Looking for a good book to read

So I like fantasy books and sci-fi style books. But I also really enjoy great character develpoment. I'm ok with reading one whole book just to develop the main characters really well before the story really kicks off. Here are some books I've read this past year that maybe you can draw from to recomomend something for me.

A song of ice and fire series - game of thrones and clash of kings
Michael Critons books - jurrasic park, timeline, andromeda strain
Obviously have read and enjoyed the popular fantasy novels such as harry potter, lotr, and lion/witch/wardrobe books.

I wouldn't mind something leaning more towards maybe the invasion of earth and colonization of our species and the possible movement of the majority of our species to some other place in this universe where we'd be used in some form of slave labor. Kind of a reference to how cultures have been treated here when our leading nations first discovered their lands and saw an opportunity for resources and capital gain.  But this story will take place with the universe acting as earth and we are just a species within it that is on the far outer realms of this universe. If there is anything like this out there then I'd like to read it or maybe I'll just write it myself.

>Enjoying J.K.Rowling
>Enjoying J. R. R. Tolkien
>Enjoying C.S.Lewis
>2011

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>>1
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, if you can get press the main character's personality and faults.

I personally rate the series very highly, others completely hate them.  The first title Lord Foul's Bane is worth a read and then who knows.

Reading the amazon reviews and how polarized they are will give you an idea if you want to pursue that title and series.

Stephen Donaldson is the author.

The wheel of time.
its fucking awesome

>>2
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people can't like things I don't like
being a faggot

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Well, if you like sci-fi book you should consider read Isaac Asimov's books. He's one of the best sci-fi writers.
You should get started with fundation trilogy.

>>7
not op, i have the complete 7 books of the series. the first two two i have the ace pb editions which were published under different names and are the first paper issued copies.

the original trilogy is the best of the foundation series.
1 - Foundation
2 - Foundation and Empire
3 - Second Foundation

Londongrad.

The sword of thruth series by Terry Goodkind are my all type favorite books.

>>10
Time*

Read Hitchhikers Guide tot he galaxy

Quarter Share and the following books by Nathan Lowell, a great development of character similar to the Horatio Hornblower books, however in the sci fi setting of trade ships in well developed series of stories.

i'd read Let Me In or Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

book about pedophilia, vampire, and some of the best characterization i've ever read

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss excellent if you like frame stories

The Lies of Locke Lamora - Stephen Lynch if you like heists

http://mind.sourceforge.net/webcyc.html#aisf has AI Sci-Fi"

Card, Orson Scott -- Speaker for the Dead (1986)
Delaney, Joseph H.; Stiegler, Marc -- Valentina: Soul in Sapphire (1984)
Gerrold, David -- When HARLIE Was One (1972, 1988)
Heinlein, Robert A. -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1968)
Herbert, Frank -- Destination: Void (1966)
Hogan, James Patrick -- The Two Faces of Tomorrow (1979)
Milan, Victor W. -- The Cybernetic Samurai (1985)
Rucker, Rudy -- Wetware (1988)
Ryan, Thomas J. -- The Adolescence of P-1 (1977)
Saberhagen, Fred -- Octagon (1981)
Teller, Astro -- Exegesis (1997)
Thomas, Thomas T. -- ME: A Novel of Self-Discovery (1991)

You could try Aldous Huxley-Brave new world,George Orwell-1984,Phillip K. Dick-anything he ever wrote but my personal favourite is "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" and Stanislaw Lem-Solaris,one of my all time top 5:D

The main problem I'm finding with a lot of modern sci fi authors, especially those associated with Baen books is that they are BATSHIT FUCKING INSANE and think that their books make a good soapbox for them to accost readers with their misguided beliefs.

Or are just fucking crazy.

Take David Weber for example, he used to write good sci-fi/starship combat books about his Mary Sue, and occasionally let his love of pre-napoleonic history take a front seat, but with a sci-fi twist.
Now? He put out a book this year that was basically Aliens Vs Vampires. The vampires were sparklepire variety. Also, the Aliens were in fact werewolves from space.
If that isn't a call for help, I don't know what is.

Then there's David Ringo a completely insane libertarian who spent the first book of the Troy series completely missing the point (and killing Obama) the second book engineering a female lead for his self insert to have sex with, and third book was 100% racism against south and middle american ethnicities.

Then there's Ian Douglas's Carrier Command series, where his idea of a near-singularity utopia is in fact a horrific 1984 style world where people who don't want to get brainwashed into compliance with the government get wiped out in a biblical style flood.
Plus, he has no fucking clue about the sci part of sci-fi.

Then there's John Campbell and the Lost Fleet series, now, I love this series, but even I admit he uses it as a platform to rant about how he got thrown out of the navy due to (what he believes to be) Office Politics.
That said, the ship combat sections are actually decent, and there are certainly worse things to rail about in your books than how authority in a military environment is important for it function efficiently.
He can't write a romantic subplot for toffee though.

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I think you'd enjoy the Golden Compass series by Pullman. Out of the books you listed that you say you enjoyed, it's most similar to the Chronicles of Narnia.

>>2

I own a bookshop, and those three author sell consistently.
I always run out of Harry Potters and The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings sales have dropped but still sell 20-30 copies every month.  Narnia books, generally the first and second books sell a few each week, the least popular is The Silver Chair for some reason.

Yep even in 2011.

Foundation saga by Isaac Asimov

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Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love," is absolutely fantastic.

parrots are good books

Wheel of Time and the Sword of Truth are my two favourite fantasy series.

I would recommend the series about Ender, i'ts really good,by Orson Scott card.
Here's the wiki page about it, so you have some info on it if you want.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game_(series)