Can someone recommend me good space faring sci-fi. Preferrably not post-apocalyptic or similar. Plain old huge ships in space with megaton lasers and the fate of humanity being pondered.
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Anonymous2007-11-06 16:15
I liked Angelmass by Anthony Zahn. Kinda fits the description.
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Anonymous2007-11-06 16:23
dune
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Anonymous2007-11-07 0:16
Dune Trilogy
The later books
that were written by
his son and another author
are good but not as good.
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Anonymous2007-11-07 14:37
Ender's Game
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Anonymous2007-11-07 15:04
>>4
First 6 were by Frank Herbert, not just the first 3.
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Anonymous2007-11-07 18:11
I liked Songmaster, but it has no lasers.
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Anonymous2007-11-07 19:28
Also, if you can get ahold of a copy of Tomino's Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrentation, its full of good pseudophilisophical if not somewhat awkwardly translated space explodey goodness.
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Anonymous2007-11-07 23:32
Mote in God's Eye. You'll thank me later.
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Anonymous2007-11-09 20:22
Hmmm am not sure if you really want Sci-fi or just some "futuristic fantasy" ...
Anyway if you really DO want sci-fi in the space environment, where humanity strives to survive etc. then I ve heard that some books from the Xeelee sequence(Exulent included)by Stephen Baxter are good.
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Anonymous2007-11-10 10:16
Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space. He wrote another few books in that universe too.
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Anonymous2007-11-26 1:13
The Starfist series by Steve Sherman & Dan Craig
"Twilight of the Clans" series of Battletech novels
"Clone Republic" & "Rogue Clone" but I forgot the author's name
The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
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Anonymous2007-11-26 2:08
Any of Iain M. Banks Culture books are great. I really like Excession but haven't read too many of his other books.
>>13
this.
Use of Weapons, Player of Games, Consider Phlebas are all awesome.
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Starfist didn't work for me, I guess I'm too much of tech-whore. The grunt work reads mostly just the same as any current day infantry warfare (that said, I have only read 1 or 2? of these.. idk if it gets more advanced)
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Anonymous2007-11-28 12:15
"The Nights Dawn" trilogy should satisfy you
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Anonymous2007-11-28 19:01
I'm not sure about others but I enjoyed the Honor Harrington series by David Weber.
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Anonymous2007-11-28 22:14
>>18
Me too, at least the first half dozen or so. Really good space battles.
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Anonymous2007-11-29 18:31
Anything by Elizabeth Moon.
Especially the "Vatta's War" series.
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Anonymous2007-11-30 3:14
I know he's probably way known by this point, but Gibson's Neuromancer is still one of my favorite sci-fi novels.