General / Off-Topic Please recommend me some epic sci-fi or fantasy books

[Agony_Aunt]

I'm out of stuff to read! Just finished Brent Weeks Night Angel trilogy.

I've read far too many books to possibly list everything, so just throw me some bones and i'll see what I haven't already chewed through!

Cheers.

 

[Macros Black]

Magician (Feist novel) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Magician (Feist novel) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

LOL, read that as a kid! But great series. Read a lot of the later ones as well. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

 

[Robert Maynard]

David (& Leigh) Eddings series: The Belgariad; The Malloreon; The Dreamers; The Elenium; The Tamuli;
Raymond Feist (as above): The Magician series;
Robert Jordan: The Wheel of Time;
Tad Williams: Memory, Sorrow & Thorn.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

David (& Leigh) Eddings series: The Belgariad; The Malloreon;

AKA: How to write the same series twice and get paid for it

But i'll admit, i never read the other series... possibly because i felt so cheated by the time i finished the Mallorean.

Memory, Sorrow, Thorn - great series, absoloute epic. Otherland is also good, but people who complain about the grind in ED have never read the Otherland books.

 

[Captain Willard]

The Gap Cycle Series by Stephen R. Donaldson

 

[Agony_Aunt]

The Gap Cycle Series by Stephen R. Donaldson

Now this one sounds like a possibility. I read the Thomas Covenant ones ages ago, so definitely tempting.

 

[Robert Maynard]

AKA: How to write the same series twice and get paid for it

But i'll admit, i never read the other series... possibly because i felt so cheated by the time i finished the Mallorean.

Memory, Sorrow, Thorn - great series, absoloute epic. Otherland is also good, but people who complain about the grind in ED have never read the Otherland books.

The Elenium and The Tamuli are a separate "world" - and are really rather good.

 

[Stigbob]

Neal Asher

Agent Cormac series:

My Books – Neal Asher

 

[Wimmer]

Do you like space opera? If yes: "Consider Phlebas", Iain M. Banks.
I'm not sure whether to propose you the "Hothouse" by Brian Aldiss because you probably know such a classic

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Neal Asher

Agent Cormac series:

My Books – Neal Asher

That's a lot of books! Nice.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Do you like space opera? If yes: "Consider Phlebas", Iain M. Banks.
I'm not sure whether to propose you the "Hothouse" by Brian Aldiss because you probably know such a classic

I'm well versed in Banks and Aldiss

 

[Northpin]

Peter F. Hamilton? Commonwealth Saga, The Void Trilogy, The Night's Dawn Trilogy

 

[Stigbob]

That's a lot of books! Nice.

Prador Moon is pretty short and its standalone whilst being in the same universe as his series.

Might be a good one to try and see if you like his stuff.

 

[Iron Body]

Julian May's Pliocene Saga .. Many Colored Land etc. Probably too well known(?)

 

[Sysmon]

Alastair Reynolds: Shadow Captain. Yarrr!

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[Zieman]

I'm well versed in Banks and Aldiss

No use mentioning Alastair Reynolds then?

Maybe Stephen Baxter's "Time", "Space" and "Origin"?
Or Kim Stanley Robinson's Red, Green & Blue Mars books?
Or Gary Gibson's Shoal sequence?

 

[Zieman]

On fantasy front, I have to recommend Robert E. Howard's Conan stories. And just his original work, forget the crap that tries to ride on the name. No matter if you just chewed through it, it deserves another readthrough every year.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Thanks everyone. Got a few there that look interesting. Should tide me over for a few weeks.

 

[Imo]

Mark Brandis made some nice science-fiction books, but they are already some years old.