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I just finished reading The Crystal City, the final(?) chapter in the Alvin Maker series.

I have read all of the Ender/Shadow series.

What are some other good OSC books?

Or not necessarily even an OSC book, but any sci-fi or fantasy book?

Any reccomendations?

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Neill Gaiman, American God's
Great book
I liked the ender series haven't read any other OSC books.

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He wrote one recently that was really good to start with but got a little strained at the end.

EMPIRE

It can be a convesation starter but the book just came off the rails at the end.

I also strongly suggest David Weber's Honor Harrington Series. It's essentially a space opera based on the Horatio Hornblower premise.

Also by David Weber: 1632. A small Virginia coal town is blown back into the middle of Germany during the 30 years war. It's a series, although Weber hands off the series to other writers along the way.

I've a particular attachment to David Weber as a writer as I met him at a convention in Madison and spent a fair amount of time drinking beer with him. He's a very nice man who totally appreciates fans, not as commercial entities but as people. He actually married a fan he met at a book signing.

I also picked up Hominid by Robert Sawyer during a vacation a couple years back and found it very interesting.

I plowed through just about everythign Heinlein wrote and own copies of most of it. Definaitely worth the read IMO. Also, Azimov has a lot of good stuff from the rather ponderous Empire series to the more pulp ficiton Daneel Olivaw stuff. Also worth the time.

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I read the first two or three of the Ender series, but nothing else by Card.

Other sci-fi writers I have enjoyed are Roger Zelazny, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and Philip Jose Farmer. These are all old school guys you've probably read already. I haven't kept up with the sci-fi genre.

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Songmaster, Enchantment, Hart's Hope are good, though not SF. Treason is interesting.

I highly recommend, "Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus", an alternate history right up there with Harry Harrison's work.

If you like hard SF and haven't read anything by Catherine Asaro, get some NOW.

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+1 1632 by Weber is a fantastic read! Loved it!

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While maybe not scifi in the same since I LOVE Vonnegut.....

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My favorite Gaiman books are Neverwhere, Stardust & Good Omens w/ Terry Pratchett. Some of his collection of shorts, like Smoke & Mirrors, are pretty fantastic too. American Gods and Anasi Boys kinda left me flat. Fragile Things has been sitting on my coffee table for several weeks...just can't get into most of the stories.

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Lee Child's Jack Reacher series and John Sandford's Prey series are fantastic thriller/adventure books. They are both in my top 10 favorite authors.

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I really, really liked the Larry Niven duology: The Integral Trees and The Smoke Ring. As a comparable setting The Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder. I read it as a serial in Analog but I think it can be found as the first novel in a series.

I have recently began both the Revelation Space series by Alistair Reynolds and the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F Hamilton. I find both interesting so far.

I did like the first half of the Hyperion quadology by Dan Simmons. I wasn't as thrilled with the last half but I'd still recommend the series as a whole.

I haven't been reading a whole lot of fantasy but I remember liking The Anvil of the World by Kage Baker.

Good reading if you pick any of these titles.