Science Fiction Books you'd reccommend

[Ollie Cromwell]

In all of my life, I've only run into *one* person that enjoyed the sequels to EG. And I've talked to a LOT of people about it. It never ceases to amaze me.

[D-Railer]

I pictured the main characters of the EG sequels to look like this:




I enjoyed reading the foreword in Ender's Shadow... I liked what he said about the reaction to the sequels, and the way he talked about collaborating or handing off ES to another author but became jealous that the other person would get to write it. I could identify with that.

[kevstev]

Dune by Frank Herbert. I haven't read the sequels which I heard are also really good, but the original was great. I read Snow Crash a few years back, and I enjoyed it, but didn't seem to love it as much as many other people did.

[Phyr]

Originally Posted by kevstev

Dune by Frank Herbert. I haven't read the sequels which I heard are also really good, but the original was great. I read Snow Crash a few years back, and I enjoyed it, but didn't seem to love it as much as many other people did.

I just finished reading all of the original Dune books.

I'm happy I read them, the first 3 are the best IMHO. God-Emperor gets a little out there, but the final two books are pretty good. I like that the way that Herbert wrote the books. Sometimes you don't know what going on (especially with his made-up vocab) but the more you read, the more you figure.

I've also affectionately been calling my girlfriend a toaster-witch. I should trademark that.

[D-Railer]

Update: Re-read Ender's Game and loved it again, probably loved it more than the first time I read it...

Then went back into Ender's Shadow and am now about halfway through it. Liking it a lot so far, maybe not as much as ES.

[Skellington]

Just as an update, I read The Mote in God's Eye and loved it, but didn't like the sequel, The Gripping Hand.

Starswarm by Jerry Pournelle is also good, though I have to say I was more captivated by the beginning of the book than I was by end.

Seems like there's a lot of discussion about the Ender series and I just thought I'd say that I really enjoyed the first book and I read a few of the other ones including Ender's Shadow and Speaker for the Dead. These other books weren't bad but they weren't as good as the original so I finished them but I don't really have the urge to read Xenocide.

I still think The Dreaming Void and The Temporal Void
are my favorite books I've read in a long time, but they probably aren't for everyone.

I can also recommend Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan which was recommended to me by Exile

Also in more of a speculative fiction and less Sci-Fi sense I enjoyed Anathem by Neal Stephenson and Inferno by Niven/Pournelle

I read Neuromancer and Snow Crash before I decided that cyberpunk stuff wasn't my cup of tea, but anyone really into that would like these books.