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05-29-2010, 12:12 AM | #1 |
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A list of favorite sci-fi and fantasy that are NOT Twilight or Harry Potter
Just put this list together. Kinda fun...
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05-29-2010, 12:30 AM | #2 |
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A couple of recent books I've read and will recommend are "Singularity Sky" and "Iron Sunrise" by Charles Stross. Stross combines hard science, physics, cosmology and computer theory with spy thriller themes. For me, they were page turners I couldn't put down. And because they are large books (1000+ pages), the trip wasn't over before I was ready to put the book down.
Stross's Accelerando is another good read. Imagine a near future when the digital age progresses to where all of the matter in the Solar System is converted into a monstrous thinking machine and humanity is looked at by its creation as just more matter with no significant intelligence and that humans can be put to better use as organic matter assimilated into the brain. Last edited by dugong; 05-29-2010 at 01:25 AM. Reason: Typos |
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05-29-2010, 01:00 AM | #3 |
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I'd recommend Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, for non-sword-and-sorcery fantasy.
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06-02-2010, 12:17 AM | #4 |
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Some of my favourites (mostly fantasy) include:
- Anything by Anne Bishop - Anything by Tanya Huff - Anything by Sharon Shinn - The Battleaxe series by Sara Douglass (not currently available as e-books) - Anything by Jennifer Fallon (no e-books here either)' - The Black Magician Series by Trudi Canavan (available from BoB UK) - WoT by Robert Jordan (had to put this one in) - The Deed of Paksennarion by Elizabeth Moon (has anyone read the latest one yet?) - Magician by Raymond Feist And an sf recommendation ... the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter Hamilton OK. I have to stop now, or I'll be here all day listing favourite books |
06-03-2010, 12:43 AM | #5 |
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I was using StumbleUpon and found this site that recommends some books:
http://www.skorks.com/2008/09/10-awe...potter-or-lotr |
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06-03-2010, 06:19 AM | #6 |
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For fantasy I love anything by Carol Berg and Lynn Flewelling. Freda Warrington has some good stuff too. I've got the first ten books of WOT by Robert but got bored half-way through book 4 or 5. I might take it up again someday but there are so many other interesting books I want to read first
http://www.sff.net/people/carolberg/ http://www.sff.net/people/lynn.flewelling/ http://www.fredawarrington.com/ take care, Annette |
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Just read all 3 of those in the last week or so, great stuff! |
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06-03-2010, 01:32 PM | #8 |
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For fantasy -- Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, Kim Harrison, Anne McCaffrey, Gene Wolfe (sometimes crosses over into SF)
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06-04-2010, 05:15 AM | #9 |
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SF: Alastair Reynolds, Vernor Vinge, Liz Williams, Joan D. Vinge
Fantasy: Joe Abercrombie, Brandon Sanderson |
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06-05-2010, 10:39 PM | #11 |
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that was a mistake of mine - never start such a list b4 sleeping
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06-06-2010, 10:03 AM | #12 |
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Love that the Amazon list has Lloyd Alexander on it.
The post made reference of Twilight and Harry Potter. There is another YA series that is really getting its legs under it: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It's fun and smart like Harry Potter, but also full of moody teenagers like Twilight. |
06-06-2010, 10:13 AM | #13 |
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Except for Kay (fan for years), these are all authors I picked up in the last year or so and have really enjoy.
Fantasy Guy Gavriel Kay Joe Abercrombie Steven Erikson Peter V. Brett Sci-fi Peter F. Hamilton Alastair Reynolds Iain M. Banks Neal Asher China Mieville Paolo Bacigalupi Last edited by tyche; 06-06-2010 at 10:16 AM. |
06-06-2010, 01:58 PM | #14 |
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I'd recommend the Myth Adventures series. Some of the books are by Robert Asprin and some by Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye. It's a series of 18 books, and some are available in paperback as a two-in-one pack. The first book in the series is "Another Fine Myth." The following is a link to the Myth Adventures website: http://www.mythadventures.net/index.html.
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06-06-2010, 02:06 PM | #15 |
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The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan The First Law by Joe Abercrombie The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb The Dark Tower by S. King The Stand by S. King Tigana by G.G. Kay The Last Light of the Sun by G.G.Kay The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist The Serpentwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist The Black Company by Glen Cook Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams Jon Shannow(Jerusalem Man) Novels by David Gemmell Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson (possibly) Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks |
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