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Death Hamster: Aug 21, 2007; Is this a two-bagger I see before me?

spixxor posted:

What should I read when I finish up the Song of Fire and Ice series? I'm only halfway through the first book at the moment, but I read pretty quickly, so I'd like to have some good recommendations lined up for when I finish. Does anyone know of any other good fantasy series that's pretty close in quality and scope?

I've already read through as much of the Wheel of Time series as I can stand, so we can skip those.

If you want to stick to fantasy, I recommend Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion Books.

The Curse of Chalion
Paladin of Souls (Winner of Hugo and Nebula Award)
The Hallowed Hunt

I have also heard a lot of good things about The Malazan Book of the Fallen Series by Steven Erikson

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Death Hamster: Aug 21, 2007; Is this a two-bagger I see before me?

timeandtide posted:

Besides the others mentioned here, which I second, check out Peter Straub (he does more psychological horror, or quasi-thrillers; I'd recommend Lost Boy Lost Girl, Floating Dragon, or The Throat), John Farris (Scare Tactics, All Heads Turn When the Hunt Go By), Bentley Little for a more "gross-out" style horror (I liked The Return, The Collection, and University, but not much else of his was worth reading), Richard Mattheson (Hell House, Duel, and I Am Legend), Shirley Jackson (Haunting of Hill House), and Robert R. McCammon (whatever plot sounds most interesting to you.)

I second the recommendation for Robert R McCammon. I have not read a bad book by this man.

I also really enjoy F. Paul Wilson as an author.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2009 14:29

Death Hamster: Aug 21, 2007; Is this a two-bagger I see before me?

CliffyBMine! posted:

So I just finished reading Old Man's War and Ghost Brigades (John Scalzi) and I'm looking for other awesome sci-fi books about soldiers in space.

Books I already read: Starship Troopers and The Forever Man

I'm guessing you meant to write "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman.

I suggest "Armor" by John Steakley.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2009 18:09

Death Hamster: Aug 21, 2007; Is this a two-bagger I see before me?

I'm looking for a new fantasy series to get into. That is, swords and sorcery, not space opera.

Honestly, I'm up for anything. It can be literate or pulpy. I'd prefer something that's more or less a "page-turner" with good characters. The problem is I think I've read most of what's out there:

1. Song of Ice and Fire
2. Wheel of Time
3. Memory Sorrow and Thorn
4. Farseer Trilogy
5. Thomas Covenant Books
6. Xanth Books (1st 3 or so were ok...then ugh!)
7. Lord of the Rings
8. His Dark Materials
9. Narnia
10. Sword of Truth -- ugh.
11. Riftwar books by Raymond Feist
12. Elric Saga
13. Guardians of the Flame series
14. The seventh sword series by Dave Duncan
15. The King's Blades series by Dave Duncan
16. Mordant's Need series (ugh)
17. Chalion books by Lois McMaster Bujold

I think that's it...

# ¿ Dec 2, 2009 21:22

Death Hamster: Aug 21, 2007; Is this a two-bagger I see before me?

keyframe posted:

Guys I am looking for fiction\real books on:

-Viruses/germ warfare

-Post Apocalyptic books

-Zombies

Any suggestions? I have read World war z, the road, zombie survival guide.

Thanks in advance.

My favorite zombie books are the Brian Keene ones: The Risen and City of the Dead.

Simon Clark has some page turners like Stranger and Blood Crazy.

As far as viruses and Germ Warfare go: The Andromeda Strain if you can stand Michael Crichton's writing and The Hot Zone by Richard Preston for a more alarming real-life look at viruses.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2009 21:31

Death Hamster: Aug 21, 2007; Is this a two-bagger I see before me?

Femur posted:

I am looking for some light hearted story to read, preferable a story with some nice humor. Any genre is fine. I think I would like some more modern books, and not classics or anything.

I think Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys might be right up your alley.

# ¿ Dec 3, 2009 04:37

Death Hamster: Aug 21, 2007; Is this a two-bagger I see before me?

fritz posted:

...

dude

There are literally hundreds of new books published in the genre every year. Fellas upthread already mentioned Brust and Cook, get yourself some Erikson or Pratchett or GENE WOLFE or find a used book store and get some Hugh Cook; Kate Elliot just finished a series and there's also her previous one, Kerr's Deverry books are finally done and yea the last couple stunk but the first few are great and there's like a million of them; I see you mentioned Dave Duncan, Lawrence Watt Evans is kind of like him.

For these vague kind of genre recommendations you shouldn't listen to some jackass like me on the somethingawful.com forums you should GO TO THE LIBRARY and GET A LIBRARY CARD and FIND THE GENRE SECTION and GRAB SOME BOOKS AT RANDOM TO SEE IF THEY ARE GOOD because what's the worst that can happen?

I have read (and love) Gene Wolfe, but I figured his New Sun/Long Sun/Short Sun books were counted as Science Fiction/Dying Earth genre and not Fantasy...although I can see how they would be.

Thanks for the other recommendations, though.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2009 21:18

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 17:29

Death Hamster: Aug 21, 2007; Is this a two-bagger I see before me?

Grand Prize Winner posted:

Hello literate folks. I've got me a serious war-on right now and need some war-porn to satisfy my base and cruel urges. I'm looking exciting fights gouts of blood and perhaps C-beams glittering off the Tannhauser Gate and all that fun stuff. Any era of human history or sci-fi/fantasy would be fine. I don't care about contrived circumstances or cardboard characters so long as the fights are epic in the Homeric sense. Lowest-common-denominator stuff like the works of John Ringo is fine, too but I really don't like sex scenes getting in the way of my tanks and legionaries and explosions and aliens being blown up so thoroughly that their skeletons act as shrapnel.

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman -- If you can suspend your disbelief for this one, it's a classic.

Old Man's War by John Scalzi -- Old man signs up for the colonial armed forces and gets a new body.

Armor by John Steakley -- Highly recommended.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2009 17:13

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