BF2S Forums Know Any Good Sci-Fi Books?

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Brian Lumley wrote the Necroscope series. Its a different take on the vampire legend. Also adds some psychic powers that all tie in very well. I reread these books alot. I would only recommend the best!

ATG wrote:

gmoschgat wrote:

Brian Lumley wrote the Necroscope series. Its a different take on the vampire legend. Also adds some psychic powers that all tie in very well. I reread these books alot. I would only recommend the best!

The first few were indeed, kick ass books.

My choice; The Bible.
Oh wait, thats fantasy...erm...fiction....nevermind.

But it's called the Gospel, it must be true!

I love Ricky Gervais.

the lick my anus series is good

Christine, by Stephen King

Have Spacesuit will Travel, (Cant remember author)

War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells

lettuce wrote:

Anne McCaffrey has done some good stuff,sci-fi and sci-fantasy.

Roger that. If you are into the BF environment as well, she did a couple of quasi-space-opera type things set in future worlds. Lots of space-naval combat and that type of thing. Take a look for the Sassinak series (prob 1990ish publishing).

Or stuff by her co-writer on some of those (Elizabeth Moon); the Serrano Legacy (about 7 books, also space-opera), or Speed of Dark (near future, told from an autistic point of view).

More recently got into the Feintuch series - Seafort Saga. Which is basically Hornblower in space.

Probably a filtered view - but a lot of the classics are up here already, and thought I would give the space warfare stuff a plug.

Massive fan of Phil Dick - must have watched Bladerunner about 100 times when I was early teens, and am still impressed at some of the ideas he was putting out there 40 yrs ago.

Have Spacesuit, will Travel is Heinlein (damn good book too; has a 50s-60s feel in the same vein as Gattaca), although Ratz is pretty close to the mark - he does have a few points to ram home.

IG-Calibre wrote:

Terry Pratchett is not Sci-fi by any stretch of the imagination, infact nothing pisses him off more than his books being placed in the sci-fi section in book shops, he's as sci-fi as JRR Tolken..

However, Pratchett is teh win no matter what part of the book shop it ends up in.
Pure genious.

Go with the HALO series. There based off the game. Its worth the time!

FesterTheMolester wrote:

Does anyone know any good Science Fiction Novels?  I posted this in the DaST Section because this is Serious Talk here folks.  I Don't mean obvious classics like 1984 or Fahrenheit 451... i mean lesser known novels which are still very good... Suggestions welcome

I'm going to copy some titles from an older post of mine. Disclaimer: this isn't my complete list of recommendations. To write such would take weeks.

Douglas Adams ...the obvious, but forgive me if I refuse not to list him

'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'
'Life, The Universe and Everything'
'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish'
'Mostly Harmless'
'Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul'
'The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time'

Robert Aspirin

'Phule' series

Piers Anthony

'Balook'
'Bio of a Space Tyrant' series ...is usually centered around events taking place on the United States of Jupiter and nearby moons, and moves now and then to other planets.
'Hard Sell'
'Killobyte' ...another take on killer video games (for real)
'Prothso Plus' ...a xenoperiodontist's adventures...
'Rings of Ice'
'Xanth' series ...technically fantasy, but Man from Mundania might count as Sci-Fi; there's even an old, free PC game based on it

Ben Bova

'The Grand Tour' series, starting with 'Mars', occasionally branches off into miniseries here and there.
'The Winds of Altair' ...ethics of terraforming

Diane Carey

'Best Destiny' ...is yet another Star Trek novel, but it goes into Kirk's past as a juvenile delinquent.

Jack L. Chalker

'Well of Souls' series ...almost as strange as you can get, except for a few Heinleins.

Deborah Chester

'LucasFilm's Alien Chronicles' trilogy ...is one I hope will never be made into a movie while Lucas is alive to potentially mess it up.

Arthur C. Clarke

'2001', '2010', '2061', '3001' ...are four awesome books. Not much else to say, really. Obvious classics, as per your notification, but I couldn't bear not mentioning them here.

Gordon R. Dickson

'The Dragon and the...' series ...these novels are obviously fantasy-oriented, but the plot has sci-fi origins in the realm of technologically-induced apportation; a variant of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'

Alan Dean Foster

'Codgerspace'
'The Damned' trilogy, starts out in which humans, as the galaxy's most ill-tempered sentient species, are discovered by both sides of the galaxy's civil war, who both use various methods to try and recruit us. these are great
'Spellsinger' series ...in this series, a flunky singer gets teleported to a dimension where songs influence magic. In no other series will the phrase 'time keeps on slippin'...into the future' summon up an angry deity; various occurrences and the plot's origin place this series as at least part sci-fi

Robert A. Heinlein ...this writer is an obvious classic, but some of his stuff is still listed as 'cheap pulp' by snobbish critics

'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' ...is the quintessential moon nation rebels against the earth story. Copied many times since.
'The Sixth Column' ...is almost universally derided by critics as being early, unpolished work and racist towards Asians. It isn't racist, and it's an awesome book.
'Starship Troopers' ...yes. Before you go professing love for the dumbed-down and ill-equipped and ill-funded movie, go read the real thing.
'Stranger in a Strange Land' ...available in an extended edition, is probably the only book I have ever read that features a human Martian messiah.

Brian Herbert

'Legends of Dune' and the 'Dune: House Trilogy' series ...are prequels to Frank Herbert's Dune.

Frank Herbert ...yet more obvious classics

'Dune' series ...up to #6, Chapterhouse Dune
'The Green Brain'

Anne McCaffrey

'Dragonriders of Pern' ...is quite a long and awesome series that began with the futuristic settlement of a world populated by small creatures resembling dragons. Recently taken over by Todd J. McCaffrey. You could call the series 'fantasy' in nature, but with the origin and workings of sci-fi, eventually leading to the rediscovery of advanced technology.
'The Ship Who.../Brainships' ...a series (by a few other authors and collaborators as well, though generally domindated by McCaffrey) about humans who would otherwise lead debilitated lives given the chance to act as primary CPUs for shipboard systems

Larry Niven

'Gas Ring' series ...beginning with 'The Integral Trees'
'Ringworld' series ...alot of Halo fans think that Halo is so unique because it has a ring-shaped planet. I think not...

James Patterson

'Maximum Ride' series ...about escaped mutant bird things that run around, steal food, and run from/kill other mutant goons the lab sends after them. Sorry, they're not furries. Indistinguishable from humans, in fact, if you discount the wings, x-ray images, organ structure and DNA samples.  Not exactly sci-fi, but has the workings.

R.A. Salvatore

'Echoes of the Fourth Magic' ...An interesting book about a submarine transported to an alternate dimension through a rift. Part of the 'Chronicles of Ynis Aielle' series.

William Shatner ...yes, I know...

'The Return' ...in this, Kirk is brought into the future yet again, but Shatner does a good job of it.
'Quest for Tomorrow' series (starting with Delta Search)
'Man O' War' ...there's a sequel called Law of War that I'll have to check out


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'Aliens vs. Predator: Prey' (Steve & Stephani Perry)
'Aliens vs. Predator: Hunter's Planet' (David Bischoff)

Too bad the cheesy movie AvP wasn't based on one of these instead of that script.

=DHG=ArkAng37 wrote:

Go with the HALO series. There based off the game. Its worth the time!

If you aren't one of the people who were disappointed that the game got ripped from PC development and released way before it was finished on XBox discs.

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Yeah,but mine pwnz lol.
I think mine is the only one ever, to not get closed.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Knightnifer wrote:

Yeah,but mine pwnz lol.
I think mine is the only one ever, to not get closed.

You slammed the Pratchett and the Seuss. Close FTW.

You only posted it yesterday. Allow some time before calling it the most long-lasting.

Didn't say the most "Long-Lasting" It's just it hasn't been closed Yet. So i have at least accomplished something.
Pratchett Fails
Seuss... Don't get me started.