Sci-fi

Hello /book/, any good sci-fi books you could recommend me? Classics, personal favorites, or anything.

any subgenre of preference? cba listing 20+ books now.

Not really a preference... not even sure what I had in mind of a book just ... something to hold my attention, maybe something thrilling that will make me want to read it as fast as I can but then be upset that it is over once I finish it.

Really just anything easy to get into.

Try the books about Spatterjay (The Skinner, Voyage of the Sable Keech) / the Polity (starts with Gridlinked) by Neal Asher maybe.
Polity stuff can probably be categorized as space opera, but don't ask be about the Spatterjay books.

If cyberpunk is fine too then have a look at:
-Snow Crash (bestest cp EVAR) by Neal Stephenson (READ IT! also Diamond Age, Zodiac)
-the Takeshi Kovacs series by Richard Morgan (great action)
-the Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson (partially outdated, but a (the) classic)

space opera:
-Vorkosigan series, Lois Mcmaster Bujold (all light reads)
-Jack Vance, Demon Princes series
-Night's Dawn Trilogy, Peter F. Hamilton (Fallen Dragon by him is fine too)

military (well, not entirely):
Old Man's War / The Ghost Brigades, John Scalzi (plus The Android's Dream by him, really funny spy-thriller-thingy)
Armor, John Steakley
Starship Troopers, Heinlein
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

Also, Charles Stross - The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue - only sci-fi-ish, not far-future, no space ships etc, but great fun. Also Accelerando, Glasshouse, but I haven't read those yet.



Just wikipedia / google the stuff and pick one, I personally found every one of those hard to put down.

1984 and a clockwork orange if you haven't already.

Robert Heinlein is my psuedo-god

Frank Herbert
Ray Bradbury
Isaac Asimov

Douglas Adams Ftw

Jurrasic Park, Michael Crichton

Motha fuckin Dune

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Sci-Fi is for 100% gay people.

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Absolutely true.

Sci-Bi(s)

Anything written by Isaac Asimov.

The foundation series is probably a more famous one. He has a number of short story collections, and some stray serieses as well. Like Elijah Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw novels, or the one aboot the something Starr guy. One of them is called Pirates of the Asteroids. Great title, good book.

Also if you read quality over entertainment, "A Call to Arms" is good.

Sci-fi:

The Stars My Destination By Alfred Bester

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy By Douglas Adams
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sci-fi/noir detective books

The Dresden Files Series By Jim Butcher (up to 9 books currently)
(Book 1; Storm Front. Book 2; Fool Moon. Book 3; Grave Peril)

The Novels of the Nightside By Simon R. Green (up to six books currently I think)
(Book 1; Something from the nightside. Book 2; Agents of light and Darkness. Book 3; The Nightingale's lament.)



I've read all of these books (including all the books I didn't post for the dresden and nightside series) and whole heartedly recommend. Enjoy.

dresden / nightside are not sci-fi .. they're urban fantasy.
while i read and enjoyed them both too, they're probably not really what the op is looking for.

Starfish, Maelstrom and Behemoth by Peter Watts.
Great series.

Don't forget Arthur C Clarke.
I just loved the Rama series.

Needs more Roger Zelazny. try Lord of Light if you haven't already.

while Dresden and Nightside are not sci-fi (agreed) I always recommend them to people who are looking to get into the sci-fi/fantasy generes as a whole. They're like gateway drugs for nerds. Same with anything Gaiman.

Anything by Alistair Reynolds.

His Revelation Space series makes me orgasm.

Also Kevin J. Anderson is worthy of note, although his style of writing seems to be changing slightly for the worst at the moment; his current series The Saga of the Seven Suns is starting to get a bit slow and turgid.

The last World War (By: Dayton Ward)

The Robotech series (By: jack McKinney)