2012-06-30, 09:15 PM
Fantasy
I'll second Razmos with Game of Thrones.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, Small Gods is my favorite. The later ones are better than the first few.
Neil Gaimon's Neverwhere and Drinking Midnight Wine
Pratchett and Gaimon: Good Omens (incredibly funny)
Joel Rosenberg's Guardians of the Flame. The first three are amazing, especially if you like DnD, but the last few are pretty terrible.
Sci-fi
Greggory Benford's Timescape and In the Ocean of Night are great hard Sci-fi books.
Robert Heinlein has a lot of good books including Time Enough for Love and Stranger in a Strange Land.
Will McIntosh's Soft Apocalypse
Nevil Shute's On the Beach and A Town like Alice (both very depressing, but still very good)
Dan Simmons' Hyperion, I've only read the first one but I here the sequels aren't as good.
Kameron Haley's God's War. Not sure how to categorize this one. It's bug punk (as opposed to steam punk) if that makes sense.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I could add more, but those are the really GOOD ones.
I'll second Razmos with Game of Thrones.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, Small Gods is my favorite. The later ones are better than the first few.
Neil Gaimon's Neverwhere and Drinking Midnight Wine
Pratchett and Gaimon: Good Omens (incredibly funny)
Joel Rosenberg's Guardians of the Flame. The first three are amazing, especially if you like DnD, but the last few are pretty terrible.
Sci-fi
Greggory Benford's Timescape and In the Ocean of Night are great hard Sci-fi books.
Robert Heinlein has a lot of good books including Time Enough for Love and Stranger in a Strange Land.
Will McIntosh's Soft Apocalypse
Nevil Shute's On the Beach and A Town like Alice (both very depressing, but still very good)
Dan Simmons' Hyperion, I've only read the first one but I here the sequels aren't as good.
Kameron Haley's God's War. Not sure how to categorize this one. It's bug punk (as opposed to steam punk) if that makes sense.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I could add more, but those are the really GOOD ones.