Please recommend me a Science fiction books?

[HotPocket]

I posted this on the advice forum, but very few people saw it, so i'll post it here, i hope there's no problem with that.
Anyway guys, i don't usually read much SF, but once in a while i just get the urge to do so. So, could you recommend me some books? Im thinking something a bit like dead space-event horizon-alien kind of thing, with huge spaceships, not many characters,planets, etc. nothing "epic" i guess. more story driven than anything else, no weird powers,or jedis, or aliens (except maybe the ones that kill you). any ideas?

Dune, although that's not so much Sci-Fi (although it is set in the future), it's kind of a spiritual book too, like Star Wars... except without all the fight scenes.

I'm making it sound worse than it is, it's quite good, although it may not be quite what you're looking for.

EDIT: Also, Ender's Game?

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I tend to read more of the Fantasy (Elves, dragons, etc.) True Crime, and Historical Fiction genres, then anything else. So, I may not have the type of suggestions you were looking for.
But I was drawn to the Eisenhorn series: Xenos, Malleus ,Hereticus by Dan Abnett.
(You can buy all three books in one large volume.) On that note, I also recommend the Horus Heresy. Seems anything that has come out of the Warhammer 40,000 collection. lol

I suppose if you are looking for something a bit more familiar, they also have most Sci-Fi games, and movies adapted into book form. With far more detail, and back-story then what you were given; if you were really into the world to begin with. Such as Halo books (yeesh), Mass Effect, and my husband is a big fan of Eve. He enjoys reading their fan-fictions and in-depth back-stories.

Edit: Sorry, none of those are exactly Dead-Spacey. Unless you read the Event Horizon book.
That is probably a little closer to what you were asking for. But I've heard that it doesn't flow very well, and you are better off just watching the movie. Though, you may like it.

 

[Dango]

I'd read Metro 2033. Great book, great game.

 

[fenderstrat]

I tend to read more of the Fantasy (Elves, dragons, etc.) True Crime, and Historical Fiction genres, then anything else. So, I may not have the type of suggestions you were looking for.
But I was drawn to the Eisenhorn series: Xenos, Malleus ,Hereticus by Dan Abnett.
(You can buy all three books in one large volume.) On that note, I also recommend the Horus Heresy. I suppose anything that has come out of the Warhammer 40,000 collection. lol

I suppose if you are looking for something a bit more familiar, they also have most Sci-Fi games, and movies adapted into book form. With far more detail, and back-story then what you were given; if you were really into the world to begin with. Such as Halo books (yeesh), Mass Effect, and my husband is a big fan of Eve. He enjoys reading their fan-fictions and in-depth back-stories.

i only played halo 1, and i never played neither mass effect or eve.

I'd read Metro 2033. Great book, great game.

already read it and played it

 

[Trotgar]

I can't think of anything in the category you want, but I'd highly recommend the Culture series by Iain M. Banks. Start with The Player of Games. It's the second book, but I think it's better than the first.

EDIT: It would be worth mentioning that the books all take place in the same setting, but the stories are totally independent of each other, so it doesn't really matter what order you read the books in.

This.

Except if you have time, I'd probably suggest reading the first book (Consider Phlebas) first, and then the second.

I think the second one is better, too, but the first one is good also, and it gives some info on the world.

But, if you want to try out only one book, then I recommend The Player of the Games. It's still my favourite book from Banks.

 

[Treeinthewoods]

I posted this on the advice forum, but very few people saw it, so i'll post it here, i hope there's no problem with that.
Anyway guys, i don't usually read much SF, but once in a while i just get the urge to do so. So, could you recommend me some books? Im thinking something a bit like dead space-event horizon-alien kind of thing, with huge spaceships, not many characters,planets, etc. nothing "epic" i guess. more story driven than anything else, no weird powers,or jedis, or aliens (except maybe the ones that kill you). any ideas?

Armor by John Steakley

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Dune by Frank Herbert

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

If you like Ender's Game the rest of the series will be good, you absolutely have to read Armor. What you just described there is Armor, you really should read it.

Starship Trooper's is actually pretty good to, the movie is an insult to the book.

 

[f0re1gn]

Douglas Adams, duh.

Though he's more about the absurdness of humor than the fiction itself.. Though depends how you look at it

 

[jad4400]

I would very strongly recommend David Weber's Honor Harrington series. It features strong characterization and a lot of unique characters, although the main character can be a bit of a Mary Sue at times. Also its story for the first several books can be boiled down to ?Horatio Hornblower IN SPACE!!!!. However, given that so far it has eleven books in the main series with at least another in the works, if you end up picking up this series and liking it, you won?t be short of reading materials for some time.

 

[Hexal6]

the Artemis Fowl series and anything by Eion Colfer
And one of the best Scifi books i've read is Brain Jack by Brian Falkner
enjoy

 

[ScotRotum]

Dead spacey is a hard request as few writers are prepared to write a book about a faceless, silent and almost backstoryless man curb stomping fairly generic zombies.
[/sarcasm]
Hyperion by dan simmons though is famous for being a great and often horrific sci-fi based largely around a small group of characters and their journey and I love to recommend it to people. It features the shrike which is kinda a godlike robot of death two meters tall and made of brutal spikes, that's really the only reason you need to read it.

 

[Agayek]

the Artemis Fowl series and anything by Eion Colfer
And one of the best Scifi books i've read is Brain Jack by Brian Falkner
enjoy

Is that anything like Candlejack? I've heard that's rea-

 

[Merkavar]

World War 2.1: Weapons of Choice

A US-led task force off Indonesia in 2021 finds itself sent back to 1942, just prior to the Battle of Midway. The novels deal with a rapidly altered version of World War II, and to a lesser extent the social changes that result amongst the Allied powers.

 

[Warready]

I highly recommend "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Attwood. It was a great modern day post apocalyptic book.

I'd also have to second the Gaunt's Ghosts series by Dan Abnett.

The Enders series by Orson Scott Card is also a must read if you're new to the genre.

 

[runnernda]

Seriously, if you haven't read it, Neuromancer.

This book was hugely influential. It was responsibe for the popularisation of words like "firewall", "black ice", "dub" and "cyber-space".

Imagine Johnny Neumonic, but good.

Edit: "popularisation" is incorrect really. It ORIGINATED these terms.

Agreed.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

It may not be strictly sci-fi (or anything at all like Dead Space) but you could try out Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy. That was pretty good.

You never played Mass Effect so you may not be interested in this, but i recently found out about an Irish SF writer, Alastair Reynolds [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds], who apparently wrote a bunch of SF books that inspired the Story of Mass Effect. Has anyone else read that? How is it? I think I'll look into it.

 

[ilion]

Dune

 

[gostlyfantom]

The Ender series, the first can stand alone if you don't want to read the whole series.

Agreed, but you really don't want to miss the second one.

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley.

I found brave new world to be... unique?

I also recommend Enders Game mainly because almost all the si-fi novels i know of suck...majorly

 

[Zero_ctrl]

Ender's Game.
My favorite book by a long shot.
Just being science-fiction is a bonus.

 

[Athol]

Starship Trooper's is actually pretty good to, the movie is an insult to the book.

Yeah, thats putting it mildly (I still kinda like the movie though)

 

[AK47Marine]

But I was drawn to the Eisenhorn series: Xenos, Malleus ,Hereticus by Dan Abnett.
(You can buy all three books in one large volume.) On that note, I also recommend the Horus Heresy. Seems anything that has come out of the Warhammer 40,000 collection. lol

This, if it's 40k it's usually pretty darn good, and the ability to purchase books in an omnibus format... well that's just damn good.

S.M. Stirling's "The Change" series is rather fantastic F/SF (leans a bit on the Fantasy side for the first three or so books fyi)

The Race for God

The Age of Odin

Eric Brown's Bengal Station series (starting with "Necropath") is story driven and localized, fantastic characters and locals

Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers is classic SF and worth a read for any one with breath in their lungs.

John Steakly's "Armor" is very character driven and is a fascinating glimpse inside a universe, it also has plenty of action to go around.

Finally Mike Resnick's Santiago books (there's two of them) are... probably some of my favorite works of literature period. Just fantastic from start to finish. They might be hard to find though, I've only ever seen them used.