SciFi/Fantasy Book Tips

[milk]

I'm searching for some great scifi/fantasy works or authors.

What I already read:
Terry Brooks - Shanarra (including Word and Void/Genesis trilogies)
David Gemmell
Richard K. Morgan
John Scalzi
Glen Cook - The Tower of Fear, Passage at Arms

My favourites were:
Scalzi - Old Man's War
Richard K. Morgan - Market Forces
David Gemmell - Echoes of the Great Song
Terry Brooks - Running with the Demon

[m__]

clive barker writes some great fantasy. "The Great and Secrete Show" is very good.

The Illuminatus Trilogy is a must read for all if you have not read it.

[Monte]

yo real talk, Dune is god like, son.

[Ando]

Ender's Series: (sci fi space stuff)
Ender's Game (great book)
Speaker for the Dead (eh)
Xenocide (didn't finish, it gets boring)
Children of the Mind (never got to it)

Beans Series: (not gonna give clues, you're gonna love it anyways)
Ender's Shadow (Amazing)
Shadow of the Hegemon (Amazing)
Shadow Puppets (Amazing)
Shadow of the Giant (Amazing, great ending)

all by Orson Scott Card btw

im currently waiting for "1984" to be returned to my school library so i can read it.

[GoldPlatedDish]

Two words:
DOUGLAS ADAMS

[Mozallica]

I prefer the "Dragonlance" books.
It starts with "Dragons of autumn twilight" followed by lots of sequels.

[Boingloing]

DARN! Ando, you took my ender's game/shadow recommendation. Well, I second your recommendation, I guess.

umm.... can't really think of anyting else. I did like Life of Pi by Yann Martel(or something like that). That's not really sci fi or fantasy, though. It is fiction and its a good book.

[m__]

Has anyone read The Illuminatus Trilogy"?
this book is a huge influence on many many works, and pretty much any conspiracy theory.

I pulled this off of wikipedia:
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"The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1975.[1] The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex- and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, which hinge around the authors' version of the Illuminati. The narrative often switches between third and first person perspectives and jumps around in time. It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology and Discordianism."
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It's a fun and interesting read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy