Greatest Fantasy/Sci - Fi Series? (Books)

[Behazard]

The lies of Locke Lamora, aka the Gentlemen's Bastard series.

This, fantastic serie, there is a second book out ' Red Sea Under Red Skies'. I can't wait for the third one of this serie.

Also, I picked up a book of the Inheritence Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, quite a fun and interesting serie. Going to try and get them all =)

Feist is one of my favorite writers, great character writing.

And all of Terry Pratchett's books are great for a chuckle.

 

[Kahohess]

Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy is probably my favorite science fiction book series. It's responsible for establishing about half of the tropes used by space sci-fi today, and it still uses them better than a good portion of its derivatives. The overarching plot concerns a small colony specifically designed to ride out the political collapse of a galactic empire. Give it a look if you don't mind that the characters actually have responses to conflict other than "Kill them all and make sarcastic remarks".

His Robot series is also brilliant. It's unique in that his stories were the first to treat robots as actual machines instead of metaphors for man's hubris. He thought about the concept, gave his robots a system of checks and balances to work around the potential errors that might make a calculator omnicidal, and as a result produced an entertaining and well-thought-out book series. The first book is basically an anthology of short-stories with a loose overarching plot about the development of human civilization. The second book is a detective novel. I kid you not.

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My advice, starts with the robots, then Foundation, but read it.

You should try Philip K.Dick too, great novels, lots of short stories but he can blow your mind in less than a dozen of pages.

 

[Drake666]

The Dresden Files,
The Codex of Alera,
Discworld,
Dune (it sounds more Shakespearian... so it's not for everybody... still, it's the first book I've read, and I love it)
You could try the Ender's and "Shadow's" book from Orson Scott Card.