[Nachum]

Just finished the Dresden series....

[DBrow]

John Twelve Hawk’s Traveler series is interesting, not your usual science fiction/fantasy.

[djf]

Philip K. Dick

[NMEwithin]

"Necroscope" series by Brian Lumley

"Book of The Gods" series by Fred Saberhagen

[nickcarraway]

Anyone read, The Audacity of Hope?

[RepRivFarm]

Stephen R. Donaldson. After Tolkein, best Fantasy writer ever.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Finished Silverberg's Tower of Glass not long ago. A very underrated novel.

[Fishtalk]

http://fishfiction.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Syndrome

http://fishfiction.blogspot.com/search/label/To%20Hell%20and%20Back

Both my own short stories.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Orson Scott Card - Especially “Ender’s Game”
Terry Pratchett - Really been reading him a lot recently
J.R.R. Tolkien - duh
Asimov - duh
Heinlein - duh
Bradbury - duh
Eddings - Belgariad/Mallorean series
Salvatore - pure pulp, but Drizzt is a great character, also check out “The Cleric Quintet”
Lawhead - Pendragon Cycle, Byzantium, and the new Robin Hood stuff
Goodkind - Sword of Truth series is spotty, but “Faith of the Fallen” (book 6) is amazing
The late Robert Jordan - Even though it is way too long and way too complex, the Wheel of Time is a really fun read for pure escapism

[KarlInOhio]

Dune, now with greater understanding of why you never want to let desert barbarians access to either 1. a rare, but absolutely necessary resource, 2. the family atomics, or 3. knives. With my last reading I was rooting against the Fremen.

[Paradox]

Dan Simmons can spin a good yarn. The Hyperion/Endymion series in particular.

[PzLdr]

Robert E. Howard’s “Conan” tales.

[sr4402]

Honor series by David Weber. You’ll read them over and over again.

[Kartographer]

I too recently finished Jim Butcher The Dresen Files Series all have been excellent reads. My personal favorite for sword and sorcery fantasy is Dennis McKeirnan. For those fellow Freepers who like this gendre you may like to take a look at my homepage:

http://theoldecartographersshoppe.net/

[JMS]

Agreed, also Jim Butcher’s Furies series, David Weber’s Honor Harrington and just about anything else he writes, Simon R. Green’s Nightside and Drood series as well. Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire series, Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan series, Elizabeth Moon’s Vatta’s War series are some of the ones that come to mind immediately.

[The Louiswu]

Jack McDevitt's Alex Benedict series
A Talent for War (1989)
Polaris (2004), ISBN 0-441-01202-7
Seeker (2005) - winner of Nebula Award for Best Novel, ISBN 0-441-01329-5
The Devil's Eye (2008), ISBN 0-441-01635-9

[Young Werther]

Isaac Asimov published 453 Books.

The Foundation Series.

The Robot Series!

Arthur C. Clarke.

Take your pick.

To Infinity and Beyond!

[Sam Cree]

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[The Louiswu]

Robert Buetner's Jason Wander series
1. ORPHANAGE (1 April 2008 - Reissued), the first volume in the "Jason Wander" series. Mankind’s first alien contact tears into Earth: projectiles launched from Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede, vaporize whole cities. Under siege, humanity gambles on one desperate counterstrike. In a spacecraft scavenged from scraps and armed with Vietnam-era weapons, foot soldiers like eighteen-year-old Jason Wander-orphans that no one will miss-must dare man’s first interplanetary voyage and invade Ganymede.

2. Orphan's Destiny (1 April 2008 - Reissued), the second volume in the "Jason Wander" series. At twenty-five, General Jason Wander has fought and won man’s only alien conflict. Now, after long years in space, he’s coming home…but to what? Earth’s desperate nations, impoverished by war damage and military spending, are slashing defense budgets. There’s just one problem with this new worldwide policy-the first alien invasion was merely Plan A. Suddenly, the real assault begins: Earth is attacked by a vast armada of city-sized warships. To block their invasion, mankind has only one surviving craft and a single guerrilla strike force…a suicide squad led by Jason Wander."

3. Orphan’s Journey (1 April 2008 - Reissued), the third volume in the "Jason Wander" series. In the years since the last Slug War, Jason’s command style hasn’t made him any friends in the Army. Now, in an effort to keep him out of trouble, the Army has sent Jason to the vast, Earth-orbiting resort called New Moon. At the core of this enormous space station is a starship, a relic from the last war. When a test run of the ship goes wrong, Jason, along with a handful of others, will be torn from orbit and thrust into space. Now, stranded on an alien planet, Jason realizes that not only are his friends looking to him for rescue, but an entire planet sees him as their only hope.

4. Orphan’s Alliance (28 October 2008), the fourth volume in the "Jason Wander" series. Humans have been discovered on the Outworlds. And the Army decides to send emissaries. Emissaries like Jason Wander. As intraplanetary conflicts rage around him, and the personal stakes get ever higher, Jason finds that playing planet-hopping politician can be harder than commanding armies. When united mankind squares off to battle the Slugs for a precious interstellar crossroad, Jason will discover that the most dangerous enemy may be the one he least expects.

5. Orphan’s Triumph (coming 26 May 2009), the fifth volume in the "Jason Wander" series. Jason Wander is ready to lead the final charge into battle. After forty years of fighting the Slugs, mankind's reunited planets control the vital crossroad that secures their uneasy union. The doomsday weapon that can end the war, and the mighty fleet that will carry it to the Slug homeworld, lie within humanity's grasp. Since the Slug Blitz orphaned Jason Wander, he has risen from infantry recruit to commander of Earth's garrisons on the emerging allied planets. But four decades of service have cost Jason not just his friends and family, but his innocence. When an enemy counter stroke threatens to reverse the war and destroy mankind, Jason must finally confront not only his lifelong alien enemy, but the reality of what a lifetime as a soldier has made him.

[BushCountry]

http://baderbooks.com/Parole/

My book that I am in process of writing. ;^)

While not hard science fiction, it has one heck of a twist involving a scary top secret government program that utilizes technology currently not in existence.

[The Louiswu]

Glen Cook's Passage at Arms (1985)

The Das Boot of sci fi novels. A very tight story, a quick read with lovely action and great storytelling.