Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:12 am Post subject: Favourite Fantasy/Sci-Fi book(s)?
For the most part I love reading these types of books and have read my fair share. My favourite is probably the Ender series. Definitely a great first two books and the next two were pretty good too. I'd recommend this series if anyone is into these types of books.
Wheel of Time is by far my favourite book series.
I'm currently reading the Sword of Truth series and it's really good as well. The star wars books. I'd recommend both movie trilogy books (there's a lot more depth), and I, Jedi, and the Dark Nest trilogy. That's mostly all the star wars I've read.
Other books I've read & enjoyed:
Magic of Recluce (and the series)
Dragon's Ascension
A Man Rides Through (2nd book of 2, I haven't read the first)
Harry Potter (of course)
Everworld & Remnant (itehyre a scholastic book series and pretty light, but interesting, nonetheless)
Dragons of a Vanished moon (there's a whole series of these in the dragon lance world)
I've also read some liaden universe books, but they're a bit confusing, though still decent.
I read the Harry Potter series and really I didn't think they were that great. The story was nice but I never really felt 'attached'. For the most part the characters were bland and it wasn't as well written as many other series of the genre. The best character was definitely snape simply because she developed him so well. The others, with the possible exception of dumbledore, were bad.
I also never really got into the LotR series. A Song of Ice and Fire was really great too. But as stated, Ender's game series was amazing.
My gf is a voracious reader, and has probably read more entire series than I have total books. I'm at work right now so I cannot give a proper list, but here's some I can recall that we've both enjoyed.
The Ender Series, which you obviously know. Check out the companion Shadow books as well.
George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series is in progress, an incredible read. I believe the 5th book A Dance of Dragons is supposed to be released this fall.
The Early Wheel of Time books are good, but it just got way to tedious for me past book 5 or so and I lost interest.
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, obviously.
From Star Wars cannon, I've enjoyed the Han Solo trilogy of A.C. Crispin, Timothy Zhan's Heir to the Empire trilogy, and the Ambush at Corellia trilogy from Roger Allen.
I recently finished Robin Hobb's Assassin trilogy, and am finishing the Fool's trilogy sometime this week.
Frank Herbert's Dune books. Ignore the stuff put out by his son and others.
Everybody knows about Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four. Few know that one of his sources of inspiration was what can be considered the birth of dystopian science-fiction, Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. Worth a read.
Anything written by Kurt Vonnegut. Harrison Bergeron is probably my favourite short story.
If I was in front of my bookshelf I could easily add another 20-30 entries to this list.
Enders Game - really liked it too, though the first book was the best
Lord of the Rings - what can I say
Wheel of Time - really well written, only criticism is some of the obvious influences from other sources, but that's understandable and it has its own merits
Harry Potter - great series, despite the hype
Babylon 5 - the TV series blows everything out of the water, and the books are good too
I think that just about covers the great five series for me... They're in no particular order. Dune is really good too, but I couldn't get too far into it. I'll agree that the Shadow books (for Ender's Game) were good too, though they sort of take the light from Ender and make it shine on Bean, which wasn't fair to the original books.
I've got a lot of RA Salvatore books I haven't read. And Vermette, don't give up on WoT! It doe get slower and more political, but book 10 picks up and book 11 (about a year or two old now) is really good. Robert Jordan passed away a few months ago, but left extensive notes and Brandon Sanderson is going to finish the 12th and final book.
I've got about 8 dune books (some duplicates) I'm going to read eventually. I've heard discworld is really good, and I want to read ender series, too. "A Man Rides Through" is written by George RR Martin IIRC, in the series "Mirror of her Dreams" I think.
Yea Vermette I want to start the Shadow series soon but I might finish the books that come after The song of Ice and Fire before that. Overall, I love fantasy books and I find them more enjoyable (overall) then other genres.
Fantasy:
Harry Potter,
Stranger with My Face by Lois Duncan,
The Phantom Tollbooth,
Chronicles of Narnia
Sci-Fi:
The Tomorrow City and The Isis Trilogy by Monica Hughes,
Ender series and the Shadow series
Flash Forward, Factoring Humanity and Neanderthal Parallax series by Robert J. Sawyer
TODO: HHGTTG, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Harrison Bergeron, Foundation Series, 2001, A Clockwork Orange
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