I want to read some sci-fi books. I've not really read any, this is a new genre to me. Thanks for your suggestions!

*I feel like I need to clarify, I don't want fantasy. Often, scifi and fantasy are put together, but I'm tired of fantasy...

Thanks again!


/e I read Slaughter-House Five by Vonnegut, and liked it fairly well. I guess that's considered scifi, though I thought it was just weird.

This post was edited by furbyjs on Aug 12 2012 08:18pm

read the ender series by orson scott card. good stuff.

The Martian Chronicles, Dune, Ender's Game, The White Mountains, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, & 2001, a Space Odyssey are all books I enjoyed and prolly good places to start, depending on your preferences. lmk if you want a synopsis of any

edit: Slaughterhouse Five is a pretty shaky way to start reading sci-fi. I would barely consider it sci-fi or even a novel as much as an art for its own sake. One thing is does share with a lot of sci-fi though is an otherwordly social commentary. If you liked that, you might like sci-fi a lot.

This post was edited by EndlessSky on Aug 13 2012 10:44pm

Yeah, Slaughter House Five was a really weird book, but if I had to put it in a genre, I would probably say sci-fi...

The Langoliers or anything by Stephen King.

Goosebumps is also a nice series.

Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Jack McDevitt, Phillip K Dick are some of my favorite science fiction writers. Rendezvous with Rama and The Songs of Distant Earth are my favorite from Arthur c Clarke, Foundation from Asimov, and Engines of God by Mcdevitt

Ender's series

Phillip K Dick & Arthur C Clarke are the biggest ones
this one I hear pop a lot for recommended sci fi
I recently got it just haven't read it yet


This post was edited by Trillasecond on Sep 15 2012 09:20pm

there's a lot of Manga in that genre if you're into that kind of thing. One Piece, Fairy Tail, Code Geass, Death Note, etc.

I'm not really into reading manga, and isn't one piece more fantasy than science fiction?