Please recommend some new SF

[Thorntangle]

I already have plenty of fantasy on my bookshelf and to-read list and I'm in the mood for some newer Science Fiction.

My current fav SF authors are Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Iain Banks, Wil McCarthy, Linda Nagata, and Greg Bear. So, you can see I like the full range of near future cyber all the way to far future surrealness. I haven't read China Mielville yet, but he's on the must-read list.

Any good new SF authors/books out there I should read?

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

I've been reading the Stephen Baxter 'Manifold' series (Time, Space) although I haven't gotten to the third one yet. Pretty decent, in the hard-science so far out its magic category.

Susan Matthew's 'Judiciary' series is interesting -- very dark, but she definitely has written something different than your run of the mill sci-fi.

C.S. Friedmen -- Her 'In Conquest Born' just got reprinted, and is an excellent, epic story about an intersteller war.

I'd also highly recommend Kay Kenyon's books (Seeds of Time, Tropic of Creation).

 

[Thorntangle]

Thanks - great recommendations. I've tried to read Baxter before, Voyage. I just couldn't get into it, but I guess it, being an alternate history, is a departure from his usual work.

 

[Urbanmech]

Check out Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky," and "Fire Upon the Deep." Fantastic stuff.

Also the Dune series by Herbert if by some chance you haven't read it yet.

 

[Garmorn]

Go to the site below. Check out both the free sample chapters and the online library. There are several new and old authors there that are realy good. My favorite books for SF there are 1632, On Basilisk Station, and a Hymm before Battle.


http://baen.com

 

[Umbran]

Are you asking about things that are new as in released in the past couple of years, or new as in you haven't read them? Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson, for example, have been writing for decades. They certainly aren't new, unless you're comparing them to Asimov and Heinlein...

If you like Bruce Sterling, and Stephenson, go look at William Gibson. He's basically the father of cyberpunk. Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Burning Chrome are really the things for which the term "cyberpunk" was coined.

You might have trouble finding George Alec Effinger's When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, and The Exile Kiss, as they are currently out of print, but they're also very good.

If you like Greg Bear, you might also like to look into some of the other Big B authors. Ben Bova, Greg Benford, David Brin. If you want to reach back into the annals of sci-fi history, add John Brunner to the list. Lotsa good stuff in the B's. You might also take a look at John Varley.

There. That's enough author names for you to chew on.

 

[Melan]

Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars books (Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars) are all quite good. More scientific than the usual fare and the stories are great as well.

 

[Ycore Rixle]

Check out Tony Daniel's _Metaplanetary_ and his short story collection _The Robot's Twilight Companion_.

Also check out Alastair Reynolds's _Revelation Space_.

Both _Metaplanetary_ and _Revelation Space_ (iirc) are "honest" sci-fi, meaning no FTL. I like Daniel better, for his almost Heinleinian common sense about emerging computer sentience.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

I'll second that on Revelation:Space. Excellent book. I just ordered the sequel and can't wait.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

*IGNORE* D'oh...duplicate post.