OzzyWRX

I’m after some recommendations for sci-fi books.



I’ve most of the Sci-Fi masterworks series and most if not all of the books by:

Iain M Banks

Asimov

Greg Bear

Peter F Hamilton

Alastair Reynolds

Dan Simmons

Michael Marshall Smith

Vernor Vinge

China Mieville.



Any other authors you’d recommend?

MarkV

sounds daft but I really enjoyed the John Carter of Mars Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs of Tarzan Fame - sorry but I did - wrriten so long ago I found they had a certain charm and naievity. Don`t overlook some of the classics ( yes I am a sad old git! ) Day of the Triffids is a good example.

OzzyWRX

Day of the Triffids is great, I read a collection of John Wyndham stories a couple of months back and most of them were pretty good, I especially liked The Chrysalids.

Old_Fart

Stephen Donaldsons 'Gap' series is quite good.

Nimbus

Re Vernor Vinge..

Have you read "Fire upon the Deep"? I think he also wrote the "Marooned in Realtime" and an other Realtime one which I can't remember...

Also recomend "The war against the Chtorr" series by David Gerrold. However, this is an unfinished series and mostly out of print, but the remaining books are in writing..

Frosty The Snowman

Ben Bova, very good. Moonrise and Moonwar are good places to start. He is also working his way through the planets of our solar system, all of which I enjoyed.

Kevin J Anderson and his Saga of the Seven Suns series is also good, the first book is Forest of Stars.

DocJock

Anything by Larry Niven (often with Jerry Pournelle)

Neil Smalley

The Enders Saga by Orsan Scot Card is well worth a look

The_Gza

I've enjoyed all of Richard Morgan's books so far - Altered Carbon is probably the best one to start with though.

darts_aint_sport

Philip K Dick has written some great books. Films based on his books include The Truman Show, Bladerunner, Minority Report, there's loads that haven't been hollywoodised yet though!

Nimbus

I second that, though I prefer Niven's earlier works (The Mote in Gods Eye, Footfall, Lucifer Hammer, The Legacy of Herot).


Also recomend Stephan Baxter. Hard Science Fiction at it's best.

_Meridian_

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Roughly in decreasing order of talent:

Ursula LeGuin
Robert Silverberg (but get stuff published between 1969 and about 2001)
Orson Scott Card
Sherri S Tepper
Greg Egan
Paul J MacAuley
Ian McDonald
Elizabeth Moon
David Brin

I'll try to think of more later.


M

tath

another vote for phil dick - i say this with straight face, the man was the dickens of the 20th century.

also agree with larry niven. ringworld and mote in god's eye are my favourites...

OzzyWRX

Thanks for the recomemdations, I've read just about all of the books/series mentioned above. I'll look into the Stephen Donaldson and Ben Bova books, ta!