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Science-Fiction suggestions wanted. . . .

DanielTC

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I stopped reading Science-Fiction after I finished all of Asimov's books in his Robot, Empire, and Foundation series; I have been reading fantasy lately but I prefer Science-Fiction over-all, even though Fantasy is really good at times, like the Harry Potter, or Drizzt Do'Urden, books.

I guess to give you an idea of Science-Fiction books I like, these are my favorites:

----Isaac Asimov
Pebble In The Sky
Caves of Steel
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation (these are the best of his writing, I think)

There are also a ton of short-story collections I read, I think I read almost every single one; I love all of them.

----Arthur C. Clarke
Prelude to Space
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey Two
From The Ocean, From The Stars (omnibus)
Rendezvous With Rama
The Hammer of God

----Carl Sagan
Contact (I love this book)

----Michael Crichton
Sphere
Jurassic Park (Ian Malcomb owns)
The Lost World
The Andromeda Strain

Some might not count those as Science-Fiction, but I do.

----George Alec Effinger
Irrational Numbers (short-story collection. And Us, Too, I guess is awesome)

Anyway, I tried reading other Science-Fiction such as Neuromancer by William Gibson, and Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, but I did not like how they wrote; especially Snow Crash, he described how a car moved or something like this: "It moved quickly, like butter on teflon", some crap like that.
I do not like Stephen Baxter; I really liked some parts of Manifold: Time, but most of the time I was bored. :(

( Edit: )
Oh, yeah: I tried Ben Bova but I did not like his writing either, same with Lester del Rey, John Campbell, Phillip K. Dick (though he wrote some really good short-stories, such as Minority Report), and Robert A. Heinlein (but I only tried one book of his, Stranger in a Strange Land).
I also liked C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy until That Hideous Strength; I just lost interest, it got a bit too weird, I think.

The main problem I have book writers such as Ben Bova, Heinlein, Albert Huxley, George Orwell, and Arthur C. Clarke (at least his recent writing), is that they have too much sex and the like. It is annoying and, to me, it seems very primitive.
 
Frank Herbert is fairly straightforward writing style and great storyteller. Have you tried Dune?

James Alan Gardner and John Varley are worth looking into also.
 
DanielTC said:
----George Alec Effinger
Irrational Numbers (short-story collection. And Us, Too, I guess is awesome)
Not a lot of people know this author, and if you like him, I wholly recommend his Budayeen series, starting with When Gravity Fails. I've actually talked about him elsewhere, so you might just wanna go have a look see what kind of rambling I've come up with there. :)

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SF suggestions

I'd suggest trying

Brian Aldiss - novels and short stories - (one of which was used as a basis for the film AI)

Robert Silverberg - many, nearly all excellent

Alfred Bester - his two well known novels (Demolished Mane & The Stars My Destination) are reckoned to be two of the best SF novels ever written, both exciting reads.

M
 
Two of my favourite sci-fi authors are Iain M Banks and Julian May.
For Iain M Banks you could try the State of the Art which is a collection of short stories and for Julian May I'd recommend Intervention
 
Well if you like Carl Sagan, you might enjoy his son Nick Sagans trilogy.
1) Idlewild
2) Edenborn
3) Everfree

I'm currently reading Everfree myself. ;)
 
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