Nerds! I need you!

[luna6263]

So I am putting together my Christmas list and I need some good books to put on there. I am feeling SciFi/Fantasy lately...so give me some suggestions people. What are your favorites? What have you read recently (or are currently reading)?

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[seacircle]

Oh dear, I can prob be embarrassingly helpful here. Like, how "good" do you want them to be? Satisfying like a bar of chocolate, or deep, meaningful works of literature?

[luna6263]

Chocolate is good. Something with an entertaining plot and well developed characters that is good for snuggling on the couch with the dog.

[seacircle]

My favorite! Scott Hank is a really good person to ask as well, since he is inevitably the one who shows up with book crack. I think all of this first set, except for the Jewels, he got me on.

These are typical fantasy/mystery type stuff
The Hollows series - Kim Harrison
The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
Black Jewels Trilogy - Anne Bishop (can be a little perverse, only read the first three)
Fever series - Karen Marie Moning (still in progress...ends, um...abruptly)

More scifi/steampunky/weird
Snowcrash & The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Neuromancer, Count Zero & Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson