Thread: Sci-Fi Recommendations?

Please, do not apologize! I'm glad you brought it up, as I was unaware of it before, and now I can rectify that... and, given my usual response to Leiber, that is not a bad thing at all.... Thank you! Oh, and by the way... "The Machine Stops"...? Been a while since I've seen someone refer to that....

It was probably selfish of me to bring up You're All Alone - it's a pretty obscure entry in Leiber's catalogue, but it was a very early reading experience for me, and the first which genuinely transported me, re the machine stops. I hold Leiber responsible for kicking my self-awareness up by an order of magnitude. Mixed blessing... PS (lest I further derail thread) Leiber's horror story Smoke Ghost had me transfixed...

Thanks for all of the suggestion! I will definitely look into them! I've been thinking about checking into Alan Dean Foster's Flinx books. I read the Tar Aiym Krang years ago, but cant remember anything about it. There are just so many books in that series too.... Might be expensive to try to get them all.

Re: Sci-Fi Recommendations? So, are you after recommendations based on the books you have listed as being your favourites?

Re: Sci-Fi Recommendations? Quote: Originally Posted by WizardofOwls I love multi book series... Is there such a thing as single book series?

What about Poul Anderson's 'Flandry' books? A bit lightweight, I know, but pretty good yarns just the same...

Chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny.

Quote: J.D. ~I keep wondering what ever happened to use of the term "science fantasy"... Some of us regard almost all of it as "Science Fantasy". I reserve the term Science Fiction for what now passes as "Mundane SF", and even that has gotten more fantastical. Shouldn't any story that employs FTL, or navigating worm holes, colonizing planets, alien contact and such, be considered...

Quote: Originally Posted by j. d. worthington I keep wondering what ever happened to use of the term "science fantasy", which was still commonly used not that long ago; it is certainly a branch of imaginative literature which has had a lot of practitioners.... I was in a bookshop a couple of weeks ago that labelled the section with the Science Fiction and Fantasy books in it as "Science Fantasy", so it...

Re: Sci-Fi Recommendations? I dont read SF multi books series, i usually read quality Stand alone books. I can recommend Foundation series by Asimov,Takeshi Kovacs by Richard Morgan,Faded Sun by CJ Cherryh. Faded Sun i thought was a bit similar to Dune in the first book Kesrith . Not so you think its inspired by it or anything but there was a culture,people that impressed me like the native of Arrakis did in Dune .