Science Fiction Recommendations

[Vig]

Which science fiction novel would you recommend to others?
Please either type 'science fiction' or simply 'SF' instead of 'sci-fi'.

[Dancing_Blade]

Hich-hikers guide to the galaxy! Best sf books ever!

(btw, what's wrong with writing sci-fi?)

[Rell]

As far as straight SciFi, (not including fantasy), my favorites are:
1) Dune by Frank Herbert
2) Enders Game by Orson Scott Card

I typically like fantasy better, so I'd have a lot more reccomendations there.

[Colonel_Fubster]

Pretty much anything by Robert Heinlein, Spider Robinson, John Varley, and Arthur C. Clarke, especially the Rama series. Also F.M. Busby wrote some great "hard" SF, but his books have been out of print for a while, so are hard to find.

[Dancing_Blade]

Yeah, I have read both Dune and Arthur Clark books and they're really worth reading, at least once.
Dune has quite a lot of drama, but is still pretty interesting!

[ModernInkling]

I don't read a whole lot of SF (more fantasy for me too), I do have a couple favorites:

Robert Heinlein - pretty much anything, though my absolute favorite is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (brilliant story; I highly recommend it to everyone); Spider Robinson; Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game); Isaac Asimov (To anyone who's seen the movie "I, Robot", try that book definitely - it's actually a collection of short stories - and "Caves of Steel", which is a mystery having to do with robots).

[twinsrule26]

Lets see now , I like many SF books/authors by

Robert A. Heinlein , Andre Norton , Mack Renolds , A Bertram Chandler , E.C. Tubb , Marion Zimmer Bradley, Samual R. Delany , James Blish , Harry Harrison , Brian Stableford , Brian W. Aldiss , Philip K. Dick , Poul Anderson , Isaac Asimov , David Drake .
These plus too many more to list are the Authors that I grew up reading . All are good some are truely great Authors .
I recommend Heinlein ,Norton, Anderson, Asimov & Harrison as great reads if you want to enjoy great SF .

[arithmancer]

I agree with lots of the other posters' recs. I would like to put a word in for the Vorkosigan novels of Lois McMaster Bujold, which I really adore. She has engaging characters that develop over the course of the series, wildly entertaining space-opera style plots, a great sesnse of hunor, a smattering of other genres (spy story, romance, and mystery elements in her SF), and some really nice ideas about the effects of technology on society and people (particularly fictional advances in the life sciences, something that tends to get short shrift in a lot of other SF).

[Melaszka]

I don't read a great deal of SF/fantasy these days, but I was very fond of both Ursula Le Guin and Stephen Donaldson when I was younger, and I've recently really got into Trudi Canavan.

[Rell]

I like Anne McCaffrey's Pern books. They have a bit more of a fantasy feel to them even though they're sci fi.

[Lash Dresden]

Originally Posted by Rell

I like Anne McCaffrey's Pern books. They have a bit more of a fantasy feel to them even though they're sci fi.

The first one (chronologically - not the first one written -- Dragon's Dawn) is definitely sci-fi. The book of short stories (which I can't remember the name of) that's next is also sci-fi. Dragon's Eye (aka Red Star Rising) is sci-fi and fantasy. I'd say the majority of the rest are more fantasy and less sci-fi (some have no sci-fi at all, IMO) -- until you get toward the end of the series, then she brings back the science. I like this series, too.

[Rell]

They're all technically sci fi, but most of them have a very fantasy sort of feel (not the later ones though)

[bass_man789]

Recommendations.
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
Men Like Gods H.G. Wells

[GrangerHermione]

I don't read very much SF, but I have read a couple excellent SF books. The two I would reccomend are actually both series'.
1. The Ender series by Orson Scott Card:
- Ender's Game
- Speaker for the Dead
- Xenocide
- Children of the Mind

2. The Book of Ember series:
- The City of Ember
- The People of Sparks
- the Prophet of Yonwood

Ender's Game is an EXTREMELY good book; the best of the series, and The book of Ember series is more of a children's series, but I really like it.

[lazerx]

Originally Posted by GrangerHermione

I don't read very much SF, but I have read a couple excellent SF books. The two I would reccomend are actually both series'.
1. The Ender series by Orson Scott Card:
- Ender's Game
- Speaker for the Dead
- Xenocide
- Children of the Mind

2. The Book of Ember series:
- The City of Ember
- The People of Sparks
- the Prophet of Yonwood

Ender's Game is an EXTREMELY good book; the best of the series, and The book of Ember series is more of a children's series, but I really like it.

I would recommend the series from Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

[GrangerHermione]

Originally Posted by lazerx

I would recommend the series from Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

Yeah, I've read Ender's Shadow and I sarted Shadow of the Hegemon, but then I kind of lost interest and never finished it. IMO the books with Battle School in them are the more interesting ones, so I enjoyed Ender's Shadow, but then it just wasn't as fun to read.

[Luka13]

I would recommed The Alcemist series by Micheal Scott. It's more of a fantasy type series, but they're really awesome books.

[Bob_Malefoy]

The dune series by Frank Herbert and the Foundation cycle by Isaac Asimov. Two best IMO. There is also Inverted World by Christopher Priest that was quite good.

[hplova15165]

1. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
2. His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
3. Gregor Series (I've forgotten the author! )
4. City of Ember Series (forgotten the author again)
5. Spiderwick Chronicles (a slightly childish series)
6. So You Want To Be A Wizard series by Diane Duane


I'll definately have to post some more later, because I am the ultimate reader. I've read almost every good book out there, and I'm still trying. The first and second books on the list are extremely amazing, so I'd recommend them the most to any SF readers or fiction readers.

[ComicBookWorm]

Anything by Heinlein, Clarke, or Asimov.