Recommend a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book

[Disco LT]

Currently reading another Brandon Sanderson book, this guy is amazing!



Just as good as his other book IMO, really enjoying it.

Am thinking of picking up the first book of Enders Game and the Amtrak Wars since I've never read them.. anyone think they're good? I remember someone talking about them once. I've never really got into Sci-Fi books for some reason, there must be a whole genre of great books out there that I can look forward to!

[Nekosan]

Currently reading another Brandon Sanderson book, this guy is amazing!



Just as good as his other book IMO, really enjoying it.

Am thinking of picking up the first book of Enders Game and the Amtrak Wars since I've never read them.. anyone think they're good? I remember someone talking about them once. I've never really got into Sci-Fi books for some reason, there must be a whole genre of great books out there that I can look forward to!

The first Ender book was good and then the next 2 in the main series were **** IMO, Shadow etc were more enjoyable.


If you're picking up Amtrak Wars you just need to keep in mind that the ending is kinda up in the air, they're worth the read but if you're someone who needs a nailed down ending then they might not be for you.

[steve_rogers42]

devoured ian irvine's Geomancer after the GF found it amongst her stuff, yet to find a bloke who can write a decent fantasy where the female protagonist isnt a complete let down, Mary Gentle still gets A+++ rating there...

[Remy Lebeau]

geomancer is good, but the series gets really wierd from then in ...

+1 to Brent Weeks. Next one in the lightbender series is coming out soon!

[steve_rogers42]

hmmm i might have to give them a shot then, weird as in wtf or weird as in more trashy romance stuffs? kinda missing a good evil fiction... might have to re-read darkness at sethanon and onward... need some good stuffs

[Disco LT]

geomancer is good, but the series gets really wierd from then in ...

+1 to Brent Weeks. Next one in the lightbender series is coming out soon!

Very much looking forward to the next lightbender book, although it's been so long I'll have to reread the original.

I've just finished reading the Mistborn Trilogy.. and feel mind blown. It's not often that I get to the end of a book and WISH there was more and that it wasn't over. I'm already looking forward to rereading it in the future. Best Trilogy I've read in years.

[nudge]

There is a stand alone forth book in that series. Set in a future steampunk sort of world. Can't think of the title off the top of my head.

I ran out of books to read recently, so dived back into Robert Jordan. I thought now that it is finished (well kinda finished) I might be able to get to the end. Read 3 so far and it is not looking good. He just isn't a very good writer. Every book just leads up to a kinda climax and amazingly every time the lead characters pull **** out of their arses and do things that under normal circumstances they find impossible. It starts in the first book with them just being able to suddenly do magic (which was ok and is done to death in other books), but even further on they just develop skills instantly as they are needed.

[Tera]

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[Ezelek]

There is a stand alone forth book in that series. Set in a future steampunk sort of world. Can't think of the title off the top of my head.

Alloy of Law.

[Nekosan]

The latest Brent Weeks entry was pretty good, unfortunately now it's another 2 years till the next one

I've spent all week reading terribad Christian survivalist fiction, got through 2 books solely on the weight of how batshit crazy the author was

[Helelix]

I've just finished reading the Mistborn Trilogy.. and feel mind blown. It's not often that I get to the end of a book and WISH there was more and that it wasn't over. I'm already looking forward to rereading it in the future. Best Trilogy I've read in years.

Brandon Sandersons books are really amazing. In fact, all of his books are set in the same cosmiverse. i.e. same fantasy universe but on different planets within that universe. And even more amazing, is that he includes reoccurring characters within a few of his books. These characters are worldhoppers (not really a spoiler) and have the ability to travel between various worlds using their herpa derp magic ability's (one way to do this is by using 'the Void' or 'Shadesmar' as its know in the Stormlight Archive). In all of his books (which I have read), he creates a unique world with politics, religion and magic, and I can see that somewhere along the line they are going to merge. To me all of his books so far could be a prequel to something greater.

If people are interested, you can find more information at The Coppermind wiki and fan theroys at 17thShard

Also, a pic of my collection. I'm lending one of the Mistborn books to a friend:


as you can tell, I am bad with camera.

I just finished reading Elantris last week. And imo quite good. I quite like the magic system of that world.

[Mearehear]

I think I saw someone mentioned Traci Hardings Ancient Future Trilogy (there is actually 6 books in it, but I forget the name of the 2nd part trilogy) and I have to give it a thumbs up. Read them all years ago. Australian author too.

Shes gone a bit further to the "girly" side these days, but the Ancient Future books were quite imaginative.

[cdkit3]

Just finished reading the Riftwar saga by Raymond E Feist. On the whole, its a decent read, although I think the Song of Ice and Fire series has ruined fantasy for me, as I expect people to die, and they never do.

Just grabbed American Gods by Neil Gaiman today, so looking forward to getting through it as I have heard it is amazing.

[Disco LT]

I started watching the HALO 4 mini series someone posted.. and wondered if there were any books that are similar, sci fi action/combat/military/space type books that are worth reading? Any suggestions?

[Yurtles]

Fallen Dragon by Peter Hamilton, the Old Man's War series by John Scalzi or possibly Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs series also. Elizabeth Moon's got couple series that're more spaceship battle focused, but I'm damned if I can remember which series of hers I found to be good and which one was a little bit tedious (but still decent enough that I read it all).

They've all very much got that sci fi action/combat/military/space thing going on (no space operas - apart from the tedious one of Moons) and are pretty decent reads to boot. None precisely Halo-esque though but if they were they'd be Halo books and if you wanted that you'd just be reading actual Halo books and not asking for suggestions.