NEED Sci-Fi titles

[MichiganWoods]

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I have to agree... I thought maybe it was just me.

well..it must be us Corona drinkers! lol!

I was able to get through it and did rather like it, but I also took into account that the author (Christopher Paolini) was 15 when he first started writing it. I can remember being that age and wanting to accomplish something massive like that. I also like fantasy a bit more than sci-fi, so that may be another reason for my feelings towards the series. I've read all three and am anxiously awaiting number four.

 

[spookyevilone]

Post-apocalyptic:
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
The Stand by Stephen King (but who hasn't read that?)
Lucifer's Hammer - Niven

More fantasy than sci fi - Michelle West/Sagara - anything she writes.

-Spooky

 

[Mac in Wisco]

Here's a tidbit I just ran across. Milo Hastings, who wrote the classic poultry how-to guide The Dollar Hen in 1909, also wrote an early sci-fi classic called City of Endless Night in 1919.

 

[Chicabee19]

Thanks everyone! I've made note of the 3 titles I have not yet read.

Of course I read the Stephen King novels years ago... is it just me, or did those books change your sense of reality for a few days?

I used to own all the Pern books, but I gave them to my daughter.

I do love the Ender series. Finally read the prequel last summer and really enjoyed it.... "a science fiction gateway drug", LOL.


I still need to find the Twilight series somewhere! Of course my place on the library waiting list will come up after I'm dead and gone, lol

I am lately forced to roam the library choosing books by their covers.


I love Clancy, Ludlow, Robert Littell, but they don't put them out fast enough!

Right now reading Vince Flynn and Catherine Coulter - not on par with Ludlow, but they don't put me to sleep.

Arrrghhh... too many books, not enough years in my life!

 

[Wifezilla]

What about the Disc World series? I just picked up "The Color of Magic" last week.

 

[mom'sfolly]

The Crystal Line series is another Anne MacCaffery.

I have to agree with Charlie Bone and the Ember series as well. The first books were good, but couldn't get through the rest.

 

[Chicabee19]

Read the Discworld stuff long ago. Pratchett and McCaffrey seem sort of juvenile to me now... or is it just that they up my juvenile days when I was reading them so much?

I think the author who I dislike the most now is Anthony. Sometimes I can't believe I used to love his stuff.

 

[Wifezilla]

Somebody gave me a bunch of Piers Anthony books. I read one and threw out the rest...LOL

 

[Chicabee19]

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oh good... so I'm not alone! I confess to reading all of them in my early twenties.

I would read pretty much anything when I was young, including the encyclopedia.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

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Eragon was written by a fifteen-year-old, and published when he was nineteen, I believe. I read the book, but wasn't overly blown away by it. It's okay.