Recommendations For Horror/fantasy/scifi

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  1. aleigh24024

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    Hello to all you fantasy, horror, and science fiction lovers out there! I'm glad you clicked this topic! I want to get more into reading some great books, i just dont where to start. If you happen to be a nerd of these genres, could you recommend some popular or very good reads in these 3 genres of fiction? Thanks so much!
     
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    Horror? Fantasy? Science fiction? [​IMG] [​IMG] GO!
    Also, if you link me, that would be great :)
     
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  5. hotwater

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    Frank Herbert
    Dune
    Dune Messiah
    Children of Dune
    God Emperor of Dune
    Heretics of Dune
    Chapterhouse Dune

    Rodney Castleden

    The Stonehenge People: An exploration of life in Neolithic Britain 4700-2000 BC

    Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson

    Hunters of Dune
    Sandworms of Dune
    Paul of Dune
    Sisterhood of Dune
    Mentats of Dune
    Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
    Dune: The Machine Crusade
    Dune: The Battle of Corrin
    Dune: House Atreides
    Dune: House Harkonnen
    Dune: House Corrino
    Road to Dune
    Dreamer of Dune

    Some favorite Authors:

    C.S. Lewis, O’ Henry, Katherine Mansfield, Sherwood Anderson, Virginia Wolfe, Hans Christian Anderson, Andre Gide, Somerset Maugham, Sinclair Lewis, Oscar Wilde, Dashiell Hammett, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Emanuel Swedenborg, L Frank Baum, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Dunsany, Cabell, William Saroyan,



    Hotwater
     
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    bears on wheels by stan and jan berenstain


    here is a free online version



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM9PqFPeZj8
     
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    "Woman On the Edge Of Time" by Marge Piercy
     
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    Almost any book from the Dragonlance series of novels
     
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    Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, by Stephen R. Donaldson
     
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    Are you on Goodreads?

    Goodreads is excellent for tracking what books you've read, and what books you want to read. There are also tons of recommendations on there, based on what genres you specify you are interested in.
     
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    Hmm no i'm not. I'll go check out goodreads now ! Thanks
     
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    hell yeah, thank you! :)
     
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    Very much so:

    Horror books:

    At the mountains of madness (and everything, by) HP Lovecraft
    The haunting of hill house & We Have always lived int he castle by Shirley Jackson
    Horror Stories of Antiquity/ count Magnus and other Tales by MR James
    It, Pet Cemetery, Misery, The Shining, Salem's Lot by Stephen King
    Spanky, Psychoville by Christopher Fowler
    House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danieleski
    I am Legend/Hell House by Richard Matheson
    Dracula by Bram Stoker
    The Hellbound heart/ Books of Blood by Clive Barker
    The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
    Horns by Joe Hill
    Let The Right one in by John Ajdvide Lindqvist
    Psycho by Robert Bloch
    The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
    The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
    Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
    The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks
    Ghost Story by Peter Straub
    Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

    Those are all horror fiction standards, (except Christopher Fowler, who is a personal choice) but If you want to get to grips with horror fiction in a hurry, these are probably the best ones to kick off with. The real Horror Hall-Of-Famers are Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King, Clive Barker, MR James and HP Lovecraft. In modern Horror, the exciting stuff is coming from writers like Laird Barron, Simon Stranzas, John Langan, Stephen Graham Jones, Thomas Ligotti and Caitlyn Kiernan. Pick up any collection edited by Ellen Datlow for the cream of the crop.
     
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  25. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Sci Fi:

    Child of Fortune, Norman Spinrad.
    Wendi Shasta Leonardo comes of age as she sets out to wander over the many planets of the second star faring age. Along the way she joins the rag tag neo hippy Gypsy Jokers and their leader Pater Pan, Pan leaves her to travel the universe by suspended animation so she hooks up with Guy Vlad Boca and ends up roaming the forests of the Bloomenwald searching for naturally occurring psychedelic drugs.

    But the Bloomenwald is known to trap those daring enough to test it with intoxicants that turn humans into pollinators of its system.
    Meanwhile Pater Pan has become addicted to The Charge.....

    One of the few sci books with a female heroine.

    The Foundation Trilogy, Issac Asimov.
    The three original highly acclaimed books about The Foundation.
    Hari Seldon has worked out the mathematics that allows him to predict the future based on large masses of society, but not individual events. He sets up a foundation to monitor societie's progress and manipulate the fall of the current Empire and the rise of a new one in 1,000 years as opposed to 30,000.
    The Foundation lies at the end of the end of the galaxy and proceeds to orchestrate a new beginning for man...until things go astray and the hunt is on for The Foundation to put it to an end.

    Neuormancer, William Gibson.
    The first cyberpunk sci fi book. Case and an enhanced female street samurai (razor girl) are hired to steal a ROM module containing the digitized consciousness of another hacker maned "The Dixie Flat-line". Along the way they get tangled up with American and soviet computer systems, artificial intelligences, rastafarians, ninjas, and the Turing law police.

    I, Robot, , Issac Asimov.
    Nothing like the movie of the same name. A series of short stories about robot development. It introduces the Three Laws of Robotics,

    A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
    A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
    A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

    The stories explore the implications of these three laws as the robots find themselves in conflicting situations.

    Fantasy:

    Watership Down, Richard Adams.
    Anther award winner. Fiver, a young rabbit seer sees the destruction of his warren in the future, he and his brother Hazel fight the leader of the warren and escape with eleven others into the country side. They join another warren only to find it is managed by humans for food stock, so they escape again and eventually find Watership Down where they set up a peaceful warren. But they soon realize they have no females........

    Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey.
    On Pern telepathic fire breathing dragons are used to fight thread, the mysterious substance that falls from the sky to ruin the crops in the field. But the dragons are dying out and Lessa must travel back in time to bring new dragons into the future and save the humans.

    That's all I have time for now.
     
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