Your Sci-Fi/Military/Adventure Book Must Read List

I just started this a few days ago. I am about halfway through the first book.

 

Go to http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/

Quite a variety of books there to download.

 

I finished up the Foundation series (6 books total, including the Prelude and Forward), and it was epic! It was a really great read and I will now start on the Robot series, which is the prequel series to all this, when humanity was on the original planet of Earth. It's gonna be a good ride!

 

Those of you that have read the Foundation series, and haven't read any other Asimov series, just a little easter egg here. I am into book one, The Caves of Steel, and already there is a character connection to Foundation.

 

Hey! Can I join?! I'll post my books in a few...

I saw the movie a while back, and didn't really know about it. Watched it with 2 friends, one who explained it was a book series and really good. Well to my surprise, I actually have the books for several years and never had read them.

I'm really into Alien series, and AvP to an extent.
I watched both Bladerunner and BladeRunner 2049 this past weekend for the first time, so now I'm looking to get the book. I know I should have read it first.

Read the majority of Sword of Truth (fantasy, does that apply here?) in high school, but lost interest the further it dragged on.

Also, last time I was in Books a million, I saw 2 different versions of American gods, and thought how awesome the cover art is, I should get this. I didn't then got to thinking, I have a hardback of it when it first came out (high school again) and never read it either.

 

Orson Scott card books, all pretty good.

The sparrow, tough read at the end but good

I liked The Mountain Man series by Blackmore.

The Three Body Problem, in the middle of the trilogy

The passage trilogy

I’m also a fan of Ken Follet historical novels

I also liked the Magicians trilogy


And for anyone who liked the foundation books, try the worthing saga by card

 

The Ballad of Wuntvor - Trillogy, hilarious, out of print.

 

My brother recommended the trilogy We Are Legion (We Are Bob). Anyone read it?

 

Have Read that I think goes into the genre of this thread:

Also SOME of the Star Wars that I have read:

 

Books I plan on reading eventually:
(I just realized Twilight was in the photo also. Disclaimer: that is my wife's book and I have NO intention of ever reading it)

Some of these I have read, but a lot are on the waiting list:

 

Put Clancy's Without Remorse near the front of that list.

Also saw the Halo trilogy in there.

The 2 novels by Eric Nylund are good, the other one so-so.

Edit: Not so much a book review but a review of a movie about a book mentioned in this thread.

Saw Ready Player One last night.

Movie was only OK, but it may have been better if I hadn't read the book.

So if you want to see it, see it before reading the book.

Compared to the book it was quite disappointing.

 

I got on a Tom Clancy kick a few years ago right before he passed (well about the time the last Splinter Cell game came out) and that was the plan: read them in order from Hunt for Red October. I get distracted from certain series, or when I finish I'm not ready for the next in that genre and want to read something different. Right now I'm reading Memoirs of a Public Servant, so definitely craving some SciFi after it.
And I don't even remember which Halo I read, I have a few of them when I was big into Halo Reach on 360. It was the first one I think, when Master Chief was a child and in training. It was good, but never followed up with the rest of them.
Being an adult is hard, between responsibilities and working full time, Its going to take years to finish all the Netflix shows and read all the books I own.

 

Best stand-alone (so far) Sci-Fi: "Seveneves" by Neal Stephenson

Best (ever) Sci-Fi trilogy: The "Dune" Trilogy (first seven books) by Frank Herbert. He wrote the first 5-and-a-half books before passing away, and his son finished the 6th book and wrote the seventh based on his fathers outline and notes.

Best Military Sci-Fi: "The Last Centurion" by John Ringo

 

I would also add
Dirk gently’s holistic detective agency
And
The long dark tea time of the soul
To my list, with the other Douglas Adams books

I’ve also read every King book except 5 and I’m working on those.

 

I finished up the first two books of Asimov's Robot series, The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun. Great stuff!! I like that the series is centered around a central character, Elijah Baley. It keeps the sense of familiarity throughout the books, which the Foundation series only did through the prevailing storyline. The characters switched from book to book in that series, so every book introduced a new cast.

I am just about to start The Robots of Dawn, which is number 3 in the Robot series. One more after that, Robots and Empire, and then there are several other Robot series vignettes to read before the Galactic Empire series. I anticipate I will get on that one by months end, or maybe next month.

 

R. Giskard FTMFW!!

Borrowed the "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)" audiobook from my brother and just started it. Pretty smart and funny so far. It's 1 of three, so I'll let y'all know how it goes.

 

I finished Altered Carbon this morning, and I just finished the first episode of the Netflix series. I am hooked. Next read is probably going to be a true crime/true story I've been putting off for awhile, then I will jump back into SciFi.

 

Recently finished the Bobiverse Trilogy:
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
For We Are Many
All These Worlds

Well done, smart, paced, and legitimately a possible future. Also, Dyson Spheres and Von Neumann probes. STRONGLY recommend, 9/10.

Just finished something on the other end of the sci-fi spectrum: Will Save The Galaxy for Food. Silly, ironic, and very British. If you liked Hitch Hiker’s Guide or Red Dwarf, this is somewhere in that neighborhood. Entertaining, 7/10.

 

I think because I'm getting older is why I enjoyed the Sci-Fi book "The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend" by David Gemmell.

Steven Erikson's series of "Malazan Book of the Fallen" is a great Sci-Fi read.

 

The Ashes series for post-apocalyptic military fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Ashes_(Ashes_series)

$4 Out of the Ashes

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ET3L346/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1