Glen Cookand Dune, but avoid Xanth like the PLAGUE.

 

olli

 

 

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Reply #16 March 19, 2009 2:11:13 PM
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Quoting Ashain,
reply 9

Quoting piderman, reply 1
Science Fiction: Alastair Reynolds - series starting with Revelation Space
 
Piderman.. I picked up the Revelation Space book once on a whim, I found it just plain odd.  Do they get any better?  I've held off on buying them because that one didn't exactly intrigue me as much as i'd hoped.

Well they are odd. Since Reynolds' books don't employ Faster-Than-Light travel, the years seem a bit skewed and it takes long for characters to reach each other. There's alien aliens and it's a slow story.

To answer your question: it doesn't get any less odd I'm afraid. ('Better' is such a subjective word ) For me that's the attraction in his books, to you it may be offputting. It's space opera in its purest form. Love it or leave it

Incidentally I had the same with Steven Erikson's books. I like some fantasy now and again and people were praising his books into the heavens. After 50 pages I just couldn't get into it. So I passed that one on to someone who liked it more

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Reply #17 March 19, 2009 2:39:27 PM
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Walter Hunt's the Dark Wing series. Good military sci fi books

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Reply #18 March 19, 2009 9:37:26 PM
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Fantasy: NO.1 IN THE WORLD!

-DRAGONLANCE CHORNICLES

-DRAGONLANCE LEGENDS

and runer up with the most AWESOME story I have ever read on a world level..

HARRY TURTLEDOVE : Into the Darkness collection.

INSANELY GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Reply #19 March 19, 2009 10:34:35 PM
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Well, I would recommend the Old Man's War Series in the sci-fi category. They're a series of four books written by John Scalzi. He's relatively unknown, compared to some of the greats, but he's still an incredible author. His writing style is fantastic; he managed to successfully put humor, action, sci-fi, and general knowledge together in each of his books, without it coming across as a seemingly forced attempt by an author to lift their book out of boredom.

Here's the first book's Amazon page: Link

Here's the first book's Wikipedia page: Link

Hope you find a good sci-fi/fantasy book, even if it's not this one. Good idea with making this thread, too. It'll help anyone who's into sci-fi/fantasy books if they're stuck on what to read next.

 

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Reply #20 March 19, 2009 11:13:02 PM
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Enders Game By Orson Scott Card. and then Speaker for the dead By orson scott card

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Reply #21 March 19, 2009 11:49:28 PM
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I'll definitely second Isaac Asimov's Robot, Empire, and Foundation series.  It remains the best sci-fi I've ever read. 

Also, just about anything by Neal Stephenson is worth a look.  His novels are very....different, but in a good way. 

 

EDIT:  Oh yeah, and I'll also second David Weber, particularly his Honor Harrington books.  Simply superb! 

 

 

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Reply #22 March 20, 2009 12:09:13 AM
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I'll definitely second Isaac Asimov's Robot, Empire, and Foundation series. It remains the best sci-fi I've ever read.

They were very good.  But that's a stretch, IMHO.

Then again, I'm also fairly picky.

 

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Reply #23 March 20, 2009 5:10:38 AM
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Also, just about anything by Neal Stephenson is worth a look. His novels are very....different, but in a good way.

 

PHEW!  I couldn't believe I almost made it through the list before I saw Neal Stephenson!  His later stuff gets pretty heavy, but start out with:   "Snow Crash"  and  "Diamond Age"

 

Verner Vinge is very good...try reading   "A Fire Upon Deep"  or  "Rainbow's End" 

Can't believe no one mentioned William Gibson  .... "Neuromancer"  etc.

 

I guess I'm more on the sci fi side...though I did read most of the fantasy titles mentioned when I was younger...

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Reply #24 March 20, 2009 6:21:51 AM
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Try anything by Roger Zelazny. He's best known for the Nine Princes in Amber series but anything he wrote is worth reading. He pretty much invented the merger between fantasy and science fiction. Lord of Light is another outstanding classic.

For some real old school try Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series. His Pellucidar and Venus series' are both worthwhile mentions as well.

I don't know if he's already been mentioned but I can't imagine the topic of fantasy and science fiction being mentioned without Piers Anthony being high up on the list authoring literally hundreds (139 through 2008 to be precise) of books. A few standouts include the Cluster series, the Adept series, the Incarnations of Immortality series, Bio of a Space Tyrant series and his most famous series Xanth (although the puns can get rather corny).

I guess I'll third David Weber's, Honor Harrington series.

I know I'm probaby leaving out a lot, most of my science fiction books are packed away in boxes in the garage. I must have close to 2000 titles boxed away, some day I'll have to catalog them all.

[edit] Can't believe that Heinlein hasn't been mentioned yet, nor Andre (Alice) Norton. [/edit]

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Reply #25 March 20, 2009 7:11:07 AM
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1. Jack Vance (prolly over 40 books written, all very good)

2. RA Heinlein (minus everything after stranger in a strange land)

3. (too many really list here, people above me covered my #3's fairly well)

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