Your Favourite SF & Fantasy Series - Page 2

TallMomof2 · 05-14-2008, 12:54 PM

C J Cherryh Foreigner Series, wish they were all available as legal ebooks.

GeoffC · 05-14-2008, 02:08 PM

Eric Van Lustbader : Sunset Warrior series of 3
Philip Jose Farmer : Fabulous Riverboat series ( though some better than others )
Alan Dean Foster : Flinx series
Stephen Donaldson : Land series and Mirror Rides Through ( 2 books )
Plus those of Anne McCaffrey , David & Leigh Eddings as mentioned by others .

Historical Fantasy novels by Diana Gabaldon based around the time of Culloden and emigration of Scots to America .

bbusybookworm · 05-14-2008, 02:47 PM

Its Great to see all the great suggestions.

Does it make me more of a geek that I know a lot of them, and while not having read all of them, am mostly familiar with most.

One thing I have to admit is that while they are all great books, I often don't refer many of them to newbies as they are heavy getting into.

Case in point J.R.R. Tolkein - Lord of the Rings. While I personally love the books, and love the Movie's even more, it took me 4 or 5 attempts before I could get through the whole story without just giving up. I actually ended up finishing it in one night after watching The Fellowship of the Ring the first time

.

Similarly, I stopped recommending Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series after it started being extended and extended. I'll probably wait till the final part, based on his notes finally comes out.

Gudy · 05-14-2008, 02:58 PM

Science Fiction

David Drake & Eric Flint - Belisarius
David Drake - RCN (With the Lightnings, Lt. Leary Commanding, etc.)
Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Orson Scott Card - Ender (the first four books, anyway)

Fantasy

Janny Wurts - The Wars of Light and Shadow
Raymond Feist & Janny Wurts - Empire
Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel
Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently
Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials
Rick Cook - Wizardry

Shadowplay · 05-14-2008, 10:38 PM

Ok a few more that spring to mind

Fantasy setting, but really it's more sci-fi in it's themes and philosophy:
CJ Cherryh - The Morgaine Chronicles

Ursula K. Le Guin - the Earthsea novels (fantasy)
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness (brilliant sci-fi, though a little dated now. come on this is where the Ansible concept came from!)

And speaking of the Ansible:
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game (and other novels in that setting)
...don't think I saw ^^^^ mentioned already.

Ok that's it for now, but keep 'em coming everyone! My 505 arrives *tomorrow* so I'm crazy about stocking up on ebooks.

The Alternative · 05-14-2008, 11:06 PM

Science Fiction (Too "old school" for SF)

Frederik Pohl's "Heechee" books
Gateway (1977)
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980)
Heechee Rendezvous (1984)
The Annals of the Heechee (1987)
The Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee (1990)
The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway (2004)

Fantasy

S. M. Sterling's "Island in the Sea of Time" series
Island in the Sea of Time (1997)
Against the Tide of Years (1998)
On the Oceans of Eternity (2000)

and

S. M. Stirling's "Dies the Fire" series
Dies the Fire (2004)
The Protector's War (2005)
A Meeting at Corvallis (2006)

and

Dennis L. McKiernan's Mithgar
Mithgar: The Iron Tower
The Dark Tide (1984)
Shadows of Doom (1984)
The Darkest Day (1984)

Mithgar: The Silver Call
Trek to Kraggen-Cor (1986)
The Brega Path (1986)

igorsk · 05-15-2008, 05:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shadowplay

Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness (brilliant sci-fi, though a little dated now. come on this is where the Ansible concept came from!)

Actually, it appeared first in Rocannon's World (another great book).

Shadowplay · 05-15-2008, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by igorsk

Actually, it appeared first in Rocannon's World (another great book).

Uh oh... for some reason I always thought it was The Left Hand of Darkness that started that, but after a quick search looks like you are quite right and I've been wrong all this time.

Shadowplay · 05-15-2008, 07:23 PM

Sorry to double post, but thought of another series so wanted this to have it's own post.

Naomi Novak - The Temeraire series
This is interesting in that it's alternate history, military history and fantasy rolled into one. I've yet to read the latest Empire of Ivory, though I'll be getting it for my new 505 soon.

WillAdams · 05-16-2008, 08:01 AM

Orson Scott Card's distinction is:

- science fiction has rivets
- fantasy has trees

(judging the book by its cover) from his afterword to the audiobook of _Ender's Game_.

My criteria is whether or no there's an effort to explain things using technology / physics.

William

sebastien · 05-16-2008, 02:47 PM

Aside from Isaac Asimov, which I've devoured every book I could lay my hand on.

I strongly recommend Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles / Dream of Eagles series. They are very well written and filled with historical tidbit. They kept me awake to the wee hours of the night many time. :-)

LeserattePD · 05-17-2008, 05:43 AM

Science-Fiction

I Love:

Honor Harrington by David Weber

Lensmen by E.E. Doc Smith

Dune by Frank Herbert

Vorkosigan by Lois McMaster Bujold

Belisarius by David Drake

I never understood why people liked Foundation by Asimov - it just goes on and on and nothing really happens for 100es of pages, it bored me to death (and I've read the whole 1400 pages of the original unshortened Don Quixotte)

Fantasy

I love:

Shola by Lisanne Norman (wonderful, slightly Sci-Fi)

Temeraire by Naomi Novik (wow what an original mixture of dragons and alternative history)

Darkover by Marion Zimmer Bradley (the middle years books are best, early ones are a bit undeveloped and late ones are just not that good)

Pern and Talents by Anne McCaffrey

Kushiel by Jaqueline Carey

Dragon Prince/Dragon Star and Exiles by Melanie Rawn

Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey (especially the Vanyel trilogy, the latest books aren't that great though)

I never understood why people loved Shannara by Terry Brooks - you'll come up with better story lines while playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Megatron-UK · 05-17-2008, 07:00 AM

Rama series - Arthur C Clark & Gentry Lee
Gateway / Heechee series - Frederik Pohl
Ringworld - Larry Niven
Uplift / Uplift War - David Brin
Commonwealth Saga (Pandoras Star, Judas Unchained, Dreaming Void) - Peter F Hamilton
Dune - Frank Herbert

I can also highly reccomend the Sci Fi Masterworks Collection by Gollancz if anyone is interested.

HarryT · 05-17-2008, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LeserattePD

Fantasy

I love:

Pern and Talents by Anne McCaffrey

You'd classify these as fantasy?

The early Pern books may give the appearance of fantasy, but I think that the later books in the series bring the whole thing firmly into the SF "camp".

The "Talent" books are (IMHO) unquestionably SF.

pshrynk · 05-17-2008, 09:47 AM

I recall Anne McCaffery saying at a convention one time that she wrote the Pern books to mess with peoples' perceptions. Cool! Dragons! A fantasy! A computer? Whut the? One of my all time favorite series, right behind Discworld. Which is an SF series, as well.

What? They're splitting the thaum for Om's sake!

05-17-2008, 05:43 AM	#27
LeserattePD Enthusiast Posts: 47 Karma: 136 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: UK Device: Ebookwise 1150, Kindle 3	My favourites and not so favourites Science-Fiction I Love: Honor Harrington by David Weber Lensmen by E.E. Doc Smith Dune by Frank Herbert Vorkosigan by Lois McMaster Bujold Belisarius by David Drake I never understood why people liked Foundation by Asimov - it just goes on and on and nothing really happens for 100es of pages, it bored me to death (and I've read the whole 1400 pages of the original unshortened Don Quixotte) Fantasy I love: Shola by Lisanne Norman (wonderful, slightly Sci-Fi) Temeraire by Naomi Novik (wow what an original mixture of dragons and alternative history) Darkover by Marion Zimmer Bradley (the middle years books are best, early ones are a bit undeveloped and late ones are just not that good) Pern and Talents by Anne McCaffrey Kushiel by Jaqueline Carey Dragon Prince/Dragon Star and Exiles by Melanie Rawn Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey (especially the Vanyel trilogy, the latest books aren't that great though) I never understood why people loved Shannara by Terry Brooks - you'll come up with better story lines while playing Dungeons and Dragons.

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05-14-2008, 12:54 PM	#16
TallMomof2 Kindlephilia Posts: 2,017 Karma: 1139255 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Snowpacolypse 2010 Device: Too many to count	C J Cherryh Foreigner Series, wish they were all available as legal ebooks.

05-14-2008, 02:08 PM	#17
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Eric Van Lustbader : Sunset Warrior series of 3 Philip Jose Farmer : Fabulous Riverboat series ( though some better than others ) Alan Dean Foster : Flinx series Stephen Donaldson : Land series and Mirror Rides Through ( 2 books ) Plus those of Anne McCaffrey , David & Leigh Eddings as mentioned by others . Historical Fantasy novels by Diana Gabaldon based around the time of Culloden and emigration of Scots to America .

05-14-2008, 02:47 PM	#18
bbusybookworm Tech Junkie Posts: 1,027 Karma: 10080 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Earth Device: iPad, MotoXStyle, OnePlusOne	Its Great to see all the great suggestions. Does it make me more of a geek that I know a lot of them, and while not having read all of them, am mostly familiar with most. One thing I have to admit is that while they are all great books, I often don't refer many of them to newbies as they are heavy getting into. Case in point J.R.R. Tolkein - Lord of the Rings. While I personally love the books, and love the Movie's even more, it took me 4 or 5 attempts before I could get through the whole story without just giving up. I actually ended up finishing it in one night after watching The Fellowship of the Ring the first time . Similarly, I stopped recommending Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series after it started being extended and extended. I'll probably wait till the final part, based on his notes finally comes out.

05-14-2008, 02:58 PM	#19
Gudy Wizard Posts: 1,154 Karma: 3252017 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Germany Device: Pocketbook Touch Lux (623)	Science Fiction David Drake & Eric Flint - Belisarius David Drake - RCN (With the Lightnings, Lt. Leary Commanding, etc.) Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Orson Scott Card - Ender (the first four books, anyway) Fantasy Janny Wurts - The Wars of Light and Shadow Raymond Feist & Janny Wurts - Empire Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials Rick Cook - Wizardry

05-14-2008, 10:38 PM	#20
Shadowplay Groupie Posts: 185 Karma: 1096228 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Colorado Device: Kindle Oasis	Ok a few more that spring to mind Fantasy setting, but really it's more sci-fi in it's themes and philosophy: CJ Cherryh - The Morgaine Chronicles Ursula K. Le Guin - the Earthsea novels (fantasy) Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness (brilliant sci-fi, though a little dated now. come on this is where the Ansible concept came from!) And speaking of the Ansible: Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game (and other novels in that setting) ...don't think I saw ^^^^ mentioned already. Ok that's it for now, but keep 'em coming everyone! My 505 arrives tomorrow so I'm crazy about stocking up on ebooks.

05-14-2008, 11:06 PM	#21
The Alternative Techno-Junkie Posts: 74 Karma: 176 Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Southeastern Wisconsin Device: Sony Reader PRS-500 (x's 2), PRS-505, PRS-600, iPhone, iPad	Science Fiction (Too "old school" for SF) Frederik Pohl's "Heechee" books Gateway (1977) Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980) Heechee Rendezvous (1984) The Annals of the Heechee (1987) The Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee (1990) The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway (2004) Fantasy S. M. Sterling's "Island in the Sea of Time" series Island in the Sea of Time (1997) Against the Tide of Years (1998) On the Oceans of Eternity (2000) and S. M. Stirling's "Dies the Fire" series Dies the Fire (2004) The Protector's War (2005) A Meeting at Corvallis (2006) and Dennis L. McKiernan's Mithgar Mithgar: The Iron Tower The Dark Tide (1984) Shadows of Doom (1984) The Darkest Day (1984) Mithgar: The Silver Call Trek to Kraggen-Cor (1986) The Brega Path (1986)

05-15-2008, 07:23 PM	#24
Shadowplay Groupie Posts: 185 Karma: 1096228 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Colorado Device: Kindle Oasis	Sorry to double post, but thought of another series so wanted this to have it's own post. Naomi Novak - The Temeraire series This is interesting in that it's alternate history, military history and fantasy rolled into one. I've yet to read the latest Empire of Ivory, though I'll be getting it for my new 505 soon.

05-16-2008, 08:01 AM	#25
WillAdams Wizard Posts: 1,258 Karma: 3439432 Join Date: Feb 2008 Device: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (300ppi), Samsung Galaxy Book 12	Orson Scott Card's distinction is: - science fiction has rivets - fantasy has trees (judging the book by its cover) from his afterword to the audiobook of _Ender's Game_. My criteria is whether or no there's an effort to explain things using technology / physics. William

05-16-2008, 02:47 PM	#26
sebastien Enthusiast Posts: 26 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Laval, Québec, Canada Device: Sony PRS-505	Aside from Isaac Asimov, which I've devoured every book I could lay my hand on. I strongly recommend Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles / Dream of Eagles series. They are very well written and filled with historical tidbit. They kept me awake to the wee hours of the night many time. :-)

05-17-2008, 07:00 AM	#28
Megatron-UK Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 22 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: uk Device: Sony PRS505	Rama series - Arthur C Clark & Gentry Lee Gateway / Heechee series - Frederik Pohl Ringworld - Larry Niven Uplift / Uplift War - David Brin Commonwealth Saga (Pandoras Star, Judas Unchained, Dreaming Void) - Peter F Hamilton Dune - Frank Herbert I can also highly reccomend the Sci Fi Masterworks Collection by Gollancz if anyone is interested.

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05-17-2008, 09:47 AM	#30
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	I recall Anne McCaffery saying at a convention one time that she wrote the Pern books to mess with peoples' perceptions. Cool! Dragons! A fantasy! A computer? Whut the? One of my all time favorite series, right behind Discworld. Which is an SF series, as well. What? They're splitting the thaum for Om's sake!