I've been reading science fiction since I was in 4th grade or so. I've read an awful lot, and thought I'd pass on a list of recommended works. If you see a book or two you've liked, then maybe you'd enjoy some of the others. And if you know of a book you think I should check out, be sure to send me a note.
This is a very quick and dirty list, of things I've read recently; I promise to work on it more in the future. The orientation is mostly cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk...
| Iain Banks | The Player of Games Consider Phlebas Against A Dark Background Use of Weapons Feersum Endjinn |
If the Federation of Star Trek is an optimistic future with a society based on science and exploration, then the Culture in Iain Bank's novels is an optimistic future with a society based on hedonism... |
| David Brin | Sundiver Startide Rising The Uplift War The Practice Effect |
Has the most Hugos and Nebulas of anyone on this page. There is a reason he's so decorated... |
| John Brunner | The Shockwave Rider Stand on Zanzibar |
The Shockwave Rider is remarkably prescient, given it was written nearly 20 years ago. I always finish it late at night, because I can't stop reading it... |
| William Gibson | Neuromancer Burning Chrome |
The sequels to Neuromancer are not nearly as good as the original, and so not listed here. Gibson's short fiction, though, is. |
| Daniel Keyes Moran | The Armageddon Blues Emerald Eyes The Long Run The Last Dancer |
My current favorite author. The last three novels are connected, and have more coming -- supposedly. |
| Melissa Scott | Burning Bright Trouble and Her Friends |
Interesting looks at FRP and hacker cultures, extrapolated. |
| Neal Stephenson | Snowcrash | The most fun I've had (reading) in the past 5 years. |
| Verner Vinge | A Fire Upon the Deep | Galactic newsgroups. Hmmm, I wonder if NNTP would really handle that... |
| Walter Jon Williams | Aristoi Metropolitan |
Really, really, really interesting ideas in these novels. |
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