Recommend some Sci-Fi/Fantasy I've never heard of

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: TreyRandom

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
The Chronicles of Amber gets another vote
Anything by Alan Dean Foster
(Flinx series, Spellsinger series, etc)

Yeah, Foster's great. Dunno why I forgot him. Spellsinger is a quick, easy, fun read. Very enjoyable.

The Flinx series was average, but there was no continuity between the books in the series. One did not pick up where the other left off. Instead, it would just ahead by a few years.

 

[jagec]

This thread bumped because the break is upon us, and you guys should READ!

 

[BatmanNate]

I'm probably in the minority in that I enjoy scifi from a generation or two earlier than many of these suggestions, but here are a few authors you can't really go wrong with:

Robert Heinlein
Philip Dick
Ray Bradbury
HG Wells

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: BigJ
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin

Currently reading this and it is engrossing. Not at the level of the classics OP mentioned but not bad.

I would reccomend Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" as well.

They're not long and are very good.

I also picked up the collected works of
Cordwainer Smith and I'd never heard of the guy, just picked it up on a whim and really liked it. It's very good, though I reccomend you read the forword for an explanation, as trying to read it straight through would be a little disjointed and confusing without it.

 

[JDub02]

Originally posted by: GuybrushThreepwood

David Eddings - The Belgariad series , The Malloreon series, the Belgariad/Malloreon prequel books, The Elenium series, but NOT the Tamuli Series, and NOT any of his new stuff.

Yah, I really liked David Eddings. I even like the newer stuff. Not quite as good, but not too bad.

David Gerrold - War against the Chtorr series is some pretty good sci-fi.

 

[tdog44632]

Try something by
H. Beam Piper.
Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Joe Haldeman

 

[Dulanic]

Im always shocked I dont see it brought up more.... Raymond E. Feist, the Riftwar series is probably the best fantasy books I have read.

 

[yankeesfan]

Harry Potter. Seriously. (You probably have heard of it, though)

 

[MrPickins]

Try The Stories of Ray Bradbury.

100 of Bradbury's best short stories, many I have never found anywhere else. It oughta keep you busy for at least a little while.

 

[dsfunk]

didn't see this mentioned yet...

His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

 

[Savarak]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Anything by Neil Gaiman
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series (and the Shadow series)

ok people... Listen to this man...

 

[Buttzilla]

Originally posted by: Dulanic
Im always shocked I dont see it brought up more.... Raymond E. Feist, the Riftwar series is probably the best fantasy books I have read.

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[MaxDepth]

When Democrate Rule the World
Pretty much fantasy I have never heard of...




Alternate reality fiction? The first trilogy should be out in paper back. "If the South Had Won the Civil War."
I am reading the first book of the next trilogy. It is set in the 40s and contiunes where the first trilogy left off.

Also for SciFi - try reading the Stephan Donaldson Gap Series. The first one, The Real Story, is very short but it sets the whole stage for the next books. It is just as thought provoking as the "This is the Way the World Ends." (forgot who authored that)

 

[Horus]

Originally posted by: Wag
I've read alot of the classics. Dune, Foundation, 2001, LOTR, etc. Looking for something new.

Read the Dune prequels. They're amazing.

Dune: House Atreides, House Harkonnen and House Corrino
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, The Machine Crusade, The Battle for Corrin