Sci-Fi books

pc · 2008-12-29, 10:55 AM

I just finished reading Giant Series by J.P Hogan
I'm looking for more.Any recommendations ?
Sci-Fi or Rpg is

Maya · 2008-12-29, 01:44 PM

I found The Saga of Seven Suns very entertaining and Larry Niven's Ringworld is really great in a weird way

If it doesn't have to be actual space-type sci-fi, I can highly recommend (sp?) The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I listened (on audiobooks) my way through this amazing story (all seven books) twice in the last two years while doing my webmastering...
Damn how a workday goes by in no time, when you have a great book running in the headset

tickler · 2008-12-29, 01:55 PM

Hubbard's dekalogy Mission Earth was funny as hell!

The Rama series, and Hell Worlds series were also some pretty good reading.

I can't remember the name of another series. The aliens had 2 smaller right hands, and a larger left hand. All their logic was 3 sided.
This or that, vs. on the other hand

bluebrit · 2008-12-29, 02:29 PM

Depends on what you like really. Asimovs foundation series is good and so is E. E. Smith's Lensman series. If you want something more myth and magic go for Raymond E. Fiest magician series, that's very good.

Maya · 2008-12-29, 02:29 PM

I actually forgot to post my all time favourite sci-fi series...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos by Dan Simmons

MeatPounder · 2008-12-29, 02:30 PM

Not really sci-fi, more fantasy, but one of the best series ever is The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

Bill · 2008-12-29, 06:58 PM

I've been DEVOURING the Neal Asher books, the Polity universe and his other books, they are excellent.

Kinda hard sf with a space opera feel.

Reading Hilldiggers right now - sadly, I've almost finished everything he's written. Luckily he had over a dozen books - a great discovery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Asher

http://theskinner.blogspot.com/

I like the brit sf writers - Asher, Peter Hamilton, Alaistair Reynolds - good stuff.

Just bought myself a big box of sf from amazon for the solstice - yumm!

Richard Morgan has written some fun stuff, and of course you gotta read Bruce Sterling, Neal Stepenson, William Gibson, and that oldschool cyberpunk crew.

For easier reading, in a kinda milsf genre, Steve Perry and William Dietz.

Ahhhh, it's so sad, I've read almost everything you can get... Now I have to wait bout 3 years to let the new books catch up.

Lemmy · 2008-12-29, 08:32 PM

I really liked Peter F Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy (which is published in 6 volumes if you live in the US).

Like others here I also liked Asimov's Foundation series and Niven's Ringworld.

pc · 2008-12-29, 09:11 PM

WOW.I'm not alone.

I need to take a closer look but Larry Niven and Neal Asher looks interesting.
Thanks again.

Mr Spock · 2008-12-30, 12:03 AM

Don't forget the classics and you know which series of books I mean

SheepGuy · 2008-12-30, 03:23 AM

Kilgore Trout's Tralfamadore Series is excellent, though hard to find. The farting and tap dancing mix well with the 9 iron chip shots and the homosexual midget barstool prophets, who actually predicted the end of the auto industry.
Other than that, anything by John Wyndham is great!

Simon · 2008-12-30, 06:54 AM

Just in case you missed these...

"Stranger in a Strange Land" and many others by Robert A. Heinlein

"Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card (and if you like those, there's Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, and A War of Gifts...and other books not in that series).

spacemanspiff · 2008-12-30, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by tickler

Hubbard's dekalogy Mission Earth was funny as hell!

The Rama series, and Hell Worlds series were also some pretty good reading.

I can't remember the name of another series. The aliens had 2 smaller right hands, and a larger left hand. All their logic was 3 sided.
This or that, vs. on the other hand

The Mote in Gods Eye and The Gripping Hand. Pretty good.

Useless · 2008-12-30, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by SheepGuy

Kilgore Trout's Tralfamadore Series is excellent, though hard to find. The farting and tap dancing mix well with the 9 iron chip shots and the homosexual midget barstool prophets, who actually predicted the end of the auto industry.

Damn you. My reply was going to be, "anything by Kilgore Trout."

Jim · 2008-12-30, 09:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simon

"Stranger in a Strange Land" and many others by Robert A. Heinlein

One of my very favorite books.

MeatPounder · 2008-12-30, 01:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jim

One of my very favorite books.

I Grok that

MadCat · 2008-12-30, 02:03 PM

This whole series:

Coyote: A novel of Interstellar Exploration
Coyote Rising
Coyote Frontier
Spindrift

All by Allen Steele

tickler · 2008-12-30, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by spacemanspiff

The Mote in Gods Eye and The Gripping Hand. Pretty good.

THX, I had forgotten the titles & will have to give them another read some day.

Another silly series that I liked was the Xanth series.

Xanth, the magical world from the mind of Piers Anthony. Where everyone has a magical talent, from making spots appear on a wall to controlling the weather. Those with "Magician caliber" talent become the King.
http://www.piers-anthony.com/xanth.html

Alan Dean Foster is another writer that comes to mind. Mainly for his Flinx(and his mini-dragon) series.

pc · 2008-12-30, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Damn you. My reply was going to be, "anything by Kilgore Trout."

Is Kurt Vonnegut is the author of series ?
I can give a shot.
How do I start with this, is every book about different stuff or they are connected with each other and then I should start reading title #1 ?

Cleo · 2008-12-30, 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simon

"Stranger in a Strange Land" and many others by Robert A. Heinlein

Quote:

Originally Posted by MeatPounder

I Grok that

One of my favorite books growing up.

I was a big time Scifi reader growing up and still love Scifi but spending all day at the computer has for the most part killed reading novels for me.

In the last ten years or so about the only books I've read is the second part of Ring World and a book called Chimera that I did enjoy very much.

I just finish watching the directors cut of Dark City tonight. I've seen Dark City a few times already but wanted to check out the directors cut which turned out to be a nice release while not messing with the story.

Useless · 2008-12-30, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pclit

Is Kurt Vonnegut is the author of series ?
I can give a shot.
How do I start with this, is every book about different stuff or they are connected with each other and then I should start reading title #1 ?

Vonnegut mentions the fictional science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout, in many of his novels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilgore_Trout
Vonnegut began as a science fiction writer himself, and many of his novels have odd science fiction aspects seamlessly woven into them, but I wouldn't call him a science fiction writer. If he was, I wouldn't read him. (No offense to lovers of science fiction -- simply not my cup of tea.)

Simon · 2008-12-31, 07:06 AM

Jim, MeatPounder, Cleo -- may you never thirst.

Cleo - all day at the computer has done the same to me, I used to devour about a book a day but now when I'm done reading and writing at the screens all day, I don't feel like doing the work of reading. I want entertainment that doesn't require me to do the imagining.

UW - I read a lot of science-fiction when I was very young, kind of cowboys and indians in space kinds of things. But I eventually found the dividing like and stepped over into 'spec-fic' or speculative fiction. There's a big yawning divide between the two for many readers.

Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury's Farenheit 451 are called sci-fi by some, but they're really examples of spec-fic. Many include Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 in the top 50 sci-fi books, but it's more spec-fic too.

Anyone else here remember the great old Ace Doubles? Two books in one, two covers, you turned it over to read the other story.

--
"If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double", an editor once remarked, "it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as ‘Master of Chaos’ and the New Testament as ‘The Thing With Three Souls.’" – Charles McGrath, New York Times

Useless · 2008-12-31, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Simon

Many include Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 in the top 50 sci-fi books, but it's more spec-fic too.

Slaugherhouse Five was the first of Vonnegut's books that I've read and it's probably the one I've enjoyed the most so far. Though the protagonist is kidnapped by aliens and is tossed around by the shifting of time, it's still very, I don't know, grounded, I guess. So it goes.

Simon · 2008-12-31, 07:30 AM

"You were sick, now you're better, there's work to be done." - Kilgore Trout (Timequake)

"You were sick, now you're better, time to quit." - Simon, UW, Robert, et al

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Elias · 2009-01-03, 11:45 PM

Stainless Steel Rat by Harrison is my all-time favorite... used to be a great sci-fi fan when I was a kid... now more into fantasy... less tech

2008-12-29, 01:44 PM	#2
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2008-12-29, 02:29 PM	#5
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2008-12-29, 08:32 PM	#8
Lemmy You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Next door to a kid with a moped. Posts: 1,492	I really liked Peter F Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy (which is published in 6 volumes if you live in the US). Like others here I also liked Asimov's Foundation series and Niven's Ringworld. __________________ BUY MY PORNSITES!

2008-12-30, 03:23 AM	#11
SheepGuy It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 2,527	Kilgore Trout's Tralfamadore Series is excellent, though hard to find. The farting and tap dancing mix well with the 9 iron chip shots and the homosexual midget barstool prophets, who actually predicted the end of the auto industry. Other than that, anything by John Wyndham is great! __________________ If the Environment was a bank, they would have saved it by now.

2008-12-29, 10:55 AM	#1
pc Shift Out / X-On Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: unknown Posts: 2,298	Sci-Fi books I just finished reading Giant Series by J.P Hogan I'm looking for more.Any recommendations ? Sci-Fi or Rpg is Last edited by pc; 2008-12-29 at 10:56 AM.. Reason: no "star wars" please

2008-12-29, 02:29 PM	#4
bluebrit Along for the ride and loving it. Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,873	Depends on what you like really. Asimovs foundation series is good and so is E. E. Smith's Lensman series. If you want something more myth and magic go for Raymond E. Fiest magician series, that's very good.

2008-12-29, 02:30 PM	#6
MeatPounder Women might be able to fake orgasms But men can fake whole relationships Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Fort Lauderdale, Fl Posts: 2,408	Not really sci-fi, more fantasy, but one of the best series ever is The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

2008-12-29, 06:58 PM	#7
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	I've been DEVOURING the Neal Asher books, the Polity universe and his other books, they are excellent. Kinda hard sf with a space opera feel. Reading Hilldiggers right now - sadly, I've almost finished everything he's written. Luckily he had over a dozen books - a great discovery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Asher http://theskinner.blogspot.com/ I like the brit sf writers - Asher, Peter Hamilton, Alaistair Reynolds - good stuff. Just bought myself a big box of sf from amazon for the solstice - yumm! Richard Morgan has written some fun stuff, and of course you gotta read Bruce Sterling, Neal Stepenson, William Gibson, and that oldschool cyberpunk crew. For easier reading, in a kinda milsf genre, Steve Perry and William Dietz. Ahhhh, it's so sad, I've read almost everything you can get... Now I have to wait bout 3 years to let the new books catch up.

2008-12-29, 09:11 PM	#9
pc Shift Out / X-On Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: unknown Posts: 2,298	WOW.I'm not alone. I need to take a closer look but Larry Niven and Neal Asher looks interesting. Thanks again.

2008-12-30, 12:03 AM	#10
Mr Spock You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Vulcan Posts: 695	Don't forget the classics and you know which series of books I mean

2008-12-30, 06:54 AM	#12
Simon That which does not kill us, will try, try again. Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Conch Republic Posts: 5,150	Just in case you missed these... "Stranger in a Strange Land" and many others by Robert A. Heinlein "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card (and if you like those, there's Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, and A War of Gifts...and other books not in that series). __________________ "If you're happy and you know it, think again." -- Guru Pitka

2008-12-30, 02:03 PM	#17
MadCat If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Posts: 247	This whole series: Coyote: A novel of Interstellar Exploration Coyote Rising Coyote Frontier Spindrift All by Allen Steele __________________ What's blue and not heavy?

2008-12-31, 07:06 AM	#22
Simon That which does not kill us, will try, try again. Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Conch Republic Posts: 5,150	Jim, MeatPounder, Cleo -- may you never thirst. Cleo - all day at the computer has done the same to me, I used to devour about a book a day but now when I'm done reading and writing at the screens all day, I don't feel like doing the work of reading. I want entertainment that doesn't require me to do the imagining. UW - I read a lot of science-fiction when I was very young, kind of cowboys and indians in space kinds of things. But I eventually found the dividing like and stepped over into 'spec-fic' or speculative fiction. There's a big yawning divide between the two for many readers. Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury's Farenheit 451 are called sci-fi by some, but they're really examples of spec-fic. Many include Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 in the top 50 sci-fi books, but it's more spec-fic too. Anyone else here remember the great old Ace Doubles? Two books in one, two covers, you turned it over to read the other story. -- "If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double", an editor once remarked, "it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as ‘Master of Chaos’ and the New Testament as ‘The Thing With Three Souls.’" – Charles McGrath, New York Times __________________ "If you're happy and you know it, think again." -- Guru Pitka

2008-12-31, 07:30 AM	#24
Simon That which does not kill us, will try, try again. Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Conch Republic Posts: 5,150	"You were sick, now you're better, there's work to be done." - Kilgore Trout (Timequake) "You were sick, now you're better, time to quit." - Simon, UW, Robert, et al \| __________________ "If you're happy and you know it, think again." -- Guru Pitka

2009-01-03, 11:45 PM	#25
Elias Heh Heh Heh! Lisa! Vampires are make believe, just like elves and gremlins and eskimos! Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 76	Stainless Steel Rat by Harrison is my all-time favorite... used to be a great sci-fi fan when I was a kid... now more into fantasy... less tech __________________ Adult Games Partners - Best-selling Adult Flash Games, up to $35 sign-up bonus!