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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 1940744" data-attributes="member: 3887">Let me echo some of the former posts:Santiago by Mike Resnick is SF only in its trappings, but its one of the most entertaining books I've ever read.The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe is pure, unadulterated genius. The Culture books by Iain M. Banks are, collectively, quite good. Use of Weapons is exceptional.Titan, Wizard and Demon by Varley are fantastic. Serious SF is rarely written with so light a touch.The Golden Age, and its sequels, by John C. Wright are a marvelous updating of Golden Age SF (think Cordwainer Smith).Also...Charles Stross is very good. Try Singularity Sky. Best opening sentence in a novel since "A screaming came across the sky..."Charles Baxter has neat ideas. But can't write characters worth a damn. And Samuel R. Delany is one of the best SF writers of all time. If you want a short book, try Nova. If you want a workout, try Dahlgren, which can be decribed as a 900+ page prose poem about the experience of living inside a novel (well, that's one possible interpretation...)</blockquote>