Looking for Recommendations

[Doctor Evil]

I'm looking to take a break outside the SW Universe for a few months. I like the general style of most SW books and am looking for similarly styled Sci Fi books. I am thinking maybe Battletech? I know Stackpole has written some for them.

Any recomendations?

Thanks in advance.

Doc :saber:

[RedMirax]

Hmmmm. I haven't read any Battletech. I bought Once A Hero by Mike Stackpole, but haven't read it, yet. I also bought Doc Sidhe by Aaron Allston, but haven't gotten to that one, either. The latter was hard to find. I finally found it a used book store.


But, if you like those two authors, you might check out those books. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[Tonin]

I read Once A Hero and while I finished the book, it seemed rather slow and tended to drag on, but maybe that was just me. *I really, really, really recommend The Dark Glory War also by Mike Stackpole. *It was just a great story with interesting characters and a strong story line. *Plus it sets you up for the sequel. *

On a very different vein, I also recommend anything by John Grisham. *I had to read some of his work for school and have been reading it ever since. *

And finally I recommend The Crystal Caveby Mary Stewart. *It is an authurian legend and focuses on Merlin starting when he was a boy. *Its the first of four books.

Hope that's helpful.

[jade51999]

If you like Zahn, he has two books that i like a lot

"The Icarus Hunt" and a newer one called "Angel Mass"

i belive another one just came out called "Manta's Deep" but i could be wrong style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[General Antilles]

You want some good "science fiction" books to read? Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. You won't be able to put them down.

[Whuffa]

I don't know about sci-fi, but I'm just reading "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde and it's sort of an alternate universe in which England has been at war with Russia for 125 years, people have home gene-splicing kits, people can travel through time, into books etc. It's actually a post-modernist mystery novel, but it's really hilarious.

[Clara]

Animorphs? :p

[Brian]

Originally posted by RedMirax@Aug. 26 2002 - 23:19
I finally found it a used book store.
As a quick insert, for the record, used books stores rule! *I'm talking cheap hard cover novels that retail for $25-30. *They are older, but so what.

If you like adventure novels, try Desmond Bagley. *His books are like 30 years old, but still interesting. *Here is a list of what I have read by him: *The Vivero Letter, The Freedom Trap, The Snow Tiger, and some of Windfall.

I also hear Catch 22 and Slaughter House 5 are pretty good, but I don't remember the authors and don't think they are sci-fi.

[Luvinna.]

I, too, have read Once a Hero, and also A Hero Born (also by Stackpole). *I liked them both. *

I also enjoy Raymond E Feist. *He's written several books (around 15, so far) about this world that he's created. *The first one being Magician. *

Oh, then there's Anne McCaffery. *I haven't read her Pern books, but I've read several others like the Crystal Singer and Freedom series.

I also recently read a book by Dean Koontz called One Door Away from Heaven. *(Yes, it is science fiction.) *I really liked that one.

Right now, I'm reading The Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan. *I'm on book nine now, and ten comes out in November. *Those are really good, but can get confusing at times because there are so many characters.

(can you tell I'm a total bookworm?)

Last, I like the books by a fairly new author, Julie E Czerneda. *Her first book is called A Thousand Words for Stranger.

And if you're looking for something a little lighter, I recommend The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. *Much better than the movies.

[Doctor Evil]

Thank You everyone style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hehe.gif That gives me lots of stuff to try out. If you think of anymore, post please.

Thanks again. You guys and gals are great!

Doc :saber:

[Gendi]

If you are into George Lucas sagas, but want to get away from Star Wars, I have to recommend The Shadow War Trilogy. These are a continuation of the movie Willow. Like SW, he wrote a huge story. He was asked, by the publisher, if he had stories for books only that he didn't get to or want to make into movies. Willow pretty much bombed so the rest of the story was never told. I read all of this in an article on the books, so if incorrect blame them not me. :)Chris Clairemont did much of the writing of the books the way I understand it, but I love them. I have read them all at least 10 times. They are much better than the movie was alone and I hope they write more. The first is Shadow Moon, the second is Shadow Dawn and the third is Shadow Star. These aren't really sci fi but I really like them. In some ways the books are like Lord of the Rings, as far as being really descritive, but I like that about them. They pick up the story 13 years after the movie ended basically...and a lot has changed. Anyway, that's my recommendation.

[Brian]

Gendi, I didn't know about those books. I will check them out for sure.

[Gendi]

Like I said, I really enjoy them. Clairemont and Lucas put their own spin on the fantasy world. If they don't write more, I will be very disappointed style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif . If you read them, hope you enjoy them. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[Skidder]

If you want to try something a little darker than Star Wars - I would recommend Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Very sci-fi but with a hint of magic and horror.

[imperialcacner]

I would have to say that my favorite book out side of the sw universe would have to be Ender's Game. It about children goin through a battle school and then they have to fight the ultimate battle for the survival of the human race. Its very kewl. I read some sequals Ender's Shadow and Shadow fo the Hegemon. Shadow fo the hegemon is better than ender's shadow and ender's shadow is a parallel novel to ender's game. They are all kewl. Orsen scott card is the author.

[Jeianni]

Oh man, I looooovvvveedddd Willow!! I'm going to go to the bookstore tomorrow and get to digging!

I found this really cool series by Elizabeth Moon. It's kind of like Star Wars, but it's a differnt culture kind of. Like instead of the NR, it's the "Regular Space Service", and most of the last names sound suspiciously Spanish. Anyways, it's really cool. I think the first one is called "A Sporting Chance"

[Handothrawn]

Originally posted by clara@Aug. 27 2002 - 07:32
Animorphs? *style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif
LOL! I used to have every Animorphs book ever published. But then I started reading EU.

But if you want something really great, read Stephen King's The Stand. Its my favorite book ever published, but try to get the Uncut version, its longer and more detailed.

[bluemilk]

Here are some of my favourite books style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/satisfied.gif (sorry I posted twice, I meant to put it here, I suck) style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/crying.gif


Murder in the Place of Anubis - Lynda S. Robinson
Murder at the God's Gate - Lynda S. Robinson
Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing - Lynda S. Robinson
Eater of souls - Lynda S. Robinson
Drinker of Blood - Lynda S. Robinson
Slayer of Gods - Lynda S. Robinson
Relic - Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
The Cabinet of Curiosities - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
The Lost World : a novel - by Michael Crichton
Congo - Michael Crichton
Shogun : a novel of Japan - by James Clavell
Noble house : a novel of contemporary Hong Kong - James Clavell
Tai-Pan : a novel of Hong Kong - James Clavell
King rat - James Clavell.
Gai-Jin : a novel of Japan - James Clavell
Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
The Jungle Book - by Rudyard Kipling
Fear Nothing - Dean Koontz
Seize the Night - Dean Koontz
Tick Tock - Dean Koontz
Watchers - Dean Koontz
By the Light of the Moon - Dean Koontz

[Master Cephus]

I just finished the 6 original Dune Novels and they were very great!

I also read the first of the Dune trilogy about the legends called "Butlerian Jihad" by FH son Brian Herbert. It was very good as well.

[RollaFett]

Wow, this is an old thread, but still in the wrong place. Consider it moved.

[Tovor]

Except that the people who thought they knew where it was won't know that it was moved since your announcement of moving it was moved along with the moved thread that you moved when you moved it to where you moved it to. Right? style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wacko.gif

[bluemilk]

^*lmao* trippy, you made my brain hurt

[Rob]

Terry Brooks did some great fantasy novels in the Shannara series back in the 80s and 90s.

That's all I can really recommend, I haven't really read any fantasy or sci-fi since I started reading short fiction in the mid-90s.

I can recommend some classic fiction though style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif

[P-Ray]

If it doesn't have to be SciFi, the Left Behind series. If you want to stick with SciFi,both the T2 books "Infiltrator" and "rising Storm" are good.

Also, a friend told me that the Robert Jordan "Wheel of time" series is great.

[Handothrawn]

Check out Stephen King's The Stand, its long but it the greatest book ever written.