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2007-03-15 00:56:59 · 23 answers · asked by Susan T 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
A really fantastic fantasy series is the "Wheel of Time" series by Robert Jordan. It is on its 12th (and probably last book) in the series. Amazing story, plots, characters...you really get sucked into it. Cant recommend this enough, everyone i've put on to it loves it!
My original love for fantasy books came from reading: Lord of the Rings and the Dragonlance Chronicles and Dragonlance Legends by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis . Another great read.
Enjoy!
2007-03-15 01:12:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am seconding the Robert Jordan "wheel of time " nom - great series and since he's up to book eleven - you'll have a long read. If you want to spice it up a bit and add a little eroctica to your sci-fi fantansy reads then pick up Laurell K. Hamilton series, there are two Anita Blake ( if you like brunettes) and Merry Gentry series (if you like blondes). There is also George Martin who has a series out now as well, bare in mind that this are not short reads the smallest of them which is Laurell Hamilton's book are about 600- 700 pages long. Enjoy!
2007-03-15 02:26:20 · answer #2 · answered by SHANE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest:
"Altered Carbon" by Richard Morgan. An excellent sf/noir hybrid.
"Consider Phlebas" by Iain M. Banks. A highly entertaining introduction to his Culture space-opera novels.
"Nova" by Samuel R. Delaney. Easily his best novel, a complex but ultimately rewarding work.
"A Canticle for Liebowitz" by Walter M.Miller, Jr. An engrossing novel about the world's recovery from nuclear war and the role played by the Order of Saint Liebowitz. (The 'sequel', 'St. Liebowitz and the Wild Horse Woman' is a turkey and best avoided).
For horror, try a short story collection by H.P. Lovecraft. He was not always a great prose stylist but his best stories leave a sensation of creeping dread no-one else has ever really matched. His best stories are in the Penguin collections "The Thing on the Doorstep" and "The Call of Cthulhu."
2007-03-15 09:07:20 · answer #3 · answered by Huh? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Terry Pratchett is great for a humorous approach. For a more serious sci-fi book, try something by H.G Wells or George Orwell. The writing standard is ordinary, but some of the ideas put forwards are really extraordinary.
2007-03-15 08:17:48 · answer #4 · answered by Tamsyn W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd suggest the Women of the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong. The series starts with "Bitten" which is about a female werewolf who is the only one of her kind. When the first book starts she has distanced herself from the man who created her and is attempting to live a normal life, but is forced to returning to the pack leader when people start being murdered. This series evolves as it goes along to include some magic users and demons as well. The books can be usually found in the science fiction or horror sections of the bookstore.
2007-03-15 04:29:46 · answer #5 · answered by DemonBookLover 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
James Herbert has written loads of Horror / Fantasy books. Too many good ones to list. The Dark was excellent and the Fog is a good horror. And Rats is always a classic.
2007-03-15 01:00:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you like comic fantasy I'd suggest Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (I think Mort or Wyrd Sisters are both good starting books), anything by Robert Rankin, and also look for Tom Holt.
Sci-fi I'd recommend Isaac Asimov - especially the Robots short stories, and Robert Heinlein ('scuse spelling!).
2007-03-15 03:16:38 · answer #7 · answered by saarandom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A brilliant blend of dark sci-fi with an amazing imagination and really quite nasty sense of humour is China Mielville's New Crobuzon series (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron Council etc) which can be read in any order.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_b/203-5294500-3739163?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=+china+mieville
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Mi%C3%A9ville
for more info. He's a proper north London geezer who thinks there is more to fantasy writing than Tolkein and is himself more influenced by Moorcock, Lovecraft and Peake, but not really like any of them. Brilliant stuff!
2007-03-15 03:09:49 · answer #8 · answered by keys780 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The day of the triffids, by John Wyndham
"when a day you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong...."
and this book just gets better.
It was the first sci-fi book I read, and I was hooked !!!!!.
2007-03-15 01:27:55 · answer #9 · answered by Milking maid 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lord of the Rings, a bit obvious perhaps. Dune is a great sci/fi film, so i suppose the book would be also. Author - Frank Herbert.
2007-03-15 01:10:53 · answer #10 · answered by Andy B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋