looking for not-so-common sci-fi. any suggestions?

Question

NO Brooks, Goodkind, Mccaffrey, or Asimov please

Answer 1

I'm reading Barry Longyear's "The Enemy Papers"--the complete "Enemy Mine" trilogy all in one book. The movie's my favorite sci-fi movie and I watch it every time it is on tv. I also like Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" and H.G. Welle's "War of the Worlds." Frank Herbert's "Dune", "Children of Dune," etc. are also good.

Answer 2

Dan Simmons has written a couple of my favorite SciFi books:
Hyperion
The Fall Of Hyperion
The next two books are the rest of the series, but he wrote those as an afterthought and aren't as good, but I loved the first two:
Endymion
The Rise Of Endymion

Richard Morgan has a series he's writing that I like a lot. The three books are:
Altered Carbon
Broken Angels
Woken Furies

William Gibson wrote a great novel years ago:
Neuromancer

I recently read all of Jack McDevitt's books. They tend to be adventures with alien archaeology and artifacts. Very cool stuff.

Robert Reed wrote a book about a spaceship that's the size of Earth: Marrow, and the sequel, The Well Of Stars.

If you like SciFi video games, look for the Tad Williams books.

Another author I like is Vernor Vinge. He wrote a couple books that have mansize insects as the protaganists: A Deepness In The Sky, A Fire Upon The Deep.

Other authors you might look for are Greg Bear, Kim Stanley Robinson, Stephen Baxter, Allen Steele, Ben Bova, Peter Hamilton and Octavia Butler.

Answer 3

John Steakley, Armor
Tad Williams, Otherland
William Gibson, Neuromancer
Thomas Harlan, Wasteland of Flint
Allen Steele, Coyote
C.J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station
John Dalmas, The Regiment
Marianne de Pierres, Nylon Angel
Elizabeth Bear, Hammered

Just a few good reads

Answer 4

Frank Herbert, Alfred Bester, Theodore Sturgeon

Answer 5

Try Robert Heinlein, Dave Brunner, or Silverberg. If you want a mind blower read Phillip Jose Farmer.

Don't blow off Asimov. Read his anthologies. There all kinds of writers in them.

Answer 6

"Red Dwarf" by Grant Naylor is great, even better than the BBC sitcom of the same name.
Surely you have read Douglas Adams, if not do!

Those are comical, then you have such classics as "Brave New World" and "1984." Of course their are the Randian' novels, "Anthem," "the Fountainhead," and "Atlas Shrugged."

Answer 7

Well there is the Looking Glass Wars. It's based on Alice in Wonderland but it has an awesome twist!

Answer 8

try a show called firefly you can buy the shoew for like 20 dollars your you might see it on SCi fi Chanel. they also did a move called Serenity but you should see the show first.