I also agree with TG. The Trawn series was a very good written series. I also enjoyed Stackpoles X-wing series as they gave some good detail.

I have to admit the recent books that has been put out by the Star Wars fiction section have been very entertaining.

Another series I have enjoyed has been George R. R. Martin A game of Thrones Series. I realize its not Sci-Fi but its a pretty gritty series of books that keeps you on the edge guessing what he is going to do next. (I'm getting ready to break down and buy the hardback A Feast for Crows, can't wait for it to be softback).

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A friend of mine recently met George R R Martin and got some books signed. I've never read any of his books myself

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dune.........

My personal favourite sci-fi book was probably Neuromancer by William Gibson, it's cyberpunk as opposed to typical space-faring sci-fi novels. One of the first books to feature the idea of a computer system you could plug yourself into and it's a major influence on The Matrix.

@greyhawk1970, I've just started reading Game of Thrones, looks like I have a lot of catching up to do! If the quality of writing and story ideas remain as good all the way through, it won't be a hard task!

I recently finished The Silent War by Ben Bova. His ship hulls, moon bases and lasers are really believable. The chapters are short, the action moves along but the characters are racy and a bit thin. It was a good, fast read in spite of the lousy ending. All the characters came unraveled in unlikely directions. Some people like that kind of thing, as though the 'unpredictability' made it a good ending - I got the impression he got tired of writing and wanted to end the book. In all, I liked it and its worth a read but find a used paperback.

You always find what you're looking for.

I'm partial to Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn series. 6 books, almost as complicated as the Dune books. Here's a link to a page about the guy.

If you do decide to read it and get to the second book, keep going! The second book is... iffy. It gets better

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Edited by - Glitch on 2/7/2006 5:51:01 PM

I recently been on a Harry Turtledove kick. I really liked his worldwar series were aliens invade earth during WW2, very interesting on how he handled it. another one of his that i read is settleing accounts: drive to the east, this one is the second of a trilogy.
on a more sci-fi note the latest star wars novle, Dark Lord is well worth picking up, it takes place a few months after episode 3 and deals with Vader comeing to terms with what has happened to him and also on how a few jedi excape and what they do to survive.

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Yes, Harry Turtledoves Worldwar series was another good series of books to read. It was kinda interesting how he gave the 'aliens' basically 1990's technology in 1940's there, but the US and Germany confounded them by the progress they made on advancements.

On the J.R.R. Martin series I'm getting ready to break down and buy the hardback of Feast for Crows, since it will be awhile before hitting softback. lol

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Well, I recently went to a gigantic book sale that we hold here over a weekend in Febuary anually where there are tens of thousands of books of all kinds for sale for $4 or under. (Paperbacks can range as low as $.10!)

Tons of sci-fi, and I got some good reading that should satisfy me for the next year at least.

Anyways, I already have a few favorites from that bunch, and I'll list a few of my favorite sci-fi books of all time here.

-Dune (Can't beat it. Even though it is a bit dull in areas, the book is just great overall. As far as the other books in the series go, I couldn't get through the second book, but I did read some of the prequels by Hebert's son that were fantastic.)

-Honor Harrington series (Only nearly finished with the first book and absolutly loving it to pieces. If anyone's read some of my fan fiction for Freelancer, you'll know I love this sort of thing. This was one of the things I got at the book sale and I was lucky enough to get one of the newest ones which came with a disk that included every other book in the series on it. Lucky me. )

-Star Wars (In general, my two favorite series from this catagory are the aformentioned Thrawn trilogy by Zahn and the Stackpole/Allston X-Wing series. Those were excellent, whereas I didn't like most of the other books that have come out from there.)

-Halo Books (Must admit that I'm a sucker for Halo. I thought these books, excepting possibly the second one, were excellent comapanions to the games, and filled in tons of cool details. Plus, they actually made the MC into more than a robotic killing machine with some corny jokes. )

Beyond those, there isn't anything that screams at me, although there is plenty more that I have read and plan to read. Those above are my favorites by far.

Unbeieveable. 2 pages of opinoin spouting and not one person has mentioned the father of modern sci-fi. Assimov anyone? The foundation series was incredible although the later prequels were somewhat lacking. He practically invented our concept of modern robotics. Coruscant was taken almost directly from "Trantor" in foundations. Star treck TNG used his concepts constanly.

Unbelievable, an insane rant about Asimov and he spells it wrong. I should throw the dictionary at you, or at least The Robots of Dawn .

lol thats tellin em-
it's not a novel but my all time favorite book has to be Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen by H Beam Piper - the sequel the King's War is also a favorite,but its a collaborated novel written by two less known authors.
novel-wise i would say eric flint's 1632/ & 1633(collab. w/ Weber) and the gust front series from John Ringo,and the dragon knight series by G.R. Dickson and the vorkosigan saga, you know its really hard to pick a favorite when you really read a lot of authors

unfortunately I haven't read too many sci-fi novels (and, boy, does War of The Worlds SuCK!)

Ok, who's posting then retracting the posts??? hmmm?