Science Fiction Authors/Novels

What are some of your favorite Sci-Fi Novels and or Authors?

Any Sci Fi you read every now and then?

Lets discuss

I'm more fantasy (Robert Jordan, George R.R. Martin, Brandon Sanderson, Terry Goodkind, etc.).

That is all. :-D

When I was younger I read a lot of Sci-Fi. Frank Herbert was one of my favorites with the Dune series. I also liked Arthur C. Clarke, Robin Cook and Michael Chrichton.

Arthur C Clarke is one of my favorites, I also like Issac Assimov too 2001 A Space Odyssey is a few times a year in my rotation for audio book or the printed book.

I read much more scifi when I was younger (like DIG).  But I do love quite a bit of the genre.

Favorite authors would have to include.  Robert Heinlein & Phillip K Dick.
I've read some great books by Clarke and Asimov, but some of their work is just too intellectual for me to get into.  Also like quite a bit from Frank & Brian Herbert and Orson Scott Card.

Two of my favorite scifi novels where written by authors who didn't produce a lot of scifi writing. George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World".  I think it could also be argued that Stephen King's "Gunslinger/Dark Tower" series might fit within the genre...and they are also some of my favorite books.

There was a short story I had read in OMNI (Remember that magazine) that has stayed with me through all the years. For a long time I searched for it online, but could never find it. Problem was, I couldn't remember the name or the author, just what it was about. Finally I found that it was written by Orson Scott Card, and it was titled "Unaccompanied Sonata". I found a PDF of it here:
https://www.sindark.com/LaTeX/unaccompanied-sonata.pdf

A friend of mine used to swear by a Roger/Robert (cant't remember) Zelazny (sp?)... anyone read his sci-fi stuff?

deathisgain wrote:There was a short story I had read in OMNI (Remember that magazine) that has stayed with me through all the years. For a long time I searched for it online, but could never find it. Problem was, I couldn't remember the name or the author, just what it was about. Finally I found that it was written by Orson Scott Card, and it was titled "Unaccompanied Sonata". I found a PDF of it here:
https://www.sindark.com/LaTeX/unaccompanied-sonata.pdf

I remember Omni, funny enough I was thinking about a game review i read in Omni eons ago it was a C64 game of 2010 The Year We Make Contact...

Id like to read The Posotronic Man by Assimov which the movie Bicentennial Man is based on. (my fav Robin Williams movie)

I'm a big fan of the genre although I'm ore into sixties and seventies books. I prefer archaeological sScience Fiction. Larry Niven always has been my favourite author but I also liks Benford, McDewitt and the self-publishing hero Hugh Howey (Wool and the quite different Sand series). Brinis also very good. The Corey's Expanse series is also cool and rather new. Bear's Eon was outstanding. I like novels that deal with long gone civilisations a lot. A tipp or rather a must read would be
Non-Stop
by Brian W. Aldiss

Clark and the usual suspects are of course part of my Science Fiction diet, not to forget Dick and Gibson.

It anybody has a tipp for me, I'm looking for space travel novels that cover huge periods of time and are very descriptive about what's going on in the ships machinery.

I also enjoy reading older science fiction with the likes of Verne and Wells. I like looking at how they viewed the future would be. In that vein, I enjoyed C.S. Lewis' "Space Trilogy"

The oldest Sci-Fi I read was The Time Machine by Wells heh

Sadvader- sounds like you are a fan of what wikipedia calls  "Hard Science Fiction" which by definition according to Wikipedia is stories that are based in science and technology. 

I like space travel and I find the older stories to be the ones that feel more science fiction to me, I think the most recent Sci Fi Movie that felt like true sci-fi to me was the movie Moon which was directed by David Bowie's oldest son Duncan. Ive thought about starting to pick up that magazine Amazing Stories or something like that that's strictly sci-fi

I'm a fan of John Scalzi - really love the Old Man's War series. I also read a lot of Star Trek books which may or may not count as real sci-fi. I really enjoy C.S. Lewis' turns at sci-fi in the space trilogy. I really liked Ready Player One from Earnest Cline as well. I should also mention Phil Farrand's Windfall series - loving that too.

I love classic sci fi books!

But one modern author I really enjoy is Marko Kloos

he is the author of the Frontline Series of war/space exploration books

https://www.goodreads.com/series/125903-frontlines

Yeah, I like technical Science Fiction a lot but I also enjoy technical nonsense Science Fiction, too. A neat mixture of both is First And Last Man by Stapledon from 1930. It is simply breathtaking!