What are your fave SciFi/Fantasy Books?

[Blackmarch]

Starting the list...

The Conquerers Pride trilogy by timothy Zahn (Same guy who did heir to the empire and dark force rising)

 

[merryheart]

Easier to identify authors since if I like one, I usually like the rest...

Cj Cherryh
David Weber
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Catherine Asaro
Lois McMaster Bujold
Sarah Zettel
Elizabeth Moon
James Alan Gardner
SL Viehl
Julie Czerneda
Kay Kenyon
Joan D. Vinge
James H. Schmitz
Lisanne Norman
Peter Hamilton

For starters

 

[stonetoflesh]

My favorites? Wow, that's tough...

In no particular order:
Gene Wolfe-- Book of the New Sun, Book of the Long Sun cycles
Frank Herbert-- Dune series
Edgar Rice Burroughs-- A Princess of Mars
Michael Moorcock-- Hawkmoon and Elric cycles
J.R.R. Tolkien-- The Silmarillion
Jack Vance-- The Compleat Dying Earth
Roger Zelazny-- the first Amber quintet
H.P. Lovecraft-- any Dreamlands stories
Clark Ashton Smith-- any Xiccarph/Hyperborea/Zothique stories
various authors-- Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon
Robert E. Howard-- Conan, Solomon Kane stories
C.S. Friedman-- Coldfire trilogy
Dan Simmons-- Hyperion Cantos

Recent darlings have been China Mieville's New Crobuzon novels and Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen...

 

[SparkyMaddie]

loved I Robot and just began reading ray bradburys farenheit 451

 

[Blackmarch]

loved I Robot and just began reading ray bradburys farenheit 451

Very good books.

Some others are Dune by Frank Herbert
the Uplift series by David Brin
and the Foreigner Series by CJ Cherryh

 

[nickybr38]

Simply. Cat Spaw. Joan D. Vinge. Best series of science fiction I've EVER read

 

[1freespirit]

LOTR by Tolkien
Civil Campaign by Bujold (actually all the Vorkosigan books)
Narnia books by Lewis
The Princess Bride (i forgot who by)
The Hitchhiker's Guide books by Adams
the John Carter books by Burroughs (though would that be adventure even if on Mars?)
almost anything by Ray Bradbury

funny. other than the Princess Bride, i like series of books...

 

[merryheart]

The Princess Bride (i forgot who by)

S. Morgenstern (in Florinese...) Translated and abridged by William Goldman who also wrote the screenplay for the movie

 

[Saruman]

LOTR, Chronicles of Narnia, The Wheel of Time

 

[WhirlwindMonk]

Although they conflict with my faith, I really liked the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman. I also really like the Redwall series by Brian Jacques and the Shannara series by Terry Brooks.

 

[Lycana]

I love the Shannara series, and of course Tolkien, and I used to love reading those "John Carter of Mars" books in college. I love some of CJ Cherryh's work - she has some really great books! I also love the Left Behind series, just finished the last book. There's a ton of others I can't think of right now......

 

[Rod B]

My favorite fantasy authors:
George R.R. Martin (a song of ice and fire -trilogy?)
Terry Goodkind (sword of truth series)

 

[Psalms34]

Ohhh just to name a few
Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles - The illustrated Man - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Tolkien - The Silmarillion - The Hobbit - The Two Towers

 

[Westvleteren]

Here's another vote for George R.R. Martin.

I also like Neil Gaiman, Jacqueline Carey and Juliet Marillier.

 

[Lessien]

Tolkien fanatic here.
Christopher Paolini, too.

 

[Woody]

Tolkien ROCKS!!

but for sci-fi, Anne Macaffery is really good!

 

[Blackmarch]

If you want good clean action, that is both scifi and fantasy at the same time is
Burrough's Warlord of Mars series.

 

[gypsy-rose]

My favorite fantasy authors:
Terry Goodkind (sword of truth series)

i love this series i also love the sympothy of the ages sereis by elizabeth haydon

 

[thelightinthedarkness]

hmm,

Marrion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon
anything from J.R.R. Tolkien
Anne Rice The Vampire Chronicles
R.A. Salvatore's the Drizzt Do'Urden books
and
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow

 

[Nienor]

Pretty much anything by
JRR Tolkien
Frank Herbert
George RR Martin
Robert A Heinlein
CS Friedman
Terry Pratchett
Mercedes Lackey
Alastair Reynolds
Ray Bradbury
Madeleine L'Engle
Douglas Adams
Daviv Duncan
Bram Stoker
Orson Scott Card
Melanie Rawn

i think that thats about it