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[InfiniteCuts]

I always recommend the Old Man's War series to ME fans:





Having Scalzi write an ME novel or, better yet, lead write a new ME game would be all kinds of epic. *hint @ BioWare*

[cedgedc]

I wonder what all of your thoughts are on having William C Dietz write Mass Effect Deception (The 4th novel that's coming out in september i think) ?

I read a bit about him.. Frankly the fact that he wrote for the Halo series isn't exactly a gold star in my book. I wish drew was handling it. I don't like the fact that it's an outsider writing about characters that just.. don't belong to him, to begin with.

[dreman9999]

Ender's game.

[clerkenwell]

I'm a fan of Alastair Reynold's books. His Revelation Space series is solid, but my favorite of his is the standalone "Pushing Ice."

[gethslayer7]

the demonata by darren shan its a ten book series book 1 is called lordloss

[Mr.Skar]

Old Man's War by John Scalzi, like others have said, is some good times. Great for hardcore sci-fi fans and those who are less hardcore. I also suggest anything by Peter F. Hamilton. Anything will do, the reason I'm not getting really specific is that his books vary in length, and I don't know what your (OP's) page tolerance is like. David Drake is a solid military sci-fi writer, start with the Hammer's Slammers series of short stories (reprinted recently, so they should be easy to find).

I have other suggestions for fantasy. If you're interested, just reply saying so and I'll be happy to post them.

[Snake_DoctorM4]

matthew reilly's scarecrow series (ice station, area 7 & scarecrow)

[cedgedc]

Mr.Skar wrote...

Old Man's War by John Scalzi, like others have said, is some good times. Great for hardcore sci-fi fans and those who are less hardcore. I also suggest anything by Peter F. Hamilton. Anything will do, the reason I'm not getting really specific is that his books vary in length, and I don't know what your (OP's) page tolerance is like. David Drake is a solid military sci-fi writer, start with the Hammer's Slammers series of short stories (reprinted recently, so they should be easy to find).

I have other suggestions for fantasy. If you're interested, just reply saying so and I'll be happy to post them.

Sure, i'd definitely be interested in hearing what fantasy you have to suggest. IT looks like Old Man's War is something I'll have to look into, as it's been mentioned a few times.

As for fantasy, I've read through quite a bit already that i've enjoyed.. Way back in the day I read through most of Terry Brooks, series.

I've read just about every scrap that has crossed R.A Salvatore's desk. I took a chunk out of Robert Jordan's series, but man those get long after 5 or so books. Read most of Terry Pratchet's stuff, which I strongly recommend if you enjoyed Douglass Adams type of sense of humor.

Most recently I finished Robert Howard's conan novels, which I thought were fan-fricken-tastic. If you enjoy reading about the anti-hero type who's basically just out for his own glory and brutally kills the punks that get in his way in a bloodrage frenzy... Conan's your guy.

I've read a few others.. LOTR obviously, the hobbit, etc. I welcome any suggestions you may have, especially if you're familiar with/ enjoyed any of the above.

[cedgedc]

Btw, is Old Man's War a sequel of sorts to Starship Troopers? lol

[keboo]

Try Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet. Granted it's repetitive at times, author really likes to repeat information from previous books, but other than that it's really great.

[Demigod]

Peter F Hamilton:

The Commonwealth Saga
Pandora's Star
Judas Unchained

followed by the Void Trilogy
The Dreaming Void
The Temporal Void
The Evolutionary Void

Also liked his Night's Dawn Trilogy

Have plenty of time as none of these are short afternoon reads like the mass effect books.

Modifié par Demigod, 13 avril 2011 - 02:29 .

[cedgedc]

Demigod wrote...

Peter F Hamilton:

The Commonwealth Saga
Pandora's Star
Judas Unchained

followed by the Void Trilogy
The Dreaming Void
The Temporal Void
The Evolutionary Void

Also liked his Night's Dawn Trilogy

Have plenty of time as none of these are short afternoon reads like the mass effect books.

Yes the ME novels were short. When I recommend them to friends, I basically tell them, it's like an extra piece of DLC lol. Short, but worth buying if you're into ME to begin with.

If I'm going to read something that's oppressively long, like Robert Jordan's series for instance.. it has to be quite compelling.

[mulder1199]

loved the ME novels, a new one due in sept...i'd like to be able to rally gillian to earth's cause....

btw....seems like a character in ME3 may just be about the right age to be offspring from one of the novels main character.....

very interested to see if the illusive man and aria team up...

[Fistandant]

Same here. I was into fantasy only for quite some time. Last book that I enjoyed was SWTOR: Deceived written by Paul S. Kemp and read by Marc Thompson. That was actually the second audiobook that I managed to listen to the end. Guess I was really impressed by voice acting. Apart from it I would agree with others and recommend Frank Herbert's Dune series and Moorcock's works like The Sundered Worlds (The Blood Red Game).

[cedgedc]

mulder1199 wrote...

loved the ME novels, a new one due in sept...i'd like to be able to rally gillian to earth's cause....

btw....seems like a character in ME3 may just be about the right age to be offspring from one of the novels main character.....

very interested to see if the illusive man and aria team up...

On the contrary, I want to see them go at it! I was so disapointed when Aria didn't find out what Cerberus had been up too (being deliberately vague to avoid spoilers here) and go after them.

I wanna see the illusive man's lair get sacked by some of Aria's henchmen. For that matter, I would have loved to see Aria in action, beating up some cerberus punks!

Edit: For that matter, I want to see what happens when someone really pisses Aria off!

Modifié par cedgedc, 13 avril 2011 - 08:08 .

[Mars Nova]

I'm currently reading Jurassic Park, the book's way different than the movie. Better, too. For sci-fi/ fantasy, I'd suggest The Icarus Hunt by Timothy Zahn and The Golden Queen by Dave Wolverton.

[InfiniteCuts]

cedgedc wrote...

Btw, is Old Man's War a sequel of sorts to Starship Troopers? lol

Not at all... totally separate story/universe.  Scalzi does get compared to Heinlein a lot, however... and usually in a favorable fashion.  I'd say he's much better at describing technology and adding comedic relief to intense situations.  I think you'll really enjoy the series.

[Mr.Skar]

@cedgedc

Well if you liked Conan (good for you!) you should really give Micheal Moorcock's Elric stories a shot. All of those are also in easy to get a hold of collections. Also read his Hawkmoon novels. Both are good sources of heroic sword and sorcery fantasy. The Third Law series by Joe Abercrombie is also something I must recommend. The highest praise I can give a genre novel is that it does something or goes somewhere I did not expect it to (because calling it good ,so long as I have finished the novel, goes without saying, I don't finish novels that don't grip me in some way), and this series does that.

Richard K. Morgan writes primarily sci-fi, but The Steel Remains is a great fantasy novel. Unless you hate gay people, in which case, don't read it because the main character is gay. Ken Scholes has a fantasy series that is currently running of which I have read two novels (Lamentation and Canticle) and they are both excellent. Somehow the second novel manages to be even more excellent than the first, something I still have a hard time believing even after having read it.

Just finished The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin, another book that does things I did not expect. I think that will have to do for now. I ended up typing out more than I had originally planned >.<.

P.S. Oh! And if you like cool thieves in sprawling cities check out The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. Okay, that's it for now I swear .

Modifié par Mr.Skar, 14 avril 2011 - 06:02 .

[KreeCapt]

Terror_K wrote...

Ah, Karen Travis... the woman who was kicked out of writing for Star Wars for her Mandalorian fetish that got to the point where she was severely violating the canon.

That's not what happened. She stopped writing for them because Lucasfilm still owed her money from previous books. I don't know if she collected on it all, but the other reason she left was that they retconned all her Mando stuff in the Animated Series.

She said it annoyed her, but she knew Lucasfilm had the right to do it.

No, the major reason she no longer writes Star Wars is that she is owed Money.

[Anoleis]

Dragonlance novels are fun...some cool characters

[jimmyjoefro]

The books were fun extensions of the ME universe. If there are Mary Sues, who cares? If Andrew even wrote them himself, he probably wrote them in a month, if that. The only other sci-fi books I have ever read are The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

[BadgerladDK]

clerkenwell wrote...

I'm a fan of Alastair Reynold's books. His Revelation Space series is solid, but my favorite of his is the standalone "Pushing Ice."

Seconding Reynolds, that man knows how to build a coherent universe. Hell, the guy's a bleeding astronomer, he knows his science and builds it seemlessly into the story. Have to disagree with Pushing Ice as his best one, that title has to go to The Prefect, set in the Revelation Space universe. Bonus info: Reading them in order isn't too crucial as they tend to take place in the same universe, but at different times. And by different, we're talking thousands of years at the extremes.

[cedgedc]

InfiniteCuts wrote...

cedgedc wrote...

Btw, is Old Man's War a sequel of sorts to Starship Troopers? lol

Not at all... totally separate story/universe.  Scalzi does get compared to Heinlein a lot, however... and usually in a favorable fashion.  I'd say he's much better at describing technology and adding comedic relief to intense situations.  I think you'll really enjoy the series.

Oh okay, I read through a synopsis and saw mention of Starship troopers and found it a bit funny. I think this may well be where I start. Thanks for the info/suggestions!

[cedgedc]

Mr.Skar wrote...

P.S. Oh! And if you like cool thieves in sprawling cities check out The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. Okay, that's it for now I swear .

I -do- like cool thieves.. Thanks for the suggestions, I've made a list and it seems  I have plenty of homework to do!

[mulder1199]

cedgedc wrote...

mulder1199 wrote...

loved the ME novels, a new one due in sept...i'd like to be able to rally gillian to earth's cause....

btw....seems like a character in ME3 may just be about the right age to be offspring from one of the novels main character.....

very interested to see if the illusive man and aria team up...

On the contrary, I want to see them go at it! I was so disapointed when Aria didn't find out what Cerberus had been up too (being deliberately vague to avoid spoilers here) and go after them.

I wanna see the illusive man's lair get sacked by some of Aria's henchmen. For that matter, I would have loved to see Aria in action, beating up some cerberus punks!

Edit: For that matter, I want to see what happens when someone really pisses Aria off!

ah, i WANT to see them at odds, but the book implies otherwise, aria may be wise to TIM this time....perhaps she's one shep can gain the support of....