I haven't really been into them since I was a teenager, but I devoured them back then. Tolkien, of course, Ursula Le Guin, the Xanth novels of Piers Anthony. What were your favorites? Do you still read them as an adult?
Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 24, 2021 4:05 PM |
I enjoyed Guy Gavriel Kay's historical fantasy.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 23, 2021 12:37 AM |
Anything by H.G. Wells!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 23, 2021 1:08 AM |
Love them. While I like the old school authors, some modern writers are pretty good.
- Brandon Sanderson is good.
- Steven Erickson mammoth series is pretty good, but a bit of a slog.
- Of course, Willima Gibson
- Dan Simmons Hyperion series.
- Octavia Butler
The real problem is when some of the big older names tried to cash in and extended their famous works with sequels - looking at you, Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 23, 2021 2:40 AM |
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
The Peripheral, Neuromancer - William Gibson
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 23, 2021 5:47 AM |
Looking forward to Wheel of Time on Amazon and the LoTR series as well.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 24, 2021 2:54 PM |
I like Lovecraftian science fiction where the universe is truly alien and the scale beyond human capacity for understanding. My modern favorites are:
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Three Body Problem (trilogy) by Liu Cixin
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 24, 2021 4:05 PM |