SF/Fantasy book meme

[kjersti]

Comments

[zotz]

The Book of the New Sun. I refer the honourable lady to my previous comments in the LJ of sneerpout.

[kjersti]

Ah, sorry, I should've mentioned the ones I've already tried and bounced off and The Book of the New Sun is one of them...

[jhaelan]

Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner :)

[missfairchild]

Seconded!

[kjersti]

Thanks, both of you, but see edited post...

books

[raistlinbrown]

Margaret Weis' and Tracy Hickman's first six Dragonlance books (the Chronicles and Legends trilogies). Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Clarke's Childhood's End is excellent. And you can *never* read enough Philip K. Dick (my favorites are Radio Free Albemuth and Valis). I assume you've read Huxley's Brave New World, but if not, it's required reading.

Oh, and sorry to just jump in. I'm a fantasy/sci-fi fan who randomly happened upon your journal.

books

[utile_et_dulce]

White Light :Rudy Rucker
reviews http://www.mactonnies.com/rudyrucker.html
http://www.4w8w.com/bookrucker3.html
cant recommend this book enough if you like the more thought provoking Heinlein books (ie Stranger in a strange land) you should like this!

Heatseeker :John Shirley
http://www.darkecho.com/JohnShirley/heatseeker.html
Three Ring Psychus :John Shirley
http://www.darkecho.com/JohnShirley/three.html

The Far Reality :Henry Kuttner and C L Moore
http://isfdb.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Henry_Kuttner
has an irresistible first line.

warning all of these books will affect your opinion on reality ... so you could end up as strange as me.

[sv_harlequin]

I as somone with a house filled with Sci-fi and fantasy stuff recommend A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin, Neuromancer by William Gibson and the books by Alastair Reynolds especially ones like Chasm City and the Inhibitor series.