Good Sci-fi book needed

[alibaba]

I am a sci-fi nut, I really like books like "War of the Worlds" and stuff like that. Also more Crichton style stuff is cool, nanotech sci-fi. Any good ones you guys have read?

[NitLion]

One of my favorites: Way Station (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882968271/ref=pd_lpo_k2a_1_img/103-5862965-5738264?%5Fencoding=UTF8) by Clifford Simak

[DepDuke]

Here's a few you should like:

The "Atlantis" series by Greg Donegan
and the "Area 51" line from Robert Doherty.

Science mixed in with some history, mixed in with military type action. Give them a read.

[elcuchillo]

"Way Station" was good, but if you are into classics Like WOTW I would try out Robert Heinleins stuff, like "Starship Troopers". Assimovs Robot Stories are good, you can usually get the best of them in a single collection.

Personal Favorites are Alfred Besters "Demolished Man" or "The Stars My Destination" A little off the beaten path for some, but I loved em both.

I'll try to think of some newer authors that I enjoy. Frankly most of my newer authors are fantasy or thrillers (Jordan and Goodkind fantasy or DeMille and Sanford for thrillers).

Good Reading!

El

[AnimalK]

Matt Reilly's "Area 7", "Ice Limit", and "Scarecrow".

"Contest" is an interesting SciFi "Gladiator Games" type read by the same author (His first work).

[Taipei Personality]

Michael Z. Williamson - "Freehold" and "The Weapon"

Robert Heinlein - "Beyond This Horizon" and "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", in addition to "Starship Troopers", as mentioned.

L. Neil Smith - anything

*edited to add - my taste runs to a libertarian bent, so these may not work for you if your taste is different.

[woodstove]

Dan Simmons Hyperion series

Tad Williams Otherland seies

any novel by Robert Charles Wilson

[GlockChuck23]

"Dies the Fire" by S.M. Stirling Synopsis:What would people do if technology failed.

"Trading in Danger" Three books in series so far by Elizabet Moon. Suprisingly good read.

If you are into Fantasy/Humor ala Monty Pythonish/Douglas Adams then anything Terry Pratchett.

Some older books if you like military/sci-fi:

Bunch and Cole "Sten" series 5 or 6 books in series.

[bno762]

jennifer government- max berry or barry. lots of action and tongue in cheek kind of humor. also matthew reilly's area 7 and contest were good fun reads.

[Arcangel7769]

For really great epic sci-fi try Battlefield Earth. Yeah, I know the movie sucked big time, but I read the book long before that abortion of a movie ever came out. Just a warning tho. It's an addicting book. Hard to put down. L. Ron Hubbard should stuck to fiction...oh wait...mebbee he did.:alien:

[Egyas]

Originally posted by Arcangel7769
For really great epic sci-fi try Battlefield Earth. Yeah, I know the movie sucked big time, but I read the book long before that abortion of a movie ever came out. Just a warning tho. It's an addicting book. Hard to put down. L. Ron Hubbard should stuck to fiction...oh wait...mebbee he did.:alien:

I would vote for ....

"Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson
"Rune" by Christopher Fowler
"Iris" by William Barton and Michael Capobianco


Be warned however: Iris is an odd book. A wierd mix of hard science and psychological intensity, and some of the subject matter may be disturbing to some readers. It has some really creative ideas however. People seem to either like the book (dispite it's odd combo and some distasteful subject matter), or hate it.

[Kentuckian]

Originally posted by alibaba
I am a sci-fi nut, I really like books like "War of the Worlds" and stuff like that. Also more Crichton style stuff is cool, nanotech sci-fi. Any good ones you guys have read?

It's an older series of books, but the Foundation & Earth series by Isaac Asimov is outstanding.

[Nelybarg]

not necessarily sci-fi, more like tech sci fi...(have also heard it called cyber-punk)

check out the takeshi kovacs series by richard k morgan.
in order: altered carbon, broken angels, woken furies.

definately good stuff.

[copaup]

My favorites

Dune--Frank Herbert
Mote in God's Eye--Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Starship Troopers--Heinlen
Final Encyclopedia--Gordon R. Dickson

I consider the above to be the classics of Sci Fi and nearly required reading. For something a bit newer and very cool read the James Alan Gardner "League of Peoples" novels. Be sure to read them in order. A great mix of satire, solid sci fi, humor, and well hidden social commentary. Think of the League as the Federation, except that humanity is a very junior backwards member that is barely tolerated by the more advanced races. Gardner is probably one of the coolest writers I've come across in a long while, although a couple of his latter books are a bit weaker than the early ones.

Other authors I like a lot:
Jim Butcher (fantasy novels set in modern Chicago)
Douglas Adams (Dude, its Hitchiker's guide)
David Drake (King of Military sci fi)
Issac Asimov (Dude, its Issac friggin Asimov)
Ben Bova (King of "hard" sci fi, and an astrophysicist)

[GlockChuck23]

Originally posted by copaup
My favorites

Dune--Frank Herbert
Mote in God's Eye--Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Starship Troopers--Heinlen
Final Encyclopedia--Gordon R. Dickson

I consider the above to be the classics of Sci Fi and nearly required reading. For something a bit newer and very cool read the James Alan Gardner "League of Peoples" novels. Be sure to read them in order. A great mix of satire, solid sci fi, humor, and well hidden social commentary. Think of the League as the Federation, except that humanity is a very junior backwards member that is barely tolerated by the more advanced races. Gardner is probably one of the coolest writers I've come across in a long while, although a couple of his latter books are a bit weaker than the early ones.

Other authors I like a lot:
Jim Butcher (fantasy novels set in modern Chicago)
Douglas Adams (Dude, its Hitchiker's guide)
David Drake (King of Military sci fi)
Issac Asimov (Dude, its Issac friggin Asimov)
Ben Bova (King of "hard" sci fi, and an astrophysicist)

+1 on all those excellent choices

[GRUMPY357]

TRY ANY THING BY JOHN RINGO.YOU NOT BE SORRY.

[MrMurphy]

Anything by John Ringo.

Also, the entire Honor Harrington series by David Weber (the guy Ringo learned from).

[jacquejet]

Try some Keith Laumer books.

[Squaw Man Wolfer]

I am a big Robert A. Heinlein fan, but I think he went off the deep end after "Stranger In a Strange Land". Everthing before was first rate!

A weird read is Joe Haldeman (sp?) "The Forever War".

Also recommend, as did someone earlier, the Dan Simmons Hyperion series.

[AC37]

Originally posted by MrMurphy
Also, the entire Honor Harrington series by David Weber (the guy Ringo learned from).

Haven't read these personally but I have a few friends who say they're great and they're on my list when my friends locate them. I highly recommend the "Dahak" series by David Weber, which starts with Mutineer's Moon, which you can download and read for free (among many others). Check here: http://www.baen.com/library/

I would actually go so far as to say that so far the Dahak trilogy is by far the best sci-fi work I've ever read, and quite possibly my favorite fictional work ever. Hence why I highly recommend it. :)

[Blackadder]

C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy is fantastic. Perelandra is my favorite of the three.

[MrMurphy]

I started out with the Dahak trilogy and resisted getting sucked into the Honor Harrington series, but I finally relented, and I was glad I did. Weber's good in the Dahak trilogy, he's EXCELLENT in the HH series (now something like 14 books long, I own them all... and am on my eighth read-through of the series).


Ringo's Hell's Faire series is good, funny and written from a real grunt's point of view.

[jason10mm]

You MUST read Peter F. Hamilton. He did the mammoth "Night's Dawn" series, as well as a cyberpunky dectective series and some stand alone books.

Larry Niven ("Mote in God's Eye", etc) is excellent, as is David Brin and Verner Vinge.

[jimmyk]

+1 on Battlefield Earth I reread it every few years

[jason10mm]

I actually really like Battlefield Earth as well. It is MUCH better than the movie and I like Johnny's attitude. Hubbards "Last Lieutenant" is pretty good, as are the first few volumes of the Mission:Earth series. Just stop once it gets too wierd.

[DonGlock26]

Dittos on TFW. The some of the best military Sci-fi that I have ever read.




The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
In the 1970s Joe Haldeman approached more than a dozen different publishers before he finally found one interested in The Forever War. The book went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, although a large chunk of the story had been cut out before it saw publication. Now Haldeman and Avon Books have released the definitive version of The Forever War, published for the first time as Haldeman originally intended. The book tells the timeless story of war, in this case a conflict between humanity and the alien Taurans. Humans first bumped heads with the Taurans when we began using collapsars to travel the stars. Although the collapsars provide nearly instantaneous travel across vast distances, the relativistic speeds associated with the process means that time passes slower for those aboard ship. For William Mandella, a physics student drafted as a soldier, that means more than 27 years will have passed between his first encounter with the Taurans and his homecoming, though he himself will have aged only a year. When Mandella finds that he can't adjust to Earth after being gone so long from home, he reenlists, only to find himself shuttled endlessly from battle to battle as the centuries pass. --Craig E. Engler --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Book Description

Private William Mandella is a hero in spite of himself -- a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, and propelled through space and time to fight in a distant thousand-year conflict. He never wanted to go to war, but the leaders on Earth have drawn a line in the interstellar sand -- despite the fact that their fierce alien enemy is unknowable, unconquerable, and very far away. So Mandella will perform his duties without rancor and even rise up through the military's ranks . . . if he survives. But the true test of his mettle will come when he returns to Earth. Because of the time dilation caused by space travel the loyal soldier is aging months, while his home planet is aging centuries -- and the difference will prove the saying: you never can go home. . .


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060510862/sr=8-1/qid=1151354860/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-9965051-3873545?ie=UTF8

[Anthem]

Just finished "Ilium" by Dan Simmons. One of the best sci-fi books I've read in years.