I'm looking for a couple good, action-packed, intelligent, science fiction books....
Any recommendations???
2006-07-25 08:51:38 · 14 answers · asked by ? 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Hi,
Have you read any of the Gap series, by Stephen R. Donaldson?
There are five.
The Real Story
Forbidden Knowledge
A Dark And Hungry God Arises
Chaos And Order
This Day All Gods Die
I also recommend his two Thomas Covenent trilogies. They are not Sci Fi, but they are first-rate fantasy reading.
Hope this helps.
smiles,
C. Briggs
2006-07-25 09:05:18 · answer #1 · answered by ceebriggs 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Start with - 'A wrinkle in time' for young ones
Techno-Action pack - Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character
Good suspense - Stephen King's Gunslinger series
scienc fiction - chronicals of thomas covenent
western - Louie La'Moure (all of them)
war - most interesting is of the Chosin Resevior during the Korean war
John Grisham is tops
2006-07-25 16:22:22 · answer #2 · answered by orangecrush 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
One Hand Clapping: A Novel by Anthony Burgess
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
Isaac Asomov
2006-07-25 15:54:33 · answer #3 · answered by corbeyelise 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Other Twin by Hunter Morgan
The Other Twin dishes out the thrills with adequate reliability, but at the end of the day, it is just another derivative serial killer thriller out there.
The romantic suspense subgenre will know the drill. We have a heroine who's related in some way to the serial killer. In this case, it is Sydney MacGregor's testimony that sent serial killer Charles Eshey behind bars thirty years ago. Charles killed Sydney's twin sister. Charles targets twins, killing one twin and letting the other live, just like how he killed his own twin brother because he said two of them were too many. Today, Eshey is deemed rehabilitated and he's set free. That's when the twin killings begin. No one but Sydney and a lesbian cop named Jessica Manlove (GLAAD is sending a nice email to Ms Morgan soon, I think) suspects that supposedly harmless elderly Eshey is behind the murders. Sydney teams up with crime author Marshall King, Marshall hoping that this case will net him a new bestseller book, and because romantic suspense readers need at least one tepid love thingie to fulfill the "romance" quota, Marshall and Sydney fall in love. Or so Ms Morgan tells me.
Filled to the brim with overused romantic suspense clichés,
2006-07-25 17:47:47 · answer #4 · answered by Tori 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tom Clancy's series with Jack Ryan, i.e. Hunt For Red October, Clear and Present Danger.....
2006-07-25 15:57:39 · answer #5 · answered by Randy L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love Marion Zimmer-Bradley's Darkover series. They are a cross between science fiction and fantasy.
2006-07-25 16:48:02 · answer #6 · answered by psycho-cook 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coldheart Canyon (by clive barker i think)... it's over 1000 pages, takes250 pages to set the whole thing up...i might be a freak but i loved this book!!
2006-07-25 15:57:58 · answer #7 · answered by bigmammarush 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always heard Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is pretty good.
2006-07-25 16:20:42 · answer #8 · answered by FrankEs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read anything by the big three:
Asimov
Bradbury
Clarke
Then go with something by Harlan Elison
2006-07-25 15:56:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh man i was gonna suggest you to check this author out.. eric j dickey.
2006-07-25 15:55:14 · answer #10 · answered by deviousbeautifulangel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋