Good Science Fiction (Books)

[GrahamB]

Vernor Vinge. Awesome.

[alexsuffolk]

Robert Silverberg - A Time of Man and the Lord Valentine series

[Harvey]

try Neverness by David Zindell, very unusual concept for space travel amongst other things.

[s7en]

"Gateway" by Frederik Pohl,

"Forever War" by Joe Haldemann

and

"Roadside Picknic" by the Strugatsky Brothers

[s7en]

[quote="Bhassler"]Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.

great book

[Andy_S]

I second Dan Simmonds Enymion series and raise you:
Altered Carbon
Broken Angels
Woken Furies

All by Richard Morgan.

Set in a future world in which humans download their pysches into black box chips inserted into their spinal cords, which - for those who can afford new bodies, often genetically engineered in various ways - offers virtual immortality.
Hero/anti-hero Takeshi Kovacs is a former "envoy" - part spy, part commando, part assassin, part diplomat - who are used as troubleshooters around the galaxy by the government(s).

Having left the Envoy Corps he is up for hire by a range of unsavoury characters - crooked millionaires, intergalactic mercenaries, yakuza,...even revolutionary surfers (!). Books have him being "decanted" into various bodies in various exotic locations to do various dirty jobs. It is easy to pick holes in some of the details, but generally compelling. Superbly written and ultra-violent.

Have just got Morgan's non-Kovacs novel, "Thirteen" which looks like his version of "Blade Runner?D Androids Dream..." We shall see.

Oh, and some Heinlein is good; "Starship Troopers" if you can get look past his generally right-wing, near facist views.

[s7en]

"The Last Day of Creation" by Wolfgang Jeschke

"The Mote in God's Eye" by Larry Niven

I read all these books (german translation) in the last few months,
a german book publisher release these and other sci-fi classics at the time.

Now, I'm in the middle of "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein

[alexsuffolk]

Has anyone mentioned Gibson's Sprawl series ? Neuromancer and the rest...........written i guess 20 yrs ago and its almost all happening as we speak...