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

[Wag]

I've read alot of the classics. Dune, Foundation, 2001, LOTR, etc. Looking for something new.

 

[xeno2060]

David Brin's Earth Clan series

 

[Wag]

Originally posted by: xeno2060
David Brins Earth Clan series

Tried reading his Mars book and hated it, this any better?

 

[BigJ]

The FarSeer Triology by Robin Hobb
Dragonlance series by Weis and Hickmann
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin
The Drizzt series by R.A. Salvatore

 

[xeno2060]

Originally posted by: Wag

Originally posted by: xeno2060
David Brins Earth Clan series

Tried reading his Mars book and hated it, this any better?

Oh Yeah! Though I would recommend starting with the second book
Startide Rising

 

[psiu]

Originally posted by: BigJ
The FarSeer Triology by Robin Hobb
Dragonlance series by Weis and Hickmann
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin
The Drizzt series by R.A. Salvatore

Just read the Farseer Trilogy. Good stuff, reading the Liveship Traders series now.


Also recommend the Stark trilogy by John G. Hemry.

The Dragoncrown War trilogy and prequel by Michael Stackpole. Talion: Revenant is also good.

Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.

The Reality Dysfunction, Neutronium Alchemist, and Naked God series (6 books in all, 2 of each name) is good, by Peter F. Hamilton.


Edit: I was never really into the "fantasy" genre much until I started reading some of Michael Stackpole's books. He has also written Battletech, I think it is, and more importantly, the Star Wars X-Wing books. He had a plea for readers to try some of his other books, probably back in 2000 or 2001, which got put up on Theforce.net.

Saw it, found some of the boooks *wait, no, had to order them* and have branched out since then.

It is mentioned in the acknowledgements of "When Dragons Rage" about the readers who bought a fantasy book.

Wow, I mentioned fantasy and Star Wars in the same post. Do I get my nerd card yet?

 

[DaveSimmons]

SF & Science Fantasy:

David Brin - Startide Rising
Brian Daley - Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds (worth buying used at Amazon)
David Drake - Cross the Stars, Caught In The Crossfire, The Forge (and many others)
Keith Laumer - Retief!, The Compleat Bolo, A Plague of Demons & Other Stories
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - Partners in Necessity
Julian May - The Many-Colored Land
E. E. "Doc" Smith - Lensmen series
James Schmitz - Telzey Amberdon
David Weber - On Basilisk Station, Empire From the Ashes

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: BigJ
The FarSeer Triology by Robin Hobb
Dragonlance series by Weis and Hickmann
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin
The Drizzt series by R.A. Salvatore

I'd smack you if you were next to me for mentioning Drangonlance and Drizzt next to martin.

 

[Iron Woode]

Anything involving Bolos. :thumbsup:

 

[Gunbuster]

Peter F. Hamilton

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Anything involving Bolos. :thumbsup:

The rest of Keith Launer's work is worth reading too. Baen has been releasing new combined editions for his works like they did for James Schmitz, some very good stories in them.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Anything involving Bolos. :thumbsup:

The rest of Keith Launer's work is worth reading too. Baen has been releasing new combined editions for his works like they did for James Schmitz, some very good stories in them.

I know, but I like Bolos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[LanEvoVI]

Steven Erikson's A Malazan Tale of the Book of the Fallen

The first book in that series is called Gardens of the Moon...a lot of people who like George R.R. Martin end up liking Erikson's books also.

 

[Wag]

I've read alot of the suggestions. I especially liked Robin Hobb's work.

Suprised nobody mentioned any of Gene Wolfe's stuff. He blew my mind.:shocked:

Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[theblackbox]

John Steakley Armour
Kim Newman Anno Dracula
Anything Joe Lansdale

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: theblackbox
John Steakley Armour
Kim Newman Anno Dracula
Anything Joe Lansdale

Armor was great stuff, and his Vampire$ was much better than the movie John Carpenter made of it.

Also second Peter Hamilton's Reality Dysfunction epic, and forgot to mention:

Stephen Baxter - Manifold: Time, Manifold: Space
C.J. Cherryh - The Morgaine Saga, Alternate Realities: Port Eternity/Voyager in Night/Wave Without a Shore
L.E. Modesitt, Jr. - Timediver's World
Larry Niven - Known Space books, including Ringworld
Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates, On Stranger Tides (fantasy)

and yes, Gene Wolfe has written very good stuff too, but mostly fantasy and I was listing SF.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
SF & Science Fantasy:

David Brin - Startide Rising
Brian Daley - Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds (worth buying used at Amazon)
David Drake - Cross the Stars, Caught In The Crossfire, The Forge (and many others)
Keith Laumer - Retief!, The Compleat Bolo, A Plague of Demons & Other Stories
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - Partners in Necessity
Julian May - The Many-Colored Land
E. E. "Doc" Smith - Lensmen series
James Schmitz - Telzey Amberdon
David Weber - On Basilisk Station, Empire From the Ashes

julian may is my favorite among the less talked about scifi series.

 

[thedarkwolf]

I don't read alot of that stuff but

Lisle, Holly Diplomacy of Wolves series
Lumley, Brian Hero of Dreams series, House of Doors series, and his Titus Crow series and maybe even his Necroscope series. Not straight sci-fi/fantasy but close and really good.
Turtledove, Harry World War series. Its more of a what if series but its a what if aliens invaded during WWII so it fits and is pretty good.

 

[jlee]

Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time" series..

 

[StevenYoo]

Originally posted by: LanEvoVI
Steven Erikson's A Malazan Tale of the Book of the Fallen

The first book in that series is called Gardens of the Moon...a lot of people who like George R.R. Martin end up liking Erikson's books also.

this series is seconded.

after reading this series, nothing else is ever the same.

also recommend

Liam Hearn - Otori Trilogy
anything Terry Pratchett
Glen Cook - Black Company series
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.

 

[TranceNation]

Babylon 5, it kicks *ss

 

[CanOWorms]

John Gothart's Trisexual 4th Dimensional Sex Slaves of Aborax

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
John Gothart's Trisexual 4th Dimensional Sex Slaves of Aborax

I thought that was by Kilgore Trout?

 

[TreyRandom]

Here are some series you might want to check out. All are multiple-book sets, none are singles. Those marked with [*] are must-reads.

Piers Anthony: Incarnations of Immortality [*], Bio of a Space Tyrant, Apprentice Adept
Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game [*] , Prentice Alvin, Homecoming
Stephen R. Donaldson: First, Second and Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant [*], Gap, Mordant's Need
Roger Zelazny: Amber Dekalogy [*]
Various (edited by George R. R. Martin): Wild Cards
Lyndon Hardy: Master of the Five Magics / Secret of the Sixth Magic / Riddle of the Seven Realms
and another vote for Eddings earlier series

If you need assistance with the titles of each book in a series, just shoot me a PM.

 

[AAman]

read Startide Rising by David Brin as rec'd above, but you MUST read the Uplift War at the same time (the two novels take place at the same time in different places). The second time I read them, I would shift back and forth from one to the next in the correct chronological sequence, it was an even better read - 'guerrilla war' lmfao

Also, the GRR Martin series mentioned above is truly amazing- it has so many threads and sub-plots my head gets dizzy just imagining it.

Never, ever read the 'Worldwar' series by Turtledove, you will never get those hours back- Turtledove just gets worse year by year, his early stuff was truly amazing though, Agent of Byzantium is a great collection to start out with.

If you want pure entertainment, read 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, it is a descriptive juggernaut
that will have you laughing for hours (especially if you are familiar with Southern California and realize the novel was written 15 years ago).

Dragonlance- read the Chronicles and Legends, and then read nothing else ever (same for the Drizzt novels, read the first 2 trilogies, then skip the rest)

Thieves World- read the original 12 novels only, the definitive best anthology series ever (each chapter is written by different authors with new and recurring characters)

I've got a couple of thousand novels in storage, but all that's a good start- oh, read William Gibson's Neuromancer trilogy, and nothing he did later.

Robert Heinlein- he had over a hundred novels, a couple of dozen are good reads indeed (Number of the Beast, and of course Stranger in a Strange land is in the top 10 all time great sci-fi novels)

ok, if that's not enough, let me know