i need a new sci fi author to read

[Cliff]

Hello, i'm new to the site and this group. i need suggestions for a new sci fi author to read. this century. i dont really like space operas or romances or political intrigue using space as the background. i want to see people exploring the unkown, getting lost in space or marooned on an unknown planet. i need an arthur c clarke of the 21st century. are they out there?

[Thomas]

I don't see any Larry Niven in your book list. Read Ringworld by him, it is definitely a quintessential "people exploring the unknown" book.

John Varley is another favorite of mine I didn't see on your list, he is a bit off from mainstream sci-fi. I recommend picking up his anthology, A Persistance of Vision. If the stories in there intrigue you then most every novel of his surely will as well.

Charles Sheffield has many wonderful offerings from his Heritage Universe in particular.

[Jaime]

Try PUSHING ICE by Alastair Reynolds. A spacecraft crewed by comet-mining roughnecks is diverted to investigate a mysterious artifact.

[Stephen]

Marrow - Robert Reed.

[Cliff]

cool thanks, it's like being told where to dig for gold. now i've gotta see if my litle library has any of these

[Chad]

Jeffrey Carver's Chaos Chronicles book sound like they would fit. I liked them.

http://www.starrigger.net/chaos.htm

Neptune Crossing

Also a lot of Jack McDevitt books would fit.

My favorite would be the Diving universe books
Diving into the Wreck

[K. G.]

If you haven't read them, try Octavia Butler and John M Ford. They're both dead now, but there's plenty of stuff out there. Iain M Banks (he's dying) and his Culture novels or his stand along THE ALGEBRAIST. (The aliens are so weird.) I really liked John Varney's STEEL BEACH. One book I've got to read soon is John Brunner's STAND ON ZANIZBAR. I read his SHOCKWAVE RIDER, early cyber punk.

[Chad]

Oh and David Brin Uplift books might work
Kim Stanley Robinson Mars books would be good

[Chris]

Cliff wrote: "Hello, i'm new to the site and this group. i need suggestions for a new sci fi author to read. this century. i dont really like space operas or romances or political intrigue using space as the b..."

Nastragull by Erik Martin Willen,

He is a Goodreads Author and this debut book has reached Amazon No 1 spot this week :)

[John]

Cliff wrote: "Hello, i'm new to the site and this group. i need suggestions for a new sci fi author to read. this century. i dont really like space operas or romances or political intrigue using space as the b..."

Well, if you don't like space opera, political intrigue, etc. then that eliminates my books, so I won't try to slip in any self-promo... :-)

David Weber has an interesting new series (the second book written with Jane Lindskold). It's billed as a "teen" series; but I'm WAY past teenage, and I liked it. The first book is called A Beautiful Friendship and the second is Fire Season. Both are stand-alone books, so you don't have to commit to a long series to find out what happened.

Without any spoilers, the series is about a young girl, living with her parents on a colony planet far from Earth, who becomes the first human to contact a previously undiscovered intelligent species (the Sphinx treecats -- well known to fans of David Weber's Honor Harrington series).

[Cliff]

Stephen wrote: "Marrow - Robert Reed."

Thanks Stephen, i enjoyed Marrow, very sci-fi as i see it. now that is an original story. i didn't really believe the immortal ability of the people though, it just didn't fit. living forever in the context of this world just seemed, wrong somehow, un-do-able. maybe a couple hundred years. it was easy to get past it to read the story though. very good read and just what i was looking for. thanks

[Eusebio]

No doubt, read Perdido Street Station-China Miéville.

[Adam]

C. M. Kornbluth. Start with The Marching Morons.

Cordwainer Smith. Norstrillia.

[Christian]

City and the stars by Arthur c. Clarke!