Looking for a good SciFi book to read on my iPad

[Seth247]

Ditto on anything from heinlein. Also check out Alan dean foster's pip and flinx series, starting with For Love Of Mother Not.

Not to mention there are a thousand star treck/wars offshoot books many worth reading. I like the Han solo trilogy (starting with paradise snare) when I was a kid.

Also good but more fantasy than scifi are Jim butchers Dresden files books, Simon Greene's Nightside books and The Man With The Golden Torc and it's sequels, E. E. Knight's vampire earth series, and Anne mcaffery's dragonriders of pern.

 

[marvinvwinkle]

I'm reading "The Unearthing" which is a free book from OBOOKO. There are several SCI FI free books there that you can download.

 

[Roadking Larry]

Ringworld series by Niven, or anything by Niven
Anything by Heinlein
Spider Robinson
Asimov

 

[poopgiggle]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Heinlein. It is a GREAT book. Technically, it is one of Heinlein's juvenile series. BALDERDASH! Great read.

Big ups to Heinlein. "Starship Troopers" is a good read. I also enjoyed "Job: A Comedy of Justice." "Stranger in a Strange Land" was probably his magnum opus but it slows down in places.

If you're willing to go science, rather than science fiction, "Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman" is probably one of the better books I've ever read. In the book, Feynman talks about the following:

- The work that won him the Nobel Prize in physics started with an idea he got while in a food fight in his college cafeteria.

- How he used to pick up girls in bars

-The semester he spent teaching in Brazil where he learned how to play drums from some of the locals, and ended up playing in a marching band in the big Carnival parade

- How he got bored at Los Alamos (working on the atomic bomb) and passed the time by pranking the other scientists.

 

[Garand]

Two of the best series of Military Sci-fi I've read in the past years are:


The Lost Fleet - Jack Campbell
http://www.amazon.com/Dauntless-Lost-Fleet-Book-1/dp/0441014186

Outstanding read!




Old Man's War - John Scalzi
http://www.amazon.com/Old-Mans-War-...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286414610&sr=1-1

This Book I keep waiting to see made into a big budget Hollywood flick.



Check them out, you wont be disappointed!

 

[onearmedman]

C J Cherryh, esp the "Faded Sun" trilogy...[Broken External Image]

Or the "Morgaine" series...

Patricia A. McKillip" The "Riddlemaster" trilogy
[Broken External Image]

 

[orangevale]

Ringworld series by Niven, or anything by Niven
Anything by Heinlein
Spider Robinson
Asimov

I’m a big Robert Heinlein fan, see my signature. Try “Stranger in a Strange Land” and “Glory Road”.

Isaac Asimov is good stuff; try the “Foundation” series.

Arthur C. Clark is the third leg of the “Big Three” of classic SF.

And I’ll throw in Frank Herbert for the “Dune” series.

 

[poopgiggle]

Oh, there's a book called "A Canticle for Leibowitz" that I read a few years ago and it blew my mind. Great sci-fi.

 

[pinkhamr]

+1 on the later books by Heinlein ,,,,, To Sail Beyond The Sunset, Number Of The Beast, etc.

 

[ewheeley]

Hopefully you've already read it, but why not "World War Z" by Max Brooks?