Sci-fi novel recommendation thread

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Am I the only person here who thinks Asimov's Foundation series is absolutely abysmal?

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is superb.

Enders Game is really good. The sequels are quite uninteresting though.

[Q Classic]

As far as the Dune series. For the love of God Emperor, don't read past Children of Dune. Heck, I don't know if I'd recommend it past Dune itself.

Avoid like the plague anything with "Brian Herbert" on the cover, too.

[Zoid]

Dune

Brian Herbert

[Ming]

Originally posted by Kamrat X
Dune

Brian Herbert

Brian Herbert -> Dune Lite

[Q Classic]

offensive language, but true nonetheless.

[Adrian Hon]

Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Everything past Xenocide

[Ari Rahikkala]

I've done this in pretty much every sci-fi novel recommendation thread I've posted in this far, so I'll do it here, too..

Startide Rising by David Brin.

I'll give a to Dragon's Egg, too, despite the fact that the beginning is absolutely horrible, mostly because all of the human characters are absolutely horrible...

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Recently, I discovered Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Gibsonesque, but jazzier. Very, very good.

Snow Crash, to me, is his best I've read. Stephenson seems to have a problem ending his stories, though.

I recommend Gibson's Burning Chrome, a collection of his short stories. I find it better than his later work, though Nueromancer is wonderful.

Ursla Le Guinn's The Dispossessed is quite good.

I recommend Kevin McLeod's Stone Canal series, though others don't liie him so much. He's a commie, though, and I think his work's pretty good.

[Atahualpa]

Hyperion & Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Best scifi book ever!

Then I can also recommend pretty much any Asimov, though the Foundation Series is probably the best.
Haldeman's "The Forever War" is another good one.

[Lord_Icewind]

Look, I can't remember the author and I don't have the book, but I really like the "Reality Disfunction" series...they're all great!
I might as well add that I also like most of Asimov (and that includes the Foundation and sequels/presequels), as well as Arthur C. Clarke, specially his 2001(and etc) series.
BTW, does anybody know if the books of "Isaac's Universe" had a continuation? I only have book 1, and its sooo good...in a few words, Asimov invented a human and alien universe, and gave it to some authors to do whatever they wanted...the outcome, I think, is pretty good.

[JohnT]

Look, I can't remember the author and I don't have the book, but I really like the "Reality Disfunction" series...they're all great!

Peter F. Hamilton. Possibly the best space-opera writer today (except for maybe Alastair Reynolds).

[Ming]

Originally posted by Lord_Icewind
Look, I can't remember the author and I don't have the book, but I really like the "Reality Disfunction" series...they're all great!

Peter F. Hamilton
(The Reality Dysfunction. 1996)
(The Neutronium Alchemist. 1997)
(The Naked God. 1999)

A great trilogy! One of the best SF authors out there right now.

[rah]

Yes, after reading this series, I checked out some of his earlier stuff.

[JohnT]

Yeah, but he's a sorry ****er. Dumb SOB is releasing the sequel to his current series... in January 2006. I read the first novel the week it was released in hardback: March 2004.

Name of the first book is Pandora's Star, and it is some of the most fun space opera I've ever read. I'm just fuggin salivating over the next one, and I literally shouted "oh no!" when I found out that the book was not coming out for another year.

I recommend it highly.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'm sure you've read "Foundation" trilogy, but if you haven't, you owe it to yourself to do so (BEST. TRILOGY. EVAR.)

"Rendevous with Rama" is perhaps my favorite sci-fi book, but I've heard the rest of the series sucks.