Recommendations for science fiction novels please.

[LiveLifeWithPassion]

Has anyone read any recent sci fi that they would recommend?

I loved The Martian. Being inside that character's head was wonderful.

Darwin's Radio - Greg Bear
Canopus in Argos series by Doris Lessing
The Years of Rice and Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury

Thanks so much. I'm going to enjoy checking out all these books.

Arcadia by Iain Pears. Time travel, parallel worlds, ideas.

Sorry for my late response, totally forgot about this thread!

If you're in for the long-haul, I would look at The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons, Revelation Space by Alistair Reynolds (or House of Suns if you want a stand alone novel), or the Xeelee Sequence by Stephen Baxter. Really far-reaching hard science-fiction. Will blow your mind!

If you want a short mind-fuck Tau Zero is a great short novel. If you want to wonder about aliens then try The Mote in God's Eye or Rendevous with Rama.

The Forge of God's quite good if you want a take on alien invasion.

And The Stars My Destination is a classic, Gully Foyle is one of the great anti-heroes in literature.

I don't think you can go wrong with any of those.

Happy to help you more if you need it, it's my genre!

Ps, My Dad used to work for NASA.

If you like a bit of steampunk with your sci-fi, try Chris Wooding's Tales of the Ketty Jay sequence, starting with Retribution Falls. They are great fun.

Thanks for more suggestions. I actually have no idea what steampunk is but am looking forward to finding out.

Wow Hairyhands. Did you get to see some exciting stuff?

All the commonwealth series by Peter F Hamilton, start with Pandora's star

I loved The Stone Man, it is looong tho. Also Station Eleven and anything by John Wyndham, esp The Crysalids (not spacy tho). Also Bester as mentioned above, The Demolished Man is awesome. :)

Just realised Wyndham and Bester are not at all recent - sorry!

Bester is brilliant but anyone reading this should probably be aware that the anti-hero protagonist of Tiger Tiger/Stars My Destination is a rapist.

I've just finish Seveneves by Neal Stephenson and thought it was great. A bit old fashioned hard science scfi but really really good and lots about NASA.

Bester is brilliant but anyone reading this should probably be aware that the anti-hero protagonist of Tiger Tiger/Stars My Destination is a rapist.

We are Legion (We are Bob) by Dennis E Taylor. I found it fascinating, have downloaded the sequel as an audio book.

Saga of the exiles by Julian may one of my favorite series of all time!

Also Enders game (or son Scott card)
Forever war (joe haldeman - he's a lovely person too)

Something by Kim Stanley Robinson, eg the Martian trilogy

I can thoroughly recommend The Humans, by Matt Haig.

Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan is my all time favourite (hence the username). It's brilliant sci-fi as well as a detective story.

I always thought I wouldn't like sci Fi, but someone have me a terry pratchet disc world book recently, and I loved it. It was intelligent, witty, well informed, and well written.
I'm going to read the rest.

Claire North has written two excellent and different books

The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August
Touch

Actually, Foyle isn't a rapist, don't bastardise that. He's a shit, an angry man, but he isn't a rapist.

I wouldn't classify Humans or The First Fifteen Lives as science fiction, great books, and certainly worth a read. But not science fiction.

Live, not really, it was the 70s so living in the States was exciting enough in itself!

Yes of course Foyle is a rapist. He rapes Robin.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stars_My_Destination

"A bit old fashioned hard science scfi"

What do you mean by that, turkey?