i just remebered larry niven and jerry pournelle's legacy of heorot
them anne rice books - teh vampire chronicles were also cool - for some reason i held them for 6 months before i started reading them

oyb:

stephen r donsladsons gap series - i was never able to get all the books

^5 books in all.
The Real Story - The Gap into Conflict
The Gap Into Vision - Forbidden Knowledge
The Gap into Power - A Dark and Hungry God Arises
Chaos and Order - The Gap into Madness
This Day all Gods Die - The Gap into Ruin

If you wish, I could them across to you in any eBook format of your choice. You might want to give his Thomas Covenant books a try as well.

Frank Peretti- Piercing the Darkness
- This Present Darkness

R.A Salvatore- Drizzt Do'Urden series (the scimitar wielding, swashbuckling, giant-slaying Drizzt!)

@SEFAGO, you read ALL the star wars books? wow; i've read quite a few myself but not up to half; the kid that wrote Eragon is Christopher Paolini; funny thing is a lot of pple criticised his books that he copied too many elements from Lord of the Rings and Star wars

Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain series is pretty good. . . read it as a kid and still liked it now rereading it as an adult.

He also has this book called The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen that I liked.

Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series, I've read most of but really disliked. It felt too much like a ripoff of Wheel of Time.

I also kind of dislike JRR Tolkien's work past the Hobbit, lol. His writing style is boring as hell, imo. I read the books and recognize their impact on the genre, but most of them aren't fun to reread.

@SEFAGO: Yeah, nuts about the stuff.

@Oyb: You should definitely pursue it if you have some good ideas. Just start writing a little bit every week.

@aletheia: I'll try that at some point this summer when I have time. I'm sure I'll be able to find it on BitTorrent or something.

dresden files jim butcher kinda surprised it has not been mention
percy jackson by rick riordan

Dean koontz my fav author.Servants of Twilight the best book ever

Nice Thread!

It's good to see like minded Fantasy and Sci-Fi Novel fans here on Nairaland. It's places like this that I can say things like "I prefer reading sci fi and fantasy novels to watching the movies made from them" and not get mobbed or looked at as a weirdo.

My Favorite Sci-fi and Fantast Authors (in no particular order, and the ones I can remember on short notice):

Brandon Sanderson - My current best fantasy series (Mistborn) was written by this guy and I have yet to find a series that matches up to this. If you've not read Mistborn Trilogy, you haven't read fantasy, PERIOD. Also his new series, The Stormlight Archive is shaping up to be an epic or even greater calibre that The Wheel of Time.

George R R Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire) Epice writing with brutal honesty. There are no heroes in this guys books, just people with different motives and points of view

Stephen King - The Dark Tower Series

Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Series

Neil Gaiman - American Gods

Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game

Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time (Spent 6 months of my life reading through books 1-10 of this series while struggling with final year project and exams)

Anne Rice - The Vampire Chronicles

J K Rowling - Harry Potter Series

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Peter V Brett - The Demon Series

Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - The Deathgate Cycle, The Dragonlance Series

Frank Herbert - Dune Series

Steven Erikson - Malazan Books of the Fallen (currently reading book 3 of this series, very complex stuff)

Alan Dean Foster - Flinx Series

Anthony Piers - Apprentice Adept Series, Incarnations of Immortality, Pornucopia Series

R A Salvatore - All his novels relating to Drizzt

J R Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings

Plus a few other series based on big franchises like Star Wars, Halo, Warhammer, Starcraft, Warcraft, Diablo, Resident Evil, Gears of War, Star Trek

Thats all I can recall for now. Used to have a large ebook library with all these book and more (over 2 Gb) but a recent hard drive crash has left me with almost nothing.

@SEFAGO, you read ALL the star wars books? wow; i've read quite a few myself but not up to half; the kid that wrote Eragon is Christopher Paolini; funny thing is a lot of pple criticised his books that he copied too many elements from Lord of the Rings and Star wars

Yeah I did. Star Wars was my favorite series until it got kind of sad and everyone started dying especially my favorite characters. Yeah Eragon and its sequels do copy Lord of the Rings and Star Wars completely. Its like stark and shameless plagiarism. Eragon wasn't that bad. But the next 3 books or so was just terrible  . Like it would be impossible not to see links between LOTR and Star Wars.

As for LOTR being boring. I would agree with you on that. Its probably due to the style of writing at that time when Tolkien wrote and he did not expect his audience to be little children actually. The Silmarillion is even more boring in prose and feels like a history book. So Tolkien's style was more of the mature kind and reflective of the writing style of his time.

Oh and I forgot Trudi Canavan- the traitor Spy trilogies.

Bernard Werber, John Grisham and George R. R. Martin.

JOHN SILVERBERG - "Up the Line"
Talk REAL fiction. I love and recommend it!

My people!



So we get plenty fans of Sci-Fi and Fantasy like this, see how I dey smile.

Azanor's list is almost exactly like what I would have posted except for one absence:

Peter Hamilton - This guy is the modern day Asimov, great sci-fi concepts married to brillant characters spanning mega generations and he can write a great action scene! Please gp and read his Night Dawn Triology first, then the Commonwealth trilogy and the latest Void trilogy. Awesome stuff.

George RR Martin is for me king of Fantasy but he is too slow in writing and needs to focus before he dies. Best family motto by far is "We do not sow" that is just badass.

Scott Bakker and the thousandfold thought is also another awesome book

I love me some Robin Hobb

Terry Goodking is a hack jare, one averagely good book folllowed by one boring one etc. I am on number 8 or something and it is dragging.

Tolkien = Snorefest, tried twice to read LOTR and failed twice!

Definitely Robert Jordan, though the books are hard to get and BS seems headed for an anticlimax. Liked Lamour too and a few others but the WoT series takes it for me any day.

Vieira:

Peter Hamilton - This guy is the modern day Asimov, great sci-fi concepts married to brillant characters spanning mega generations and he can write a great action scene! Please gp and read his Night Dawn Triology first,

Just downloaded the first book of this series. Thanks for the recommendation.

ekt_bear:

Just downloaded the first book of this series. Thanks for the recommendation.

Let me know your thoughts on it as you read.

Azanor:

Brandon Sanderson - My current best fantasy series (Mistborn) was written by this guy and I have yet to find a series that matches up to this. If you've not read Mistborn Trilogy, you haven't read fantasy, PERIOD. Also his new series, The Stormlight Archive is shaping up to be an epic or even greater calibre that The Wheel of Time.

I will try and download these, never heard of them.

Is Jordan's wheel of time really worth it peeps? or is he a hack like Goodking?

Vieira:

Is Jordan's wheel of time really worth it peeps? or is he a hack like Goodking?

^
Worth it! Great read. Though Sanderson doesn't seem to have quite captured the essence of RJ's writing.

Love Sci-Fi but there a a handful of writers that can transfer the experience so vividly

William Gibson - You have to love this guy. he is right up there
Isaac Asimov - If you know this guy then you are in da clique
Gen. Muhamadu Buhari - Wrote the famed Computer-Election Rigger to my mind is a classic for every age  

Terry Pratchett - ALWAYS Rocks
David Eddings - ALLL series ( none sucked! )
Piers Anthony

Vieira:


Tolkien = Snorefest, tried twice to[b] read LOTR [/b] and failed twice!

think it's age dependent, read at at 12 ( abillion billion years ago) and I was blown away, mind u hadnt discovered David Edding then,

Is Jordan's wheel of time really worth it peeps? or is he a hack like Goodking?
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believe me, Wheel of Time is a good read any day. i only had access to 1-9, but when i laid eyes on 10-11, i practically went ballistic!
another author who takes the prize is Stephen Lawhead, particularly with his Song of Albion and Pendragon trilogies-his story telling prowess is simply out of this world.

aletheia:

^5 books in all.
The Real Story - The Gap into Conflict
The Gap Into Vision - Forbidden Knowledge
The Gap into Power - A Dark and Hungry God Arises
Chaos and Order - The Gap into Madness
This Day all Gods Die - The Gap into Ruin

If you wish, I could them across to you in any eBook format of your choice. You might want to give his Thomas Covenant books a try as well.

i really wish-could you send them to me in PDF, pls? mail is el_nuk2000@yahoo.com.
as well is there anyone who could give me dragons of winter night & spring dawning?
tanx!

Azanor:

Nice Thread!

It's good to see like minded Fantasy and Sci-Fi Novel fans here on Nairaland. It's places like this that I can say things like "I prefer reading sci fi and fantasy novels to watching the movies made from them" and not get mobbed or looked at as a weirdo.

My Favorite Sci-fi and Fantast Authors (in no particular order, and the ones I can remember on short notice):

Brandon Sanderson - My current best fantasy series (Mistborn) was written by this guy and I have yet to find a series that matches up to this. If you've not read Mistborn Trilogy, you haven't read fantasy, PERIOD. Also his new series, The Stormlight Archive is shaping up to be an epic or even greater calibre that The Wheel of Time.

George R R Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire) Epice writing with brutal honesty. There are no heroes in this guys books, just people with different motives and points of view

Stephen King - The Dark Tower Series

Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Series

Neil Gaiman - American Gods

Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game

Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time (Spent 6 months of my life reading through books 1-10 of this series while struggling with final year project and exams)

Anne Rice - The Vampire Chronicles

J K Rowling - Harry Potter Series

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Peter V Brett - The Demon Series

Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - The Deathgate Cycle, The Dragonlance Series

Frank Herbert - Dune Series

Steven Erikson - Malazan Books of the Fallen (currently reading book 3 of this series, very complex stuff)

Alan Dean Foster - Flinx Series

Anthony Piers - Apprentice Adept Series, Incarnations of Immortality, Pornucopia Series

R A Salvatore - All his novels relating to Drizzt

J R Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings

Plus a few other series based on big franchises like Star Wars, Halo, Warhammer, Starcraft, Warcraft, Diablo, Resident Evil, Gears of War, Star Trek

Thats all I can recall for now. Used to have a large ebook library with all these book and more (over 2 Gb) but a recent hard drive crash has left me with almost nothing.

Bros, that thing wey been happen to you na monumental national disaster-u had me salivating reading thru ur list

Akbar10:

i really wish-could you send them to me in PDF, pls? mail is el_nuk2000@yahoo.com.
as well is there anyone who could give me dragons of winter night & spring dawning?
tanx!

^
I have them in Microsoft Reader format but that's not a problem as I have software that can convert it to any ebook format including pdf. But first I need to know if you will be reading them on a laptop/desktop PC or an ebook device so I can adjust the pages accordingly during the conversion process. I 'll include the Dragons of Winter &c as well. . .soon as I hear from you.

E.E "Doc" Smith, Skylark DuQuesne
Dr. Isaac Asimov
R.E Feist and Janny Wurts The Empire Series
L. Ron Hubbard Destination Earth Hilarious!

Steven king and robin cook

Stephen King
Orson Scott Card
Anne Rice
Anthony Piers
Michael Crichton

Cant remember the names of the novels.and i once read a novel titled 'Frost'.anybody with any idea who wrote it?
i must read that book again b4 i die oh.

Vieira:

My people!



So we get plenty fans of Sci-Fi and Fantasy like this, see how I dey smile.

Azanor's list is almost exactly like what I would have posted except for one absence:

Peter Hamilton - This guy is the modern day Asimov, great sci-fi concepts married to brillant characters spanning mega generations and he can write a great action scene! Please gp and read his Night Dawn Triology first, then the Commonwealth trilogy and the latest Void trilogy. Awesome stuff.

George RR Martin is for me king of Fantasy but he is too slow in writing and needs to focus before he dies. Best family motto by far is "We do not sow" that is just badass.

Scott Bakker and the thousandfold thought is also another awesome book

I love me some Robin Hobb

Terry Goodking is a hack jare, one averagely good book folllowed by one boring one etc. I am on number 8 or something and it is dragging.

Tolkien = Snorefest, tried twice to read LOTR and failed twice!

Checking out Scott Baker now!

Vieira:

I will try and download these, never heard of them.

Is Jordan's wheel of time really worth it peeps? or is he a hack like Goodking? 

Wheel of Time is a MUST READ!! So is Mistborn Trilogy

Akbar10:

Bros, that thing wey been happen to you na monumental national disaster-u had me salivating reading thru your list

I think I might be able to get some of my books back this weekend from a friend that I gave them to.

Frank Herbert  ( Dune series)
David Eddings  ( Belgariad, Polgariad, The Redemption of Althalus)
David E. Feist   ( Magician, Riftwar series)
Trudy Canavan ( The Magician Guild series)

michael chrichton is def d best followed by dean koontz nd jr tolkien. but u guys havnt mentioned nigerians. i think u are missin if u havnt read tope apoola, times of the supermen. the novel examines d eugenistic idea in a future world in which d world lies in d grips of a neo-nihilist group and strange signs begin to appear on d surfabe of mars nd some ancient rocks in england. u can read about d novel here www.ideologyera..com

JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings

Arthur C Clarke- 2001: A Space Odyssey

Isaac Asimov- The Gods Themselves

Isaac Asimov- The Foundation Series

Stephen King- The Dark Tower series (Books 1-4)

Phillip Pullman- His Dark Materials series

Orson Scott Card- Ender's Game

Frank Herbert - Dune

Adams Douglas- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Ursula K Le Guin- The Dispossessed

Marion Zimmer Bradley-The Mists of Avalon

Anne Rice- The Witching Hour