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a song of ice and fire - fantastic series

I'm going to go on about the same book I posted this time about a year ago when I started a similar thread.


The Malzan Series by Erikson

In my opinion this series dwarfs Tolkien, if you'll excuse the pun. If you like George RR Martin you'll love Erikson. It's historical fantasy, a similar style in exposition, and great characters. It's also rough and tumble, in a way similar to Martin.

Can anyone recommend some good utopian/dystopian novels much like Brave New world? I love these kinds of books^^

Quote: HostileExpanse: "As for fiction ... Vernor Vinge's Fire Upon the Deep, and Deepness in the Sky were pretty awesome, especially for those with some background in computers."

Agreed - just read these a few months ago and actually failed to go in to work because I was hooked on the story - lots of intrigue and giant spaceships, fantastic!

Quote: ChaosEngine: "Recently read Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan (and the other two books in the series). Absolutely awesome."

Just read Altered Carbon and Broken Angels. Very very violent but again I found them very hard to put down - just can't get enough of that hard sf! Takeshi Kovacs is a great anti-hero.

I'd recommend Neverness by David Zindell to anyone who likes their far future space opera. It probably counts as my favourite novel ever. The writing is great (though Zindell gets carried away at times) and it has a really poetic feel to it which makes you yearn to be there, experiencing it. The other books in the series aren't as great but still worth a read.

Quote: DigitallyPoor: "Can anyone recommend some good utopian/dystopian novels much like Brave New world? I love these kinds of books"

How about:

Fahrenheit 451
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for but they're in a similar vein.

[Edited by - shaolinspin on July 17, 2009 10:21:24 AM]

Quote: Original post by DigitallyPoor
Can anyone recommend some good utopian/dystopian novels much like Brave New world? I love these kinds of books^^

A Clockwork Orange or The Time Machine?

The Fountainhead
Musashi

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher are brilliant.
First novel in the series is Storm Front.

I picked up Ender's Game last night and began reading it. So far it is quite amazing, so thank you for the recommendation! :)

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Can anyone recommend some good utopian/dystopian novels much like Brave New world? I love these kinds of books^^

Try to find "The inhabited island" book,or if you prefer to read screen- try this.

[Edited by - Krokhin on July 19, 2009 1:02:57 PM]

this week i've been reading the mark gatiss books (him from the league of gentlemen); the vesuvius code/the devil in amber/ the black butterfly which were all pretty good. basically an artist at the end of the 19th century who lives a narcissistic hedonistic lifestyle who is also an assassin for the king of england, but each book in the trilogy is spaced about 20 years apart so he gets less sprightly and slightly down as his narcissm fades as well as he ages, still good for comedy and downright cheekiness though

i like some of the recent doctor who books, but still love the older ones, i remember reading them in primary school so if there was a bit of a crap one i'd probably still like it for nostalgia :-/

"Goth opera" was probably my favourite doctor who book though

i like the raymond e. feist series of fantasy books, funnily enough i'd read the whole series first THEN read magician (the first one, just to fill the gap) and i thought it'll just be "this character will somehow become badass like he is the rest of the books", but it was pretty fucking awesome how he just becomes powerful and turns his back on everyone and only saves his friends when he can be bothered at first, was pretty deep

interesting phantom mentioning star trek books, i hadn't read them in a while, there were some very good ones when i was a kid though, like one associating v'ger with the borg, i think i had a load of the ones shatner had written, i'd probably be totally backlogged with stuff to catch up on if i tried to get back into them though

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Quote: Original post by Silvermyst
It's good hack'n'slash. Make sure to check out Devil's Due's Drizzt comics; the Sellswords spinoff, starring Artemis Entreri; and Salvatore's kung fu hero, Cadderly, in the Cleric Quintet.

I'll stick with Wizard's First Rule as the book I can't put down. Well, I can, but only to (re)read the rest of the series.

I suppose it is a little hack'n'slash, but I like it just as much for the mental battles that Drizzt goes through. Also some of this 'diary' entries at the beginning of each section are awesome, very deep, philosophical even.

I read an online sample chapter from The Cleric Quintet many years ago. I bought the book (5 books in 1) and only put it down when I physically couldn't stay awake.

After that I read Homeland because I knew even though it was released after the Icewind Dale trilogy, it chronologically comes before it. I'm so glad I did. I've read them all up until this latest trilogy, "Transitions", book 3 of which comes out in October. I dunno how I missed them. I'm nearly finished the Orc King right now and boy, he still knows how to write these novels!

I do however get a little bored of the detailed battle scenes, I just can't picture them.


I also love all of J.V.Jones (Barbed Coil, Book of Worlds trilogy and Sword of Shadows trilogy).