School holidays, I'm bored pt II "What is your favourite scifi/fantasy book series?

[Kemet]

My Pics:

Fantasy:
David Eddings (good old fashioned good vs evil, "the end is nigh" and laughs)
Jennifer Fallon's "Harshini" sequence



SF:
David Weber's "Honor Harrington" series
Orson Scott Card's "Ender Wiggin" series

Combo of SF/Fantasy
C J Cherryh's "Attevi Sequence"
Marion Zimmer Bradleys's "Darkover" series

[xwhatsit]

Selected Ender books by OSC (Ender's Game, Ender 1.5(?), and Ender's Shadow).

Yep! The original Ender's Game short story is kicking around on the net somewhere, released for free. It's not exactly Asimov, but I like it.

I have a strong soft spot for Arthur C. Clarke, despite his occasional failings. Read 2001: A Space Odyssey before I knew the Kubrick film existed (although I knew the Strauss melody of course ); the film has got nothing on it. It's a sort of a series when you count the other books. His Rama series I really enjoyed too, but it's a long time since I read it.

His short story collections are well worth getting stuck into.

[Kemet]

Yep! The original Ender's Game short story is kicking around on the net somewhere, released for free. It's not exactly Asimov, but I like it.

I have a strong soft spot for Arthur C. Clarke, despite his occasional failings. Read 2001: A Space Odyssey before I knew the Kubrick film existed (although I knew the Strauss melody of course ); the film has got nothing on it. It's a sort of a series when you count the other books. His Rama series I really enjoyed too, but it's a long time since I read it.

His short story collections are well worth getting stuck into.

Have you read "Light of Other Days" by Clarke

Me also like Julian May esp the Remillard series

[325rocket]

robert jordan - wheel of time... well up to book 11 of 12 anyway as he has now passed away and left it all a bit open.

also anything from tad williams

[warewolf]

Arthur C. Clarke,
...
His short story collections are well worth getting stuck into.

"The Collected Stories" is great... big enough to be a series! Chalker's Well World saga parts 2 & 3 were considered to be too long so were split into 2 volumes each. All five combined are probably no bigger than this collection of Clarke's.

[Nasty]

kelly armstrong other wordly woman series ... extremly good.

[SixPackBack]

"The mote in God's eye".........
If you wanna laugh your tits off a semi sci-fi is the original "Red Dwarf" book.

[Bikernereid]

I love anything by Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land is the best.

As for series you can't beat Brian Lumley's Necroscope Saga books.

Tried a search for this too and couldn't find one so sorry if it's been done before.
Mine in order: 1. Thomas Covenant trilogies (3 sets of trilogies so far) by Stephen Donaldson
2. The Shannara series by Terry Brooks
3. The squillions of Dune books by the Herberts.

[buellbabe]

Mine in order: 1. Thomas Covenant trilogies (3 sets of trilogies so far) by Stephen Donaldson

1: Anything by Stephen Donaldson. Love the Covenant Chronicles...
Plus I also have the 'Gap' series which is more sci-fi than fantasy and Mordants Need (2 books) is also great.

2: Saga of the Exiles by Julian May
and also 'Intervention' and the 'Galactic Milieu'

3: 'Crystal Singer' series by Anne McCaffrey

When I was a kid I read alot of Ray Bradbury but these days I seem to prefer fantasy to sci-fi.

[Dave-]

the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

nuff said.

[Bren]

I started off with David Eddings back when was it....mid 80s...still love his stuff..Raymond Feist is great too...as mentioned Orson Scott Card great stuff...Marrion Zimmer Bradley is good too
Classics are always good.......
.......HG Wells fanfrikkin Tastic
.......John Wyndham The Triffards still gets me
.......John Christopher Tripods series (city of gold & Lead etc)

[PrincessBandit]

1: Anything by Stephen Donaldson. Love the Covenant Chronicles...
Plus I also have the 'Gap' series which is more sci-fi than fantasy and Mordants Need (2 books) is also great.

I really enjoyed the 2 Mordants Need books too. He has a collection of short stories too called "Daughter of Regals plus other short stories" or something like that.


p.s. someone asked me about the Thomas Covenant books in my rep. Please pm me if you want to know more about them.

[Drunken Monkey]

+1 for Night Dawn's Trilogy, but Hamilton's other space operas don't rate so well with me.

++1 for the Stainless Steel Rat stories

-1 On Thomas Covenant. Read a couple around the same time as a couple of Hugh Cook novels, definately rate Hugh Cook - he definately writes with a different focus.

All time though, I really dig the father of 'Cyberpunk' William Gibson, especially the Sprawl Trilogy and the Blade Trilogy.

[buellbabe]

I really enjoyed the 2 Mordants Need books too. He has a collection of short stories too called "Daughter of Regals plus other short stories" or something like that.

Yep got Daughter of Regals as well. In fact I have always thought what a shame it is that he hadn't made a series out of that one particular short story.

[Mint Sauce]

For SF, Fantasy and Comedy all rolled up into one, for me it has to be Douglas Adams. Just finishing off 'The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy'; all five novels in one volume.

Other than that, Asimov Foundation series and pretty well all the other Asimov stuff. He was my start to SF at the age of 14; many, many moons ago.