Need More Sci Fi Book Suggestions

[oilcrash]

http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

in addition to the Baen free library, this has complete series and in the case of many of the CD ISOs everything by a particular author, and a few extras.

[randy]

Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia of the Monster Hunter Nation came out in the stores and on Amazon this week.

Larry is the guy that wrote the classic H&K, because you suck and we hate you rant.

I read the first chapter online some time ago and am saving the full book for a business trip coming up in a couple of weeks.

[drice]

Best sci-fi book in my opinion: "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
2nd best: "Dragon's egg" by Robert Forward.

[George guy]

If you want to include alternate history, Harry Turtledove's Great War saga was a pretty good read.

The premise is that the Confederate States won their independence, fast forward and cover the time period from 1914-1945.

[Jered]

Princess of the Wands is good.

I just found a hardcover copy of Off Armageddon Reef for like five bucks at books-a-million.

Score!

[msr7x57]

The Boosted Man by Tully Zetford

Oh, yes, the Ryder Hook series - loved those - I want a Tonota 80 if my gunshop doesn't have a Martian Mega, but they can stick the Krifarm junk.

[msr7x57]

And then you could try the Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton - easily the most imaginative stuff to come out in the past 15 years - start with "The Reality Dysfunction".

It has everything:

1) Human race split into Adamists and Edenists
2) Huge sentient space habitats
3) Semi-telepathy for Edenists
4) Sentient spaceships
5) ZOMBIES - OK not zombies but possession by the dead
6) Existential questions - do we have souls

7) a downer - military solutions are classed as "right-wing militarism"

But he's English, so expect a certain "delicacy" when talking about governments, his heroes are certainly bloodthirsty enough.


And his Commonwealth Saga is great - expect to hate it if you're American - the NASA landing on Mars is a huge anti-climax - read Pandora's Star.

[Combat Controller]

Alistair Reynolds is pretty good and out there. Any Ian Banks, the Culture novels especially.

Any new particulars of what you are looking for? I have about 2k Science Fiction books on my shelf.

[jonnjonnzz]

I don't even want to think about the number of books in my collections - read or unread.