Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books

The Malazan Book Of The Fallen Series
by Steven Erikson

Erickson's densely plotted series jumps around in time to chronicle the vicissitudes of the sprawling Malazan Empire, a place of shifting alliances, mysterious mage guilds, assassin gods and military uprisings.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:01

The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde

In a world where you can actually get lost (literally) in literature, Thursday Next, a notorious Special Operative in literary detection, races against time to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature, forcing her to dive into the pages of a novel to stop literary homicide, in a wildly imaginative, mesmerizing thriller.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:01

The Culture Series
by Iain Banks

A science-fiction series by the author of the Wasp Factory features a symbiotic human and machine society that is engaged in a galaxy-wide battle to the death between the Idrians, who fight for their faith, and the Culture, which defends its right to exist.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:03

The Crystal Cave
by Mary Stewart

Stewart's first chapter in her five-volume take on the Arthurian legend is told from the point of view of young Merlin, who reluctantly engineers the birth of Arthur.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:06

Anathem
by Neal Stephenson

Raz, who has lived in a monastery since childhood, away from the violent upheavals of the outside world, becomes one of a group of formerly cloistered scholars who are appointed by a higher power to avert an impending disaster.

Melanie 18 июня 2012 г., 22:34

The Codex Alera Series
by Jim Butcher

In the land of Alera, where people bond with the furies — elementals of earth, air, fire, water, and metal — young Tavi struggles to cope with his lack of magical talent, until his homeland erupts into conflict between rebels and loyalists and Tavi discovers that he holds the key to his realm's survival.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:07

The Book Of The New Sun
by Gene Wolfe

In the distant future, after the sun has cooled and dimmed, the disgraced torturer Sevarian recounts his hard-fought rise to absolute power.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:09

The Thrawn Trilogy
by Timothy Zahn

Five years after the fall of the Empire, a dying part of the Empire all the more dangerous near death has just discovered something that could bring it back, the last of the Emperor's warlords, Admiral Thrawn.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:11

The Outlander Series
by Diana Gabaldon

Hurtled back through time more than 200 hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself in the midst of a world torn apart by violence, pestilence and revolution, and haunted by her feelings for a young soldier.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:13

The Elric Saga
by Michael Moorcock

Elric of Melnibone, an albino prince, travels in the Ship Which Sails Over Land and Sea to the city of Dhoz-Kam, through the Shade Gate to the Pulsing Cavern where the magic swords Stormbringer and Mournblade await him.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:15

The Illustrated Man
by Ray Bradbury

Eighteen science fiction stories deal with love, madness and death on Mars, Venus and in space.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:18

Sunshine
by Robin McKinley

All hope for stopping the vampiric elite from controlling Earth depends on human SOFs (Special Other Forces) and the success of their attempt to recruit Sunshine, the daughter of legendary sorcerer Onyx Blaise.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:18

A Fire Upon The Deep
by Vernor Vinge

Set in a far-future where space has been portioned into "regions of thought," a human expedition to an ancient data archive unleashes the Blight, a superintelligent entity capable of destroying thousands of worlds.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:19

The Caves Of Steel
by Isaac Asimov

Fearing a violent confrontation between Earthmen and Spacers, Detective Baley and his new partner, a robot, investigate the murder of a Spacetown scientist

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:20

The Mars Trilogy
by Kim Stanley Robinson

On a mission to provide Mars with an Earth-like atmosphere, John Boone, Maya Toitovna, Frank Chalmers and Arkady Bogdanov meet stiff resistance from those who will fight to the death to prevent Mars from being changed.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:26

Lucifer's Hammer
by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

As the great Hamner-Brown comet, dubbed Lucifer's Hammer by the press, approaches Earth, various business executives, politicians, criminals, journalists and scientists await the impending cataclysm and its general and personal effects with decidedly differing feelings

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:27

Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis

Stranded in the 14th century — a time of superstition and fear — time traveler Kivrin becomes an unlikely angel of hope during history's darkest hour and awaits rescue by her comrades. Literary Award Winner

Melanie 31 августа 2014 г., 18:21

Perdido Street Station
by China Mieville

In the squalid, Gothic city of New Crobuzon, a mysterious half-human, half-bird stranger comes to Isaac, a gifted but eccentric scientist, with a request to help him fly, but Isaac's obsessive experiments and attempts to grant the request unleash a terrifying dark force on the entire city.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:29

The Xanth Series
by Piers Anthony

In Anthony's pun-besotted magical realm (which is shaped a lot like Florida), every human is born with a unique magical ability, which they use navigate a landscape full of dragons, goblins, harpies, centaurs and all manner of eldritch creatures.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:30

The Space Trilogy
by C.S. Lewis

Philologist Edwin Ransom travels to Mars and Venus, and makes a series of dramatic discoveries about Earth's place in the solar system – and the nature of a threat it unwittingly faces.

Melanie 22 ноября 2011 г., 21:33