The Sci-fi thread

[Emma]

A good friend of mine has just bought his first Kindle. He is like a Dad with a new baby (so cute!!) he is in to Sci-fi so would love to give him some recommendations and would love to introduce him to some Indie Authors too.

Any suggestions would be great, thanks guys xx

[Weenie]

A couple I would recommend:
Altered Carbon
Pandora's Star

[Tim]

When it comes to Indie authors, Ghost Fleet was on our reading list last month.

Amazon have a series of 'Science Fiction Megapacks' http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Science-F... There's four of them, at 49p each (the link is just to the first). 25 stories per pack, by the masters - great value!

Authors to look for: The late, great Harry Harrison The late, great Ray Bradbury

Elizabeth Moon
Mike Shepherd
Thomas DePrima
Jack Campbell
Alistair Reynolds

and there is often a selection of free indie Sci-Fi in the daily kinlib listings.

[Simon (Highwayman)]

Wow!

Those megapacks are quite a find Tim!

Science Fiction Mega-pack One 49p

Science Fiction Mega-pack Two 49p

Science Fiction Mega-pack Three 49p

Science Fiction Mega-pack Four 49p

[Darren]

Arthur C Clarke's back catalogue was recently added. I would heartily recommnend Rendezvous With Rama

[Joo]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Z14-ebook/dp/...

[Weenie]

I recommend The Honour of the Knights - a great little space opera that I've just finished.

[Patti (baconater)]

Sorry Raymond. Recommendations are for reader to reader not author to reader.

Do post all your book links in your author thread though.

[Timothy]

Hi, Emma. If your friend isn't familiar with many sci-fi books and follows films, television shows, etc.. I would recommend starting him off with books based on content he's used to watching. Making the transition may be easier (enjoyable) if he starts with content and characters he knows well. Examples would be Star Trek, Star Wars, Alien and etc.. At least that's how I started. I was so inspired that I recently wrote my first science fiction novel.

[Patti (baconater)]

Anthem by Ayn Rand is 64p at the moment.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

[Jud]

I recommend Enders Game!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Enders-Game-E...

[Geoffrey]

If your friend loves very in depth science fiction, then the Mars trilogy are perfect. They're not your starships and lasers kind of books, more a incredibly detailed look at life on Mars and how it comes to be.

I loved this trilogy, so your friend might also.

[D.D. Chant]

He could try The Sooner, it's light sci fi/ adventure. Not sure if he's looking for something a bit more hardcore though...

[R.M.F.]

Anything by Alfred Bester.

[Marc]

Anything by Stanislaw Lem if he likes ideas-based SF

is his most famous, but many of his other titles are equally good

[Adam]

Probably not a new baby anymore, but there is an interesting list here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/8...

[Marc]

oh well if we're promoting our own ideas-based scifi, then Time After Time is a story in the form of both The Butterfly Effect and Schrodinger's Cat

http://amzn.to/QX40LS

[Patti (baconater)]

Tsk.

This is a no self promo zone guys.

[Marc]

Patti (It's a grape life) wrote: "Tsk.

This is a no self promo zone guys."

Sorry, I was weak for a moment there Patti, allowed myself to be influenced by others...

[Alexes]

I second Ender's Game, definitely, and also recommend The Dispossessed by Ursula Leguin. If he's into post-apocalyptic survival stuff, The Road by Cormac McCarthy is pretty amazing.

[Marc]

Alexes wrote: "I second Ender's Game, definitely, and also recommend The Dispossessed by Ursula Leguin. If he's into post-apocalyptic survival stuff, The Road by Cormac McCarthy is pretty amazing."

I have to say I was unmoved by The Road. It just seemed unremarkable, not quite 'post-apocalypse by numbers', but it didn't seem to take me as a reader anywhere I hadn't been before.

[Patti (baconater)]

Marc wrote: "Patti (It's a grape life) wrote: "Tsk.

This is a no self promo zone guys."

Sorry, I was weak for a moment there Patti, allowed myself to be influenced by others..."

No worries Marc. We love you and appreciate your apology. :)

[Patti (baconater)]

Alexes wrote: "I second Ender's Game, definitely, and also recommend The Dispossessed by Ursula Leguin. If he's into post-apocalyptic survival stuff, The Road by Cormac McCarthy is pretty amazing."

Alexes,I agree. I found The Road amazing as well. I tried love to Ender's Game. I think my lack of love was where I was at in my head, not the story.

Personally, I've never been able to completely immerse myself into any Ursula Lequin. I've tried. Lord knows I've tried. I personally find her attempts at dialogue stilted and unrealistic.