Recommend me some Sci-Fi

[Cowutopia]

QUAAAAIIIID

[Mr-K]

I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep about a year ago and liked it a lot. But I actually think I like Blade Runner more. Androids is a bit more spelled out, and Dekker isn't as Harrison Fordy.

Though I really liked the part where he gets taken to the fake police station and you really start to think he's a replicant, when it turns out to be trick

[YellerDog]

That was a really awesome sequence.

[Prince Planet]

I may have mentioned this before over the years, but if you haven't read any Roger Zelazny, you're missing out on one of THE SF icons from the 1960s and 70s. Best known for his Amber Chronicles, he knew how to tell a exciting and thoughtful story.

Opinions vary of course, but I believe his best novel is Lord of Light. It won the Hugo in 1968, and reads just as well today. Grab that and pay attention - - the story starts just before the climax, and the unfolds through flashbacks that (eventually) bring you back to the climax. Great stuff, often beautiful writing, and maybe my favorite book ever.

If you like that, you can then try Creatures of Light and Darkness which (I believe) shared the Hugo with Dune. A very short novel (almost a novella), but told almost like a prose poem. Again, a bit of concentration may be required.

[Jed]

Anything by Gene Wolfe, especially the Books of the New Sun. His stuff is kind of wordy and I find myself stumbling over a bunch of words I've never heard before, but his work is amazing. If you want a well developed world Gene Wolfe is the way to go.

The Bas-Lag books by China Meiville are fucking awesome too. I think he's got some really really original ideas as far as sci-fi goes.

[kingoffighters]

Anything by Gene Wolfe, especially the Books of the New Sun. His stuff is kind of wordy and I find myself stumbling over a bunch of words I've never heard before, but his work is amazing. If you want a well developed world Gene Wolfe is the way to go.

Gene Wolfe is great but the Book of Long Sun blows.

[M]

The Bas-Lag books by China Meiville are fucking awesome too. I think he's got some really really original ideas as far as sci-fi goes.

I read China Meiville's The Scar, which was really good. I was impressed with his originality in ideas, characters, and the quality of his overall writing.

[Shakey]

I reread Neuromancer not too long ago and it still stands up. Highly recommended.

[BioMechanic]

I read China Meiville's The Scar, which was really good. I was impressed with his originality in ideas, characters, and the quality of his overall writing.

His preceding book, Perdido Street Station, is arguably better. Definitely read that if you liked The Scar.

For Meach, I have this suggestion:

Ilium and its sequel Olympos, by Dan Simmons.

Here's a brief synopsis: Zeus and other Greek gods are re-staging the Trojan War on Mars. They've resurrected/reincarnated a human Homerian scholar to observe, but many of the gods (if they're gods at all) are having the scholar interfere with the proceedings to suit their own agendas.

This conflict causes a huge amount of quantum activity, noticed by several abandoned worker droids stationed around Jupiter. Concerned that the activity may become unstable cause the destruction of the solar system, the droids (who are incredibly rendered characters btw) decide to investigate.

Ilium is among the best SF novels I've ever read. Olympos is a couple hundred pages too long, but it almost matches it. The mix of mythology and technology is really, really cool.

Simmons' Hyperion series is also awesome, but I like this one better because I dig Greek mythology.

[jessibalck]