What is your favorite scifi/fantasy novel or series?

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   chip1775posted 11 years ago

   What is your favorite scifi/ fantasy novel or series? Who is your favorite author?

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   SimeyCposted 11 years ago

   Such  a tough question! Tolkien has to rank up there as he brought me into the genre of fantasy. I really like Brandon Sanderson now - and of course love the classics such as Asimov etc.

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      chip1775posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I love Jim Butcher right now. Tolkien is a given. I haven't read Brandon Sanderson. I'll have to check him out. I gave up on Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time before he died.

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   Kris Ollerposted 11 years ago

   Have you tried The Belgariad?  Those are pretty good as well.

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      chip1775posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Yes! One of my all time favorites. My brother introduced me to the Belgariad when I was little and absolutely loved them.

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   Kathryn LJposted 11 years ago

   Terry Pratchet's disc world novels, my favourite being A hat full of sky.

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   Kangaroo_Jaseposted 11 years ago

   The Riftwar Cycle - all 29 books by Raymond E Feist, the last one EVER to come out May 2013. I am excited and sad about this, lol.

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      SimeyCposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Ohhh man - he's ending the saga! Magician (when it was one whole book and not three books) was one of the first fantasy books I read after the Lord of the Rings - I've followed it every since and grown old with the stories and characters! It will be missed!

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         Kangaroo_Jaseposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         I know!!!!
         
         I read Magician about 45 times, not including the missing chapters!!!!!

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   chip1775posted 11 years ago

   Riftwar saga was awesome! I like his other series better. I think the first book was Servant of the Empire? Great books.

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      Kangaroo_Jaseposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      That was the three books written with Janny Wurts, Servant Of The Empire, Daughter Of The Empire & Mistress Of The Empire. All contemporary of the timeframe of Magician.

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   Willsummerdreamerposted 11 years ago

   I have a lot of favorites series but if I had to pick.....I'd say The Wheel of Time for fantasy and the Dune books for Sci-fi. Favorite authors....that's harder to pin down. I'll get back to you on that lol.

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   MizBejabbersposted 11 years ago

   Anne McCaffrey, Terry Brooks, Jennifer Fallon, Raymond Feist, gosh, I could go on and on. Right now I am alternating between the Shannara series by Terry Brooks and I have just finished the Chalion novels by Lois McMaster Bujold. And I'm impatiently waiting for the last Riftwar novel by Raymond Feist.  i guess my favorite is whatever I am reading at the time.

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   Motown2Chitownposted 11 years ago

   Fantasy - The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
   Sci-Fi - Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card

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    M Zeesposted 11 years ago

    Tolkien tops my list with lord of the Rings, Hobbit and Silmarillion, and then we have Wheel of time followed by Umru Ayyar and Tilism Hoshruba (Umru the Sly and the Realm of Awe), a work in Urdu which is beyond fantastic. It is similar to the Thousand and one Arabian nights and is related to Hamzanama, another beautiful work in Urdu which has been translated into English.

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    Jayfortposted 11 years ago

    Favorite novel would be "Glory Road" by Robert A. Heinlein.
    
    Favorite series would be "The Warbots" series by G. Harry Stine (a protege of Heinlein's).

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