I like time travel, distant future, post-apocolyptic survial (like the movie The Postman),and plausible story lines. I like S.M. Stirling's books, Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, and Karen Marie Moning's Highlander Series.
I don't like gun-porn (where the guns are lovingly written about in minute detail) non-stop fighting, gratuitious killing or stories that take place 3000 in the future on an alien planet.
2007-02-04 10:20:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Have you read Stirling's third book in the "Island in the Sea of Time" series? He spends an inordinate amount of time talking about the weapons in the detail. If you list Stirling as the first in your likes, you probably have a greater tolerance for "gun porn" than you think! I just skipped pages of it when I was reading it for that reason.
So, Sci-Fi for girls ... have you tried Anne McCaffery? Look for "The Ship Who Sang" and "The Crystal SInger" series. Also, if you read "Dragondawn" you realize the Dragonrider series is science fiction more than fantasy.
You might also like Madeline L'Engle's "An Acceptable Time". It's time travel and I've read it over and over again, I like it so much. It's set in the same "universe" as "A Wrinkle in Time", "A Wind in the Door", "Many Waters" and "A Swiftly Tilting Planet".
2007-02-04 12:34:10 · answer #1 · answered by Elise K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read some books by Ursula K. LeGuin:
The Dispossessed
The Left Hand of Darkness
Read Audrey Niffenegger:
The Time Travelers Wife (a man time travels repeatedly back in time to meet his true love at different times in her life; a very beautiful romantic story)
Read Octavia Butler:
Kindred (time travel back to 19th century slave society)
2007-02-04 12:24:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok "The Host" does sound good, but Stephenie Meyer isn't even done wrighting it. I would however sugest both of her books that are out. "Twilight", and "New Moon". They don't exactaly fit all of your specifications, but their really good, and their kind of science fictiony. And I think that their aimed more for female readers.
2007-02-04 13:52:59 · answer #3 · answered by ggfan777 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nora Roberts as J.D. Robb, don't know how sci-fi it is but it is definitely futuristic.
2007-02-04 12:29:28 · answer #4 · answered by akankie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how about "the host" by stephenie meyer?
2007-02-04 12:22:50 · answer #5 · answered by Samantha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋