Well I'm definitely into sci-fi literature.
There's simply nothing else nowadays (being in my early thirties) which can caught my attention and limited free time.
It's hard to sum it up to a couple of favorites...
If you prefer hardcore sci-fi over the rest - as I do, those are definitely first choices:
- Iain M. Banks Culture books ("Excession" being the best of all to me)
- Simmon's "Hyperion" and "Fall of Hyperion"
Some authors managed to bring some good pieces of space-opera without being too much cheesy:
- Hamilton and his Void books,
- and, of course, Herbert and the Dune stuff.
But I must warn the casual reader here: those kind of books can get really massive.
Second choices - but still really good books, would be stuff written by great guys like Asimov ("Foundation"), OS Card ("Enders game") or RC Wilson ("Spin").
It's hard to sum it up to a couple of favorites... If you prefer hardcore sci-fi over the rest - as I do, those are definitely first choices: - Iain M. Banks Culture books ("Excession" being the best of all to me) - Simmon's "Hyperion" and "Fall of Hyperion"
Some authors managed to bring some good pieces of space-opera without being too much cheesy: - Hamilton and his Void books, - and, of course, Herbert and the Dune stuff. But I must warn the casual reader here: those kind of books can get really massive.
Second choices - but still really good books, would be stuff written by great guys like Asimov ("Foundation"), OS Card ("Enders game") or RC Wilson ("Spin").