A Science Fiction Novel YOU would recommend

[klikklak]

Some of these are obvious but still:

Michael Moorcock, end of time stories
Iain M. Banks all of "culture" books
Neal Stephenson, Snow crash and Diamond age
William Gibson, all three neuromancer books
Philip K. Dick, everything
Stephen Baxter, seems promising, haven't read enough yet though.
Charles Stross, Accelerando (free ebook too!)
Vernor Vinge, deepness in the sky and the other one.

[mklynds]

Klikklak brought Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon to mind. Great book. Massive though. In pbook form it is the thickest book I own. over 1000 pages if I remember correctly but it is still a great read.

[Andybaby]

Originally Posted by klikklak

Charles Stross, Accelerando (free ebook too!)
Vernor Vinge, deepness in the sky and the other one.

for vernor vinge, it's a fire upon the deep, that's the first one in the series, sky is the second I believe.

as for Charles Stross, I read "saturns children" by him and it was strange to say the least, but his writing style made me put the book down for 3 months

[Gideon]

Anathem, by Stephenson.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Gideon

Anathem, by Stephenson.

I believe it's been nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, by the way.


Don

[Greg Anos]

What do you want in Science Fiction? This isn't a joke, the field is so broad that what you would like to read depends on what you want. I'll list some sub-categories and selections.

Space Opera - The Lensman series (Triplanetary, First Lensman, Galactic Patrol, Gray Lensman, Second Stage Lensmen, Children of the Lens, and The Vortex Blaster)
They are the original by the original writer of Space opera - E.E.Smith PHD. Don't look for scientific realism in them, just rip-roaring good fun. (And no, despite all the critic's harping, you couldn't just substitute 6 guns for rays in these books.)

Far Future Science Fiction - Jack Vance. For a one book primer of his work, get The Five Golden Bands (if you can find it used). For a five book series, The Demon Princes (The Star King, The Killing Machine, The Palace of Love, The Face and The Book of Dreams) can't be beat (not to sneer at any other of his works, you might like the Planet of Adventure series better, or others...)

Socialogical S/F - Mercenary From Tomorrow - Mack Reynolds

Juvenile S/F - Star Surgeon - Alan E. Nourse
The Star Beast - Robert A Heinlein
(Two different takes on having a pet...)

And for a look under the hood of real science - The Gods Themselves - Issac Asimov

(Note series here are not open ended series. They are in essence a one thematic book. For example Jack Vance's The Demon Princes are in 5 volumes. 5 Bad Guys get theirs, one per book.)

[brecklundin]

Originally Posted by Gideon

Anathem, by Stephenson.

That one has been on my must read list for a while...I really enjoy Stephenson's style. Though a couple times I simply have to read a book twice to really get everything out of it.

[MelC]

Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

Mel

[tech_au]

I have just finished reading the third book in the Time Odyssey series by Clarke and Baxter.
Great hard scifi series where each book is different.
Book1 Times Eye - a sample of humanity from different time periods ends up on a strange composite version of Earth also from different geological periods.
Book2 Sunstorm - The Sun has gone mental and is threatening to turn the Earth into a roasted marshmallow.
Book3 Firstborn - A quantum bomb is on its way to Earth to make sure Earth is gone for good.

[Penforhire]

I'm 2/3rd of the way through Anathem right now. Great read so far but his usual style is altered a bit to my ear. Feels more like Gene Wolfe but not quite as puzzling or slow.

[Kilgore Trout]

Dr. Al Past's Distant Cousin series, although not purely SciFi in genre, is an excellent read. My favorites are the first and third books, with the middle one having a little less personal appeal for me. You can find them in the Kindle format, and in multiple formats at Smashwords. Distant Cousin 4 should be out later this year, I think.

[chorpler]

I second John Scalzi's Old Man's War books. He has four of them so far, and they're awesome. I just read them all a couple weeks ago.

Also, Richard K. Morgan's novels about Takeshi Kovacs -- Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies -- are extremely good, if frightening.

Oh, and Charles Sheffield has some good books as well. His Starfire and Aftermath, about a serial killer and a bunch of other people whose lives are changed forever Alpha Centauri B goes supernova and blasts the earth with radiation and clumps of matter, are extremely good. Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a romantic hard science fiction novel, which is kinda hard to pull off but I think he did a great job.

And of course pretty much anything by Larry Niven.

[Labib Rahman]

If you're interested in the planetary colonisation kinds of sci-fi, Kim Stanley Robinson has to be read:

1. Red Mars
2. Green Mars
3. Blue Mars

One of the few sci-fi books where the technology is actually plausible in the time frame provided.

[Gibbo]

Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout

Dr. Al Past's Distant Cousin series, although not purely SciFi in genre, is an excellent read. My favorites are the first and third books, with the middle one having a little less personal appeal for me. You can find them in the Kindle format, and in multiple formats at Smashwords. Distant Cousin 4 should be out later this year, I think.

When checking your amazon link the cover looked familiar so I went to Smashwords and there it was sitting on my cart, lolol

[sabredog]

Originally Posted by Andybaby

I've read them, and Jack Campbell (Hemery) isn't that great of an author, the first half of every book is just repeating the previous second half of the previous book or before that.

if you want a similar series, with much better writing, check out the honor harrington series by david weber

Yep. Read those as well. The first book, On Basilisk Station probably close to 15 years ago. The series now seems bogged down heavily in political machinations, so typical of Weber. The first 5 in the series were superb.