but then how can anyone tell me a bradbury book that doesn't suck?

doesn't matter though, I just got the next book in the electric church series so....

man I was going to post something but I don't feel like it because Miles is a troll with a terrible effort to success ratio.

tl:dr on what i was going to say: Books are slower than films. Maybe you should stop watching so many movies (inb4 you don't go to the cinema).

hey miles go ahead and report posts all you want

fact remains that you, of your own volition, entered this thread and started shitting on everything, especially two particularly beloved classic science fiction authors

so, yeah, the only person really trollin' here is you

Oh god I read the halo novels when I was 14 and liked them. The events depicted were very similar to Heinleins troopers but with less thought and more kabloowie.

I think i also read some shitty star wars novels where luke was like a little ♥♥♥♥♥ and some 14 year old jedi screwed a chick with the depth of a blow-up doll.

I have read way more terribad Sci-fi then good is what i'm trying to say here.

Nylund's Halo novels are not that bad. The Halo storyline is pretty renowned contemporarily for its continuity and complexity. Next Star Trek/Star Wars when it comes to fiction novels. You're going to see an interesting patchwork canon develop from author's authorized to write using the Halo universe as a foundation.

Halo books are decent but then Bungie decided that ALL game canon goes before book canon. Thus making Halo Wars canon.

EEwhhhh...*shudder*

Don't mention that name...

The Day of the Triffids
The Chrysalids

both by John Wyndham.

Also 1984 one more time because the world needs more 2+2=4 people, and less room 101s.

I also recommend Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut and it was real good (if you can take it as sci-fi, though).

Foundation was awesome, except for the last book...
As for Arthur Clarke, anyone read the Rama series?

Also, I like Neil Stephenson (most of his books are scifi, I think).

I'm going to read those once I'm finished with Odyssey.

I hope I haven't been too dry below as these are some of my favorite authors in any genre. I used amazon links primarily because they have decent reviews. However, all of these should be in your local library system.

Cory Doctorow is very character centered in near-term futures, see Eastern Standard Tribe.

Peter Hamilton strikes a balance between things and people by describing the social structures that might form with fantastic technology, see Fallen Dragon.

Ian Banks' Culture series examine the existential coping mechanisms in a post-scarcity society, see Player of Games.

Greg Egan explores the potential explosion of transhuman variety, see Diaspora.

Robert Sawyer wrote a trilogy showing the confrontation of humans and an alternate world populated by enlightened Neanderthal descendents. Still, the focus is very character driven, see Hominids.

Arthur Clarke and Stephen Baxter's collaboration, Light of Other Days, depicts a more intimate progression of how a specific technological advance would reverberate through the global society. Baxter's Manifold: Space takes an epic view of humans slowly succumbing to super-advanced aliens.

Paul McAuley concentrates on biological manipulation rather than mechanical. I admit I have only read his less sci-fi novels to date, but expect Fairyland will entertain similarly.

And for something completely different, Jasper FForde employs a futuristic setting but engages primarily in a metafiction pastiche of all literature, see The Eyre Affair.

My guilty pleasure - emphasis on guilty - was L Hubbard's Mission Earth series. He snuck in some ideas I hadn't encountered before (mostly forgotten in the intervening years). The ideas were somewhat like what D Adams described but played straight. Unfortunately, Hubbard hid these in hundred page increments buried in the repetitive, increasingly deviant sexual exploits of his evil protagonist. It's not even purple prose like Lensmen; it's just reams of comeuppance for evil and inept satire. I can't reccommend it at all, but mention it because what's hidden within was cool to a seventh grader.

Ive been meaning to Read Starship Troopers, but it seems rather Depressing. A Good Sci Fi to read is HG.Wells War of the Worlds. Ive also got a Comedy Sci Fi in here somewhere, like Star Wreck.

I just found this topic.

So all through high school I basically just read Star Wars, so I have a shelf of over 90 SW novels. They're not all good, but they're mostly decent.

Isaac Asimov, mostly for the Foundation series, partly for his other stuff. Dang, but that guy was prolific.

I guess I don't really read anything else that would be considered straight science fiction, but Neal Stephenson, Terry Pratchett, and Neil Gaiman are all pretty excellent.

I heard Mission Earth is pretty pro and I don't mind if it's half sex; there are a tonne of authors like that (Piers Anthony I'm looking at you). I'll see if I can snag a copy.

Neil Gaiman is great. I like his books (American Gods, Coraline), but I especially love his Sandman comic books.

Anyone read Robert Asprin's Myth books? (They can be interpreted as scifi.) I'm almost afraid to identify myself as a fan as his books are the epitome of guilty pleasure. So bad, full of puns and bad plot, but at the same time, sooo good as the characters are just so endearing. Him and Alan Dean Foster are so awful for drawing out series and butchering their own characters, but I'll follow them to the end.

I like Peter F. Hamilton, don't think he's been mentioned here yet.