Recommend me sci-fi/fantasy books

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by ajbera
Oh, for hard sf, Dragon's Egg by Robert Forward.

Dragon's Egg Starquake is quite good too though I don't think it's as good as the first. Flight of the Dragonfly I haven't read.

[Daz]

Stanislav Lem - Invincible, Solaris
The Strugatsky brothers - Its Hard to be God
Ursula LeGuin - Commie SF

The Amber series - except the last 2 books.

[St Leo]

I might as well mention the Book Recommendations page on my site.

[-Jrabbit]

Strongly recmmend the Robert Forward, esp Dragon's Egg.

Try M.A. Foster, The Morphodite. xcellent concept, well written.

I like William Gibson, but it seems that's not your cup of tea.

I'm also a huge Phillip Dick fan. Alternative reality.

Babel-17 by Samuel Delaney is a classic.

The Stainless Steel Rat series, by Harry Harrison is great fun.

Spider Robinson (and for that matter, his wife Jeanne). Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is especially good. There's more as well.

On the Discworld stuff by Pratchett, I recommend just going by copyright date and moving forward. Pratchett's a great satirist and a clever writer, great sense of humor.

Most recently, I started reading Neal Stephenson. Sort of a looser, more freewheeling take on William Gibson's cyber-future. Nicely imagined. Try "Snow Crash."

[Zoid]

I forgot to mention Alastair Reynolds, especially Chasm City. Tech noir crime novel meets space opera sf.

[Jon Miller]

yeah.. is good

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[Fve Crathva]

Has anyone red Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson? I read a positive review of it today:

http://www.bureau42.com/view/2619

SP

[molly bloom]

Re: Recommend me sci-fi/fantasy books

Originally posted by quantum_mechani
I'm starting to feel like I've exhausted the good books in these genres, but maybe someone could point me to some gems that I have overlooked.

Greg Bear: Eon

Robert Charles Wilson: Gypsies

Ursula K Le Guin: The Dispossessed or The Left Hand of Darkness

Bruce Sterling: Schismatrix or Islands In The Net

Roger Zelazny: Lord of Light

Maureen Hughes: China Mountain Zhang

Joanna Russ: The Female Man

Samuel R Delany: Triton or Babel-17

Iain M Banks: Use of Weapons or The Player of Games

Ken Macleod: The Star Fraction

J.G. Ballard: The Drowned World, Vermilion Sands or Crash

Nancy Kress: Beggars in Spain

Thomas Disch: 334, Echo Round His Bones

Walter John Williams: Voice of the Whirlwind

China Mieville: Perdido Station

Philip K Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? or We Can Build You

Harry Turtledove: Agent of Byzantium (before he started overwriting)

Greg Egan: Quarantine

Paul J McAuley: Pasquale's Angel

Peter Hamilton: The Reality Dysfunction

Michael Moorcock: Behold the Man or The Land Leviathan Trilogy