Book of the New Sun -Gene Wolfe.
A sort of combined sci/fi fantasy book which is the story of Severian the torturer.
"This is the first-person narrative of Severian, a lowly apprentice torturer blessed and cursed with a photographic memory, whose travels lead him through the marvels of far-future Urth, and who--as revealed near the beginning--eventually becomes his land's sole ruler or Autarch. On the surface it's a colorful story with all the classic ingredients: growing up, adventure, sex, betrayal, murder, exile, battle, monsters, and mysteries to be solved. (Only well into book 2 do we realize what saved Severian's life in chapter 1.) For lovers of literary allusions, they are plenty here: a Dickensian cemetery scene, a torture-engine from Kafka, a wonderful library out of Borges, and familiar fables changed by eons of retelling. Wolfe evokes a chilly sense of time's vastness, with an age-old, much-restored painting of a golden-visored "knight," really an astronaut standing on the moon, and an ancient citadel of metal towers, actually grounded spacecraft. Even the sun is senile and dying, and so Urth needs a new sun."
Try Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council by China Mieville, they're fantasy, but not like anything else I ever read.What is a good fantasy/science fiction/alternate history book to read?
If you liked harry turtledove (he is the king of alternate history!!) then you might like Harry Harrison
The best fantasy series I ever read was the sword of truth by Terry goodkind
Science Fiction the saga of the pliocene exiles by julien mayWhat is a good fantasy/science fiction/alternate history book to read?
The Year of the Hangman by Gary Blackwood
1945 by Robert Conroy
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series. Basically 2 trilogies of amazing alternate history - set in an alternate Renaissance Europe where everything is the same. . . except that Christianity didn't catch on, and a different religion is the main one. So at the same time, everything is different! Definitely epic. (Note: also explicit at times).
Jules Watson's The White Mare %26amp; The Dawn Stag - fantasy/alternate history duo about Scotland starting in 79AD, when Britain was still Roman... and Rome wanted Scotland.
And since like the Dresden files, a couple other urban fantasy authors you MAY enjoy: Kelley Armstrong (start with Bitten, about a female werewolf), Patrica Briggs (start with Moon Called, which starts the coyote-girl's story), and Charlaine Harris (lighter, more humourous, though more aimed at women I think - about a telepathic cocktail waitress who ends up deep in the supernatural world.)
Have you read the Dune series by Frank Herbert,its a great series to read.
I also love Raymond E feist's Riftwar saga,it starts with Magician.
Try Anne Rice. Awsome author. Even if you're not into vampires, try others like "Servant of the Bones."
Brave New World is something of a science fiction book... It's kinda heavy, but it's a thoughtful take on things.
I like the Twelve Kingdom series by Fuyumi Ono. It got turned into an anime, also named The Twelve Kingdoms, and it's one of my favorites. It's like a whole nother world.
You can check out the graphic novel medium-- The Sandman is a great series. It's writer is Neil Gaiman, perhaps you've heard of him. He wrote Stardust and Neverwhere (both of which I haven't read, but I'm assured anything he writes is good).
Oh yeah, haha, did you read the Lord of the Rings series...?
Here's a few books:
Fantasy: Harry Potter, Penndragon, Eragon
Science Fiction:
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Day of The Triffids by John Wydham
The Whims of Creation by Simon Hawke
1984 by George Orwell
Jurassic Park by Micheal Cricton
The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Glass Tower by Robert Silverberg
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
I agree with some of the people here.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is a must read!
And Ann Rice is absolutely fabulous too. In her Vampire Chronicles she keeps going on about the same main figure and always comes up with fresh ideas. Never getting boring.
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