I have heard of Ender’s series a bit (I think I am not mixing something here). I guess I need to check out 2 and 4.

I guess you should check out my Fantasy list too:

http://lazyhabits.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/my-top-5-fantasies/

And of course, do check out my other reviews. And keep commenting…

I’m also into SFF (Science Fiction and Fantasy)…

Here are my top 5..

1. LOTR, but of course

2. Riverworld series by Philip Jose Farmer

3. Ender’s series by Orson Scott Card

4. Hyperion series by Dan Simmons

5. and of course, the guilty pleasure of Hitchiker’s Guide

Sanjana

I have found these “Top X” posts to be excellent baits to get to know good new books, without trolling through the net, while talking about my favourites… Your comment is another example of why.

I haven’t tried Lensman series, but have heard about Ringworld series. It is definitely on my to-read.

My reactions to the Mars series are like Arthur C. Clarke books. I don’t hate them, but I won’t put any in the top positions either. Well, personal PoV really.

Got any more to share? Do check out my other reviews and posts…

3. The Lensman Series by E.E. Smith – The best of the author’s many “space opera” series. The first book was published in 1937 and it still captures the imagination.

4. The “Mars” series by Edgar Rice Burroughs – Although they can only marginally be classified as SF, they are better by far than his Tarzan series. The first was serialized in 1912 as “Under the Moons of Mars”, but published in book form as “A Princess of Mars”. This first book is currently being made into a movie.

5. The Ringworld series by Larry Niven – More recent and a lot harder. This series is amazing in that the physics of the author’s creations would work in the real universe. A real treat for any fan of “hard” SF.

I hope that if you haven’t tried these series you will give them a shot. With that in mind, I feel compelled to add a few honorable mentions;

The Flinx and Pip series by Alan Dean Foster – Because they’re just so much fun,

The Motie series (only two books) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle – Because the first book “The Mote in God’s Eye” is the greatest “hard” SF novel ever written, and

The Well of Souls series by Jack L. Chalker – although it sometimes dips into fantasy it still remains firmly rooted in SF and is the best of the author’s “changeling” series.

While Crichton preaches about science, Clancy does it about politics. I like “Explorers” mainly because it is plausible adventures of kids, even the action is plausible for kids that age, and the rhetoric is kept to a minimum.

Haven’t read Neuromancer yet, maybe I will check that out.

Firstly – the Jurassic Park novels are admirably science-grounded, and fascinating concepts. But I found the tone of the books a bit patronising, and also over-moralising. I have no problem with the concept at all, and it’s a clever mix of the sciencifically possible and the scientifically improbable. But….well, as novels, they could have been a lot better. I don’t like the way Chrichton handles his characters, I guess, and I don’t like being preached to.

Secondly, the Net Force Explorers books, from what I’ve read, are fine. But for me, William Gibson rules cyberspace, and always will. Pick up a copy of ‘Neuromancer’, which was written in 1984 and still sounds like it was written tomorrow…..

The story may not be realistic, but as science fictions go, it is pretty much achievable given current advances in genome, right?