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Fantasy/Sci-fi books wanted

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  • 15-12-2005 8:12pm
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    muffin_man
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    Anyone recommend any good Sci-fi/fantasy books to read? I'm thinking along the lines of George R R Martin 'A song of ice and fire' and 'Dune' by Frank Herbert. Any similar books out there?


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    Desmoulins
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    Have you read the Farseer Trilogy? By Robin Hobb? Its my favourite fantasy series, except maybe 'A song of Ice and Fire'.


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    Earthhorse
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    There's a list of recommended reading over on the Sci-Fi/Fantasy forum.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=210284

    Personally I think anything written by Guy Gavriel Kay is great though I haven't read his last three books.


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    muffin_man
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    Thanks earthhorse


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    Jay Tomio
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    Anyone recommend any good Sci-fi/fantasy books to read? I'm thinking along the lines of George R R Martin 'A song of ice and fire' and 'Dune' by Frank Herbert. Any similar books out there?

    Martin is rather unique in regards to epic fantasy, but f you mean well-written, large cast, moraly ambiguous series', I'd recommend Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen:

    Gardens of the Moon
    DeadHouse Gates
    Memories of Ice
    House of Chains
    Midnight Tides
    The BoneHunters (forthcoming February)
    Dust of Dreams (forthcoming)
    Hounds Toll (forthcoming)
    Reapers Cale (forthcoming)
    Crippled God (forthcoming)



    and R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing, which includes The Darkness that Comes Before review here) and The Warrior Prophet, thus far with The Thousandfold Thought coming out in Janaury (which I already read and is as tunning conclusion). Plans for another duology or trilogy entitled The Aspect Emperor are in the works to follow.

    If you like Dune you might want to check out Brian Aldiss' Heliconia series and Scott Westerfield's Succession duology.


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    Dades
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    Sci-fi: Anything by Arthur C Clarke. Childhoods end is probably my fav.

    Fantasy: His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman). My favorite book(s) ever.


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    treefingers
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    a recent sci-fi novel i really enjoyed was 'the moon is a harsh mistress' by robert heinlein.

    some great political plotting, intrigue, and subversion! very entertaining...


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    BossArky
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    Sci-Fi - The nights dawn trilogy, by Peter F.Hamilton.


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    mm, his dark materials is fantastic.

    I liked, Tad williams - Memory,sorrow and Thorn and his other series "otherland", which starts off more sci-fi but elements of fantasy come into it after a book or two... or three :)

    Terry brooks' shannara series is decent, it's a little simple but I enjoyed it alot when I was younger.


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    28064212
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    Raymond E. Feist's series starting with Talon of the Silver Hawk is pretty good. His Dark Materials is fantastic. For a laugh go with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams or anything by Terry Pratchett.

    And (I can't recommend this highly enough) Stephen King's the Dark Tower series. It's 7 books long, and very addictive, so make sure you've got some reading time coming up, but it is absolutely fantastic

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    John
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    28064212 wrote:
    And (I can't recommend this highly enough) Stephen King's the Dark Tower series. It's 7 books long, and very addictive, so make sure you've got some reading time coming up, but it is absolutely fantastic

    Agreed


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    lordgoat
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    Feist - Anything really but best to start at Magician and work from their, you really won't be disappointed.

    Also liked Otherland Series, (harder to get into) and Hobb books but for me Feist stands head and shoulders over the rest for Character development and plot...


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    I loved feist's earlier books, but after I think 'price of krondor'.. it got a bit stale. Still, the first eight or nine books are amazing... love the whole serpentwar saga, and macros, and thomas the dragon king kid...

    damnit, now I want to read them all again and I left them in Ireland :/


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    rtyped
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    Anything by Stephen Donaldson or Ursla La guinn, Isac Azimov.

    fantasy:
    mordant's need
    tomas covenant

    scifi:
    the Gap Series

    can't wait to read the latest tomas covenant series.

    There is a great series , the Masterwork science fiction series I think , it's a collection of different authors. I've read a lot of them from authors I've never heard of and nearly all have been excellent.


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    lordgoat
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    Mordeth wrote:
    I loved feist's earlier books, but after I think 'price of krondor'.. it got a bit stale. Still, the first eight or nine books are amazing... love the whole serpentwar saga, and macros, and thomas the dragon king kid...

    damnit, now I want to read them all again and I left them in Ireland :/


    His new series DarkWar has just begun, and he says its probalbly the last medkemia series and that things will be left very different by the end of it.

    book one is brilliant, it's a continuation from the Conclave of Shadows series shich i loved but then i do have a huge bias towards Feist...


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    His dark materials = awesome


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