Favorite author and work (Science Fiction reading list)

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (also all of the robot novels).
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer.
"A !Tangled Web" (short story in Analog Sep 14, 1981) by Joe Haldeman.

Dale

  2007: Many Happy Returns (winner)
  2006: Jeremy Comes Home (winner)

Richard K. Morgan: Altered Carbon
or
Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." ~E.L. Doctorow

Favourite Sci-Fi author would have to be Elizabeth Moon.

She has two sci-fi series;
The Serrano Legacy (7 books)
Vatta's War (4 books so far)

She has also collaborated on a series with Anne McCaffrey;
The Planet Pirates

There are some stand alone books too ;
Speed of Dark
Remnant Population

and some fantasy boos as well

There is another sci-fi author I really like, Simon Haynes (NANOWRIMO member) He writes humorous Hal Spacejock sci-fi series.

Regards

Jeff

Sandkings no question about it. Then it would have to be I am legend. not the movie but the book

I Regret I Have One Life To Live For My Cause, My House, My Empire

Lok before he was hanged by Captain Hour

Classic SF: Ray Bradbury's books

- The Illustrated Man
- The Martian Chronicles
- R is for Rocket
- S is for Space

Non-SF by Ray Bradbury is also good. He wrote Dandelion Wine

I also like the Dragon Riders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey

I'm missing two "Foundation by Isaac Asimov" books, the last two ones exactly, but I can safely say they're my favorites.

Larry Niven

the first book of his that I read was Integral trees, and I was so impressed with the mind of an author who could write about a "world" so very differant from anything we know. Then I followed by reading ringworld and went from there. At first It took me a bit to realise that many of his stories take place in the same universe (differant times and places but the same universe) Then Gil the arm series of sci-fi detective stories, they were good.

But I have to say the best of his books would have to be N-space and playgrounds of the mind. They have excerpts from novels and hard to find short stories. Failed ideas and personal anecdotes. You get to know the author, you get a taste test of the works to hunt down if you like them and you get several good short stories too. All in bite sized morsels that make for good bus ride/waiting room/ meal time reading.

Anne McCaffrey has her pern books (I personally like the Master Harper of pern and the Harper hall trilogy. But she also has a series that I rarely hear much about called the Hive and tower series. It starts with the book Rowan, it's about people with abilities of the mind and how they are a resource and have formed a guild that allows for a confederation to span many stars, and then something happens...

Children of the Atom is a 1953 science fiction novel by Wilmar H. Shiras. It is something that I read the first story "in hiding" around the time of highschool, and then spent near a decade searching for since. I finally got some Nano help from the people on this very board and puchased a copy of it off of e-bay. It would be gold plated it that wouldn't make it harder to reread. It's starts out about a boy who has to pretend to be a normal boy when he is infact extrodinary. It touched on so many ideas that I had been thinking about at the time I read it. It was like getting permission to be creative and think deep. But the story itself was wonderful. The ones that follow in the collection are usually just as good.