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[Lesclaig]

Basically having a feel of dragon age or mass effect to the book. Not exactly of course just something epic and fun to read. Lets go ahead and exlude the star wars series and LoTR as Ive already read those. Anyone got any?

[Randomname1212]

Hmm, The first three Drizzt Do'Urden books are real nice.

[HoonDing]

Belgariad (Eddings)

Sword of Shannara (Brooks)

Riftwar (Feist)

Earthsea (Le Guin)

Elric/Eternal Champion/Dorian Hawkmoon/Prince Corum series (Moorcock)

[Arbiter Libera]

There's like a TON of D&D and Warhammer novels out there, check 'em out. I recommend Gotrek and Felix Omnibuses for good Warhammer hack and slash novels. Not really intellectual in nature, but damn good fun.

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[Randomname1212]

Some nice, Warcraft books too.

[Seagloom]

In before GRRM mention... sort of since I'll mention him now.



The Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin always gets a mention in these threads. The series was one of Dragon Age's inspirations according to the writers. It's light on magic but heavy on violence, misery, and intrigue.

[Godak]

The Wheel of Time. Probably one of the longer book series out there, but well worth the time invested.

[Randomname1212]

The Spearwielder's Tale by Salvatore, I really enjoyed the trilogy~

[LyudmilaKatzen]

Neal Asher's SF books are great (starts with Gridlinked). He refers to his style as the "Arnold Schwarzenegger school of science fiction" i.e. gratuitous violence, insane alien monsters, lots of explosions, space battles, etc. Good fun!

[KneeTheCap]

The Witcher-saga (especially Blood of Elves) from Sapkowski is one of the best...

[jillyfae]

David Weber's Honor Harrington books, (starts with On Basilisk Station) or Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga (starts with The Warrior's Apprentice) are both great sci-fi series. Most of the individual books are stand-alone though, so you don't have to read them in order.



Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Trilogy (Mistborn, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages) or Patricia Brigg's Hurog books (Dragon Bones and Dragon Blood) are some of my favorite fantasy.

[Loerwyn]

Stephen King's "The Eyes of the Dragon".

Fantasy, not a long read, ties into at least a seven book series and another novel he's done, and a damn good book.

[Wicked 702]

I'm not sure if these would be considered Mass Effect related but they are some of my favorite sci-fi books.



Starts with "Ender's Game." It's called the Ender's series. It's a series of books by Orson Scott Card. I happen to very much enjoy his writing style.

[Panderfringe]

Arbiter Libera wrote...

There's like a TON of D&D and Warhammer novels out there, check 'em out. I recommend Gotrek and Felix Omnibuses for good Warhammer hack and slash novels. Not really intellectual in nature, but damn good fun.

Only Abnett and Sandy Mitchell are decent black library writers.

[PlayingWithKnives]

Trudi Canavan, The Black Magician Trilogy

[SilentCruel-Libra]

Any of the trilogies in Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings, especially the Liveship one.



Also, Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

[Mr.Skar]

Any of the Elric collections, The Stealer of Souls is the first one so you can start there. Blood of Ambrose by James Enge, short but sweet. The Jewel in The Skull by Michael Moorcock (the Elric author) this book is a little on the short side but damn good. Second A Song of Ice and Fire, can never mention this book series enough.



Sci-fi, well, hmmm. Lots to choose from, but it sounds like you're looking more for a space opera/military sci-fi thing. Old Man's War by John Scalzi, features body swapping tech, cool guns and mean aliens. The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld, cool tale, has a real Dune/Foundation feel to it. Also most anything by Peter F. Hamilton. Thoug I should warn you, most of his books are a good deal longer than anything else I have mentioned here.



That should be a good list to start with .

[Stormghost]

Any of the Shannara series from Terry Brooks. Brilliant.

[ModerateOsprey]

Try some of the old school stuff as well if you haven't already. I Robot, Foundation Trilogy (Asimov), Dune (Frank Herbert), Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein). The latter is pure brilliance and is where the term Grok comes from.

[ModerateOsprey]

Forgot to mention The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison, short but real sweet - classic space opera

[A Killing Sound]

Second the Stainless Steel Rat series, especially the Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted. By far my favourite in the series.

[ModerateOsprey]

A Killing Sound wrote...

Second the Stainless Steel Rat series, especially the Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted. By far my favourite in the series.

Yeah, that is a real peach

[orpheus333]

Matter - Iain M. Banks - Probably ne of the better culture novels. The others can be pretty slow going but this ones got everything.

[Lesclaig]

Wow lots of books. Im gonna start with Stranger in a strange land looks really cool. Im gonna bookmark this thread so it doesnt get lost and I can look back lol. Keep on with the books though!