Recommend to me a sci-fi or fantasy book

[Elodan]

I'm currently reading LotR again after about 10 years and I've noticed that my "to be read" pile isn't a pile anymore. It's just empty shelf space. I'm looking for some recommendations before I hit the book store again.

I'm pretty much looking for some sci-fi or fantasy to read, although I would read some espionage stuff (read most of Tom Clancy and have given up on him). To give you an idea of my taste. Some of my favorite authors are David Gemmell, Simon Green and Jim Butcher. I've enjoyed stuff by Allen Steele, Jack McDevitt, Eddings, Brooks and Dennis McKiernan. Some authors I didn't care for were David Farland, Guy Gavriel Kay, Bruce Sterling and Janny Wurts.

Thanks.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Deathstalker by Simon Green
WFRP novels Gortex and Filex
Karl Wagner's Kane stories
Any thing by Alan Dean Foster

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

A Scattering of Jades by Alexander Irvine
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers (this months ENWorld Book Group selection)

 

[takyris]

Just finished reading "The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse" by Keith Hartman, and loved it. It's not everybody's cup of tea, but it was certainly mine.

Also enjoyed "Charisma" by Steven Barnes recently, although it had less in the way of fun fights than his stuff usually has.

 

[Fast Learner]

(My pedant meter spiked on the "Recommend Me a Movie" thread, but this thread pushed it off the scale. Yes, I'm a pedant.

It's "Recommend to me a ____". The words "recommend me" means you want us to recommend you to someone else. Ok, now pretend I didn't post that.)

 

[Elodan]

(My pedant meter spiked on the "Recommend Me a Movie" thread, but this thread pushed it off the scale. Yes, I'm a pedant.

It's "Recommend to me a ____". The words "recommend me" means you want us to recommend you to someone else. Ok, now pretend I didn't post that.)

I blame having the flu for over a week now on my bad grammar.

 

[Mallus]

John C. Wrights Golden Age trilogy...

The Golden Age
The Phoenix Exultant
The Golden Transcendenace

 

[KenM]

Surpised it was not mentioned yet. Book one of A Song of Ice and Fire. A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin.

 

[Welverin]

Something by Tomothy Zahn, which would be Sci-fi.

 

[Gronin]

I could go on for hours on this topic. That you are already a Gemmell fan eliminates some of my recommends.

For fantasy try "Villians By Necessity" by Eve Forward
the cover note is as follows
"The triumph of Good and Light has transformed the world into a place of peace. This is bad news for the "bad guys", who incude a depressed thief who dresses in black, his short, feisty sidekick, a black knight, a female druid, a man-eating sorceress and an innocent centaur who is a spy for Good. Finding Utopia boring, they set out on a quest to restore balance to the world."

As far as SciFi, I tend to like the military stuff and in that area one of the best authors is David Weber.