Recommendations of Sci-Fi novels to read.

[wub]

[esfandyar]

The Metabarons is quite possibly the best science fiction story i have ever read. Alexandro Jordorosky wrote it, and Juan Gimenez did the stunningly gorgeous art.

[fractal]

does fantasy count?

if you start reading robert jordan's eye of the world series you should be done ten years from now

LOVE THIS SERIES! so dark, so emotional. great writer, RIP

also the DUNE series (to me, the pinnacle of sic-fi/fantasy)

[fractal]

Alexandro Jordorosky

his version of dune....

[esfandyar]

Alexandro Jordorosky

his version of dune....

so good

[kay]

does fantasy count?

if you start reading robert jordan's eye of the world series you should be done ten years from now

LOVE THIS SERIES! so dark, so emotional. great writer, RIP

also the DUNE series (to me, the pinnacle of sic-fi/fantasy)

The middle 4-5 books were a bit pants though, with not much happening until the last hundred or so pages each time. Waiting for the final book to come out now, then I'll read the whole thing again.

[fractal]

same here! almost....

[ambinate]

just finished snow crash, super interesting book. actually just picked up dune and hope to start it this week sometime. looking forward to it

[janner]

if you like snow crash it might be worth checking out diamond age

all of his books are pretty great actually!

[parson]

Alexandro Jordorosky

his version of dune....

so good

it doesn't exist.

[esfandyar]

the idea however is what i meant, and i believe what fractal meant.

also the art that moebius did for it definitely exists to the public, i think it was going to be a moebius/jordorosky collab.

[hayze99]

Attention Sci-fi Ninjas! Foyle's is having a 3 for 2 offer on SF Masterworks books! Get your classics in!

Is this still on? I'm slowly trying to build up the whole collection.

I'd say that's some of the best advice to get into sci-fi. Grab a couple of the classics and bests from a second hand shop, and go to a big book shop and rifle through all the SF Masterworks series for something that's eye catching.

Anything Arthur C Clarke (mainly Rendevouz with Rama, Fountains of Paradise and Childhood's End) and Philip K Dick is genius.

[Lucifa]

Finished books 1 & 2 of Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs series (Altered Carbon, and Broken Angels). Loved 'em. Gritty, dark, with tonnes of atmosphere and well crafted tech/concepts. First one reads like a Sci-Fi noire. What I've been after for a while, what other series are out there on a similar wave-length?

I wasnt a massive fan of Dune. It was imaginative enough to keep my interest, but the writing was all a bit camp and out there for my tastes. I prefer more grounded characters, cast in shades of grey, rather than straight-out heroes and villains. It's a problem I have with a lot of the classics, a lot just seem really dated now. I thought Tiger, Tiger was a load of wank. A Scanner Darkly is decent though. And The Foundation series is on point.

[kay]

Attention Sci-fi Ninjas! Foyle's is having a 3 for 2 offer on SF Masterworks books! Get your classics in!

Is this still on? I'm slowly trying to build up the whole collection.

I'd say that's some of the best advice to get into sci-fi. Grab a couple of the classics and bests from a second hand shop, and go to a big book shop and rifle through all the SF Masterworks series for something that's eye catching.

Anything Arthur C Clarke (mainly Rendevouz with Rama, Fountains of Paradise and Childhood's End) and Philip K Dick is genius.

It was going on last Thursday, so it might still be on. Otherwise, Forbidden Planet occasionally puts them on sale too.

My local bookshop was doing a 2 for £6 deal yesterday on a small selection of books. Managed to find 2 that I wanted. Been picking up some secondhand stuff from them too over the last month. Cambridge Market also has a secondhand stall that I go to every 6 months or so.

Best place I've ever been to for secondhand sci-fi was a bookshop in Pasadena. Picked up soooo many Clifford D Simak novels there!