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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1035 Joined: 9 Apr 2008     | I'm another of the Ender's Game faithful though I have only read the first and that was awhile ago I should get back to reading that series. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 796 Joined: 6 Dec 2007     | In no real order: Discworld Oh, and for some reason I really enjoy Abnetts Gaunts Ghosts series. Dunno why. Guess I just like war and IG. :) |
Beat Writer  Posts: 134 Joined: 27 Aug 2008    | The Drenai and Saga of Skilgannon books by David Gemmell are beyond good, let me explain... You know when you read normal fantasy books (you know, orcs, elves, dwarves, big battles, bad guys etc) and it is billed as an epic saga with fanciful heroes. But when you read it you just get told about abstract numbers of troops fighting and a hero with a few special bits of kit that make him a killing machine. These books tend to give you a bit too much detail and over analyse things, as a consequence you never feel part of the larger battles and the hero just seems a bit too powerful. Well the drenai books manage to convey what these books wish they could. The heroes are tragic, believable and absorbing. The battles feel epic and you really get a feel of the human struggle going on. Despite this Gemmell manages to leave such mystery around the world and its characters and you get sucked in. The series starts with "Legend" and features some of the most epic heroes you ever meet, i really recommend you check them out. In a similar vein, if your a fan of 40k and find the books good but slightly lacking then I recommend the "Legacy of the Aldenata" series by John Ringo. Truly epic warfare. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2019 Joined: 25 Jun 2008   | The Necroscope Series by Brian Lumley. I also really enjoyed his Cthulhu Cycle Deities novels, Titus Crow & a space-time-travelling inter-dimensional flying grandfather clock for the win! |
Muckraker  Posts: 307 Joined: 19 Jan 2008    | I heavily recommend the Vorkosigan saga by Bujold. And the Honor series by Weber, although that is getting to be a bit monotonous. Can't put it down. A bunch of other things by Weber - he is actively involved in writing at least four separate series that I am following. Hellgate one, Roger the emperor, Honor, and that Merlin thing. BTW, if you guys haven't seen www.webscription.net yet, check it out. It has a ton of e-books without DRM, cheap, and all with teaser chapters. So you can figure out whether you like something before reading it. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 797 Joined: 4 Sep 2008  | Lord of the Clans and Rise of the Horde by Christie Golden. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 1 Joined: 4 Sep 2008 | Recommend any thing by Mike Resnick Outpost and Santiago being his Best works. (or maybe the Widowmaker series) |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 911 Joined: 20 Jun 2008   | Richard Matheson's 'I Am Legend' Full stop. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 553 Joined: 25 Jun 2008    | the "watch series" (Nightwatch, Daywatch, Twilight Watch, and soon to be (in oct) Final Watch) its kinda like Russia's Harry Potter... execpt good and not contradictory |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1048 Joined: 12 Jun 2008   | The Emberverse series, by S.M Stirling (a good series, but not the best) Basicaly somthing called the Change causes all technology to stop working and now everyone has to live like it was the middle ages, set in Post-Change Oregon. List of books Ib order (Dies the Fire, the Protector's War, A Meeting at Corvallis,The Sunrise Lands, The Scourage of God) |
Beat Writer  Posts: 192 Joined: 26 Jul 2008   |
Yeah, there's that, and the fact that anything good that happens to anybody that isn't Richard, Kalahn, or Zed, will be undone within the first ten pages of the next book. Anybody who falls in love or finds any kind of happiness will have it ripped from them. Seriously, *slight spoiler here, and I'm htm lilliterate enough not to know how to do the spoiler block* Can't remember which book it was exactly, but there's one that ends on a high note with this goat having babies and how that gives hope for new life and all this stuff, and the next book begins with the goat and both of it's kids being ripped apart by some kind of giant raptor bird while everyone looks on in horror. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 6 Joined: 3 Sep 2008    |
This. |
On the Record  Posts: 5946 Joined: 7 Mar 2008     |
i have and read the first 2, got the first book signed by Ed too and i don't live too far from him, he lives somewhere in ontario, so yeah Forgotten Realms is a Canadian invention as far as i know Elminster, he is Ed's personal char that he invented oh so long ago. much like the dragonlance novels were based on an actual campaign oh i totally forgot about the Drizz't stories, they are a pretty good series to read as for those saying Darktower, it's good for a Stephen King series but i found it a bit dry, maybe after book 4 it gets better but book 4 kinda dragged on |
Time Lord  Posts: 10073 Joined: 13 Feb 2008   | Grrrrr...hate Elminster....hate hate hate. Stupid Mary-Sue of a character. Stabbity Stabbity Stab. Sorry...the whole Waterdeep, Tantras series got me very wound up in D&D. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2693 Joined: 6 Jun 2008  | Dune, but R A Salvator's D&D books come close. |
Beat Writer Posts: 192 Joined: 26 Jul 2008 | Chronicles of Amber is pretty good, almost forgot that one. Lots of weird crap about an immortal royal family who can run around in alternate dimensions at will. Features a scene where a guy manages to piss on his own grave. Good stuff. Gets weird at times, but good. Fred Saberhagen (think that's how it's spelled) has a nice series called, I believe, either the Song of Swords or the Complete Book of Swords. Can't really remember the exact name of the series as a whole. Anyway, weird mythology, powerful magical swords, weird post-apocalypse scenes. A bit dry at times, but a nice read. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3587 Joined: 6 Aug 2008 | I've never read Dune is it really that good? I like WH40K so if you are interested in that try the Gaunts Ghosts, really good or The Ciaphas Cain series. Outside that anything by Terry Pratchett. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2904 Joined: 12 May 2008    | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Hienlin. It's obvious, but Dune. Nothing beats Dune. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 162 Joined: 6 Sep 2008 | I'm a big fan of Ender although I actually liked Speaker for the Dead better than the original. The Wheel of Time does fantasy for me. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2355 Joined: 14 Sep 2007  |
/thread. Pratchett is incredibly witty, but many of his books present insight on life and the world around us. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1075 Joined: 4 Sep 2008   | Red Dwarf books = sci fi + funny man hit in testicles My alltime favourite fantasy series has to be the whole load of 'Beloved' books by Robin Hobb, the Farseer, Liveship and Tawny Man trilogies. A trilogy of trilogies. I seriously seriously can't reccomend them enough. If I heard of a film adaptation I would fly to the States to be a part of it. Heard a couple of Gemmell fans on here. R.I.P. Gemmell (and Waylander). |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 785 Joined: 12 Aug 2008   | I've always had a soft spot for the Dragonlance series and Richard Knaak's War of the Ancients series. Discworld and Mech Warrior also rank up there. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 150 Joined: 17 Mar 2009 | Oh my, time for a little thred necroing. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 597 Joined: 6 Jun 2009   | I can't really call any of the Jules Verne books series but that doesn't take away the fact that I love the author. I love the Harry Potter series too and they are probably the only fantasy series I have read so that shall be my pick. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1411 Joined: 13 Jun 2009 | Terry Pratchett's Discworld and offshoots such as the Wee Free Men series, they're great fun and always worth a re-read. I'm also just starting on the A Song of Ice and Fire series and, while I have yet to read much of it, I'm loving what I have read. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 740 Joined: 21 Mar 2009    | Tales of the Otori - Lian Hearn |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 566 Joined: 26 Apr 2009   | The Pendragon series is quite good. Its so much better than the Harry Potter series because there's an actual final battle between the main protagonist and antagonist! None of that "Okay you die now!*bad guy falls over*" crap that JK Rowling was spewing by the end. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 656 Joined: 6 Mar 2009 | The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson was excellent. I also liked The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1812 Joined: 20 Aug 2008   | The Black Magican trilogy by Trudi Canavan. These are all good fantasy |
Beat Writer Posts: 145 Joined: 17 Jan 2009  |
I have to back him up, these books were awesome. |
Beat Writer Posts: 145 Joined: 17 Jan 2009 | Now to add my own. I just recently read two Trilogies written by S. M. Stirling. Both of these two series were so good that I went several nights without enough sleep just so I could read "just one more page". Both trilogies are known as "Novels of the change" but both are told from a different group of people experiencing the change in different ways. The first trilogy is as follows: The plot is simple yet complex. One day in 1998, there is a flash that starts in Nantucket and some of the laws of physics stop working the way we know them. This comes to be known as "The Change". Gun powder and Electricity just stop working. These three Novels follow a few groups of survivors in Oregon, who have to revert to medieval farming, fighting and in some cases, Empire building to survive but they do have a lot of our knowledge to help them out. Imagine Castles being built with our current knowledge of construction. The second Trilogy is as follows: One day in 1998 the island of Nantucket gets thrown back to about 1300 BC but this time everything is working as usual. The islanders have to revert back to making everything (food, fuel, housing, everything) themselves because there is no more USA and therefor no infrastructure. Imagine what would happen if you had our current technological knowhow and were sent back to the Bronze age and you have the basic plot of the trilogy. I would highly recommend both Trilogies. If my descriptions seem a bit bare that is because I am specifically avoided giving any spoilers. Lets just say that, after reading both these trilogies, I am going to read everything that S. M. Stirling has ever written. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 849 Joined: 5 Aug 2008  | Honor Harrington novels by David Weber, I'm still waiting for the next one. Interesting universe he has created, excellent technology and newtonian physics based combat. It all makes for an epic Sci-fi War-drama. My only gripe would be that Honor appears to be too superhuman at times. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1957 Joined: 25 May 2009   | Nice long list for you :P. In order of preference: Okay, i thought the list would be longer but i have forgotten everything i knew this morning. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 144 Joined: 11 Jun 2009    | The Wheel of Time series. Maybe I'm just a fanboy (forgive me if I am) but I have read countless fantasy series(not so much sci-fi some reason I just cant get into it as much) and The Wheel of Time to me has so far and probably will for a long time stood head and shoulders above the rest. Robert Jordan has taken what the classic greats invented and perfected it. The characters are so involving I have literally jumped up and down at certain parts in the book when something great is accomplished. I have cried out loud at other parts.. laughed, got physically angry. You find yourself truely wrapped up and cheering for these characters. The world is so indepth. If Jordan had the ability to live forever he could have written a 100 books without having to stretch the world anymore. There are series that come close but in my opinion (and it is just my opinion not fact) The Wheel of Time is the greatest fantasy series ever hands down. Robert Jordan was a genius of his genre. |
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I loved the Hyperion series, by Dan Simmons, and I recommend (at least) the first book to anyone.
The first book is Hyperion, Second: The Fall of Hyperion, then Endymion and finally, the Rise of Endymion.
I liked the first one, second is my least favorite, and the last two were good, but very different.
Also, the Earthsea series is good, and so is the Ender's game series.