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 riddle 14 Feb 2013
Sci-fi, fantasy book ideas please.

I have read the Brent Weeks trilogy and really enjoyed this very dark series. A few other authors to save you some time, include David Gemmell, Harry Harrison, Iain Banks, Richard Morgan, Robert Jordan, George Martin, Brandon Sanderson to name a few.

Anything dark and gritty...
 climbingpixie 14 Feb 2013
In reply to riddle:

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville is amazing. Very dark and superbly written.
What Goes Up 14 Feb 2013
In reply to climbingpixie: Walter Mosley. Try 'Blue Light' (sci-fi) and 'The Man in my Basement')not sci-fi but a cracking read) for starters.
 FinrodFelagund 15 Feb 2013
In reply to riddle:

Ursula le Guin, The Dispossessed and the Left Hand of Darkness. Both superb, but I'd rate the former a bit ahead of the latter.
 FinrodFelagund 15 Feb 2013
In reply to R_Blackburn:

Margaret Atwood, the Handmaid's Tale.
 graeme jackson 15 Feb 2013
In reply to riddle:
Anne Mccaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series.
and her Crystal singer trilogy

Julian may's Saga of the exiles and Galactic milieu

Stephen Donaldson's gap series is Very dark.
 Bulls Crack 15 Feb 2013
In reply to riddle:
> Anything dark and gritty...

Wharncliffe
 LennyJ1 15 Feb 2013
In reply to riddle:

World War Z is good
cb294 15 Feb 2013
 jayjackson 15 Feb 2013
In reply to climbingpixie:
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> Perdido Street Station by China Mieville is amazing. Very dark and superbly written.

His other Bas Lag stories are great too - plots are linked but all the books are stand alone - The Scar (my favorite of the three) and Iron Council.

Joe Abercrombie is pretty good, been mentioned on here quite a bit recently, I prefer his The Third Law trilogy, but his other books are worth a read too.

I remember enjoying The Sword of Albion by Mark Chadbourn, but cannot remember anything more about it than that!
OP riddle 15 Feb 2013
In reply to climbingpixie: Read it, and agreed.
OP riddle 15 Feb 2013
In reply to riddle:

Thanks to you all, that little lot has been ordered and the Kindle is BUSY.
Palamon 18 Feb 2013
In reply to riddle: If you haven't read it yet Dune is awesome
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