Sci-fi books

wild_wild_life

Strongly recommend Feed by MT Anderson.

http://www.amazon.com/Feed-M-T-Anderson/dp/0763662623

The title refers to the chip that is now standardly implanted in everyone's head which basically provides the Internet on steroids directly wired into the mind. Great book club fodder. Well written and entertaining too.

jonnyman41

bump so I can check these out

scrapjen

I loved the DragonRiders of Pern series that someone else mentioned. Wool is good. A couple others I read recently that I really liked and/or thought had many points to ponder for a book club type setting would be

Partials
Across The Universe
Human .4

Sapporo

Snow Crash is my favourite book ever so there is my vote Ender's Game is good, Speaker for the Dead is even better. Timeline is a good suggestion as well. William Gibson's Neuromancer is a classic (IMO anyway lol).

SamanthaD1218

Thank you guys so much!!! I will have to look these all up and choose a few for the group to vote on. AWESOME!

RunBrew

I just finished reading WOOL by Hugh Howey and really enjoyed it

Freaking amazing. Have you read any of the fan fiction that goes with it? I think there may be more of that then there is the original story by Hugh.

I've started reading SHIFT now and then DUST will be out soon so I'll have to have a look out for the fan fiction after those.

Dust is already out. I read it on Kindle. Did not disappoint. :drinker:

HaggisWhisperer

Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear was great. You can't really go wrong with a Greg Bear novel.

I second Darwin's Radio as a good choice for a book club. Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress also has some really interesting ideas in it. Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler is another favourite of mine (this is actually a trilogy of fairly short books but I don't think you can get them separately any more).

QueenBishOTUniverse

Damn, I forgot, one of my coworkers wrote a book "Nanomagica" by Norm LaFave, he's one of the physics teachers at my High School, and it is a really fun read. Everybody at the school is bugging him about when the second book is getting published!

GunboatDiplomat

Player of Games by Iain M. Banks or Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan.

tanashai

Game of Universe by Eric S. Nylund is really good, if you can find enough copies (it's older).

Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds is incredibly thought-provoking and really fun, though a bit long

To Say Nothing of the Dog OR Passage by Connie Willis; Time travel in To Say Nothing and Near Death Experiences in Passage; very interesting stuff

mrsduke2924

I just finished reading WOOL by Hugh Howey and really enjoyed it

Freaking amazing. Have you read any of the fan fiction that goes with it? I think there may be more of that then there is the original story by Hugh.

I've started reading SHIFT now and then DUST will be out soon so I'll have to have a look out for the fan fiction after those.

Dust is already out. I read it on Kindle. Did not disappoint. :drinker:

I second this - read the whole trilogy on holiday this year and I literally devoured it! Awesome trilogy - a bit sci fi, but mainly a great insight into human emotion and the paths we could take. I had it on kindle, too. Similar feel about the Hunger Games - I enjoyed the film, but loved the books. Probably enough drama and realism there to quell any nerves of the non sci-fi goers lol

Also liked his dark materials, philip pullman.

Enjoy

Excepticon

I second "The Handmaid's Tale" - it's my favorite Atwood novel.

I read through the other posts briefly and didn't see (to my surprise and/or negligence!) .... H.P. Lovecraft! and Arthur C. Clarke! (Probably negligence - I skimmed through the posts quickly.)

I've always loved Clarke's short stories, and The Nine Billion Names of God is my absolute favorite ever. You can find it in basically any Clarke compilation.

Lovecraft... what can I say? He's more horror than sci-fi, but it's like... if the movie Event Horizon had a lovechild with a book and went on an acid trip to a World of Warcraft land... ish. It's interesting to say the least, and his ability to develop complex characters with amazingly weird backgrounds is outstanding.

Cheers to a good book, and enjoy your book club!

StinkyWinkies

I second Darwin's Radio as a good choice for a book club. Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress also has some really interesting ideas in it. Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler is another favourite of mine (this is actually a trilogy of fairly short books but I don't think you can get them separately any more).

Awesome! I read "Beggars in Spain" when it was a short in Issac Asimov Magazine...then the book when it came out...def second it as well. "The peas and I do not have a mutually beneficial arrangement, dad, so I don't have to eat them." (severally paraphrased)

Mr_Excitement

Neuromancer is a good one. I read the Wind Up Girl recently as well-- that was good.

pauldix

Ian M Banks beats all-comers in my book. Sadly he passed away this year but left the magnificent 'Culture' series behind.

These are substantial novels, funny, highly thought provoking, very ambitious. Unmissable.

mustgetmuscles1

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a classic.


You could look into The Dresden Files.

More fantasy than Sci-fi about a modern day wizard working as private investigator.

PaulaKro

My god, it's censored someone's last name.
Philip K. Duck, but replace the 'u' with an 'i'.

Do androids dream of electric sheep, by Phillip K. D i c k

valandario

I'm not entirely sure what you are looking for, you said sci-fi but your examples were fantasy and many of the suggestions from others have been fantasy. Is that what you meant?

michellemybelll

Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game"

trojanbb

Lots of non sci-fi in this thread.

DUNE.
Hyperion
and too much to choose from by Isaac Asimov

Really though, Dune just can't be beaten.