Any sugestions on some good science fiction books?

I haven't read any science fiction in a long time and would like some suggestions on some modern offerings. Any help would be appreciated! Asked by newbie585869 59 months ago Similar questions: sugestions science fiction books Arts > Books > Books - Science Fiction.

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Here's a few: Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson Set in a cyberpunk dystopic future America, where corporate interests have replaced nation states, and lone software engineer ro and his skate-courier friend Y.T. Are the only thing between us and the Infocalypse. The research that must have gone into this novel is staggering for a SciFi novel - it sweeps all the way back to Babylonian mythos and all the way forward to extremely interesting and plausible technological innovations, both well thought out and well utilized in the frenetic, freewheeling plot. This book is everything cyberpunk should be, and so rarely is.Brilliant.

The Forever Hero - L.E.Modesitt Jr. This is actually a three-part series, usually sold as a single large paperback novel. It's a sweeping epic about a Nietschean superman who grew up a postnuclear earth and sets out on a lifelong quest to restore the environment that was so inhospital in his childhood. Modesitt's heroes tend to be a little over-the-top, but this novel is still pulpy good fun.In some ways, The Forever Hero is kind of indebted to the Dune series by Frank L.

Herbert (which you should also check out, if you haven't) in it's assumption that hostile environments develop supersoldiers, and in it's clever discussion of international politics as leverage. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card The first in a trilogy, Ender's Game describes the early childhood of Ender, a military genius being trained in a school for child-generals in order to lead the forces of Earth in the defense against an intergalactic invasion. Despite that sort of lurid premise, Ender's Game is a surprisingly personal story, centering on how Ender's talents and teachers isolate him from his peers and ruthlessly shaping him into a raw strategic weapon.

It's an allegory for the difficulties of growing up smarter than the kids around you, and if you've ever felt like the nerd in the room, it will probably resonate with you. All three of those guys have other SciFi books if you enjoy these. Hope that helps!

Oddbob's Recommendations The Forever Hero: Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, In Endless Twilight (Forever Hero) Amazon List Price: $17.95 Used from: $3.30 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 12 reviews) Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) Amazon List Price: $6.99 Used from: $1.84 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 2353 reviews) Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) Amazon List Price: $15.00 Used from: $7.32 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 478 reviews) .

Science Fiction Author Neal Stephenson Neal Town Stephenson is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the Postcyberpunk genre with a penchant for explorations ofsocity, mathematics, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired Magazine, and works part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company developing a manned sub-orbital launch system. He has written several subsequent novels: The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (1995), which deals with a future with extensive nanotechnology and dynabooks.

Cryptonomicon (1999), a novel concerned with concepts ranging from computing and Alan Turing's research into codebreaking and cryptography during the Second World War at Bletchley Park, to a modern attempt to set up a data haven. It has subsequently been reissued in three separate volumes in some countries, including in French and Spanish translations. The Baroque Cycle is a series of historical novels that is in some respects a prequel to Cryptonomicon.

Consisting internally of eight books, it was originally published in three volumes (in a similar manner to The Lord of the Rings): Quicksilver (2003) (containing the books Quicksilver, King of the Vagabonds, and Odalisque); The Confusion (2004) (containing the books Bonanza and Juncto); The System of the World (2004) (containing the books Solomon's Gold, Currency, and System of the World). The Baroque Cycle has subsequently been republished as eight separate books (both in English and in Spanish translation). Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson LostInNW's Recommendations Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) Amazon List Price: $15.00 Used from: $7.32 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 478 reviews) The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol.2) Amazon List Price: $15.95 Used from: $0.75 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 67 reviews) Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol.1) Amazon List Price: $15.95 Used from: $1.99 Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 288 reviews) The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) Amazon List Price: $15.00 Used from: $5.001 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 306 reviews) the diamond age is my favorite .

Ilium and Olympos by Dan Simmons are the best I've read recently If you're at all interested in or familiar with Greek mythology and the Trojan war, you'll enjoy them even more. I also really enjoyed Mammoth by John Varley. Singularity Sky by Charles Stross was another good one, but not great.

The ideas were really good, the story was only so-so. It's a short and interesting read, though. And I also really liked Spin by Robert Charles Wilson.

Oh, and Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan is probably my second favorite of recent years after Ilium/Olympos. If you want to go a little older, perhaps the most interesting book I've read in the past couple of years was A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge.It's kind of long, but the ideas were extremely clever and interesting.

Good stuff. The above represent a pretty broad range of recent sci-fi. I hope some of them suit you.

Sources: My Opinion .

If you like Star Wars, and who doesn't, read Tales of the Bounty Hunters! This book builds on the Empire Strikes Back and goes in depth for each of the bounty hunters and their adventures. Since the movie focuses only on Boba Fett, this book fills in the gaps that the movie leaves out.

After all, every bounty hunter in the galaxy is looking for Han Solo and his crew, right? The only spoiler I'll give to get you interested in this book is that Boba Fett kills IG-88 because he has also tracked the Millenium Falcon to Bespin, but there is no way in the galaxy that Fett will let this prize slip into the hands of a rival bounty hunter! Vic_Romano's Recommendations Tales of the Bounty Hunters: Star Wars (Star Wars (Random House Paperback)) Amazon List Price: $6.99 Used from: $0.01 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 90 reviews) .

1 Brave New World (Paperback)by Aldous Huxley .

Brave New World (Paperback)by Aldous Huxley.

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.