The best? That’s really hard to define, there are so many different categories and different liking. I would have like “other” or “impossible to say” on that post.
Best Scifi/Fantasy book/book series
- Thread starter Pollux V
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LotR all the way!! though many of the book series are awesome. These are the book series I do really love to read:
5) Star Trek Novels
4) The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
3) Darkover series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2) Pern series by Anne McCaffrey
1) The Lord of the Ring Trilogy by Tolkien
5) Star Trek Novels
4) The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
3) Darkover series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2) Pern series by Anne McCaffrey
1) The Lord of the Ring Trilogy by Tolkien
Suggestion
I would have to say the "Future History" series by Robert HeinLein should be added to the list. It's a loose series starting with a collection of shorts gathered together in "The Past Through Tomorrow" and carrying on with "I Will Fear No Evil", "The Number of the Beast" and "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls". Many of the books seem unconnected but he ties them all together in his last book, "To Sail Beyond the Sunset".
Although many of the books are merely good, the series contains three of the best SF books ever written, "A Stranger In A Strange Land", The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" and "Time Enough For Love".
I would have to say the "Future History" series by Robert HeinLein should be added to the list. It's a loose series starting with a collection of shorts gathered together in "The Past Through Tomorrow" and carrying on with "I Will Fear No Evil", "The Number of the Beast" and "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls". Many of the books seem unconnected but he ties them all together in his last book, "To Sail Beyond the Sunset".
Although many of the books are merely good, the series contains three of the best SF books ever written, "A Stranger In A Strange Land", The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" and "Time Enough For Love".
I'll vote for Adams
I'll vote for Adams, but I also submit The Khaavren Romances by Steven Brust (sample pages available @ Amazon), as well as Brust's Taltos Cycle (sample pages available @ Amazon)
(Fan page, fan page, interview.)
Also of note, L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time trilogy.
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Tiassa
I'll vote for Adams, but I also submit The Khaavren Romances by Steven Brust (sample pages available @ Amazon), as well as Brust's Taltos Cycle (sample pages available @ Amazon)
(Fan page, fan page, interview.)
Also of note, L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time trilogy.
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Tiassa
Yes and yes
You have the word exactly. The second book, A Wind in the Door is amazing, and where Wrinkle seems to have political overtones (IT was an anticommunist metaphor, despite modern complainers who see it as pro-communist), Wind has a heavily spiritual overtone. The third book, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, is downright lofty. For plot, it exploits what were contemporary ideas concerning Europeans in America and drips with honey-thick fantastical romance.
It is said that the latter two books were written in response to public enthusiasm, that Wrinkle was originally a stand-alone story.
There is a fourth book, An Acceptable Time, which involves Meg Murray's daughter, and is set somewhat after the incidents of the trilogy.
Note: Apparently, Mirimax is producing A Wrinkle in Time as a TV miniseries for ABC.
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Tiassa
You have the word exactly. The second book, A Wind in the Door is amazing, and where Wrinkle seems to have political overtones (IT was an anticommunist metaphor, despite modern complainers who see it as pro-communist), Wind has a heavily spiritual overtone. The third book, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, is downright lofty. For plot, it exploits what were contemporary ideas concerning Europeans in America and drips with honey-thick fantastical romance.
It is said that the latter two books were written in response to public enthusiasm, that Wrinkle was originally a stand-alone story.
There is a fourth book, An Acceptable Time, which involves Meg Murray's daughter, and is set somewhat after the incidents of the trilogy.
Note: Apparently, Mirimax is producing A Wrinkle in Time as a TV miniseries for ABC.
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Tiassa
Hi Tiassa, I went to www.imdb.com and they have some interesting info there. (imdb stands for international movie database). I think I'll get the books at the library and read them again. Thanks for the feedback
To Ride Pegasus
Hi! Has anybody ever read 'To Ride Pegasus' by Anne McCaffrey? It's about people with ESP abilities. I read it back in the mid-70s. I remember enjoying it very much. Isn't she the same one that did those dragon books? (I bet you would really like this book, KS!)
Hi! Has anybody ever read 'To Ride Pegasus' by Anne McCaffrey? It's about people with ESP abilities. I read it back in the mid-70s. I remember enjoying it very much. Isn't she the same one that did those dragon books?
(I bet you would really like this book, KS!)She wrote several in the Pegasus series, dealing with ESP, haven't read any of them, the Pern books(the dragons, read, enjoyed), the ship books are good too. The deal in them is that they take people that would require intensive care to survive, but are neurally in good shape, and put them in "Shells." They are then plugged into city networks, space ships and stations. Very good.
R.A. Salvatore
The Forgotten Realms books including the Dark Elf Drizzt Do'urden are the best fantasay books i've ever read. It includes some of the most amazing action sequences coupled with some of the most engaging plots ever. The dark elf trilogy, the icewind dale triology and the Demon Wars saga (published by Del Rey) is a seven book story that could easily compete with the best of fantasy novels.....much much much much better than "The Lord of the Ring series"
The Forgotten Realms books including the Dark Elf Drizzt Do'urden are the best fantasay books i've ever read. It includes some of the most amazing action sequences coupled with some of the most engaging plots ever. The dark elf trilogy, the icewind dale triology and the Demon Wars saga (published by Del Rey) is a seven book story that could easily compete with the best of fantasy novels.....much much much much better than "The Lord of the Ring series"
Fraggle Rocker
Staff member
The Gentle Giants trilogy by James P. Hogan.
The Spellsinger series by Alan Dean Foster.
The new Founding of the Commonwealth series by Alan Dean Foster, but I'll settle for the Flinx and Pip series which is much longer and set in the same milieu. (Yes, I do love Foster and he writes so many books per year it's wonderful.)
The Ringworld books by Larry Niven, OK. But I preferred the loosely connected series of novels he wrote before that about how we got here, like "Protector." (Earth was originally seeded with spores to be fodder for somebody's livestock, and then they killed themselves off and the spores evolved into an entire ecosystem.)
The Ocean series by Joan Slonczewski.
The Fuzzy series by H. Beam Piper.
The Spellsinger series by Alan Dean Foster.
The new Founding of the Commonwealth series by Alan Dean Foster, but I'll settle for the Flinx and Pip series which is much longer and set in the same milieu. (Yes, I do love Foster and he writes so many books per year it's wonderful.)
The Ringworld books by Larry Niven, OK. But I preferred the loosely connected series of novels he wrote before that about how we got here, like "Protector." (Earth was originally seeded with spores to be fodder for somebody's livestock, and then they killed themselves off and the spores evolved into an entire ecosystem.)
The Ocean series by Joan Slonczewski.
The Fuzzy series by H. Beam Piper.
strategicman
Registered Senior Member
I love the Ender's Game books! I just think they're awesome. The way Orson Scott Card writes, I just love it all. As for what I would vote secondly, I'd say LOTR.
tablestone
Registered Member
What, I'm the only person to vote for Narnia? And what about Terry Brooks?
Shannara or the Magic Kingdom mean anything to anyone? Hey, what about Piers Anthony? Xanth? Hello?
Shannara or the Magic Kingdom mean anything to anyone? Hey, what about Piers Anthony? Xanth? Hello?
Geez Pollox, could you have put a less-well-defined question?
I mean, you missed out all the great classics -
KSR's Mars triliogy,
The whole "Known Space" series that Fraggle just mentioned,
The Moonbase/Moonwar books by Bova,
Heinlein's "Future History" series,
The whole "Xeelee" series,
Benford's "Galactic Centre" series,
Asimov's Robot... well, library really,
and that's just a few moment's listings, there are quite a few more - and that's just the hard sci-fi listings!
I mean, you missed out all the great classics -
KSR's Mars triliogy,
The whole "Known Space" series that Fraggle just mentioned,
The Moonbase/Moonwar books by Bova,
Heinlein's "Future History" series,
The whole "Xeelee" series,
Benford's "Galactic Centre" series,
Asimov's Robot... well, library really
,and that's just a few moment's listings, there are quite a few more - and that's just the hard sci-fi listings!
I couldn't choose, but hometown (or island in this case) props came in and I voted for Goodkind. (bet you didn't know that Pollux!)
You missed the Wilderness of Four and McKeirnan's Midgard Chronicles too!
You missed the Wilderness of Four and McKeirnan's Midgard Chronicles too!