Recommend a Book - SciFi/Fantasy

[Steeven]

I've got those on my list of books to read.

Which one is the first?

[jaydee74]

Storm Front
Fool Moon
Grave Peril
Summer Knight
Death Masks
Blood Rites
Dead Beat
Proven Guilty
White Night
Small Favor
Turn Coat
Changes
Ghost Story

[Steeven]

Awesome, thanks.

[jaydee74]

[Steeven]

[Steeven]

The audio book didn't work out. Was having issues with it.

So I went to the book itself. Got it from my Library. Storm Front by Jim Butcher. Great stuff thus far.

[Steeven]

I finished Storm Front last night.

I will be continuing on with the series

[Eternalm]

How about some more scifi.

I've always been a big fan of Iain Banks, he has a long running series that all takes place in a galactic civilization just called "The Culture" which is more or less run by AIs called Minds, most of the books deal with a sort of black ops division called Special Circumstances, which mostly deals with interfering with the development of other civilizations in order to make them more peaceful.

Consider Phlebas and Excesion are both great books from that series.

Perhaps my favorite book that he's done, though, is The Algebraist, which has to do with a very bizarre galactic civilization, a war with AIs, and a race of extremely long lived gas giant dwelling aliens, it's a great book, and there's some genuinely witty dialogue in it.

[Steeven]

Found Star Wars: Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn in storage over the weekend. I haven't read it in over 15 years. Started reading yesterday. Still good stuff.

[Dan North]

I'd throw the Skulduggery Pleasant series out there. It's an excellent series that doesn't get the appreciation it deserves. The sixth book is coming out this september. It's about a magical skeleton detective. Really that's the premise.

I'd also recommend a print by domand book I bought off a whim on a book website that was really a lot of fun which is Grayson Stroud Private Detective. It's a fake autobiography of a pop culture spouting private detective who years after the fact is telling the story of his greatest case.

[Thus]

I'd absolutely recomend the Hitchhiker's guid to the galaxy, it's brilliant and funny.
I also love Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, even though there is not a lot of emphasis placed on the science fiction aspect of it.
For younger readers (well, not too young) I'd also recomend any nore recent books by Cornelia Funke.

[the electric mayhem]

The Warded Man is a novel written by American writer Peter V. Brett. Slow burn for the first novel, but the second, The Desert Spear, I could NOT put it down.

Any reading the Malazan series by Steven Erikson? 10 THICK books that one can almost dive into and never come up for air..

[Steeven]

After the Golden Age
by Carrie Vaughn

Forensic accountant Celia West is the powerless and estranged daughter of two of Commerce City's great heroes, Captain Olympus and Spark. When the city prosecutes the evil Destructor for tax evasion, Celia gets pulled in to track down evidence. As a new crime spree creates tension between the city's heroes and the police force, Celia's investigation uncovers long-buried secrets about her family and the city.



Fletch and the Man Who
by Gregory McDonald

When Fletch arrives as the new press representative for Governor Caxton Wheeler’s presidential campaign, he isn’t sure which mystery to solve first: what his new job actually is or why the campaign has been leaving dead women in its tracks.

He finds himself on the other side of the press, a human shield deflecting the questions he is asking himself. Are the murders just coincidence, or is a cold-hearted killer looking for a job in the White House?

When the campaign shifts into high gear, Fletch’s skills are working overtime in a desperate bid of his own to find the killer and to make sure the governor doesn’t lose any more votes.



Artemis Fowl
by Eoin Colfer

Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. With two trusty sidekicks in tow, he hatches a cunning plot to divest the fairyfolk of their pot of gold. Of course, he isn't foolish enough to believe in all that "gold at the end of the rainbow" nonsense. Rather, he knows that the only way to separate the little people from their stash is to kidnap one of them and wait for the ransom to arrive. But when the time comes to put his plan into action, he doesn't count on the appearance of the extrasmall, pointy-eared Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaisance) Unit--and her senior officer, Commander Root, a man (sorry, elf) who will stop at nothing to get her back.

[Dubbat138]

Fantasy-The Dark tower series,I have been hooked on these books since I read the first volume back when I was about 13.

Dresden Files-Another great series of novels. And one of the few series where I don't wait on the paperbacks.

Sci Fi- Do Androids Dream of Electric sheep by Philip K Dick
It is still my favorite Science fiction book ever. I try to read it at least once a year.