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Navigating NPR's top 100 sci-fi/fantasy books — Brooklynian

Navigating NPR's top 100 sci-fi/fantasy books

jeffrey
jeffrey
edited November -1 in The Lounge / Random Stuff

er, wow o_0

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  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    whoa, that looks like the decision trees of some of my dysfunctional former employers.

  • jeffrey
    jeffrey

    Be warned: This tree has demons in it.

  • toadette
    toadette

    This is great. Any recommendations? I'm finishing up ASOIAF/George R.R. Martin right now. Need something to fill, oh, the next seven years of my life until book 6. x.x

  • booklaw
    booklaw

    I just finished David Brin's Earth and Jack McDevitt's Firebird. Both were excellent science-fiction.

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31

    jeffrey said:

    Be warned: This tree has demons in it.

    I've taken on tree demons and NYC bureaucracy before.

    I ain't afraid of no ghosts.

  • homeowner
    homeowner

    I loved Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Nevermore. If you liked Game of Thrones, I'd suggest Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series or his Harry Dresden books (which don't appear on this list but are really funny good reads).

  • ntfool
    ntfool

    Agreed on the Gaiman books, they're very good. Speaking of Gaiman, I just finished re-reading (for the upteenth time) a book he co-wrote with Terry Pratchett, Good Omens. Funniest book about the Apocalypse ever. Finally, Neal Stephenson is a fantastic author, look for Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and his most recent, Reamde. The latter two are more based in reality, but definitely contain genre elements.

  • whyfi
    whyfi

    I feel like you've gotta lay a foundation in sci-fi. Read some of the classics that are still as relevent as ever. LeGuin is still one of my favorite authors and, I gotta say, if you haven't read her, you can't say that you're well-read in sci-fi. Joe Halderman's The Forever War, in addition to being a trend-setter, is another one of those books that's taken on new meaning given the times.

  • homeowner
    homeowner

    Oh, and I almost forgot Lucifer's Hammer (Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle). I'll be the first to admit that some of their work is strictly for the sci-fi fanboy crowd, but this one really is a classic.

  • booklaw
    booklaw

    If you're going to read Niven and Pournelle, I'd start with The Mote in God's Eye. It was one of the best science fiction books I've ever read (and I've read thousands of science fiction novels over the years, so I suppose I qualify as something of a fanboy).

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