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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 440312" data-attributes="member: 4937">Thorntangle: Well, I certainly would have recommended Card,  and Haldeman (two of my favorites as well), but I suspect from the quality of the Sci-Fi you read that you've already been there.  In the unlikely event you haven't read Clarke's 'Childhood's End', read that as well.Connie Willis is very good, and sometimes overlooked.  She may be a better short story writer than novelist, but she's a pretty damn good novelist.  I particularly liked 'The Doomsday Book'.Amy Thompson's 'The Color of Distance' is a very good take on a often done theme.On the forgotten masters front, one of the best and most overlooked is Delany.  'Babel-17' is one of the better sci-fi books ever, and 'Nova' and 'Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand' are both notable works as well.Another highly overlooked work is 'The Alien Way' by Gordon R. Dickson.  If you can find a copy it is definately worth the read.If you are a Heinlein fan, try Gerrold's 'War Against the Chtorr' series.Oh, and I forgot to give a strong second to Robinson's 'Mars' trilogy.Have you tried Pohl's 'Man Plus' and 'Gateway'?Oh, and another forgotten master - Clifford Simak.  Try 'City' and 'Waystation' for starters.John Brunner's 'Stand on Zanzibar'.If you can find it, Alexi Panshin's 'Rite of Passage'.And Anthony Burgess's 'A Clockwork Orange'.  (Like most Sci-Fi, just forget the movie exists.)And as long as we are mentioning classics, Bradbary's 'Farenheit 451'.    You've probably read most of those, but I thought I'd fire a barrage off and see if a few hit.Buttercup: Thanks for the recommendation on Melissa Scott.barsoomcore:  Ooohh... John Varley.  Another author I've overlooked.   Straight on to the reading stack he goes.Gizzard: Wow.  I seldom meet anyone who also reads Lethem.  Based on what else you read, I've got to get my hands on some Robert Charles Wilson.This is great. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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