[karljah]

My recommendation for a good read is from an old author with a newer series. C. J. Cherryh started a series a few years ago with a book called Foreigner, followed by Invader, Inheritor, and, starting the second trilogy, Precursor (this one just came out in paperback Oct. of last year).

A very deep series about a handful of humans stuck on a planet, and trying to understand the aliens.Haven't read an alien mindset as beleivable since The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven. Can't wait for the next two books!

[woody]

Jings, so many books, so many authors and hours and hours of endless fun.

Some I would recommend are;

Behold the Man - Michael Moorcock (still a shocker)
Ringworld - Larry Niven
Rendezvous with Rama - Clarke
Childhoods End "
Lost worlds of 2001 - Clarke and Kubrick (read the original 2001 story)
Repent Harlequin, said the Tick Tock man - Harlan Ellison (great title, short story)
Return to Earth - Buzz Aldrin (his story of going to the Moon and back, no mention of Aliens though)
The road to Stalingrad - John Erickson (Hitlers plans to conquer the Soviet Union in WW2, maybe this belongs in the realms of Fantasy, but he nearly did it)
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells (it amazes me how many s-f fans haven't read this book)

Be seeing ye.

[Hobbit]

Good list, Woody!

aldiboronti - good on the Fredric Brown. I've had a lot of people recommend a recent new copy of his short stories by NESFA Press. You may have it already, but if you don't, look at: http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/Brown-1.html

Don't know where you live but it should be easy to get in the US and I have seen it in the UK. It's a big hardback!

Hobbit

[Mat]

Try these:

Joe Hadleman - Forever war, Mindbridge, Worlds
Walter Jon Williams - Hardwired
David brin - Anything he has written
Peter f Hamilton - Ditto
Of Men and monsters - William tenn


.. post more when I think of 'em

Mat

[Dragon_Eye]

I can only think of two at the moment:
1. Allan Cole and Chris Bunch - Sten series (8 books in all)
2. Bill Baldwin - Helmsman Adventures (about 8 of these also)

[coecoe]

Hello, Does anyone know how to get in touch with Christian E. Gilmartin. He is the author of Black Undertow and several others. I was in the Marine Corps with him. I recently performed an internet search for the guy, and found that he has written several science fiction books. We were good friends, he was always into astronomy, and science fiction. He read it constantly. I know that he would be happy to here from me. If anyone knows how to reach him, your help would be appreciated. Feel free to email me. Thank you.

[mlleophelia]

I'm glad someone posted a topic like this (and I am sure to check out some of the books I've seen mentioned) but I was disappointed to find that no one had mentioned the author Philip K. Dick. He was best known for writing "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" which the movie Bladerunner was based on. However, I would recommend some of his other books, such as "Ubik" and "A Scanner Darkly." If you do decide to check him out though, be warned-some of his writing can get pretty gritty. He can turn reality upside down and inside out and leave you asking how. =)

[AuntiePam]

It's hard to think of something that everyone here doesn't already know about. This is a great thread.

How about Leigh Brackett? She wrote the screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back, and she also wrote some other good SF (and noir) back in the 50's and 60's.

If you can find it, I'd recommend "The Long Tomorrow", a post-apocalypse story about a US where technology has been outlawed.

[aldiboronti]

Hobbit, thanks for the great link!

Some other recommendations:

Lloyd Biggle Jr
AA Attanasio
Robert Sheckley
Fritz Lieber

Lieber wrote some great fantasy (Ill Met In Lankhmar, etc) .
Sheckley is just the funniest guy ever to write SF.
Attanasio writes huge epics spanning the whole universe and stretching over aeons of time. (Bit of a curate`s egg sometimes but well worth reading.)
Biggle was a Professor of Musicology and wrote some marvellous books covering alien music(The Still Small Voice of Trumpets) as well as other brilliant SF.

[Cadfael]

Did Attansio also write a series about a guy called (this is from memory, so anything can happen http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif) 'Damiano'... Damiano's Lute or summat like that...??