Recommend me some Science Fiction - ~The Doctor~

Everyone else was doing it!

Seriously, I'm a big fan of the genre, but mostly just movies and TV shows.

Any good novels out there? Apart from Dune - that one's rather obvious.

Thanks in advance.

Warhammer 40K: Horus Heresy. A very nice novel about the most important event in Warhammer 40K universe.

Dune is obvious one, but I enjoy Dune RTS game more than the novel.

Larry Niven & Jerrry Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer

Larry Niven & Jerrry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye

Larry Niven, The Ring World

Ben Bova, Titan

Kim Stanley Robinson, The Mars trilogy

Arthur C. Clarke, The Rama novels (the old and the new ones)

Isaac Asimov, The Foundation novels (the old and the new ones)

I second Kim Stanley Robinson' s Mars books.

Also, Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers.

The Mass Effect book was quite good.

Mass Effect: Revelations

Star Wars..............nuff said

Any Discworld Novels by Terry Pratchett, there satirical , there sarcastic, there just damn funny I think there's something like 30 of them, some of my favourites:
Night Watch
The Fifth Elephant
Thud
Small Gods
You should probably read them in order, though I didn't I practically read them backwards..
But there absolutely ****ing Amazing!
I demand you to read them!!!

Phillip K. Dick.

A name that needs no qualifying statement, so I'll just type for a bit so there is more words in the post.

more modern stuff:

charles stross- singularity sky, iron sunrise, the glasshouse, accelerando
dan simmons: the hyperion/endemion books & Ilium/ Olympus for sure.

The sould drinkers omnibus, by Ben Counter. the stories are:
Soul Drinker
Bleeding Chalice
Crimson Tears

Also Chapter War which I will read.

I Am Legend

There is a lot of great Science Fiction... and there is also a lot of formulaic journeyman work. Sometimes I want something intelectually challenging... but sometimes I just want a feel-good adventure story.

I heartily agree with several of the recommendations of earlier posters:

Terry Pratchet's work is definitely feel-good, gentle and witty and I would recommend his three "Guards" books as my personal favourites (Guards! Guards!, Men At Arms, Feet of Clay).

Kim Stanley Robinson is a fine writer, the Mars books are a wonderful epic that are guaranteed to lift the spirits.
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I once read his book "Escape from Katmandu" while waiting for an operation, it was so funny I forget my nerves completely.

Robert Heinlen wrote great adventure stories, emphasizing that perennial American favourite "The Competant Man", he is still quite readable today, although I find some of his later work rather heavy going.

These are my favourites: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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and Starship Troopers
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and also "The Door into Summer", which is very non-PC by modern standards.

I liked Asimov's original Foundation Books (not the later ones), but preferred the Robot stories (Asimov loved mysteries). I think his best novel was "The Gods Themselves".

If you want something more intellectual, try Christopher Priest. Most of his work features paradoxes that leave you thinking about the correct way to interpret the story for months after reading it.

If you like very dark humour, try Iain M .Banks (I consider "Use of Weapons" the peak of his use of this style).

I also have a personal weakness for James White, although you are not likely to find much of his work in print. I have re-read his "The Watch Below" and "Open Prison" many times. White, an Ulsterman who died in 1999 also had the distinction of being the country's longest surviving diabetic. Unsurprisingly, much of his work, which was unfailingly optimistic (and rooted in that English 1950's feel that you also get in the Narnia books), concerned the medical profession.

Thanks to the internet, we have sites like this, a fascinating set of personal reviews, not created for commercial reasons, but just because the author likes to talk about what he has read.

I'd better stop - I could burble on all night on this topic.

Read Brave New World.

A must I dare say.

Originally Posted by Atterdag

Read Brave New World.

A must I dare say.

I have read Brave New World, and I have to agree with you. It's a must.

I'd also suggest Fahrenheit 451 and Nineteen-Eighty-Four; though they're more future history than science fiction.

Fantasy
Steven Erickson
R Scott Bakker
Tim Powers

Scifi
Neal Asher
Alastair Reynolds
Neal Stephenson (his historical fiction is lovely as well)
Michael Flynn


All for adults of higher education.

A friend of mine that loved the entire Dune series recommended Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. It is similar in scope dealing with civilization and its future.

From wikipedia:
"Foundation was originally a series of eight short stories published in Astounding Magazine between May 1942 and January 1950. According to Asimov the premise was based on ideas set forth in Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and was invented spontaneously on his way to meet with editor John W. Campbell, with whom he developed the concept."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Series

Alot of great books mentioned here but wth no one else mentioned Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. The rest of the books in the series are good too if you can deal with Card's moral view point. Dan Simmons Hyperion still remains one of my favorites as well.

I like Isaac Asimov, personally.

Aurther C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter's Time Oddessy series

Time's Eye
Sunstrom
Firstborn

Not a big fan of the genre but these books were awsome. The first one has Alexander the great vs. Ghengis Khan in an alternate universe. Nuff said.

i'm going to bring the intelligence level down a notch and say
Starship Troopers