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XANDER KAG Red Star. EoN. 71	Posted - 2013.04.10 21:33:00 - [1] - Quote Any one know of any good Scifi books or series? I already own Empyrean Age and Templar One and I'm looking for something else.
Logi Bro Eyniletti Rangers Minmatar Republic 1131	Posted - 2013.04.10 21:33:00 - [2] - Quote You mean books that don't involve EvE? Aliens was the basis for the insanely badass movie.

GM Hercules Game Masters C C P Alliance 416	Posted - 2013.04.10 21:40:00 - [3] - Quote Moved from general discussion

A'Real Fury D.A.R.K L.E.G.I.O.N 38	Posted - 2013.04.10 21:40:00 - [4] - Quote David Weber - Honor Series
The all mighty-Bacon Red and Silver Hand Amarr Empire 1	Posted - 2013.04.10 21:41:00 - [5] - Quote Bacon.
Blackie 71 Ground Pounders Inc. 11	Posted - 2013.04.10 21:42:00 - [6] - Quote If you enjoy Dust or Eve, I strongly suggest that you check out The Lost Stars: Tarnished Knight, by Jack Cambel. Lots of space batles and ground combat. Could almost have been written for the Eve universe. Here is a link to the audio book where you can listen to a sample.
Goric Rumis Amarr Templars Amarr Empire 145	Posted - 2013.04.10 21:48:00 - [7] - Quote Most of Kurt Vonnegut's books are debatable whether they qualify as sci-fi, but every one I've read has been worth reading. The Sirens of Titan is about as sci-fi as he gets; the "science" aspect is tongue-in-cheek, but there's space travel. I like Philip K. ****, but he often gets too dark and too bizarre for your average reader. (There's a reason why so many movies are based on, but don't perfectly follow, his stories--and they're still pretty weird movies.) Many people recommend Heinlein, but I've never gotten very far in any of his books so I couldn't tell you whether I think they're good.
gbghg L.O.T.I.S. 1110	Posted - 2013.04.10 22:09:00 - [8] - Quote The Horus Heresy series, actually any of the warhammer 40k books are good.
Reclusiarch Grimaldus D3ath D3alers RISE of LEGION 2	Posted - 2013.04.10 23:52:00 - [9] - Quote gbghg wrote: The Horus Heresy series, actually any of the warhammer 40k books are good. The halo books as well, they're some great reads. What he said!!
BatKing Deltor Tank Bros. 1	Posted - 2013.04.11 02:01:00 - [10] - Quote Hunger game series and star wars republic commando series.

slypie11 Planetary Response Organisation 135	Posted - 2013.04.11 02:44:00 - [11] - Quote Fahrenheit 451 is a classic. Books by orson Scott card like ender's game and pathfinder are pretty good
Daedric Lothar Onslaught Inc 186	Posted - 2013.04.11 11:32:00 - [12] - Quote If you are going to read 40K, also check out the Gaunt's Ghost and the Caiaphas Cain series, both of those are amazing reads. Gaunt's is a serious tale of war and teamwork, Caiaphas is a extremely funny series about war and trying to get out of it. Though I would probably recommend reading Gaunt's first so you get an idea about the setting or some of the Caiaphas jokes may go over your head. I don't read much Sci fi other then 40k, mostly fantasy. I did however enjoy some of the Star Wars books after episode 6. Stories about dark Luke Skywalker and Kyp Durron
KatanaPT Tech Guard 30	Posted - 2013.04.11 14:04:00 - [13] - Quote I am a avid reader, mostly Scifi and Horror, and the following books are my top scifi novels, i am well versed in AC Clarke, Asimov, K Dicck, Lem, Bester, etc, but these books i can say surpass the classics. -the Hyperion cantos by Dan Simmons, by far the best Scifi Epic Space Opera outhere, really. -the Night Dawns trilogy by Peter F Hamilton, this trilogy of books really blew me away, it has sentient ships, drones, lots of action, even paranormal stuff. -the Commonwealth Saga, by Peter F Hamilton this duology of books is amazing, scifi epicness, you got everything in it, dyson spheres, giant battles, stargates -Altered Carbon and their sequels by Richard Morgan, cyberpunk with lots of scifi imagery - illium and its sequel Olympos by Dan Simmons, yea i cant stress enough, this guy knows how to write, greek gods remade by nanotech, the iliad reenacted on the planet Mars, sentient robots, and lots of action. also i am addicted nowadays to the Destroyermen saga, a collection of books in which a WW2 Destroyer is transported to a paralell earth, in which humanity never came about, it has lots of action, warfare and its really quite addictive, think of it as similar to Star Trek Voyager, a lost ship and its crew on a strange new world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%27s_dawn_trilogy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilium_(novel) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyermen_(book_series)
XANDER KAG Red Star. EoN. 72	Posted - 2013.04.11 15:01:00 - [14] - Quote Thanks I'll be sure to check some of these out!
gbghg L.O.T.I.S. 1120	Posted - 2013.04.11 15:24:00 - [15] - Quote BatKing Deltor wrote: Hunger game series and star wars republic commando series. crap how could i forget karen traviss? i feel ashamed to have forgotten such a great author. But he's right the republic commando series is probably the single best star wars book series out there, such a damn shame it got retconned to allow for that crappy tv series(screw you lucasarts). The gears of war books by her are fantastic as well, and they're really good if you played the games as well, they cover the events before and in between the games. and an interesting sidenote, karen traviss was also the lead writer for gears of war 3
Repe Susi Subdreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 341	Posted - 2013.04.11 15:36:00 - [16] - Quote Any and all books by Alastair Reynolds.
Sleepy Zan Internal Error. Negative-Feedback 2167	Posted - 2013.04.11 15:42:00 - [17] - Quote The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil. Loved that sh**, it'll put you to sleep if your not careful though
KatanaPT Tech Guard 32	Posted - 2013.04.11 15:45:00 - [18] - Quote XANDER KAG wrote: Thanks I'll be sure to check some of these out! Read some of the reviews up on Amazon, and you will see why i choosed those set of books. They are life changing.
Tim Rapp Tank Bros. 1	Posted - 2013.04.11 22:04:00 - [19] - Quote BatKing Deltor wrote: Hunger game series and star wars republic commando series. The Hunger Games is a good book. We read it in 9th grade English
Soldier of Mawat Amat Al'Mawat Militia 35	Posted - 2013.04.12 00:45:00 - [20] - Quote I would highly suggest Dune. I'm surprised nobody mentioned it yet. There is the original 6 books I believe and then there are two side series that are great reads as well.

Charizard Zakalwe Immobile Infantry 28	Posted - 2013.04.12 01:08:00 - [21] - Quote Goric Rumis wrote: Most of Kurt Vonnegut's books are debatable whether they qualify as sci-fi, but every one I've read has been worth reading. The Sirens of Titan is about as sci-fi as he gets; the "science" aspect is tongue-in-cheek, but there's space travel. I like Philip K. **, but he often gets too dark and too bizarre for your average reader. (There's a reason why so many movies are based on, but don't perfectly follow, his stories--and they're still pretty weird movies.) Many people recommend Heinlein, but I've never gotten very far in any of his books so I couldn't tell you whether I think they're good. No PKD books are ever properly adapted to movies, and those that become good movies are only good movies in their own right; Blade Runner is missing a massive amount from the book. PKD certainly gets dark and messed up, but it fits a lot with the time period, setting, and **'s own experiences, which is why there is so much identity confusion/loss of identity things in his books. Ian M. Bank's novels on the whole, most of which are part of the Culture series (but not all). I especially recommend Against A Dark Background and Use Of Weapons, but everything he's done is so. good. (also the Algebraist because it's great) If that's a bit above your reading level, I recommend Eric Nylund. He's one of the author's who wrote a bunch of the Halo books, which are the first real sci-fi stuff I ever read. The first novel is actually pretty good even if you don't like Halo, as the first one is a prequel and can pretty easily be separated from the franchise as a whole. He's written a bunch of bits of Sci-fi that are pretty good. If we're following my reading habits, I then recommend Rendezvous With Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke, and later, Gentry Lee, as the story carries. Larry Niven is a requirement, as is Neal Stephenson and William Gibson. Everyone I've mentioned is excellent, with nylund a questionable mention since he's pretty much a young adult level author.
slypie11 Planetary Response Organisation 139	Posted - 2013.04.12 01:24:00 - [22] - Quote IRobot is cool, very complicated though. Nothing like the movie I can assure you
Galrick M'kron Sand Mercenary Corps Inc. 56	Posted - 2013.04.12 04:59:00 - [23] - Quote ^ Beat me to it. The ones written by Brian Herbert after Frank Herbert's death aren't so good though. Anyway, I can recommend the Sprawl Trilogy (cyberpunk, by William Gibson), the WorShip series (Also by Frank Herbert), the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Douglas Adams, great sci-fi comedy), and any of the Year's Best Science Fiction Collections (Edited by Gardner Dozois, lots of good short stories). EDIT: Also, the Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov (it's interesting), Dragon's Egg (Robert L. Forward), and The Diamond Age (cyberpunk again, by Neal Stephenson).
gbghg L.O.T.I.S. 1136	Posted - 2013.04.12 14:14:00 - [24] - Quote Galrick M'kron wrote: ^ Beat me to it. The ones written by Brian Herbert after Frank Herbert's death aren't so good though. Anyway, I can recommend the Sprawl Trilogy (cyberpunk, by William Gibson), the WorShip series (Also by Frank Herbert), the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Douglas Adams, great sci-fi comedy), and any of the Year's Best Science Fiction Collections (Edited by Gardner Dozois, lots of good short stories). EDIT: Also, the Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov (it's interesting), Dragon's Egg (Robert L. Forward), and The Diamond Age (cyberpunk again, by Neal Stephenson). blarghititytshg, how could i forget such another great author? I've read too many books and remember far too few authors But his entire series is great, their some of the funniest and cleverest books out there, read them. I'd also suggest terry pratchett but the majority of his books(the discworld series) are fantasy, but you should still read them, they're great.
Charizard Zakalwe Immobile Infantry 30	Posted - 2013.04.12 14:40:00 - [25] - Quote I am also remiss for not saying you you should every vonnegut novel a thousand times over. He's the dreamiest. Douglas Adams too.
ChromeBreaker SVER True Blood Unclaimed. 363	Posted - 2013.04.12 14:40:00 - [26] - Quote DUNE Anything from Iain M. Banks The Lost Fleet Series Surprisingly the Games workshop novels have been good reads...
XANDER KAG Red Star. EoN. 75	Posted - 2013.04.12 17:48:00 - [27] - Quote Okay, I'll check out those to. I should be set for quite awhile now, but if anyone has any other suggestions I'd be glad to hear them.


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