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Lord Jono
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It would seem that I've hit a brick wall when it comes to new fantasy/sci-fi books to read. I've read pretty much everything that catches my eye or sounds interesting from the library and bookstores in town. I've read all the classics, from Tolkein to Heinlinn, and everything inbetween from Ursula Le Guin (Thanks to her for the Ansible...) to Tad Williams and Anne McAffrey. Anybody got any suggestions of gems that i might otherwise pass over? Would greatly appreciate a reading list!

EDIT: Apologies - could have sworn i posted this on the other forum.

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El JT de Spang
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Try Dan Simmons' Hyperion series.

Also, you can move this topic to the other side. Click the edit button and you'll have a 'move' option.

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Lisa
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S. M. Stirling's Nantucket trilogy
Dave Duncan's "A Man of His Word" tetrology (there's another tetrology that's a sequel, and it's equally excellent)

Dave Duncan's "Seventh Sword" trilogy
David Palmer's "Emergence" (not a series book, but it's incredibly good)
Steven Boyett's "Ariel"
Ken Grimwood's "Replay"

Some of this is science fiction, and some of it is fantasy. None of it is hard science fiction, but you didn't say what kind of stuff you were looking for.

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Kent
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George RR Martin! He is excellent.
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tern
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Guy Gavriel Kay's The Fionvar Tapestry.

Anything by Simon Green. The Deathstalker books, despite the ridiculous title, are brilliant!

Michael Stackpole is also enjoyable to read, as is Robin McKinley, Raymond Feist, and Alan Dean Foster.

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Lord Jono
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Hehe, excellent, cheers. Some definate new ones there. Tern - read everything by Feist except the few latest ones. Need to take a break then come back to it. Thanks folks!
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Not exactly Sci-fi, even if you consider them children's books, I will always love Brian Jacues Redwall series. Mice with swords, fun.
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Ah, Michael A. Stackpole...I forgot about him. One of my favorites is Timothy Zahn's Conquerors Trilogy. The Dune series by Frank Herbert is a classic, and the new series by his son Brian and co-author Kevin J. Anderson are not quite as good, but worth reading anyway.
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DemonGarik
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RA Salvatore's Drizzt tales or his Demon Wars Saga, both are aesome
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Dread Pendragon
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There's this really obscure book few people have heard of, but it really isn't bad. It is called "Ender's Game" and is written by an Orvid Smit Card or something like that, if my memory serves me correctly. Remember, you heard it from me first!

[Big Grin]

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I second the "Replay" recommendation. Found out the other day that the author, Ken Grimwood, died back in 03, of all things a heart attack. Bummer. Also second the GRR Martin reccomendation. Come on book 4!
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I read (er, I mean listened to the audiobook) Fred Saberhagen's Empire of the East, and was surprised at how good it was. It is pretty comparable to Lord of the Rings.

[ September 09, 2005, 06:34 PM: Message edited by: Dread Pendragon ]

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Will B
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The most underrated F/SF writer: Jack Vance. He's won Hugo and Nebula; most people haven't heard of him. For fantasy, start with Lyonesse. For SF, either the easy The Grey Prince, or maybe To Live Forever.

Connie Willis is da bomb, too. For humor: To Say Nothing of the Dog. For pathos and some humor: The Doomsday Book.

I'll assume you've done The Riddle-Master of Hed (McKillip), The Mote in God's Eye (Niven & Pournelle), but you may have overlooked Foundation's Fear (Benford), or A Million Open Doors (Barnes). Those are some of my favorites.

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I second DemonGarik's RA Salvatore recommendation. The Drizzt books are great. Also read the Canticle Quintet.

It's a Drizzit!

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Lord Jono
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Wow, thanks folks. Good few new doors opened up there, this should keep me going for a while! Hehe, Some of my favourites are already in the list [Smile]
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quote:
Originally posted by DemonGarik:
RA Salvatore's Drizzt tales or his Demon Wars Saga, both are aesome

Second on the above, all of the books by Salvatore are equally amazing to Card's work with character development, in my humble opinion. Though he does over-use a few literary techniques...(oh no, we think Drizzt is dead for the fourth time!)

Also a good series to look at is the Shannara books by Terry Brooks.

The best book that I have read recently is Card's Pastwatch, however. It uses the same idea as in the movie "The Butterfly Effect" but puts it to a whole 'nother level with historical details and twists.

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dropofTapioca
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Hmm....may I recommend Mr. Card's recommendations? There are the weekly reviews, and also a LOT of SF/F reviews in the "OSC Library", the Reviews Section
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I like the "Dark Tower" series by Stephen King. Its not horror even though thats where you usually find it. Its more fantasy adventure.
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quote:
Originally posted by El JT de Spang:
Try Dan Simmons' Hyperion series.

Hell yes!!!
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I'm assuming you've done so already, but if not...Anything you can find by Delany. Especially if you end up burning out on the recent writers (styles have changed...) and need a short trip to the classic sci fi world.
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Omega M.
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Michael Moorcock?
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SteveRogers
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Anything by Philip K. Dick.
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skippyboy
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John Varley
George R.R. Martin

You can't go wrong with either of them.

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Oliver Dale
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"Talyn" by Holly Lisle.
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Thanks to OSC's review last week, I've started reading 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell'. Seems really good so far, it's kept my attention at least. It seems like one of those books that, in a few years, everyone will be reading it.
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Here's a fantasy -- "Elantris" by Brandon Sanderson
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quote:
Originally posted by MagusFire:
Thanks to OSC's review last week, I've started reading 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell'. Seems really good so far, it's kept my attention at least. It seems like one of those books that, in a few years, everyone will be reading it.

Have you seen its sales numbers? Everyone seems to be reading it right now.
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0range7Penguin
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A stranger in a strange land.
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Robert Heinlen's "Expanded Universe"
Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael"

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go with Terry Goodkind and the Sword of Truth series it is rather very good read most especially Wizard's First Rule I liked it not sure if you will but it is pretty good


also David Farland and the Runelord series is rather nice oh and the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

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Cashew
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George R R Martin - he takes forever to write the stuff but it's worth the wait
Stephen King (Dark Tower series)
Julian May (The Intergalactic Milieu + Many Colored Land series, interconnected and FASCINATING!!!!!! Hmmmm, time to reread, I think...)
Terry Goodkind starts off brilliantly but fades badly.
Ditto Robert Jordan, whose made a living out of his books going nowhere.

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Hmmm, anything by George R.R. Martin is great (as has been said). I would reccomend C.J. Cherryh for science fiction or fantasy. Any of her books are excellent, I am current reading "The Deep Beyond", which is a omnibus of two of her novels, Cuckoo's Egg and Serpent's Reach. Also the Faded Sun Trilogy is excellent as well.
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Here are some more :

Louis L'Amour's - The Walking Drum
The Uprising Trilogies by David Brin
The Religion War by Douglas Adams
Vamped by David Sosnowski (one of the most unique imo plot settings I have seen in a while)
Tom Godwin's short stories/novels (basically all of them are collected into one book, "The Cold Equations & other stories" or something similar)

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The Walking Drum was great! I had heard that he was working on a sequel but I guess he never finished it at the time of his death.
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go to the blacklibrary.com

buy anything you see there.

My recomendation would be to start with the Blood of Gilead by Dan Abnett, and/or Trollslayer by William King

Blood of Gilead is a sad story though. Trollslayer and Skavenslayer (and all the other slayers for that matter!) are a riot. Grudge Bearer is probably my favorite, cause I love dwarves in general. And the folks at Games Workshop have dwarves down better than Tolkein did.

I think they did a book called the Travels of Orfeo or something along those lines, that was also pretty freaky. hmmmm, you might want to stay away from anything that has dark elves in it, or anything from the Warhammer 40k stuff at first. It's really a bit much to take in at first. You have to get into the dark grim atmosphere before you can dive into those novels.


Or you can take your pick, anything there is amazing. They've never let me down yet.

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Phillip Pullman's his dark materials
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