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[Dougy Fresh]

 Im interested in getting in to a good sci-fi book series

I was wondering if the BSN community had any suggestions.

[naughty99]

Which SF authors have you read before or enjoy reading?

[marbatico]

if you like post apocalyptic settings, i'd recommend Metro 2033

[abch4]

I just finished Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks after being recommended. Was thoroughly dissappointed.

But recently been told Alastair Reynolds 'Revelation Space' books are good.

http://en.wikipedia....evelation_Space

[Cyberarmy]

Get Dune series if you havent. Also there are good examples of Star Wars(not movie books)
Stay away from recent Mass Effects

[abch4]

Cyberarmy wrote...

Get Dune series if you havent. Also there are good examples of Star Wars(not movie books)
Stay away from recent Mass Effects

Agreed, i read the first one. Whilst they're bearable if you're really into ME lore, it's plot is uninteresting and writing style is REAL basic.

[Dougy Fresh]

I've read all the ME novels but not the latest one. I thought Ascension was the best. Thanks for the info!

[Funkcase]

Do Androids dream of electric sheep? My favourite book! And Blade runner is one of my favourite movies so win, win!

The Hitchikers guide to the Galaxy, comedy sci-fi at it's best.

[Morroian]

hallidio wrote...

I just finished Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks after being recommended. Was thoroughly dissappointed.

Consider Phlebas is the first in a series of books set in the Culture universe. I personally regard Banks as the greatest modern Science Fiction author.

[eroeru]

I second Dune.

It's the epic-ness of Lord of the Rings, in space.

edit: actually, it's better than LOTR, in my honest opinion. Also quite different from the perspective and narration. But the epic feel of it is a bit similar, I can tell you.
Honestly, I felt a little similar to playing DA:O when reading Dune. 

Modifié par eroeru, 20 mars 2012 - 12:27 .

[Stanley Woo]

Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan

Sorta sci-fi: Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde

[Aimi]

Cyberarmy wrote...

Get Dune series if you havent. Also there are good examples of Star Wars(not movie books)

While most of the movie books kinda sucked, Matt Stover's book for Revenge of the Sith was fantastic and made the overall story for the movie actually make a helluva lot of sense. Widely praised.

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Recommending a series, you could do a lot worse than Dan Simmons' Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. It's not particularly hard sci-fi, and spends a lot of time on philosophy and literature, but that only made it better, in my opinion.

Modifié par daqs, 20 mars 2012 - 05:17 .

[Megaton_Hope]

Gonna second Neuromancer. Gibson has a really interesting perspective on things, when he has the courage to write as a character with experience and knowledge, which seems not to be often.

Ender's Game, if you've been reading licensed video game novelizations. Also an interesting perspective, although frankly he told all the stories in the original novella that he would later try to stretch into an impossibly enormous body of "Enderverse" work. So read the novella if you can find that.

Dune was...interesting. Reading it, it's not hard to see why people struggle so to adapt it to the screen, where everything is superficial.

I personally have a soft spot for Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Barsoom" series, beginning with John Carter of Mars and ending roughly with Chessmen of Mars. The Lucky Starr novels tickle me in a similar way.

Read I, Robot if you haven't yet. The Harlan Ellison screenplay if you have.

Space Cadet, Tunnel in the Sky, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and possibly Stranger in a Strange Land if you can stomach Heinlein. Not everybody can, he has a complex flavor that is not altogether appealing.

[rwilli80]

If you wanna go old school read the John Carter series by Edgar Rich Burroughs. You'll pretty much see where a lot of great scifi got its start. Plus it doesn't hurt you can download them free from Project Gutenberg.

[whiteraider]

Stanley Woo wrote...

Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan

Sorta sci-fi: Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde

I'll second this, add 'Woken Furies - Richard Morgan'

Try 'Grid Linked' - Neal Asher

for hard Sci-Fi try Gregory Benford, Kim Stanley Robinson, & Alastair Renoylds

As for Iain M Banks (and the M is vital) try Player of Games & Feersum Endjinn

Modifié par whiteraider, 20 mars 2012 - 08:25 .

[Elhanan]

If available, the complete works of Ray Bradbury are recommended.

[abch4]

Morroian wrote...

hallidio wrote...

I just finished Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks after being recommended. Was thoroughly dissappointed.

Consider Phlebas is the first in a series of books set in the Culture universe. I personally regard Banks as the greatest modern Science Fiction author.

Hence why i was so eager to start reading, love getting into a good series. Yet i read Consider Phlebas and it's just action sequence after action sequence, and the part where he's stuck on that cannibal island, dear god...dreadful. People told me his later works on the culture are much better but Phlebas just left a bad taste in my mouth

[Dune01]

Isaac Asimov Foundation. That is all.

[TheChris92]

Interesting. Might check out some of these books

Modifié par TheChris92, 30 mars 2012 - 10:58 .

[Ciryx]

John Scalzi - Old Mans War Quartett, its really entertaining.

[Eurypterid]

I'll throw in another vote for Iain M. Banks.

Others to consider:

David Weber's Honor Harrington books (as well as his Safehold series)
C.J. Cherryh (one of my personal favorite sci-fi authors). Highly recommend her Chanur series as well as Downbelow Station, Merchanter's Luck, 40,000 in Gehenna and her Cyteen books.
Lois McMaster Buljold's Vorkosigan books are damned fine (and fun) reads.
Arthur C. Clarke is another personal favorite (I like his work best of the 'big three')
Another vote for the Dune series by Frank Herbert. Ignore the ones done by his son and Kevin J. Anderson
Frederick Pohl's Heechee series (if you can find them)
For a taste of Cyberpunk, try Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and The Diamond Age.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series.
Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn series.
Asimov's Foundation series.
Dan Simmons' Hyperion books
John Varley's Gaea trilogy (Titan, Wizard, Demon) - if you can find them
Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light is a must-read.

[Mondo47]

Neal Asher's Polity and Spatterjay series novels. Start with Gridlinked and The Skinner and you'll be hooked.

[Krusty84]

Dune and Fundation... best books ever. Any of Bioware writers should read them, before making ME.