Recommend me sci fi and fantasy books

heatherleahy said:
Yeah I was looking at the plot summary for Martin's books, they looks pretty gritty and decent. Although the question is- will he actually finish writing this before he dies?? He seems to be taking absolutely years to be coming up with them and I've heard that the most recent is an absolute let down. What do you reckon, will it pick up again?
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The last book in the series he released (about 4/5 years ago now) was abit of a let down but still pretty good. Apparently he split the last book into two parts as it was so big and as a result all of the main & best characters got left over for the 2nd part which is still being written.

I'm concerned whether he will get them finished especially now that HBO are filming the mini series as we speak but then again that should give him to impetus to finally get them finished.
 
Fenris said:
Take a look at William Gibsons "Sprawl Trilogy", Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive.

All fantastic.

Also Eon by Greg Bear is very good.
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read all of these and loved em, +1

Also another vote for Enders Game, loved the first sequel too (Speaker for the Dead)

Recommend Phillip K Dick (A Scanner Darkly), and of course Arthur C Clarke (Rendezvous with Rama), I love most their stuff.
 
Another vote here for Eon by Greg Bear and it's follow up Eternity.

Then Richard Morgan's Kovac's Trilogy.

I've just finished the first two books in Peter Hamilton’s Void series (The Dreaming Void, The Temporal Void) and the books that precede those in the same timeline, Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained are awesome!

Ender's Game is a good book if you have a short lunch hour at work. It’s pretty easy reading but an entertaining story.
 
Agree with a lots of what been said

Also

Alan Dean Foster - Spell Singer series (for fantasy laughs)

Iain M Banks - Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons, Against a Dark Back Ground, Player of Games for sci fi. He has others but would start with these to see if you like.

Mickey Zucker Reichert - Renshai books. Lots of good stuff here.

Eric Van Lustbader - Sunset Warrior Cycle for fantasy (he also does some good Ninja books)

Word of warning on Stephen King Dark Tower series - the first three books are good then gets steadily worse with Song of Susannah being totally toilet - couldn't face the last book in the series it was that bad. I've read a lot of books that were not great but this was something new in the realms of awful.
 
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Nauggie said:
Agree with a lots of what been said


Word of warning on Stephen King Dark Tower series - the first three books are good then gets steadily worse with Song of Susannah being totally toilet - couldn't face the last book in the series it was that bad. I've read a lot of books that were not great but this was something new in the realms of awful.
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thats a bit harsh..... there not upto the opening books but toilet?
 
capriboy1978 said:
thats a bit harsh..... there not upto the opening books but toilet?
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Without giving it out spoilers what he did in that book broke rules and really ruined the whole thing for me.

Though I can see people would say it was really clever and inventive. Personally I see it as ego masturbation.

But I think in the final books he was struggling to fulfil the promise of the start. I'll never know as I honestly can't face the final book after the literary device he pulled in Song of Susannah.
 
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series if you want fantasy combined with lols, no other author has ever made me actually laugh out load. Love his books!
 
Reza86 said:
The Nights Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton, absolutely awesome trilogy.
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Be very careful with these, they are not easy books to read, however if you get into them they are spectacular.

It took me something like a year to read The Reality Disfunction because I kept putting it down for a few weeks and forgetting vast sections of it and having to go back.
 
Another vote for Ender's Game. Simple but engaging, character-driven storytelling.

Also:
Ubik - Philip K dick
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Gateway - Frederick Pohl
The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov

To me all fantastic books in their own way. All sci-fi I'm afraid, as I don't really know fantasy (well, not since I read the Dragonlance books, Raymond E Feist and David Eddings when I was a teenager).
 
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