Any recommendations on science fantasy book series I can read while deployed?

Question

Stuck in Afghanistan and bored when off duty. I'm trying to find a few good science fantasy series I can order and read.

Thanks inadvance

Answer 1

Definitely Isaac Asimov. Try the Foundation books. Hmm. Robert Heinlein might be a good pick, but he's not one of my favorites. Check out Terry Pratchett--he's very funny. Neil Gaiman has some excellent stand-alone books--try Neverwhere or American Gods. Larry Niven's Ringworld series is really fun, I highly recommend at least the first few of those. Joan Vinge's Snow Queen is great. Ursula K. Leguin's Earthsea series--I love everything she writes. Patricia McKillip is excellent too. Have you read Tolkien? That'll keep you busy for a while! Terry Brooks (for Shannara, or Magic Kingdom for Sale), Anne McCaffrey (Dragonriders of Pern). Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising sequence might be a little young for you, but they're good books.

One good way to find good sci fi is to look up past Hugo award winners. Many of the folks I mentioned have won a Hugo at some point.

Oh God, Ender's Game! That should be on your list, definitely. Orson Scott Card is the author. It's amazing, and the sequel (Speaker for the Dead) is in my opinion even better.

Answer 2

As another respondent said, lots of Isaac Asimov's stuff is great. Specifically, check out his Foundation Trilogy. In 1965 it was voted the best all-time science fiction or fantasy series by the members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, beating out even Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The Foundation Trilogy is published as a single work as often as three and totals only about 250,000 words.

The three books that make up the classic series ("Foundation," "Foundation and Empire," and "Second Foundation") broach questions dealing with the way both leaders and cultural forces shape history told against the story of the fall of one Galactic Empire and the rising of a Second one. Asimov was influenced by Edward Gibbon's "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" in writing the trilogy (he once characterized it as "a little bit of cribbin' from the works of Edward Gibbon")

Check it out. I think once you read the first two sections of "Foundation" (they're called "The Psychohistorians" and "The Encyclopedists," respectively) you'll be hooked.

Other excellent sci-fi books, some of which have already been mentioned, would be: "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card, "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein, and "Planet of the Apes" by Pierre Boulle. Finally, for a science fiction series that has many fantasy aspects, check out Tad Williams's Otherland series. The first of its four long books is "City of Golden Shadow."

Whatever you get, happy reading--and come home safely.

Answer 3

For science fiction, the Ender series by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant.

Answer 4

The Douglas Adams "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books are ausome! Ther are five, and There so funny, will definately lift the spirits. Also anything by Terry Brooks is ausome sci-fi fantasy books. He has whole series so if you like one, you got a lot more to choose from. Hope that helps.

Answer 5

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is very good and extremely long (each book is around 600 to 1,000 pages). Or you could try Robin Hobbs, Terry Goodkind, George R.R. Martin or, if you can find it, David Feintuch's Seafort Saga. Good luck!

Answer 6

-Noughts and Crosses - severe yet wonderful reads. - Discworld - they make me snigger so problematic. That guy has such an impressive mind's eye. - The Northern lighting fixtures trilogy via Philip Pullman - rather good myth sequence. and you sound such as you will definitly like the sting Chronicles. they are set in a myth international stated as side and that they are jsut stunning - a competent style of categories of creatures. The maps they draw are fanstastic and each and each element of their international, good right down to the geography and the industry are so properly theory out. there is happiness, there is unhappy bits, there is each and every thing: cliched yet actual, notwithstanding there is not any sappy stuff in any respect. i prefer to recommend analyzing them so as of the Twig Saga, the Quint Saga and then the Rook Saga, with the aid of fact they only flow right. happy analyzing!

Answer 7

Anything by Isaac Asimov would be a good choice.

Answer 8

yeh how america never landed on the moon. lol