Suggest my new favorite book!

[Technobuilder]

If you're looking for a fantastic ongoing series, I have to recommend...

-The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (It's about a Wizard P.I. and is best described as either "Dirty Harry" Potter or
"Buffy 'The Vampire Slayer' featuring Philip Marlowe"

It's currently sitting at 12 books with another on the way due in April 2011.

The series itself is planned to be around 22-25 books in total and is just great fun.
One of those books you stay up late just to finish another chapter.

Book 01: Storm Front
Book 02: Fool Moon
Book 03: Grave Peril
Book 04: Summer Knight
Book 05: Death Masks
Book 06: Blood Rites
Book 07: Dead Beat
Book 08: Proven Guilty
Book 09: White Night
Book 10: Small Favor
Book 11: Turn Coat
Book 12: Changes
Book 13: Ghost Story (April 2011)

I also am a fan of David Weber's Honor Harrington series. (He's a bit wordy, but I'm a fan of his style in terms of Space Naval Combat & Characterization.) Almost 20 books total in that series, and still more coming. (And looking good so far.)

 

[Mistral]

In terms of fantasy....have you read Ursula K. Leguin? Critics know that her Wizard of Earthsea is easily as good as anything Tolkien or Lewis ever wrote, but for some reason, she's not as well known. Anyway, the Earthsea trilogy, starting with Wizard of Earthsea (a short book), is mandatory fantasy reading.

On the subject of Le Guin, The Dispossessed is amongst the best science-fiction novels I've ever read.

I also second the recommendation of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy.

And finally, I recommend pretty much anything by Robert J. Sawyer. His books are very engaging, filled with interesting ideas, and tend to be incredibly readable, to boot. Calculating God is a good starting point, IMO.

Ugh! I HATE Robert Sawyer. Calculating God in particular began my hatred, and then Hominids confirmed it for all time. Mindscan actually wasn't bad, but whenever this guy requires a sense of wonder, or awe, a feeling of something alien and unknown, his pedestrian imagination is completely incapable of the task. He reads more like fan-fiction than actual literature, if you know what I mean. Sorry....no offence. But his success is utterly baffling to me.

I like his stuff because its "simplistic"-it makes a good read for the beach or pool but doesn't require much thought.

And I second Jack McDevitt-those 3 are some of his best, IMO.

No nods to Time and Again by Jack Finney? Surely a book capable of becoming someone's "new favorite"!

How about Grimwood's Replay? I got my non-scifi wife to read it and she loved it!

 

[Starbreaker]

What do you think of The Terror so far? Thought about it, but kinda mixed reviews. Kinda let down after reading Drood, not sure I wanna take on The Terror right now...

I'm halfway through and loving it. It's very long with very small print, but It's good so far. There are some very interesting characters. I wish I had more time to read, because I really want to see what happens next.

 

[Greg Cox]

How about Grimwood's Replay? I got my non-scifi wife to read it and she loved it!

Replay is a wonderful book. As I recall, it won the World Fantasy Award way back when.

You can't really go wrong with Poul Anderson either . . . . .

 

[Scout101]

Ok, Ben Bova's "Mars" is finished. Not bad, liked it. Felt like I wasn't quite done with it when it finished, but enjoyed it. Maybe I'll check out the sequels, try to finish up the follow-up storyline.

Now onto Foundation, the library loan got me a copy

 

[Finnegan]

Harry Harrison's "The Stainless Steel Rat" series was a lot of fun to read--I think there were three of them.

Also, what about Vonnegut? "Cat's Cradle", among his so many others, is a masterpiece.

If you like short stories, then run--do not walk--to any of Harlan Ellison's collections. "Shatterday" comes to mind immediately. A great collection of some of his best work.

 

[Sephiroth]

if there is still time, Might i suggest "Brave Story" by Miyuki Miyabe, or perhaps "Parasite Eve" by Hideaki Sena

 

[Skywalker]

If you're looking for a fantastic ongoing series, I have to recommend...

-The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (It's about a Wizard P.I. and is best described as either "Dirty Harry" Potter or
"Buffy 'The Vampire Slayer' featuring Philip Marlowe"

It's currently sitting at 12 books with another on the way due in April 2011.

The series itself is planned to be around 22-25 books in total and is just great fun.
One of those books you stay up late just to finish another chapter.

Book 01: Storm Front
Book 02: Fool Moon
Book 03: Grave Peril
Book 04: Summer Knight
Book 05: Death Masks
Book 06: Blood Rites
Book 07: Dead Beat
Book 08: Proven Guilty
Book 09: White Night
Book 10: Small Favor
Book 11: Turn Coat
Book 12: Changes
Book 13: Ghost Story (April 2011)

There's also a collection of short stories, called Side Jobs, which is being published this November, if I remember right.

Speaking of Jim Butcher, I would also recommend his other series, Codex Alera. It's an epic fantasy series spanning six books. It's a different style from The Dresden Files, but I really enjoyed it.

Book 1: Furies of Calderon
Book 2: Academ's Fury
Book 3: Cursor's Fury
Book 4: Captain's Fury
Book 5: Princeps' Fury
Book 6: First Lord's Fury

Also, I noticed you're a fan of S. M. Stirling. Have you read The Peshawar Lancers? That's probably my favorite of his books. I'm actually about to read The Sky People, also by him, which has a really cool premise.

 

[Mistral]

Reminded by the passing of the author-

Inherit the Stars by James P Hogan
(so they find a human body in a spacesuit on the Moon-problem is, its 50,000 years old...)

 

[Greg Cox]

Harry Harrison's "The Stainless Steel Rat" series was a lot of fun to read--I think there were three of them.

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There are actually eleven STAINLESS STEEL RAT novels in all, plus some short stories.

 

[Scout101]

Also, I noticed you're a fan of S. M. Stirling. Have you read The Peshawar Lancers? That's probably my favorite of his books. I'm actually about to read The Sky People, also by him, which has a really cool premise.

Yeah, thought Peshawar Lancers was pretty good. Felt a little too 'civilized' for his regular end of the world/alternate history books, but a good read still.

Read the beginnings of the Sky People, but wasn't really enjoying that one as much, so i put it down and forgot to go back to it. Just not as engaging, IMO...

 

[Technobuilder]

If you're looking for a fantastic ongoing series, I have to recommend...

-The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (It's about a Wizard P.I. and is best described as either "Dirty Harry" Potter or
"Buffy 'The Vampire Slayer' featuring Philip Marlowe"

It's currently sitting at 12 books with another on the way due in April 2011.

The series itself is planned to be around 22-25 books in total and is just great fun.
One of those books you stay up late just to finish another chapter.

Book 01: Storm Front
Book 02: Fool Moon
Book 03: Grave Peril
Book 04: Summer Knight
Book 05: Death Masks
Book 06: Blood Rites
Book 07: Dead Beat
Book 08: Proven Guilty
Book 09: White Night
Book 10: Small Favor
Book 11: Turn Coat
Book 12: Changes
Book 13: Ghost Story (April 2011)

There's also a collection of short stories, called Side Jobs, which is being published this November, if I remember right.

Speaking of Jim Butcher, I would also recommend his other series, Codex Alera. It's an epic fantasy series spanning six books. It's a different style from The Dresden Files, but I really enjoyed it.

Book 1: Furies of Calderon
Book 2: Academ's Fury
Book 3: Cursor's Fury
Book 4: Captain's Fury
Book 5: Princeps' Fury
Book 6: First Lord's Fury

Also, I noticed you're a fan of S. M. Stirling. Have you read The Peshawar Lancers? That's probably my favorite of his books. I'm actually about to read The Sky People, also by him, which has a really cool premise.

I have to admit that I'm a fan of Butcher's Codex Alera Series as well, but I was trying not to "Author Gush"

And Side Jobs slipped my mind. (Thanks)

Hope you give either series of his a look Scout101

 

[Theonethatis]

A game of Thrones George RR Martin. Memory Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams. Dresden Files Jim Butcher. For Sci-Fi the Lost Fleet by Jack Cambell