name a good sci fi/fant writer or series?

[Diffusion]

William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Phillip K Dick, Neil Stephenson, Kim Stanley Robinson. I have been reading a lot of cyberpunk type stuff recently, seems to be the last time there was any major inovation in sci-fi, most of the more recent sci/fi / fantasy stuff has been so derivative of other books that I have barely been able to read through the things.

 

[MereMortal]

An excellent fantasy series is The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson.

 

[Looney]

Dune by Frank Herbert.

Been playing the game lately, bringing back a lot of memories.

 

[kduncan5]

Try Weave World by Clive Barker.

It's a helluva story!!! -kd5-


(BTW, that's NOT the original cover.....)

 

[huypham]

thanks guys... looks like i have more than i can read over the summer =)

huy

 

[Kelvrick]

Nobody mentioned the Song of Ice and Fire series yet! Dang bast tards. Hehe, j/k. Anyway, 3 are out with about 3 more on the way by George R. R. Martin. They're my favorite books.

A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords

I like the third the best, and the first the worst (still my 3rd fav though) but you need it for the back info and just to get into feel with the characters.

 

[cherrytwist]

oh, damn

my bad

 

[Samlind1]

Orson Scott Card's Ender series. 6 books. Ender takes computer gaming to a new level...

Anything Heinlien. Read Starship Trooper, which bore only slight resemblence to that piece of crap movie. Read the Moon is a Harsh Mistress and then look at the date. 14 years before you could buy a 4 function hand calculator (for $300).

Robert L. Forward for hard science fiction, using real science. His book "Indistinguishable from Magic" should be read by anyone planning to live beyond 2015.

The cyberpunk stuff, but someone already mentioned them - Gibson, Stephenson, Sterling, and someone already mentioned Phillip K. Dick, Frank Herbert and Gordon Dickson.

Ursala LeGuin. The Dispossessed. The Left Hand of Darkness. "Left Hand" got me thinking seriously about how we regard our sexual roles, and why. Pretty interesting stuff.

 

[Omegachi]

you know whats a bomb ass scifi show? Farscape on the scifi channel.... show just kicks ass

 

[Turin39789]

ive seen a lot of the good ones listed already so i wont repeat.

Check out the Enders game series

a classic