Sci-Fi

[Kermit, B.]

Anyone have good recommendations (either new or old) in sci-fi?  I've been in a sci-fi mood.  I'm reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson right now, and I just ordered Odd John and Sirius, Last and First Men, and Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon from Amazon based on a friend's recommendation.

[PenFoe]

Anyone have good recommendations (either new or old) in sci-fi?  I've been in a sci-fi mood.  I'm reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson right now, and I just ordered Odd John and Sirius, Last and First Men, and Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon from Amazon based on a friend's recommendation.

Isaac Asimov's Foundation series is fantastic.

[Wheezer]

Have Spacesuit, Will Travel is very good juvenalia if you're looking for something breezy.

Jon, of course, has already reviewed The Man Who Folded Himself.

[Jon]

Anyone have good recommendations (either new or old) in sci-fi?  I've been in a sci-fi mood.  I'm reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson right now, and I just ordered Odd John and Sirius, Last and First Men, and Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon from Amazon based on a friend's recommendation.

Isaac Asimov's Foundation series is fantastic.

That's what I was going to recommend.

Stanislaw Lem and Philip K. Dick are always good.

People either love or hate the Ender series by Orson Scott Card. So you might like it, you might not.

[Pre]

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson right now

If you like the cyberpunk aspects of it, can't beat William Gibson.  Neuromancer is probably his best known work, but I've enjoyed them all.

I dig the hell out of Ian M Banks (Excession is awesome place to start), which more in the Space Opera realm of SF.

Foundation is a good series, it's short if you stop after the original few (which are the better ones).

Ender's Game is a hell of a book, I can't really get behind the sequels.  Card is a hell of a writer but he loves his religion a little much for my tastes.

[Jon]

Card is a hell of a writer but he loves his religion a little much for my tastes.

Oh, I agree there.

Other Stephenson I recommend: Cryptonomicon, and (though not really sci-fi) The Baroque Trilogy.

Another writer I've enjoyed recently: Vernor Vinge. Fire in the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky are excellent.

[Kermit, B.]

Thanks for the recommendations, everyone.  I'm almost done with Snow Crash (I'm slow), and I'm listening to Anathem (another Stevenson one) right now.  The latter is a bit dull so far, but I think I'm only on disc 12 of about 28, so it damn well better pick up.  I'm going to do Adams' Dirk Gently series after this, and then I'm going to library the shit out of these suggestions.

[Andy]

Anyone have good recommendations (either new or old) in sci-fi?  I've been in a sci-fi mood.  I'm reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson right now, and I just ordered Odd John and Sirius, Last and First Men, and Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon from Amazon based on a friend's recommendation.

Isaac Asimov's Foundation series is fantastic.

Didn't Asimov write one about a parallel universe where a Major League Baseball team threw a World Series because some gamblers paid them to do it, and one of them, a sure Hall of Famer was not only banned for life but tried to use his illiteracy as a defense?

Nah, that's too crazy, even for Sci-Fi.

Eliot Asinof, Issac Asimov, what's the difference?

[HST Redux]

I'll second (third?) the Foundation series, although it's been many years since I read it. The Library of America's Philip K. Dick compilation is very good.

http://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dick-Library-America/dp/1598530097/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243742349&sr=1-2

I do not recommend the Baroque trilogy. The man's a genius but he needs an editor and is just out of control here. Cryptonomicon rocks.

I enjoyed Richard K. Morgan's series starting with....

http://www.amazon.com/Altered-Carbon-Richard-K-Morgan/dp/0345457684

Finally, it's not pure sci-fi (more cyberpunk) but Daniel Suarez Daemon is very very good.
 

[Kermit, B.]

I'll second (third?) the Foundation series, although it's been many years since I read it. The Library of America's Philip K. Dick compilation is very good.

http://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dick-Library-America/dp/1598530097/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243742349&sr=1-2

I do not recommend the Baroque trilogy. The man's a genius but he needs an editor and is just out of control here. Cryptonomicon rocks.

I enjoyed Richard K. Morgan's series starting with....

http://www.amazon.com/Altered-Carbon-Richard-K-Morgan/dp/0345457684

Finally, it's not pure sci-fi (more cyberpunk) but Daniel Suarez Daemon is very very good.
 

That's exactly how I feel about Anathem so far.  He's taking me on a very lengthy journey between interesting parts.  Snow Crash was much tighter.

[PenFoe]

I'll second (third?) the Foundation series, although it's been many years since I read it. The Library of America's Philip K. Dick compilation is very good.

http://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dick-Library-America/dp/1598530097/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243742349&sr=1-2

I do not recommend the Baroque trilogy. The man's a genius but he needs an editor and is just out of control here. Cryptonomicon rocks.

I enjoyed Richard K. Morgan's series starting with....

http://www.amazon.com/Altered-Carbon-Richard-K-Morgan/dp/0345457684

Finally, it's not pure sci-fi (more cyberpunk) but Daniel Suarez Daemon is very very good.
 

That's exactly how I feel about Anathem so far.  He's taking me on a very lengthy journey between interesting parts.  Snow Crash was much tighter.

Maybe that's why none of us recommended it.

[Kermit, B.]

I'll second (third?) the Foundation series, although it's been many years since I read it. The Library of America's Philip K. Dick compilation is very good.

http://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dick-Library-America/dp/1598530097/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243742349&sr=1-2

I do not recommend the Baroque trilogy. The man's a genius but he needs an editor and is just out of control here. Cryptonomicon rocks.

I enjoyed Richard K. Morgan's series starting with....

http://www.amazon.com/Altered-Carbon-Richard-K-Morgan/dp/0345457684

Finally, it's not pure sci-fi (more cyberpunk) but Daniel Suarez Daemon is very very good.
 

That's exactly how I feel about Anathem so far.  He's taking me on a very lengthy journey between interesting parts.  Snow Crash was much tighter.

Maybe that's why none of us recommended it.

The Naperville Public Library may be the GREATEST LIBRARY IN THE COUNTRY, but its audio book selection is limited.

[PenFoe]

I'll second (third?) the Foundation series, although it's been many years since I read it. The Library of America's Philip K. Dick compilation is very good.

http://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dick-Library-America/dp/1598530097/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243742349&sr=1-2

I do not recommend the Baroque trilogy. The man's a genius but he needs an editor and is just out of control here. Cryptonomicon rocks.

I enjoyed Richard K. Morgan's series starting with....

http://www.amazon.com/Altered-Carbon-Richard-K-Morgan/dp/0345457684

Finally, it's not pure sci-fi (more cyberpunk) but Daniel Suarez Daemon is very very good.
 

That's exactly how I feel about Anathem so far.  He's taking me on a very lengthy journey between interesting parts.  Snow Crash was much tighter.

Maybe that's why none of us recommended it.

The Naperville Public Library may be the GREATEST LIBRARY IN THE COUNTRY, but its audio book selection is limited.

Soriano's HAPLR score is 946.

[Jon]

I'll second (third?) the Foundation series, although it's been many years since I read it. The Library of America's Philip K. Dick compilation is very good.

http://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dick-Library-America/dp/1598530097/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243742349&sr=1-2

I do not recommend the Baroque trilogy. The man's a genius but he needs an editor and is just out of control here. Cryptonomicon rocks.

I enjoyed Richard K. Morgan's series starting with....

http://www.amazon.com/Altered-Carbon-Richard-K-Morgan/dp/0345457684

Finally, it's not pure sci-fi (more cyberpunk) but Daniel Suarez Daemon is very very good.
 

That's exactly how I feel about Anathem so far.  He's taking me on a very lengthy journey between interesting parts.  Snow Crash was much tighter.

Maybe that's why none of us recommended it.

The Naperville Public Library may be the GREATEST LIBRARY IN THE COUNTRY, but its audio book selection is limited.

Soriano's HAPLR score is 946.

TOO SMALL A SAMPLE SIZE!

[Tank]

Santos L Haplr?