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New User Posts: 4 | What is your favorite SF/F series? I haven't read that many but I'd have to say The Old Man's War by John Scalzi, even though I haven't read Zoe's Tale yet (I just got it and it's next on my reading list), and Harry Potter. | ||
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Admin Posts: 3996 Location: Dallas, Texas | I'm not sure about a favorite but some series that I really like include:
I've still got Zoe's Tale to read for OMW too as well as Skylark Desquesne. I'm sure there are other series that I'm just not thinking of at the moment. You've got me thinking that a listing of all the SF and Fantasy series in the WWEnd database would be a nice reference tool to have on the site. I'll see what I can do about that. | ||
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Regular Posts: 92 Location: Boston, MA | Roger Zelazny "Chronicles of Amber" Isaac Asimov "Foundation" Stephen King "The Dark Tower" Tove Jansson "Mumintroll"
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Member Posts: 17 Location: near Skegness, Lincolnshire, UK. | Among my favourites are: 'Earthsea' -Ursula le Guin. 'The Dark is Rising' -Susan Cooper. 'Helliconia' -Brian Aldiss. 'Majipoor' -Robert Silverberg. 'The Book of the New Sun' -Gene Wolfe. Edited by Fantasybear 2012-08-30 1:14 AM | ||
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Admin Posts: 3996 Location: Dallas, Texas | You've resurected an old thread! I never got back here to post the series list which I can't do from my phone so click the link in the footer to check it out. All the series in our database are listed there, color coded for your reading history, and be sure to click on "My Series" to get a listing of all the series you've read or tagged to read later. It's a great tool to help you find the books you've missed or just to find a new series to try. | ||
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Member Posts: 17 Location: near Skegness, Lincolnshire, UK. | The new boy strikes again! I`m surprised there haven`t been more posts on this subject as I `ve found other SF/F readers talk of this endlessly! I`ve probably missed some others from way back as well. I find the practice of 'series' is one of the pleasures of these genres. | ||
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Member Posts: 17 Location: near Skegness, Lincolnshire, UK. | Thanks for the series listing in your database! I shall have even more to read. I don`t see 'The Dark is Rising' there. It`s a great series and stands comparison with 'Earthsea' or 'Harry Potter'. | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1027 Location: UK | Some of my favourite series; C J Cherryh - Alliance series C J Cherryh - Foreigner series Lois McMasters Bujold - Vorkosigan series Jim Butcher - Harry Dresden files | ||
stevefrank |
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Old Man's War by John Scalzi Takeshi Kovachs by Richard K. Morgan Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds These are my favorites. | |||
Marleana |
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Member Posts: 12 Location: WA | Acts of Caine - Matthew Stover Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson Kingkiller Chronicles - Patrick Rothfuss Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Off the top of me head :p | ||
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Member Posts: 14 Location: Rhode Island | Honor Harrington - David Weber Emberverse - S.M. Stirling Xanth - Piers Anthony The Adept Series - Piers Anthony Incarnations of Immortality - Piers Anthony Bio of a Space Tyrant - Piers Anthony I like Piers Anthony | ||
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Veteran Posts: 107 Location: scotland | The Dark Tower - Stephen King This is the only series I have read. But I have not read the 8th book, which is 4.5 in the series. Currently have 10 series I am reading by 9 authors. | ||
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New User Posts: 2 | Personally I've just gotten through 5 books of Agent Cormac by Neil Asher. Brilliant! Excellent character development revealed by focussing jst a little more on a separate character for each book, complete with retro passages to the past for back story. He keeps a fine balance between action and the human drama whilst weaving threads from different characters so it never gets boring. Looking forward to reading more Polity and Splatterjay novels. I'm lately a space opera nut: big grandiose galactic dramas with mysterious aliens, selfish humans and lots of fancy tech, but tech that just might have some possible link to real world physics (though not too real as in Heinlein or Bova). Therefore some of my favourite series / universes are: The Gap Series - Stephen R. Donaldson Manifold - Stephen Baxter (like the Xeelees too) Revalation Space - Alastair Reynolds (alright not a true series, more a number of books in the same universe) Rifter Series - Peter Watts (not space opera) Have to agree with revious posts on Uplift series and Bio Of A Space Tyrant :-) I like the big canvas of Peter F. Hamilton and his series always start very well in the first book or two but tend to get drawn out and "magic" happens to clear everything up in the end. Rick | ||
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Member Posts: 24 Location: Virginia | These are the only series in whihc I've loved every book: Rowling's Harry Potter Martin's Song of Fire and Ice Jordon's Wheel of Time Robinson's Mars Trilogy Card's Ender/Bean Universe Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga | ||
Deven Science |
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Uber User Posts: 202 Location: Sacramento, California | I'm surprised I never spoke up on this thread. Hmm. So, let's see if I can determine my favorites, in order! I quickly went to my bookshelves, and wrote down my top ten favorites. The honorable mention would be the Old Man's War series, though they didn't make it ultimately because they weaken in quality with every new novel. Also, I'm not sure if number 4 counts, as it was only two and a sort of half-ish novels, but hey, I love them, so I counted them. 10) The Takashi Kovachs Series, by Richard K. Morgan 9) The Empire Series, by Isaac Asimov 8) The Legion Series, by William C. Dietz 7) The Dracula Series, by Fred Saberhagan 6) The Vampire Chronicles, by Anne Rice 5) The Lazarus Long Novels, by Robert Heinlein 4) The Dirk Gently Series, by Douglas Adams 3) The Foundation Series, by Isaac Asimov 2) The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher 1)The Hitchhiker's Guide, by Douglas Adams | ||
rmerry72 |
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New User Posts: 2 | Ah, I forgot about the Ender series and Hitchhiker's. How could I forget them? Both brilliant for different reasons. | ||
JDowds |
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Member Posts: 7 | You know what wasn't too bad? The Area 51 series by Robert Doherty. It's cheesy as all hell and not exactly well written, but it's fun. Aliens, government conspiracies, ancient mysteries, nanotechnology, this series would be the X-Files if the X-Files made any sense. Actually, scratch that, the series doesn't make sense, but like I said, it's fun. There's also 10+ books I think, so you could get lost in it for a while. | ||
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