Sci-Fi: Which authors, series and books have you read & would recommend?

[Kordolius]

I would also suggest Peter F. Hamilton Commonwealth series, and perhaps David Weber's Honor Harrington too.

[razark]

46 minutes ago, Blunderbuss said:

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Piers Anthony or Roger Zelazny

I would associate those names more with fantasy than sci-fi.  I read Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber until it fell apart.

(Of course, it's hard to draw a hard line between fantasy and sci-fi...)

[Plusck]

Iain M. Banks. Everything he wrote. About three times now. In addition to the Culture series there is also the non-FTL-universe with The Algebraist.

[qeveren]

Neal Asher's Polity series; it's sort-of like a more action-adventure themed version of Ian M. Banks Culture series.

Third (fourth?)-ing both Vernor Vinge and Ian M. Banks.

Joel Shepherd's Cassandra Kresnov series.  Rather Ghost in the Shell-like, though less philosophical.

Greg Egan, Diaspora, Schild's Ladder, Distress, and several more; lots of hard-science trans/post-human explorations of physics and the nature of thought.

[Pthigrivi]

Second Stephenson and Ian M Banks. Also Kim Robinson's Mars series are pretty great.

Just finished re-reading Dune recently, there's so much good going on but somehow the end fell flat for me this time? Something about Paul becoming this drugged out god loses me emotionally at some point.

[Dispatcher]

On May 10, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Blunderbuss said:

Great rec's everyone! Many of them I've read, most not; now I have a massive shopping list for my next few trips to Half-Price Books (I can, and have, spent hours at a time in their various area stores browsing the stacks).  Shame there isn't a printable option for this forum, unless I've gone blind, which, in my dotage, is certainly within the realm of possibility.  

Well, you could select the text portions you want, copy, paste into a text editor, save and print.  

[kookoo_gr]

Kevin J. Anderson - The Saga of the Seven Suns (7 books) and its sequel The Saga of Shadows (3 books)

[Mikki]

Its a Art Comic series... however:

John Difool from Moebius/ Janjetov/ Jodorovsky (France, Serbia, Chile )

Its really worth the visuals and kind of a total mindblow

Edited May 12, 2016 by Mikki
Authors

[Sylith]

C.J.Cherryh - Downbelow Station (Life on a spacestation during war)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downbelow_Station

[N_Danger]

 

Alastair Reynolds - Revelation Space series

Richard K Morgan -  Altered Carbon series

Stephen Baxter - anything 

 

[RainDreamer]

Another recommendation, unrelated to space, is The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto. It deals mainly with the future of robotic and AI, and providing a quite intriguing vision of what may become of human and robots.

[Dispatcher]

I forgot to mention Andre' Norton's work.  This thread makes me want to read a bunch of books.