seejay555

I need some new mental stimulation. Apart from Terry Pratchett, Tolkien, Moorcock, can anyone point me in the direction of some decent Sf/fantasy stuff?? Thanks.

chuckster

Raymond E Fiest (Magician et all), Janny Wurts (Mistwraith, Daughter of Empires stuff), Stephen Donaldson(Chronicles of Thomas Covenant), Robert Jordon (Wheel of time) spring to mind
Now winters here and the bikes put away alot of train journeys = alot of reading for me
Chuck
Added SciFi!
Stephen Donaldson's Gap series, Iain M Banks Culture stuff, Greg Bear and Robert Heinlein (sp?) are immediate thoughts...


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seejay555

Cheers Chuck

AndrewW

David Gemmell ? In particular the Drenai series, Lion of Macedon and the Dark Prince.

Raymond E. Feist / Janny Wurts. The Riftwar Saga (Magician / Silverthorn / A Darkness at Sethanon) and then The Empire Series (Daughter of the Empire / Servant of the Empire / Mistress of the Empire). These books will keep you going for quite a while, and ranks as some of my all time favourites

Andrew.

stevem2k

Peter F Hamilton - Night's dawn trilogy.

Very, very good.

I also like Turtledove's 'Darkness' series, though his other stuff doesn't grip me.

SteveM

FiveO

Iain M. Banks is worth a read. 'Against A Dark Background' 'The Palyer Of Games' most of his stuff is pretty good. He writes fiction as well as S/F 'Walking On Glass' is pretty good. 'The Wasp Factory' is almost a must read.

seejay555

Thanks FiveO. I've read some of his non-SF stuff, including Wasp Factory, and like it. I'm not convinced (yet)by his sf stuff

TonyG

Larry Niven - Ringworld, Ringworld Engineers, Neutron Star (short stories)
And with Jerry Pournelle - Lucifers Hammer, Legacy of Heorot, Footfall

ptholt

another vote for feist and gemmell here, cracking good reads both of em.

Neil Smalley

Dan Simmons's Hyperion series.
Orson Scott Card's Enders Game

Hyperion is, IMHO one of the top SF Stories of all time.

Steve Perriam

definitely ought to be reading

David Eddings - Belgariad / Mallorean / Tamuli / Elenium

and also

Katherine Kerr - Dawnspell / Daggerspell / Darkspell etc
Julian May - Saga of the Exiles etc
Patricia Kennealy - The Keltiad Books

steve

seejay555

Thanks all - enough to spend my gift vouchers on for now.

MATTeL

I have to agree for the most part with Chuck, in fact completely with Chuck!

I enjoyed reading Eddings but I revisited them and found them a little formulatic now... just my opinion obviously.

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks is disturbing...

Note that when Banks writes 'normal' books he writes under Iain Banks, when he is doing sci-fi then he is writing under Iain M Banks.

Fiest is great, really enjoyed the Faery Tale (as it used to say on the cover) not a bedtime story!

Maz-old

Margaret Weiss and Tracey Hickman - The Dragonlance series
Gemmell
Robert Jordan
Feist (bit feisty for me.. oh dear)
Terry Brooks - first three books of the Shannara series (all the rest is pants)

My new book (to be published Autumn 2007), maybe...

seejay555

Maz,
By the time i've read all the others yours might be ready!!!
Thanks.

Little Miss WRX

I read Wasp Factory and found it a little disturbing too!!!

Anne McCaffrey is a good read, Brian Lumley if you like a bit of horror I heartily recommenrd, Anne Rice, Piers Anthony, loads of the above listed and Maggie Furey - I have just started reading her books and enjoy them immensely.

Cheers

Michelle