I’m currently getting through Mothership by John Brosnan. Its a lightweight read on a planet like ship hurtling through space, good page turner all the same.
Must be a current theme as I recently read Marrow by Robert Reed. Its much more complex with a far less predictable plot.
Try ‘Enders Game’ by Orson Scott Card. Amazing book with equally amazing sequel.
Your preaching to the converted. I’ve read almost everything that guy has written. I particularly like the newer releases where he explains the book in a preface.
Sci Fi is more my thing but I still enjoyed the Alvin series.
I"m sure if you’re reading this thread you probably know of Terry Pratchett. I read some of his books when I was at school. I’ve been re-reading some of them and telling the stories to one of my classes - 2nd graders, very good at English and i see them 12 hours a week. The stories need to be adapted a little to remove all the adult humor and references to Death, but they’ve really been enjoying the stories. We’re onto book 3 already…
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Something a little bit more meaty comes from Iain M. Banks, a Scots writer.
“Consider Phlebas” grabbed me when it cane out in 1987.
Hard SF with the middle initial and mainstream fiction without such as “The Wasp Factory”
Check out The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. It is the first book of a trilogy and I believe they are making a movie based on it. It is kinda freaky in a Michael Moorcock kind of way. Anything with armored polar bears has gotta be a winner.
I really enjoyed it.
I really liked this series. Written for kids or young readers. bu good for adults. The emssage ends up being a good antidote to the message behind the Narnia books 
Brian
You could also try Altered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan. Good if you like future tech-noir mysteries.
Just finished Broken Angels by Richard Morgan.
Now reading Chainfire by Terry Goodkind. Borrowed this from my daughter who has read the series.
Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind is the first in the series and far and away the best of them imo.
Check out The Saga of Darren Shan series, a first person narrative focused on how the author becomes the coolest prince of the vampires. You can get the general idea by going to the website http://www.darrenshan.com. It’s a little easier to read than the Harry Potter series, but I really think it’s great. In fact, J.K. Rowling says of it, “Leaves the reader hungry for more.”
Look for The Demonata series coming soon. It’s a sequel series about his life as a demon after the 12 volume vampire series concludes.
Finished L.E. Modesitt, Jr The Magic Of Recluse a while back. Now reading The Towers Of The Sunset.
Modesitt is not particulary adept at grabbing the reader from the first page. I generally have to grind through 50 or so pages to get to interesting page turning reading.
Note: Chainfire was a waste of paper. The book could be summed up in a paragraph of writing as a preface to an actual book this particular read is obviously the warm up to. This guy really deserves to have one testicle removed for writing Chainfire then threatened with the other if the next book does not improve.
Hope that does not seem too harsh a punishment for Terry Goodkind.
LE Modesit JR’s order/chaos books are really good. Don’t fit anywhere near the boring SCI FI / Fantasy mold that too many books fall into.
I’ve already plugged this series but might as well do so again.
The Malazan Books of the Fallen by Steven Erikson if you like something dark and complex, with an elaborate historical background and multiple main characters. I view it a bit like the “Dune” of fantasy fiction.
Also, did you guys know that Steven Donaldson has come out with the first book of the Third Chronicles of Thomas Covenant? It’s a bit strange, considering Covenant died at the end of the 2nd chronicles; perhaps Donaldson blew all his money on women and drugs. However he claims he’d always intended to do 3 ‘chronicles’, and my buddy who read it liked it better than any of the 2nd Chronicles books.
I read the Chronicles but kept wondering why I read them right up until I concluded at the last page of the last book they just were not worth the effort. Long journey books in my opinion.
Currently taking a break from Modessit after enjoying The Magic Engineer.
Reading Downbelow Station by CJ Cherryh. Award winning book and a great read so far.
Just finished Michael Moorcock’s [i]Elric[/i]…I read them all years and years ago but it’s nice to have them under one cover.
