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guessingo

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Your Favorite SF/Fantasy Books
« on: May 07, 2010, 08:22:50 PM »
5 favorite Fantasy books and 5 favorite SF books and top 5 books of any type that you like

Lets make it interesting. No Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, or Tolkein on the fantasy side. Since that will clog the list. I am not sure I have a top 5 favorite fantasy books without Jordan so I need to think about it.

Top 5 Sci-Fi books and not in Order
1. The Light of Other Days by Stephen Baxter
2. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
3. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
4. The Time Travellers Wife 
5. Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove

The above list might change if I think about it. Top list of general books that I liked
1. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (it is sci-fi, but he did not write it as sci-fi)
3. Masters of Rome Series by Colleen McCullough


I have to think about others.

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Re: Your Favorite SF/Fantasy Books
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2010, 02:34:58 AM »

Fantasy:
Icewind Dale by R.A. Dalvatore
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
The Dresden Files (if I have to pick one of those I'd say Dead Beat) by Jim Butcher
American Gods by Neil Gaimen
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Science Fiction:
Mars by Ben Bova
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

General Fiction:
Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
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Re: Your Favorite SF/Fantasy Books
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2010, 06:27:49 PM »
Science Fiction:
Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams
Virga Trilogy (Sun of Suns, Queen of Candesce, Pirate Sun) by Karl Schroeder
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
Double Star by Robert Heinlein

Fantasy:
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Malazan Series by Steven Erikson
Mairelon the Magician by Patricia C. Wrede
Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells
Sun Sword Series by Michelle West
With runners-up: Steven Brust, Jasper Fforde, Patricia McKillip, Robin McKinley, Terry Pratchett, and Roger Zelazny

It's funny, I had trouble thinking of enough science fiction books, but I had trouble paring the fantasy list down to just five, and I still cheated on that one.
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