Your top 10 Sci-fi/Fantasy books you've ever read

[Doboji]

Doesnt have to be in order... can list a series... doesnt have to be an individual book

1) Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov
2) Dune - Frank Herbert(after the 3rd book it gets funky)
3) Coldfire Trilogy - C.S. Freidman
4) Neuromancer - William Gibson
5) Enders Game - Orson Scott Card
6) A fire upon the deep, a deepness in the sky - Vernon Vinge
7) Snowcrash - Neal Stephenson
8)

Need to think of the rest...

-Max

 

[JDrake]

I don't think I've read that many

 

[MisterJackson]

Originally posted by: JDrake
I don't think I've read that many

such a useful contribution you make to these forums.......:roll:

I was a big fan of the DragonLance series back when they first came out.

 

[mryellow2]

1. The entire Farseer series - Robin Hobb

2. Magician Apprentice/Master - Raymond E. Feist

3. The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher

4. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

5. Memory, Sorrow, Thorn - Tad Williams

6.

 

[kirkaptain]

You start a thread, ask for 10, and can only give 7 yourself?

EDIT
0: A Scanner Darkly (FK Dick)
1: Red Mars trilogy (KS Robinson)
2: Snow Crash (Stephenson)
3: Perdido Street Station (China Miéville)
4: Sprawl trilogy (Gibson)
5: Bridge trilogy (Gibson)
6: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Heinlein)
7: Flatland (Abbott)
8: 1984 (Orwell)
9: Neverwhere (Gaiman)

 

[Doboji]

Originally posted by: mryellow2
1. The entire Farseer series - Robin Hobb

2. Magician Apprentice/Master - Raymond E. Feist

3. The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher

4. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

5. Memory, Sorrow, Thorn - Tad Williams

6.

One of my coworkers here is into the Dresden Files... it looked kinda corny to me... it was really that good huh?

-Max

 

[Doboji]

Originally posted by: kirkaptain
You start a thread, ask for 10, and can only give 7 yourself?

Well hopefully someone can list the one's I can't remember off the top of my head, then I will fill them in, edit my post, and noone will ever know the wiser...

that was until your smartass foiled my demonic plans...

-Max

 

[NatePo717]

I'm a Terry Pratchett fan. Basically any one of his books would work. Specifically any of them regarding the night watch and UU from the Diskworld Series. I'd have to say my favorite one was the one where snowglobes turned into shopping carts which built a mall that ate people and the senior wizzards started playing commando to take the mall down... I can't remember which book that was in though There's too many books...

These books are like a recreation of the world we live in now only blown way out of proportion with lots of sarcasm and humor.

 

[z42]

1) Aasimov; Robot series
2) Aasimov; Foundation series
3) Feist; Magician/Riftwar
4) Weis and Hickman; Death Gate Cycle
5) Card; Ender's Game
6) Martin; Song of Fire and Ice series

Things get more dicey here as some books in series are great and other's not as great...

7) Salvatore; Drizz't series
8) Eddings; Belgariad
9) Jordan; Wheel of Time
10) Goodkind; Sword of Truth

I'm probably forgetting some, but all of these series are incredible. I placed Aasimov at the top because his books appeal to almost everyone I have talked to that read them, not solely to fans of sci-fi or fantasy.

 

[slicksilver]

Enders Game - Orson Scott Card

great book indeed

 

[mundane]

1) Richard K Morgan: Takeshi Kovacs series (Altered Carbon, Broken Angles, Woken Furies)
2) Snow Crash / Neuromancer
3) Vernor Vinge's Fire Upon the Deep / Realtime series
4) Herbert's Dune universe
5) Gaiman - Neverwhere (American Gods wasn't bad, either)
6) China Mievelle - Perdido Street Station 'series' (The Scar, Iron Council, etc)
7) Peter Hamilton
8) Greg Bear (military grade nano, anyone?)
9) David Brin
10) an honorable mention to DragonLance, which kept me engrossed through Jr. High.

 

[trmiv]

In no particular order:
Snow Crash
Bridge of Birds
March to the Sea, March Upcountry, March to the Stars

 

[torpid]

Not really sure of the order, but:

Rendezvous With Rama
Dune series (NOT including the lame stuff by his kids)
Book of the New Sun series by Wolfe
LOTR
Hyperion series
Brave New World

Guilty Pleasure: Weis & Hickman stuff

 

[KeithTalent]

LOTR

1984

Plus a lot of the Dragonlance/Forgotten Realms stufff when I was a kid...loved that stuff.

 

[TheAudit]

Originally posted by: trmiv
March to the Sea, March Upcountry, March to the Stars

No We Few?

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: TheAudit

Originally posted by: trmiv
March to the Sea, March Upcountry, March to the Stars

No We Few?

Never got around to reading those, any good?

 

[Zysoclaplem]

1. The Eye of the World
2. Wizard's First Rule
3. The Dragon Reborn
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
5. Game of Thrones
6. Faith of the Fallen
7. Black Sun Rising
8. The Gunslinger
9. When True Night Falls
10. Clash of Kings

 

[Legendary]

LotR, 1984 (not sure how this fits the category, but I've seen it mentioned), Ender's Game, Childhood's End

 

[GagHalfrunt]

1) George RR Martin - Song of Fire and Ice series
2) Douglas Adams - H2G2 series
3) Tolkien - Hobbit/LOTR series
4) Raymond Feist - Riftwar series
5) David Eddings - Belgariad/Mallorean series
6) Fred Saberhagen - The "Swords" series
7) Weis and Hickman - The Deathgate series
8) Thomas Mallory - Le Morte D'Arthur
9) Niven and Pournelle - Lucifer's Hammer
10) Asimov - Foundation series

 

[clamum]

1984
Brave New World

I read most of Snowcrash a while back but didn't finish it, and I don't remember a lot of it. I need to re-read it, and I want to read Neuromancer also.

 

[NeoV]

Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson - a look at man's attempt to transform/colonize Mars

The Mote in God's Eye - Niven & Pournelle - Mankind's first contact with an Alien Race, sequel is called "The Gripping Hand"
These 2 are excellent writers - also recommend "Footfall", a War of the Worlds type story by them

Greg Benford is my favoriate Sci-Fi author, along with Arthur C Clarke - they collaborated on "Beyond the Fall of Night", which is excellent.
His Galactic Center series are all very good as well.

Nightfall, by Isaac Asimov, my favorite book by him, would make a great movie too.

David Brin is another good author

My all-time Fav is "The Boat of a Million Years" by Poul Anderson - sort of a Highlander-like story about a group of Immortals, traces their story from man's early history to it's future, it's great

 

[samgau]

The "Mars" trilogy is pretty good...

will edit later with a list...

 

[shamgar03]

C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy is really freaken good, but can be somewhat of a tough read (can be heady at times).
L. Ron Hubard's Battlefield Earth (yes I know the movie sucked)
Dune was pretty entertaining as well, its one of those series I am meaning to finish but haven't gotten to yet

 

[joinT]

1 Tolkien - Hobbit/LOTR series
2 C.S. Lewis - Narnia series
3 Weis/Hickman - Chronicles/Twins/etc. from Dragonlance
4 Salvatore - Drizz't series
5 Eddings - Belgariad/Mallorean/etc. & Elenium/Tamuli
6 Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow, Thorn
7 L.E. Modesitt Jr. - Recluce series
8 Douglas Adams - H2G2 series
9 Garth Nix - Sabriel series
10 George RR Martin - Song of Fire & Ice series

I essentially will re-read these books anytime something reminds me of them..

Originally posted by: z42
Things get more dicey here as some books in series are great and other's not as great...
9) Jordan; Wheel of Time
10) Goodkind; Sword of Truth

Agreed on the last two. Jordan I gave up on at book 6. Goodkind book 4.

 

[TheAudit]

Originally posted by: trmiv

Originally posted by: TheAudit

Originally posted by: trmiv
March to the Sea, March Upcountry, March to the Stars

No We Few?

Never got around to reading those, any good?

It received good reviews but I was slightly disappointed with it.
If you read the first three, you should definitely read the conclusion.