Good sci-fi book recommendations

[Phat-t]

Latley I've been looking for a new book to read and I was wondering if anyone could recommend nook of a good sci-fi books. So far my favorite sci-fi book of all time is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. What I'm really interested in though are books with realistic near-future storylines like Deus Ex.

 

[ray_MAN]

Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy. It's a really funny book. I like Ender's Game, too.

 

[Gorgon]

Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy. It's a really funny book. I like Ender's Game, too.

I can't wait to see the movie.

yeah I would go with:

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OH yeah check this site HHitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy:

http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/

 

[kirovman]

Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy.

Ditto.

Red Dwarf? 1984 (although it's not futuristic).

Don't really know any contemporary-futuristic fiction TBH.

 

[NeonSpyder]

Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton, first book of the Night's Dawn trilogy. best book and series i have ever read.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0330340328/202-0983660-2462234

 

[spookymooky]

Ender's game is one of my favorite books. By far my favorite Sci Fi author is Robert Heinlein. Anything by him is amazing, but especially Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers. Theyre both sort of near-futury.

 

[Razor]

You have the Space Odyssey books as well, not so much the final one, but definately the first two.

 

[StardogChampion]

Neuromancer by William Gibson - the book that practically invented cyberpunk (Deus Ex was set in a cyberpunk world).

This book was the first to coin the phrase "The Matrix".

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...103-6504987-1642244?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

 

[PunisherUSA]

My favorite SF authors in general:
Isaac Asimov
Ray Bradbury
ANYTHING H.G. Wells

Most of their books are awesome, the worst come across as "merely good". Anything by these guys is great science fiction

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Dunno if anyone else liked them, but i remeber reading the Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman and i loved them
Northern Lights
Subtle Knife
Amber Spyglass
(great trilogy)

 

[Shakermaker]

Latley I've been looking for a new book to read and I was wondering if anyone could recommend nook of a good sci-fi books. So far my favorite sci-fi book of all time is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. What I'm really interested in though are books with realistic near-future storylines like Deus Ex.

The Dune-series. Read more about it here.

 

[Phat-t]

The Dune-series. Read more about it here.

Should I start with the first Dune? because arent there like a thousand Dune books out there now? I've always wanted to know what the facscination with Dune was.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Marrow is alright.

 

[Shakermaker]

Should I start with the first Dune? because arent there like a thousand Dune books out there now? I've always wanted to know what the facscination with Dune was.

Yes, just start with the first book. I'm quite sure you'll like it. It's very elaborate, in a Lord of the Rings way.

 

[diluted]

DUNE is an awesome book series... best books I've ever read. Just be sure to read them in order. There are newer Dune books written by Brian Herbert (son of the original author, Frank Herbert, who is dead) which aren't nearly as good as the ones by his father, but still worth a read anyway.

 

[PunisherUSA]

Dune is an excellent series, definitely go in order. The fourth starts getting a little weird, so i stopped there.

The prequel books by brian are decent. They don't compare to the originals however.
To put it bluntly, Brian Herbert took all his dad's notes (background for the originals-100's of pages) and made stories out of them. The only hook to these books is the "so thats how A+B+C are related in the first Dune!". They have none of the deep thematics and political criticisms of the originals (they're in there! and GOD THEY'RE DEEP!)

 

[diluted]

Brian Herbert is apparently also working on a 'Dune 7', the book that would come after the 6th book, Chapterhouse. I guess his father had written a bunch of notes about the 7th book but never got to write it before he died. It will be interesting to find out...

Spoiler

...what the 'outside force' is that the Honored Matres were fleeing from... probably either Omnius or 'aliens'...

 

[StardogChampion]

Read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick. It's what the movie Blade Runner was based on.

Hewrote other stuff like Minority Report and the new Kean Reeves movie that's coming out - A Scanner Darkly.

 

[destrukt]

the skylark series by doc smith.

 

[Milkman]

The Three Halo books were good.

 

[Fishlore]

Ender's game was amazing. Have you read the sequels to Ender's game? Also amazing books. The second one, "Speaker for the Dead" I think it is, gives the first Ender book a run for it's money. I'm just about done with the third, "Xenocide."

Orson Scott Card also has two other series of novels. One that sounds interesting has the human race returning to Earth after having been away for many years. I'm going to check out that series after the Ender series.

 

[DarkStar]

The Three Halo books were good.

Oh lord no.

Go with Ringworld, the original Halo.

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

The Gap Sequence (4 books) by Stephen Donaldson.

 

[Polaris]

Neuromancer (William Gibson) or Minority Report (Phillip K. Dick).

 

[CptStern]

a sci-fi fan's must have list:


William Gibson:

Mona lisa Overdrive
Burning Chrome
Neuromancer
Count Zero

Philip K Dick:

The Man in the High Castle
Eye in the Sky
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (bladerunner)


kurt vonneghut

Slaughterhouse 5
Player Piano
The Sirens of Titan
Cat's Cradle
Dr. Bloodmoney (inspiration for Dr. Strangelove)


Ian Watson:
The Embedding (not for short attention spans)


Aldous Huxley:
Brave New World


Issac Asimov:
Foundation
I, Robot


Ray Bradbury:
The Martian Chronicles
Fahrenheit 451


William Burroughs:
Naked Lunch

Frank Herbert:
Dune

 

[Polaris]

Yes great books but you forgot Arthur C. Clarke !

2001 A Space Odyssey
Rama
The Last Theorem
The Hammer of God

 

[CptStern]

I'm aware of the works of Clarke

 

[Gray Fox]

Hey but stern do you mean to say that dr.bloodmoney was an inspiration for the character of dr.strangelove or the movie, cause the movie was inspired by the book red alert as far as I knew.

 

[CrazyHarij]

Look To Windward by Iain M Banks, a great and immersive book in my opinion.

 

[CptStern]

yes you're correct I meant to say that it was inspired by Dr Strangelove, not the other way around. The full title of Dr Bloodmoney is Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb ..the full title to Dr Strangelove: Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb


both had similiar themes

 

[Sulkdodds]

Definetely Ian M Banks, William Gibson, and the Dune series. I love the bit in the first Dune book where it kinda takes the piss out of Lord of the Rings..."Oh, Paul, sing me a song from your home planet!"

 

[Phat-t]

Ender's game was amazing. Have you read the sequels to Ender's game? Also amazing books. The second one, "Speaker for the Dead" I think it is, gives the first Ender book a run for it's money. I'm just about done with the third, "Xenocide."

Orson Scott Card also has two other series of novels. One that sounds interesting has the human race returning to Earth after having been away for many years. I'm going to check out that series after the Ender series.

Yeah, I just finished the second one but I didn't like it as much as Ender's Game. It was deeper, but didn't have enough action or conflict for me.

Also I happened to like the first and the third Halo book. The second one kinda sucked though because it was a different author.