Forum: Scifi / Fantasy Books

I'm currently reading Arthur C Clarke and Gentry Lee's four book series about Rama, a huge artificial construct with the purpose of collecting and observing all alien species in our galaxy. A few cosmonauts from Earth involuntary stay behind after a disastrous mission, and have to start a new life...

Im currently reading From Other Shores, written by Chad Oliver. Its a collection of three novellas, with First Contact as a theme.

Humanity has died, disappeared and simply left the solar system in the hands of it´s robots. They soon build a economy based on their needs, and even class system evolves. Into allthis comes our heroinne; Freya Nakamichi-47...a fully equipped femmebot. So what happens when a fembot turns...

I recently came across this little 925 page jewel: http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j181/t5universe/bcover3.jpg And its dripping testosterone, blood and entrails...not to mention wine women and song!!! The first chapter gives us the entire world history of the Conan Universe, which in...

Many authors have been cheered as heirs to Heinlein, or had their books praise as being "in the Heinlein tradition". Almost never have I agreed with anyone saying so, as Heinlein had a VERY special style. No one wrote dialogue as vivid as he did. His humor was full of irony, and used on all...

This forum isn't my area of expertise, but none the less I have found a book I am interested in. The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil. The book is about the Future of Machines and Humans when we mix Biology and Machines with ourselves. " A radical and optimistic view of the future course of...

I'm currently reading Fantastic Voyage, the Isaac Asimov version. A science fiction set in a future where the Cold War is still in full bloom, and Americans have just managed to smuggle out a scientist from Russia. The scientist boasts that he can end the war, and finally bring peace on our...

Written by Bruce Sterling. This a great unusual book in this genre, as it focuses more on characterisation than most. The central idea is that medical science is advancing at a pace that is extending average useful lifespan by more than one year every year. The world has become a gerontocracy run...

Imagine being aboard a spaceship with it's brakes broken... To survive, the ship must accelerate even more to be able to slingshot around the galaxy in order to reach the almost total vacuum in intergalactic space, so they can repair the engines...but... They soon discover that even between...

A doorway into all space and time any/every where in space and time is found, this is the tale of the four people who dared to enter it.

This collection of stories star Poul Anderson's "space jockey" hero, Dominic Flandry. Imagine a cross between Star Trek and James Bond, and you will know how the books is. Simple yet entertaining stories of political intrigue across a interstellar empire in its final days. I give it :t5: :t5:

Is there anyone here that actually reads books? And if so...what are you reading now?

Written by Joe Eszterhas, a biography both critical and witty. Joe became the most infamous script writer in Hollywood, he made Sharon Stone famous in his Basic Instinct, and he got he managed to get her in bed... This is the script writer who did unheard of things...like telling the producers...

Im currently reading a very different scifi book, written by Iain m Banks: The Player Of Games. It?s set in the Culture universe, and tells the tale of a man who lives for new challenges in the gaming culture. Nothing is more important to him than a new tough challenge in a game...but after a few...

This is a great crime novel. What makes it greater than most others is the prose. The author (John Connolly) is a true verbal artist, and he manages to make the reader WANT to read every sentence so you don't miss the great colorful choice of composed words that make up for delightful sneers and...

Written by Greg Bear. In an abandoned mining colony at the Lunar Ice Pit Station, two experiments may change science forever. One is achieving Absolute Zero--a temperature so cold it can bend the laws of physics. The other involves 410 human heads, severed and frozen for decades, whose memories...

A great short story collection written by Iain M. Banks. Most of which are set in the Culture Universe.

Im currently reading the trilogy that starts with: Sorcerers of Majipoor, and continues with Lord Prestimion and The King Of Dreams. The Majipoor world is a scifi/fantasy world, eight times larger than Earth, containing wonders and horrors of every imaginable kind. The books are a mix of high...

I'm currently reading a Heinlein book. Called, Beyond This Horizon, a tale of a man who lives in the perfect world...in a perfect body...and he is bored out of his mind...

Earth, written by David Brin. A black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core. A team of scientists frantically searches for a way to prevent the mishap from causing harm, only to discover another black hole already feeding relentlessly at the core. This book is packed with...

Im curently reading the 28 books long manga series called Lone Wolf & Cub. The story tells us of a former official executioner, a man who had the Shogunate?s right to execute the nobles if they ever comitted crimes against the state. The executioner was a true samurai with a certain wealth...

Im currently reading Philip Jose farmer's: Dayworld. A future where the overpopulation problem has been solved by dividing humanity in different "day groups". For example; You live only on mondays, and when tuesday is near you simply enter a stasis tube to become "stoned" (no not in a narcotic...

Are the Faeros secretly influencing the Ildirans? Are the Wentals really allies or are they biding their time? Are the Shana Rei only legends, or do they exist somewhere in a dark corner of space? These are questions I hope they raise in this book.

Currently reading The Sapphire Rose by David Eddings part of the Elenium saga.

Im just finishing a thin book by Poul Anderson; We Claim These Stars. The first in the Flandry series.

The latest book by Terry Brooks - mankind has driven itself (with the help of some demons) to the brink. The beginning of the new trilogy that will link together Shanara with Word v. Void series. Very good read.

Phase Space, by Stephen Baxter. This is a collection of 25 short stories, some are set in his Manifold universe. Like his wonderfull story Sheena 5, a genetically enhanced squid who is the world's first animal astronaut, complete with duties and such...but she knows that she is about to die, so...

Written by Kevin J. Anderson. 'The stakes are raised as the Ildirans betray the humans, the Klikiss army prepare to annihilate everything that is a biological lifeform, and the Hydrogues continue their war with humanity and the other elemental races. This is "space-opera" on a nice fun large...

Now Im back into the scifi genre with a collaboraion book by Asimov and Silverberg; NIGHTFALL (not to be mistaken for Nightfall And Other Stories, as some sites have done.) Night comes to a world with six suns...it only happens every two thousand years , so the people are not psychologically...

Can give you a review of all Salvatores Drizzt books after I've red this one, who arrived by mail today :)

I just got the most resent book in the harry potter seires(book 6), and it is very well written. I've only read the first 18 pages, but its still good :) A beautifull peice of work. :t5: :t5: :t5: :t5: :t5:

I finally got the hardcover version of my first (ever) scifi book. A classic written by Arthur C Clarke, about the last city on earth, several million years in the future...and how one man persuades mankind to once again reach out to the stars and the future. A beautifull peice of work. :t5: ...

Are you currently reading any book? If not, do you have anything waiting on your book shelf?