Recommend authors please! Urgent

[Jux]

Dh likes

Neal Asher
Neal Stephenson
Joe Abercrombie
Joe Hill
Charles Stross (Laundry files, not the dreadful Merchants stuff)

He doesn't like George RR Martin, and we've got pretty well all the authors that come up close on literature map.

He likes big space odyssey battles etc. He likes the massive scope of Abercrombie. He likes a bit of horror.

He has all their latest.

Pls recomm an author or two. We were meant to go to Waterstones today, but I wasn't well enough, so I'm going to have to use Amazon.

Oh yes, Hyperion is present in this house, and all its spawn!

I suppose we've both been reading scifi since the 60s, and there was a time when we could afford tons of books.

Apples, he didn't like Bujold. I think he thought it wasn't well written.

He gets a bit tired of things he thinks are more Fantasy than SciFi. You can't tell where his line is, as he also liked that one with the Nine Finger hero. I can't remember it's title. Anyway, I had thought it was very close to fantasy, but it wasn't - according to him. Does anyone know the book I am talking about?

Does he like 'proper' sci-fi as my dh calls it? In which case try:
Larry Niven's 'Ringworld'
Frederick Pohl 'Gateway'
Jack Vance 'Dying Earth'

I love fantasy but dh gave me these to read as 'proper' sic-fi books and I really enjoyed them, especially the Jack Vance ones.

It's always worth checking the Hugo and Nebula award winners for good sci-fi stuff.

Stephen Donaldsons Thomas Covenant books Jux?

The nine-fingered hero one is Joe Abercrombie's First Law thingie

I read and threw away in disgust the first Gap book. It was all about the very detailed torture and rape of a woman. That was the whole book. Continuous rape and torture. Then more rape and torture. It was disgusting.

I'm happy to learn what I've missed in that book, if anything.

Neither of us were very bothered by Thomas Covenant, tbh. What is the Gap series? Cote makes it sound pretty horrid.

Oy, we have both read all those, they're the scifi we grew up with. As well as Asimov, Clarke, etc. (Clarke rang me up once and told me off! That's my claim to fame . Mind you, it could have been Patrick Moore, long time ago.)

Vinge looks his sort of thing. I think I'd enjoy them too. If I spent less time on mn my pile of 'waiting to be read' would be much smaller.

What did Clarke tell you off about, Jux?

Rubbish in space, Cote! If I say more I'll be horribly outed to people I have left very very far behind.

Slugs, my brother's read the gap series. He says it is very violent, and has gone off to refresh his memory of it as he can't remember anything else, except it's "quite well written".

Just popping back on to say thanks to all of you. He's finished them all, and enjoyed them.

I, too, have read Red Rising, and we both enjoyed it. I haven't read any of the others yet, as I got a few books too, and am getting through those (currently Dark Eden, which is quite fun).

So thank you to all of you. There is plenty in this thread to keep us going on new authors for a while yet. I am particularly looking forward to The Martian!

Rowan Colman. Caroline Mitchell.Jenny Barden Neil Gaiman ,Carole Matthew, Julia Forester , Lee Child, Mark Billingham, Sophie Kinsella, Anne Cleaves, Adele Parks, Judy Blume, Susan Hill.

Massive space battles
Jack Campbells Lost Fleet series Dauntless is the first one

or E.E. Smiths Lensmen series - from the first Triplanetary
The mouth of that enormous hollow cone was a ring of scout patrols, the smallest and most agile vessels of the fleet. Behind them came a somewhat smaller ring of light cruisers, then rings of heavy cruisers and of light battleships, and finally of heavy battleships. At the apex of the cone, protected by all the other vessels of the formation and in best position to direct the battle, was the flagship. In this formation every vessel was free to use her every weapon, with a minimum of danger to her sister ships; and yet, when the gigantic main projectors were operated along the axis of the formation, from the entire vast circle of the cone's mouth there flamed a cylindrical field of force of such intolerable intensity that in it no conceivable substance could endure for a moment!

I should have mentioned the Lensmen series is out of copyright and can be downloaded free to use as epub, kindle, html or text from
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/