Science Fiction Aficionados discussion

Our Culture series read is due to end soon, so it's time to start thinking about the next one!

Please use this thread to nominate a sci-fi series we have not yet read....

Have we done the Expanse series? Or Scalzi's Old Man series?

How about the Sirantha Jax series? Starts with Grimspace

Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet starting with Dauntless

How about CJ Cherryh's Chanur Space Opera starting with The Pride of Chanur? First contact in reverse, plus lots of aliens and stuff.

Though the Jax series is good too.

How about Mary Gentle's Ash: A Secret History (broken down into four books for the U.S. market, if that counts)? Yes, it's SF not fantasy.

I know we already have a suggested C. J. Cherryh, but I love this series.
The Faded Sun Trilogy

I also would like to nominate a C. J. Cherryh series - The Company Wars. The group has read the first one - Downbelow Station - so we'd start with #2 - Rimrunners. There are a total of seven books in the series but since we've read #1, we'd have six to go!

Whoops, #2 is Merchanter's Luck not Rimrunners, which is #3. Sorry!

and I nominate Ancillary Justice and the Imperial Radch trilogy!

OK-drafting a poll now

It's an older series but what about the Berserker series by Fred Saberhagen?

I would note that CJ's Company Wars is not a continuing series with the same characters. It is several separate stories set in different sections of the same universe. I loved those stories, but they are largely stand-alone except for some grand-arc threads.

Laz wrote: "I would note that CJ's Company Wars is not a continuing series with the same characters. It is several separate stories set in different sections of the same universe. I loved those stories, but th..."


I agree, they are stand alone books set in the same universe. Only Finity's End should be read after Downbelow Station, as a direct sequel. And these two books are the best ones by far, even though I liked most of the others, too.

Teanka wrote: "Laz wrote: "... Only Finity's End should be read after Downbelow Station, as a direct sequel...."

I think Merchanter's Luck is also best read after Downbelow Station.

i nominate Samuil Petrovitch series by Simon Morden.

Najaf wrote: "i nominate Samuil Petrovitch series by Simon Morden."

Second, third, and fourth! That was a fun series.