Forums · Nakis - My Favorites
I just wanted to list some of my favorite works. More or less to express my taste and to offer anyone some information on what books I have read that they may be interested in. =)
Most of my life I've read mostly Sci-fi and fantasy books. So much I have here is of those genres. But in recent years I have read mostly non-fiction.
Julian May - The Pliocene Epoch (series) Great future Earth series. Almost everyone gains psychic abilities to some various extents. A galactic federation 'The Galactic Mileux' contacts Earth and we join them. Earth for the first time in history enjoys world peace, everyone has jobs, we make fanastic advances in technology and health, we can regenerate our bodies, remove disease, travel to anywhere on the planet in our own vehicles in hours, you only work a few days a week for about four hour a day and retire after only about ten years. We have colonies throughout the stars. But many people are dissatisfied with all this wonder. They need struggle so the travel back in time to the Pliocene epoch (one way trip) to start life anew. Excellent series. Great characters. Great plot.
Frank Herbert, author of the Dune series, and now his son Brian Herbert. Anything by Frank Herbert.
Douglas Adams, author of 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' (BTW someone is working on making a new movie for it). All his books are funny and entertaining. Somewhat British humour.
J.R.R. Tolkien. Nothing more need to be said.
Anne McCaffrey, the Pern series. All great books. Anne may be the most prolific Sci-fi/Fantasy author.
Autobiography Of A Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogonanda. I loved reading this book. I have great respect for Paramahansa.
More to come.
Most of my life I've read mostly Sci-fi and fantasy books. So much I have here is of those genres. But in recent years I have read mostly non-fiction.
Julian May - The Pliocene Epoch (series) Great future Earth series. Almost everyone gains psychic abilities to some various extents. A galactic federation 'The Galactic Mileux' contacts Earth and we join them. Earth for the first time in history enjoys world peace, everyone has jobs, we make fanastic advances in technology and health, we can regenerate our bodies, remove disease, travel to anywhere on the planet in our own vehicles in hours, you only work a few days a week for about four hour a day and retire after only about ten years. We have colonies throughout the stars. But many people are dissatisfied with all this wonder. They need struggle so the travel back in time to the Pliocene epoch (one way trip) to start life anew. Excellent series. Great characters. Great plot.
Frank Herbert, author of the Dune series, and now his son Brian Herbert. Anything by Frank Herbert.
Douglas Adams, author of 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' (BTW someone is working on making a new movie for it). All his books are funny and entertaining. Somewhat British humour.
J.R.R. Tolkien. Nothing more need to be said.
Anne McCaffrey, the Pern series. All great books. Anne may be the most prolific Sci-fi/Fantasy author.
Autobiography Of A Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogonanda. I loved reading this book. I have great respect for Paramahansa.
More to come.
Little Buddha is a great movie. A wonderful mix of the history of Buddha and a modern life tale of reincarnation. Informative and entertaining.
Ghandhi is a great movie about, you guessed it, Mohandas Ghandhi. I just wish they picked it up from his early life instead of starting so late into his adulthood. There is so much to the Mohatma that the movie doesn't say. How India continued to change even after his death. How he inspired so many people.
Ghandhi is a great movie about, you guessed it, Mohandas Ghandhi. I just wish they picked it up from his early life instead of starting so late into his adulthood. There is so much to the Mohatma that the movie doesn't say. How India continued to change even after his death. How he inspired so many people.
What a wealth of suggestions, Nakis!! You are quite a prolific reader! I am not a sci-fi reader (at least not yet, but who knows?), but if I were going to read a sci-fi book, you would be the person I would come to for a suggestion. Speaking of that, I was just wondering what you would recommend as the best reads for someone who has not read sci-fi before, and looking to put their toe into the "sci-fi waters"?
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Hmmm. I kind of depends on what you like for reading material. For instance if you like romance. Or quirky comedy. Or mind expanding fiction.
Not too many people write too much romance into scifi. But Anne McCaffrey has alot of books with female protagonists. Alot of her books are on growth and potential. She is an excellent author and keeps a good story line. You rarely if ever find mistakes in her books. She does have romance in most of her books but not too much.
For mind expanding stuff try Robert Heinlien, Frank Hebert, Orson Scott Card. From what I read on Heinlien his books aren't too far into scifi stuff but more on alternate reality things. Frank Hebert (Dune) is very much scifi but with lots of religious stuff (most scifi's shy away from religious aspects) and very scifi-mind expanding stuff. Orson Scott Card is alot of alternate reality and kind of human potential kind of stuff. What I read of his he likes to take life as we know it, skew it and show what we could be if things were different in a futuristic way.
If you like Monty Pythonesque stuff, Douglas Adams is the best way to go. Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy and beyond.
A lot depends on your taste but I would suggest trying something by Anne McCaffrey from the Pern series. DragonFlight I believe is the first. And the whole series gets better and better.
If you like stuff with a metaphysical flare you have to read Julian May's Pliocene Epoch. It starts a little slow. Interesting but slow. Then it just keeps going.
When I read scifi alot, I would pick out a book that looks interesting and check the plot layout in the back of the book. If it belonged to a well founded author I would read and see if I enjoyed it. If I did I ended buying the whole series. And whatever else they read. I read a lot of scifi-fantasy authors and the ones I listed in this thread ended up my favorites because of the authors talent at creating stories, characters, plots and their ability to maintain the story's integrity throughout the book or series. And all the authors I listed in the posts above have made at least one series that spans alot of characters, time, and possibilities in their stories and have kept it all together with great integrity. I can't say you will like them but they are all made excellently.
Not too many people write too much romance into scifi. But Anne McCaffrey has alot of books with female protagonists. Alot of her books are on growth and potential. She is an excellent author and keeps a good story line. You rarely if ever find mistakes in her books. She does have romance in most of her books but not too much.
For mind expanding stuff try Robert Heinlien, Frank Hebert, Orson Scott Card. From what I read on Heinlien his books aren't too far into scifi stuff but more on alternate reality things. Frank Hebert (Dune) is very much scifi but with lots of religious stuff (most scifi's shy away from religious aspects) and very scifi-mind expanding stuff. Orson Scott Card is alot of alternate reality and kind of human potential kind of stuff. What I read of his he likes to take life as we know it, skew it and show what we could be if things were different in a futuristic way.
If you like Monty Pythonesque stuff, Douglas Adams is the best way to go. Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy and beyond.
A lot depends on your taste but I would suggest trying something by Anne McCaffrey from the Pern series. DragonFlight I believe is the first. And the whole series gets better and better.
If you like stuff with a metaphysical flare you have to read Julian May's Pliocene Epoch. It starts a little slow. Interesting but slow. Then it just keeps going.
When I read scifi alot, I would pick out a book that looks interesting and check the plot layout in the back of the book. If it belonged to a well founded author I would read and see if I enjoyed it. If I did I ended buying the whole series. And whatever else they read. I read a lot of scifi-fantasy authors and the ones I listed in this thread ended up my favorites because of the authors talent at creating stories, characters, plots and their ability to maintain the story's integrity throughout the book or series. And all the authors I listed in the posts above have made at least one series that spans alot of characters, time, and possibilities in their stories and have kept it all together with great integrity. I can't say you will like them but they are all made excellently.