Best Scifi/Fantasy book/book series

Why was that a bad resolution?

 

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Re: Re: His Dark Materials

He lived there until he was 4. Don't forget that South Africa isn't just roaming with elephants. He would have actually gone out to see them. Secondly Tolkien was born in a period where racism was strife. Black/coloured people were still though of as inferior and perhaps evil, especially in England, where colonies were disappearing ever so fast.

 

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Hyperion

I don't understand omission of Hyperion Cantos, which would have to be in top 5 on any list, in my opinion.

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Top 5 in any order:
Lord Of The Rings
Hyperion
Foundation
Ender's Game
Discworld

Dune at #6, the first couple of books were really good, but then it went down rapidly.

 

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I haven't even heard of Hyperion Cantos, Enders Game, Sword of Truth, Foundation.

Harry Potter series is #1 and I did like the Dark Tower/Stephen King series, but it went to hell in a hand basket towards the end. (Did it end?/ I quit reading them)

 

I vote for the Lord of the Rings series for sure. I'm kind of obsessed with them...

 

Out of the ones up there, Dune. However, I really liked Keith Taylor's historical fantasy series, Bard.

 

how is the sword of truth on the list but not the wheel of time and also why is cs lewis down so low he was just a good of auther as tolkien hell the two of them were friends and proof read each others work

 

that was the best damn book i ever read stranger in a strange land uncut version

 

Stanislaw Lem!

Pilot Pirx

 

although no american will have read it me included i have heard good things about the whicher series and i hope it comes out in english soon.

 

While i do vote for trek, thanks to Peter David and his Excalibur series.. I think you are missing out on the Halo trilogies books.. there are 6 novels to date.. that qualifies as a series doesn't it ?
yeah Enders Game series was awesome too.

 

The things in SW novels aren't canon, so you cant relate to the movies. :shrug:

 

Uh, where's the 'None of the Above' option???

 

wow...that list is so limited in choices...I mean...none of the above

 

dont read many books but i love movies bout alien abductions i myself never been abducted but i dont understand why other people dont believe em when they been hurt abused i think one would know there own body and the differences the next day and then they member stuff so i love watching things like that or even hearing bout it is wild to know they been carefuly selected and not others

 

Kir Bulychev is just as honorary as Asimov...Kir has much more sci-fi deep thinking novels. more imagination, more possibilites.

 

Of the above list...I will vote" 2001 Series-Arthur C. Clarke"

 

Perry Rhodan series should win the volume award.

 

Hyperion was really good, but it was a bit derivative for my taste. There was just too much that seemed like I'd heard it before.

I'd add the Schroedinger's Cat series by Robert Anton WIlson, and WTF is Edger Rice Burroughs not doing on that list?

 

I'm a big fan of the writers of the Campbell/Gernsback era, Leiber, Heinlein, Azimov, van Vogt, Anderson, et. al..

I still have all my old SF paperbacks including the ACE books that had two novels in them. You read the first one and flipped the book over to read the second one.


Among my favorite series are the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser books by Fritz Leiber, the Foundation series as well as the Robot series by Azimov, Heinlein's Lazarus Long books and the Ringworld series.