SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

Hello,
Would you recommend me a Sci-Fi novel written in post 2000 ? And I'm not interested much in future fantasy right now.

You could try Iain Banks. His culture novels are excellent.

Archaeology of Conflict ? Are those novels or historicial studies?

Sci-Fi novels.. The Algebraist is one..

Thx, I added to my list.

I heartily second Iain M Banks (the middle initial designates the books he writes as SF) The algebraist is excellent, as is Matter and my personal fave, Look To Windward (which just sneaks into you criteria, being published in 2000 I think). Massive scope, deep themes and superb characterisation.

I'd also recommend another Scot, Ken MacLeod. While I think his best books are the Fall Revolution sequence, published in the '90s,all his books are excellent.

Charles Stross is superb, writing some very intelligent, sometimes quite technical SF which is always none the less fun. The first book of his I read was Accelerando. Oddly, he also live in Edinburgh and hangs around with the two previous authors...

Simon Morden's Equations of Life is a recent post-cyberpunk adventure that I recently enjoyed a lot.

Geoff Ryman writes some stunningly good hard SF (hard in the sense of real, believable science rather than star ships and blaster pistols) such as Air and The Child Garden.

Paul McAuley is, I think, one of the most under-appreciated SF writers around. A wonderfully good writer. The Secret of Life, White Devils and many more.

I'll stop there. As you can tell, I am a bit of an SF obsessive sometimes. Hope you find some things you enjoy.

I love how Arthur Clarke and Isac Asimov tells us a possible future but because they lived years ago their predictions sometimes conflict with the today's ideas so that is why I asked for post-2000 books.

Right now, Im browsing the books you posted.

I would probably had to import them aboard, I doubt, being fresh, they may have not be copyrighed in my country yet.

Being from Turkey you might like to have a look at The Dervish House by Ian McDonald. One of my recent favourites and set mainly in near future Istanbul.

Ozhan wrote: "I love how Arthur Clarke and Isac Asimov tells us a possible future but because they lived years ago their predictions sometimes conflict with the today's ideas so that is why I asked for post-2000..."

SF can date very rapidly; even though I think very little SF is actually of a predictive nature (most of the good stuff is about universal issues and reflects back at our own time and our own concerns), but just the way a small change in the direction of technology can make the way a previous generation see the future as 'quaint', like all those computers spitting out punch tape, or even the lack of mobile phones in William Gibson's first trilogy.

Richard, I've not read the McDonald yet, although have heard good things about it. It made me think of Jon Courtney Grimwood's superb Arabesque trilogy set in Alexandria, starting with Pashazade.

A good friend of mine taught in Ankara for several years, and he'd always take back a good pile of books when he came home, passing them on to other English readers when he'd finished. Good luck finding stuff.

Daemon by Daniel Suarez, but the sequel -- Freedom(tm) -- even more. The modern successor to cyberpunk. Freedom(tm) can probably be read solo, but it's better having read the first one.

Leviathan Wakes by James Corey. This is a detective story at the start of an interplanetary war between Earth, Mars and the outer moons/asteroids.

The Old Man's War by John Scalzi. There are 3 follow-ups, but this book was designed as a stand-alone. This is really good stuff.

Fuzzy Nation, also by Scalzi.

Into The Storm, the first entry of the Destroyermen series by Taylor Anderson. During a battle in WW2, a pair of WW1-era destroyers go through a storm an end up on an alternate Earth where dinosaurs never went extinct and humans never evolved. Just fun stuff.

John wrote: "For stories set in the near future with believable science you could try Robert Reed (Flashforward was one of his novels)."

If you're thinking of the TV show, that was Robert Sawyer.

I would recommend by Justin Cronin. It was published in 2010 (I think). It's post-apocalyptic science fiction mixed with horror.

Oh, I have an additional recommendation.
I haven't read it myself yet, but it's on my actual bookshelve - it comes highly recommended by one of my GoodReads friends:
by Dwight Okita

I just got a message telling me that this book (The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells) is available for free (Kindle version) at Amazon for a limited time. It's the first of a series so would be a good one to pick up if interested.

Just follow the link and select the button on the right that says Read it on this PC. If you are like me and don't own an eReader, you can now download a software version!

http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Roads-Mar...

I recommend Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan.

John wrote: "I recommend Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan."

I'll second that! Great reads.

Yep, definitely recommend Altered Carbon haven't read the second or third books yet.

Neilr wrote: "Yep, definitely recommend Altered Carbon haven't read the second or third books yet."

Awesome book, I think one of my bookclubs may be reading it in february or march. I mentioned how, erm, 'adult', bits of it were in an attempt to put them off but that only seems to have stoked their interest.

Neilr wrote: "Yep, definitely recommend Altered Carbon haven't read the second or third books yet."

I'll second (third, fourth?) Altered Carbon. Morgan's novel Thirteen was also excellent.

John wrote: "Set in the distant future, with no soft science like fast-than-light travel, consider reading Alastair Reynolds. "

I'm reading one of Reynolds' novels, Century Rain, right now and he is quite good.

So many good suggestions yet so little time :)

I'll just save this page for future references.

Richard wrote: "Being from Turkey you might like to have a look at The Dervish House by Ian McDonald."

Indeed, I bought it as soon as it was avaible, like most Turks, I'm a sucker for things that mention Turks :P But I havent able to read it yet but I must say I dislike the cover already...

//off topic// it has 4 woman in burqas and Arabic signs. I mean I saw more Burqas in France than my entire life in Turkey. //off topic//

Ozhan wrote: "So many good suggestions yet so little time :)

I'll just save this page for future references.

Richard wrote: "Being from Turkey you might like to have a look at The Dervish House by Ian McDonald..."

Just the usual publisher laziness responsible for the Dervish House cover, don't let it put you off what is IMHO a very good book, one in which Istanbul itself can be seen as a major character.

Ozhan wrote: "Hello,
Would you recommend me a Sci-Fi novel written in post 2000 ? And I'm not interested much in future fantasy right now."

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow is a must read for adults and YA alike. I'd also suggest Margaret Atwood's Year of the Flood, but suggest you read her Oryx and Crake 1st.