So I'm about to sit down and finish of EVE: The Empyrean Age with some Skittles vodka and I was wondering if people had any suggestions for some more Sci-fi / fantasy books that could fill the void left by me having read every Discworld book on the way to work this year. I know its a little random to be asking for suggestions but amazon is doing a piss poor job of recommending and the people in Waterstones don't give a **** and just point me to the sci-fi / fantasy section. In the past year I have read: Lord of the Rings Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy Disc world from The Colour of Magic to Making Money including Wee Free Men books Harry Potter 1-7 because I read 1-6 a while ago and I like to know how things end Clock Work Orange So what do the people of bit-tech read and what can you recommend me? And also why no Books tag in the forms? Is reading really a dying (right die?) art?
'Last Chance to See...' by Douglas Adams. It's non-fiction but bloody brilliant. Read it now. (Dying, btw. Dyeing is when you're changing the colour of your clothes/hair.)
Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. Half hard sci-fi, half rather intense psychological fiction. Good stuff all around.
From the list you've given us, I think you'll like some of my fav's too The Magicians Guild series by Trudi Canavan, The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks and of course the masterpiece that is 'Magician' by Raymond E Feist.
/\ Kudos for the "Magician", it is really an amazing book. The other books in the trilogy I didn't really like, but the first one blew my mind
Perhaps the Truckers/Diggers/Wings series by Terry Pratchett? I suppose you've probably already read them, but worth suggesting anyway I think
Iain M. Banks is the bomb - he has a couple of styles, pretty much space opera sci fi, really really good reads. His Culture novels are godlike. I can recco: The Algebraist (one of the best books I've ever read) Excession Matter and I'm in the process of reading the rest! The Rama series is pretty damn good, by Arthur C. Clarke. I also enjoyed Stamping Butterflies by Jon Courtenay Grimwood. That's all I can think of right now edit: Risen Empire by Scott Westerfield. EPIC!
defo enders game if you haven't read it yet. xenocide (the follow up) is pretty good too, beyond that it got a bit convoluted to me
Yeah have read them along with, Nation, Dark Side of the Sun, Strata and Good Omens. And many thanks to everyone else, I didn't expect so many replies so quickly. I always new bit-tech housed some odd people, but it seems even odder now I've found out so many read in a world of TV and MP3s.
cos only odd people read lol. its just another form of entertainment. and bit-techers like being entertained!