Book recommendations for DH (sci-fi/fantasy)

[LittenKitten]

Hello, can anyone help with book recommendations for DH? It's his birthday soon so after some ideas, particularly sci-fi and fantasy. He likes a good dystopian novel.

He's really enjoyed:

Classics like War of the Worlds, LOTR, 1984
Iain Banks
The Mortal Engine series
Books by Margaret Atwood (Oryx & Crake etc)
Children of Time and others by Adrian Tchaikovsky
A couple by Matt Haig (Humans, How to Stop Time)
The Martian, Artemis

Any suggestions welcome!

I've enjoyed -
Station 11
The girl with all the gifts
The power

Thanks @Cheguevarahamster, was just looking at The Girl with all the Gifts. Will check out the others too.

The Stand
Lucifers Hammer
The Passage trilogy
Swan Song

The Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey

Redemption Space by Alastair Reynolds
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Has he tried the Iain M Banks books? They're more sci fi than his others. Player of Games is particularly brilliant, as is Against a Dark Background. Also Haruki Murakami, while not sci fi is quite surreal and, based on the other books you've mentioned, I think he might like them.

does your husband use you tube - tell him to look up scifi movies by DUST they are usually short films (about half an hour) but some are briliant

On the Beach by Nevile Shute

Peter F Hamilton. Probably start with Pandora's Star.

If he liked Children of Time then I'd really recommend Adrian Tchaikovsky's recent book Cage of Souls (unless he's read it of course!). DD gave it me for Christmas, and it's fabulous.

The Ring of Fire series by Eric Flint
the first in the series is 1632, the American town of Grantville, West Virginia is transported to Germany in 1632.

The Emberverse series by S.M. Stirling
first in the series is Dies the Fire - all electronic devices and fossil fuels stop working.

Supervolcano series by Harry Turtledove
first in series is Eruption. Yellowstone park explodes.

The Red Rising books by Pierce Brown are excellent.

In short humans have colonised the solar system. Society now functions on a caste basis with "reds" at the bottom (confined to mining fuel on Mars in the belief they are making the plant habitable) and "golds" at the top. The title is a clue to the premise of the series :-)

I'd also recommend The Painted Man (also known as the Demon Cycle) series by Peter V Brett.

In summary the world has been turned back to a quasi medieval era following the (previously thought mythical) reemergence of demons (or corelings) that appear from the earths core each sundown. The only tool humanity possesses against them is warding, but wards are fragile and only defensive as the attacking wards have been lost. The books follow 4 main POV characters from children to adulthood and how they used their skills/talents to enable themselves and ultimately humanity survive:

Not dystopian but fantasy, my favourite author is Ian Irvine, his Three Worlds series is fairly epic

A classic is he's not read it already - Brave New World?

John Wyndham - Day of the triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos in particular.

The Wall - John Lanchester

Just started reading this and really enjoying it.

Forgot to say, The Wall has been likened to 1984, and was nominated for The Booker prize.

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Hitchikers guide to galaxy

Lots of ideas, thank you! I’ll save some of these for Christmas too 😄

@Doje he does like Iain Banks but I don’t recognise the ones you mentioned so I’ll check those.

@Sadik that’s his current read, he’s enjoying it!

Thanks all!!

@mumwon those films sound interesting, will suggest them to him!

Dust trilogy

I'd recommend Tim Powers' Dinner at Deviant's Palace for dystopian fiction - it may be out of print though, so you'd have to look at sourcing via AbeBooks or similar.

In general I'm a big Tim Powers fan - a lot of his stuff has historical overtones, but also fantasy elements. The Anubis Gates is another particularly good one.

Lastly I'd recommend C.S Friedman's Coldfire trilogy and K.J Parker's Fencer trilogy - both fantasy, very dark in places with interesting world building.

I too like Tim Powers but On Stranger Tides for me! Not v sci-fi I fear.

Dune

Reckon it's some hot foreign boyfriend scamming her

Wrong thread, perhaps?

The Laundry Files, roughly a 10 book series by Charles Stross, funny and dark. First one is The Atrocity Archives