Good Sci-Fi books?

Can anyone recommend me some good sci-fi books. I'm rather bored at the moment and would like something to do.

Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton.

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan:
A Sci-fi(cyberpunk) detective noir. One of my favourite sci-fi books of all time. It's gritty, and dark and all that goodness. And it raises some interesting ethical questions about how far man can go and still be called man. And if a man dies, and his consciousness is downloaded to a new body, is he still the same manor is he a copy? It's a trilogy, Altered Carbon is followed by Broken Angels and Woken Furies

Singularity Sky by Charles Stross:
Humanity is controlled by a being that calls itself the Eschaton. It's an awesome story.
"I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.
I am descended from you, and exist in your future.
Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else."
Need I say more? It's sequel is Iron Sunrise

Burning Chrome and Neuromancer by Gibson:
One could say he's the father of cyberpunk. It's a little hard to read at some points. But I enjoyed 'em nonetheless.

Learning the World by Ken MacLeod:
Too lazy to comment on it much, but it's interesting. Not that action-packed. Loved reading it.

Commonwealth series by Peter F. Hamilton:
A space opera of epic proportions. A.k.a. Pandora's Star and Judas Unchaine

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The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.

One of the best books I have ever read in the sci fi genre.

Also, William Gibson is one of my favorite authors. His Sprawl Series is good and the Bigend Cycle is also quite amazing. The Bigend Cycle is basically present day and it is fitting because technology has caught up in some ways to the cyberpunk worlds he was creating. It is still science fiction though, kind of like a movie that begins with "Sometime in the near future."

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, it's fun sci fi.

The classic Dune series, if you haven't gone through them yet.

Frank Herbert's "Destination: Void", "The Jesus Incident", "The Lazarus Effect" and "The Ascension Factor".

Starship Troopers.
The Forever War.
Enders Game.

1984. It is really alarming. Not far from the start of the book it will already make you tense.

Neal Stephenson
- Snow Crash
- The Diamond Age

Originally Posted by vizi

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.

One of the best books I have ever read in the sci fi genre.

This is also one of the best books I have ever read. I thought that it had largely been forgotten, good to see somebody else knows it.

Originally Posted by Condottiere 40K

Neal Stephenson
- Snow Crash
- The Diamond Age

Anything written by Neal Stephenson is good.

Also the Null-A trilogy by A.E. van Vogt (the world of Null-A, the players of Null-A, Null-A three) and anything written by Philip K.Dick or Vernor Vinge.

Originally Posted by Alexandru

The classic Dune series, if you haven't gone through them yet.

And Frank Herbert's Dune books are also good.

Iain Banks' Culture novels are reputedly good. I've so far read only Consider Phlebas and Player of Games but those are pretty good.

If you want huge scale and grimdarkness try Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence.

Depends also which decade you're interested in, as each, I find, has a distinctive feel.