[horribleman]

Can anyone recommend a SF that is good for a fantasy reader? E.g. not loads of techie, a good sense of wonder and possible quest/heroic motifs?? Plus a real bonus would be a sense of wonder finding a new world!!!

Sorry for posting in this and SF forum, but topic is both nacht??

Thanks for replying!

[ChrisW]

Otherland - Tad Williams
Endersgame - Orson ScottCard
Hitchiker Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

[Ladijen]

I would suggest Dune (Herbert). I think these books have a fantasy feel to them, even though they are SF.

[Gary Wassner]

Have you read Stranger In a Strange Land? It's a classic sci fi, but it's not full of high tech stuff. I loved it years and years ago. It was very cerebral and one of those books that makes you really think.

[Pathir]

Try Jack Vance. Most of his books carry fantasy as well as sf-elements in them. For instance ; Tschai, The Demonprinces series (especially book 2), Big Planet and so on...
Vance is a great blender of the genres.

[Rob B]

I would go a few further with Caldazar's recommendations of OSC:
Pastwatch, The Worthing Saga, Wyrms are all categorized as SF but have a fantasy feel.

[Crysania]

Coldfire Triology - CS Friedman

[asimovian]

I advise Ray Bradbury.
I don't remember the exact title of the book I have read, I think it's "Sands of Mars".
It is considered science-fiction, but it has not very much in common with what is written by most classic sci-fi writers - except for the setting.
It is very poetical ; the sense of wonder you are looking for can be had here, more in my opinion than probably in any other science-fiction author.

[Hobbit]

Sands of Mars = Arthur C Clarke.
Martian Chronicles = Ray Bradbury (also known as the Silver Locusts)

Hobbit

[neologik]

horribleman;

THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN by Gene Wolfe is what you're looking for. Don't listen to any of these other monkeys.

--gabe http://hypermode.blogspot.com