Your must read recommends

[Jo Zebedee]

Maybe a bit late to the party, but here‘s three SF works I totally adore:

Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky
Alastair Reynolds, Chasm City
C.J. Cherryh, The Chanur books

I’ll take another run at it in a week or so and do any add one. Thank you!

 

[vanye]

You‘re welcome. The recommendation business is hard: You think of one title and then another and another ... But even after a lifetime of reading there are a few that stand out.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Thank you all for this! I’ve found as many as I can, and sometimes I’ve had to juggle around to find the nearest edition, but here is the great sffchronicles reading list.

I’ve popped a link to the forum on there so that Brian might get some traffic from it, and might, as @hitmouse , suggests add some blurb to these when I ever get a moment!

The great sffchronicles sci-fi and fantasy recommends list

 

[BAYLOR]

Thank you all for this! I’ve found as many as I can, and sometimes I’ve had to juggle around to find the nearest edition, but here is the great sffchronicles reading list.

I’ve popped a link to the forum on there so that Brian might get some traffic from it, and might, as @hitmouse , suggests add some blurb to these when I ever get a moment!

The great sffchronicles sci-fi and fantasy recommends list

Outstanding !

 

[Vince W]

Just went through the list and I cannot believe not one of us added The Stars My Destination or Neuromancer.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Just went through the list and I cannot believe not one of us added The Stars My Destination or Neuromancer.

I can add those on in my next pass. Ironically, I stock both in store

 

[Vince W]

I can add those on in my next pass. Ironically, I stock both in store

Please do. It's like an itch behind my left eye that those aren't on there.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Please do. It's like an itch behind my left eye that those aren't on there.

I’ll get to it as soon as then

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Done. also added Pat Cadigan. Jeez. How’d I miss her?

 

[vanye]

See, that‘s what I meant. You start and you‘ll never get to the end. „What about Earth abides?“, „What about Ender‘s Game?“, What about ...

 

[BAYLOR]

Just went through the list and I cannot believe not one of us added The Stars My Destination or Neuromancer.

Oh man , I must be slipping , I wish I had thought of those two.

 

[Toby Frost]

Count Zero too!

 

[BAYLOR]

How about

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson.
Bill the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison
The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison

The Douglas Adams fans would like these books.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

How about

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson.
Bill the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison
The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison

The Douglas Adams fans would like these books.

Do we have Adams on it?

 

[BAYLOR]

Do we have Adams on it?

I don't know that answer to that question but the books do predate Hitchhiker by some years. They are wonderfully funny books and they are classics.

 

[vanye]

All right, then add Non-Stop (Brian Aldiss) and The Forever War (Joe Haldeman), as well. Oh, and while we‘re at it, Alan Dean Foster‘s Midworld and Charles Stross‘s Singularity Sky.

 

[BAYLOR]

Tales from the Dying Earth by Jack Vance
Songs From the Dying Earth by Gardner Dozis and George R R Martin
The Devil is Dead by R A Lafferty
The Man Who was Thursday G K Chesterton
The Three Imposters By Arthur Machen
Adrift on the Haunted Seas The Best Short Stories of William Hope Hodgson
Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore.
The Ring of Darkness by T R Michaud
The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle
Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Land of Laughs by Johnathan Carrol

 

[vanye]

Wasn‘t this supposed to be an SF-list, though?

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Wasn‘t this supposed to be an SF-list, though?

No it’s SFF must-read books - although there is more SF in it for sure so it might have taken more prominence. If so, I can adjust the title and do a fantasy one later.

 

[nixie]

Garth Nix, The Left-handed Booksellers of London; ISBN 978-1-473-23312-6.