I love a good science fiction. I recently finished Ender's Game and Seveneves (highly recommend). But now I'm looking for recommendations for another good science fiction book.
Any ideas?

My favorites are Dean Koontz.

Odd Thomas and Christopher Snow characters in particular.   I think my first Dean Koontz novel was Tick Tock.  Still enjoy that one.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Might be a little tame for you.   I won't read the weird looking guy's books any more...Stephen King. 

I enjoy Alien Intrusion by Gary Bates.   

Quote from: Calypso Jones on June 11, 2020, 10:49:21 AM
My favorites are Dean Koontz.

Odd Thomas and Christopher Snow characters in particular.   I think my first Dean Koontz novel was Tick Tock.  Still enjoy that one.

A girlfriend from decades ago LOVED Dean Koontz -- her favorite by far.  He certainly has a following.

For me, the classics of the fantasy genre were and remain the Englishman Herbert Wells, the Pole Stanislav Lem, and the Soviet writers, the Strugatsky brothers.

These writers combine the play of the imagination, the brilliance of style and the humanism that great writers absolutely need.

Stanislav Lem and the Strugatsky brothers have been translated into English several times and you can read them if you wish.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/arkady-strugatsky.html

Ursula Le Guin.

"Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series."   Wikipedia

Born: October 21, 1929, Berkeley, CA
Died: January 22, 2018, Portland, OR
Short stories: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, MORE
Movies: Tales from Earthsea, The Lathe of Heaven, Lathe of Heaven

"Universe in the Universe".

Who among us does not know this name?

Although what am I saying ... American schoolchildren and students no longer read books, and recent college graduates even more so. The fashion for reading is gone, and what today's writers write can hardly be called intellectual reading, so the letters folded into words from which sentences are made into which banal thoughts are embedded.

Sadly, but Ursula's books have already been written and, perhaps, the time will come again when they will be read.

There are countless writers who have written books. There are countless writers who have created memorable images. But there are very few writers like Le Guin who created their own universes.

The books of such writers are not adventures, love and war (although all of this is there), the books of such writers are philosophical treatises, dressed in the form of interesting narratives, so that not only boring snobs can read them, but also ordinary people like me, not burdened their minds with academic knowledge.

That said, Ursula le Guin's books are very patchy.

Some of them rise to the shining heights of genius, which we call "enlightenment", others are formal, the third are subject to certain artificial constructions, in which the author himself would like to believe, but he understands that these constructions have no basis in real life, which means they have little relation to the genus "Homo sapiens sapiens", which the author is studying closely.

URSULA K. LE GUIN BOOKS IN ORDER

https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/ursula-k-le-guin/

Dune is really good.

Quote from: JohnReese on January 27, 2021, 10:29:19 PM
Dune is really good.

Yes. The author has created an absolutely amazing universe in which spaceships move in space by the power of the Novigator's thoughts, and empires are ruled by genetic mutants specially created to be masters.

The message was excellent.

But, unfortunately, when the author began to develop the plot in detail, he did not go further than the petty fuss around the seizure of power. And his "absolute" soldiers, just Bedouins from the earth's deserts.

At one time, I had to come across very closely with the Pashtuns, a people who live in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is a very brave and hardened people in the mountains. They have been living there for several thousand years and have adapted well there.

But you know, spoiled by good food and portable toilets, the American marines, led by blunt and corrupt politicians, did not have a serious opponent in the person of the Pashtuns.

Civilization was on the side of the American soldiers - technical achievement and discipline.

But on the other hand, the book "Dune" is a high classic. There were also two sequel books. Read to your health and have fun.

I think one of my most favorite genres is science fi and I am going to enlarge  that right now to include  cslewis and  jrr Tolkien.  I've been watching  a lot of this as I recuperated from surgery....and the message is the deep human desire for freedom.  Their works are prescient for today and let me add,  biblically influenced.

Quote from: Calypso Jones on January 28, 2021, 09:39:38 AM
.and the message is the deep human desire for freedom.  Their works are prescient for today and let me add,  biblically influenced.

The main thing that distinguishes science fiction and fantasy from realistic prose is the ability to create a new universe.

If the realist writer has to embed his plot and the characters he created into the existing reality (which can be very miserable and disgusting), then the science fiction writer is limited in his writings only by the liberation of his brain.

And the human brain has so many freedom of action of its neurons that their number exceeds the number of atoms in the entire visible universe. That is, in all likelihood, each of us can comprehend this universe or build a new one with the power of his imagination.

Well, what content the author can put into his universe, it already depends only on the breadth of his horizons, the depth of his thought and his ability to write this universe on paper.

Quote from: Yuriy the Loader on January 28, 2021, 09:07:03 AM
Yes. The author has created an absolutely amazing universe in which spaceships move in space by the power of the Novigator's thoughts, and empires are ruled by genetic mutants specially created to be masters.

The message was excellent.

But, unfortunately, when the author began to develop the plot in detail, he did not go further than the petty fuss around the seizure of power. And his "absolute" soldiers, just Bedouins from the earth's deserts.

At one time, I had to come across very closely with the Pashtuns, a people who live in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is a very brave and hardened people in the mountains. They have been living there for several thousand years and have adapted well there.

But you know, spoiled by good food and portable toilets, the American marines, led by blunt and corrupt politicians, did not have a serious opponent in the person of the Pashtuns.

Civilization was on the side of the American soldiers - technical achievement and discipline.

But on the other hand, the book "Dune" is a high classic. There were also two sequel books. Read to your health and have fun.

Thank you