Awesome SCi-Fi series

[Kenny]

For me, there's nothing like having an awesome series of science fiction books, reading one after another, and being completely enveloped into a fictional world. So let's have it, what are your favorite sci-fi series?

[Connor Michael Geary]

Check out the Horus Heresy series. By far the best Sci-fi series I have read.

[Patrick Meehan]

Game of Thrones. Author NOT REQUIRED, I hope.
Malazan Book of the Fallen. Steven Erickson. I haven't actually finished it, but still.
Everything by Robin Hobb.
Hyperion and Ilium/Olympos, both by Dan Simmons.
Dragonlance. Specifically the second series, the one about Raistlin. Go figure. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
Lies of Locke Lamora. ... ........... I don't have it with me, OK? Scott Lynch, there it is.
I last read Lord of the Rings at around age 10, so I don't remember much about it, but I'm sure it should have a place here somewhere.
These are mostly in order of greatest to least love, but Malazan is probably a little too high because I've been reading it recently. Do you regret asking?

[Gretalaurelina]

Yes, totally agree with Game of Thrones (author George RR Martin) and Robin Hobb, altho I would say they are fantasy, not sci-fi. But if you don't mind fantasy, i'd definitely recommend giving them a go

[Sword_of_Light]

I got bored with Game of Thrones. After a while I just stopped caring who got killed off unexpectedly, and WHOA! I bet you totally werent expecting THAT!
And I think Braveheart is responsible for the overly graphic depictions of death by medevial unpleasantness. Its gone from Tolkien's style of "Legolas slew the orc with three well placed shots" to "the arrow pierced his heart just below the left ventricle, and such was the force of the arm that drew the bow that the arrow came out his back in a bloody spew."
Yeah, thanks George. We could have done with "he died with an arrow in his chest."

Now, for my money, Dave Duncan is the man for modern fantasy writing. Try his Man of His Word or The Kings Blades series for some really addictive spec-fic

-Don

[Kenny]

Yeah, thanks George. We could have done with "he died with an arrow in his chest.

I respectfully disagree. Graphic violence ftw.

[Kenny]

Thanks for the suggestions, but when I said "sci-fi" I didn't mean "sci-fi/fantasy", I meant "sci-fi". You know, like space ships, and aliens, and viruses wiping out humanity, and stuff like that.

[Gretalaurelina]

Thought that might be the case. If you find any good ones, let me know!

[President Clive-φ-Davidson]

Terry Pratchett has written a few Sci-fi books; Strata and The Dark Side of the Sun. They were the first novels that he had published.