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Elizabeth · **Reply #20 on:** August 11, 2015, 09:56:10 PM

Quote from: ObiDongKenobi on August 10, 2015, 09:45:49 PM

An honourable mention of some of the early British greats has to be made.

Fred Hoyle, best known for "A for Andromeda", but "The Black Cloud" and "October the Thirteenth is Too Late" are well worth reading.

John Wyndham best known for "The Day of the Triffids" and "The Midwich Cuckoos" (filmed twice as Village of the Damned), but "The Chrysalids" is regarded by many as his best.

Nobody seems to have mentioned H G Wells and Brian Aldiss

My personal favourite of Arthur C Clarke's is "Childhood's End"

Don't forget Jules Verne.........
Love,
Liz

tagjohnson · **Reply #21 on:** August 31, 2015, 08:09:59 AM

I seem to have lit a fire here! My favorites include authors; Ray Bradbury, Andre Norton, Issac Asimov, and a special shout out to Alan Dean Foster. Novels; The Martian Chronicles, Here Dwell Monsters, Rockets in Ursa Major, The Word for World is Forest, and Midworld. Short stories; Flowers for Algernon, The Last Question, and The Story of Your Life. Series; Lensman and Foundation. I really like Lovecraftian horror and have recently discovered a young man named Ted Chiang that I think is an absolute genius.

Elizabeth · **Reply #22 on:** August 31, 2015, 03:13:52 PM

Sara Douglass is another really good author. (more fantasy than science fiction).
Her books are still in print (you can find most on Amazon).
She died September 2011 from Ovarian Cancer.

Love,
Liz

thetaxmancometh · **Reply #23 on:** August 31, 2015, 05:37:51 PM

Tad William's "Otherland" series is a fascinating and unique Sci-Fi.

Elizabeth · **Reply #24 on:** September 09, 2015, 04:52:16 AM

The Maze Runner trilogy is actually pretty good.
(The movie was okay, the books are better).

Love,
Liz

thetaxmancometh · **Reply #25 on:** September 09, 2015, 05:22:47 AM

Eliz, did you feel let down by book 3? I did. I thought that the premise was good and I love dystopias, but I thought that the reveal in book three was lame.

Meatbot · **Reply #26 on:** September 09, 2015, 06:00:48 AM

I just gotta say something about Mark Geston. Two of his books have profoundly affected me, and literally flavored my the way I think about the future and the way I percieve Sci-fi for the last thirty years. "Lords of the Starship" is his first, and then "Out of the Mouth of the Dragon" which, for reasons I can't explain, affected me deeply. "The Day Star" was even more so, and I have religiously re-read it every year for the last thirty-odd years. I cannot explain why these books have affected me so. His writing is magical, and it's a cryin' shame he's only written six books since 1967 or so.

If you see any old Ace or DAW books at the used bookstore look for "Day Star" or "Out of the Mouth of the Dragon." I think his only other books are "Mirror to the Sky" and "The Siege of Wonder" although he has written some short stories. Somebody at a Con told me he is actually a lawyer. That's almost a crime.

russell
AKA Meatbot

thetaxmancometh · **Reply #27 on:** September 09, 2015, 06:38:35 AM

Meat, if you liked those you might like a book called "Armor" by John Steakley. His book skips back and forward in time (in an easy way to follow) and I only really like the history part of his book not the present, but it is great writing. I think it was the only book he wrote though.

Meatbot · **Reply #28 on:** September 09, 2015, 07:15:04 AM

>> "Armor" by John Steakley.

Thanks; I'll look for that one. I still hit the used bookstores on occasion, what of them that are left.

'bot

mtgriz3777 · **Reply #29 on:** September 29, 2015, 05:47:46 AM

Last few years I have been reading the more Military Sci-Fi like John Ringo and David Weber.
Terry Goodkind, and Terry Brooks are both very good sword and fantasy book authors.

Elizabeth · **Reply #30 on:** September 29, 2015, 02:41:44 PM

Military Science Fiction ?? -----Then try Joe Haldeman, he is one of the best at it.

Love,
Liz

Elizabeth · **Reply #31 on:** September 29, 2015, 05:37:35 PM

In to Dragon's and fantasy/
Try these:
Roger Zelazny - The Chronicles Of Amber.
Peter Beagle - The Last Unicorn.
Cecelina Holland - Dragon Heart.
All three books are very good (Chronicles Of Amber is a series of books).

Love,
Liz

IdleBoast · **Reply #32 on:** September 29, 2015, 10:10:51 PM

Amber? That's the many-worlds series where the rules of nature are different, isn't it? I remember a Prince staging an invasion with Earth-bought weapons, but he filled the cartridges with something odd (a salt?) that was useless here, but explosive there.

Damn, my reading list is getting too long...

Elizabeth · **Reply #33 on:** September 30, 2015, 02:30:33 AM

Idle.....

If you are desperate enough you can always resort to John Norman's "GOR".
All 33 volumes of it. Trust me it's a long read......

Love,
Liz

fnord · **Reply #34 on:** September 30, 2015, 04:12:52 AM

Quote from: Elizabeth on September 30, 2015, 02:30:33 AM

Idle.....

If you are desperate enough you can always resort to John Norman's "GOR".
All 33 volumes of it. Trust me it's a long read......

Love,
Liz

Ah, Gor. I remember reading a lot of those. I thought (and still think) that the first 5 - 6? Anyway, the books Ballantine published weren't too bad, except for the last of them, which was when the whole "we've got slave girls" went from a standard piece of fantasy setting to a major center-piece. Up until that point, it was your basic generic fantasy, with a slight scifi overlay, and wasn't a bad read. Past that point, nah.

Another good, longish (18 books, last time I checked) series is Sharon Lee & Steve Miller's Liaden Universe books.

Terry Pratchett - Diskworld

In the category of not-so-long series, I'd also recommend Timothy Zahn - Blackcollar and Cobra series

Vernor Vinge - especially the Zones of Thought trilogy

Ken McLeod - pretty much anything

Iain M Banks - the Culture novels. Banks & McLeod have a similar feel to their work that I really like, that I don't seem to find in American authors. Charles Stross has the same vibe in his Estachon duology (I was disappointed when I heard he'd said there probably wasn't going to be a third book in that series).

Charles Stross - The Merchant Families series, The Estachon and (my favorites) the Laundry series (spy thrillers filtered thought H P Lovecraft)

John Scalzi - Old Man's War (military scifi)

Older stuff, H Beam Piper comes to mind. Scalzi did a "reboot" of [i/]Little Fuzzy[/i] a couple years ago, titles Fuzzy Nation

Elizabeth · **Reply #35 on:** December 31, 2015, 06:07:22 PM

You can now catch up (sorta) on the Chronicles of Shannara (by Terry Brooks).
It's on TV as a series on Mtv.

Love,
Liz

erpbridge · **Reply #36 on:** January 16, 2016, 06:16:58 PM

Clarke is who I grew up on, along with Ursula K LeGuin (although she is more fantasy.) Not certain about more recent scifi, although I've read Ernest Cline recently.

Elizabeth · **Reply #37 on:** January 16, 2016, 08:25:27 PM

There is always Marion Zimmer Bradley and her series "Darkover", by the way it happens to be a huge collection of books and anthology's. Definitely not for the faint of heart if you are going to start reading them or collecting them.

Love,
Liz

Katiebee · **Reply #38 on:** February 27, 2016, 06:17:49 AM

Mercedes Lackey.

A large group of series.
Valdemar
Hunter
Bardic universe
Darkover
The Hub
Elemental Masters
And many others

tagjohnson · **Reply #39 on:** March 31, 2016, 01:04:16 AM

Hey Liz! I started a subreddit on Andre Norton. Why don't you check it out?

Science Fiction Fan

IdleBoast