I am a huge science fiction nerd who is in desperate need of a good sci-fi book. Some of my favorite books are Ender’s Game (pretty much any sci-fi by Orson Scott Card) and Ray Bradbury books. I love stories like Man vs. Evil Government like in 1984, but I am stuck now. I really want to read another sci-fi book like 1984 but it seems that I can’t find any. Any recommendations? Or any other personal favorite science fiction novels that you love? I really need some opinions.

2001, 2010, 2061, 3000something. I can't remember the last one >_>

Let me be the first to recommmend the Mars Trilogy.

Let me be the second to recommend the Mars Trilogy. But actually just the first half, as I still have not gotten around to finishing it. (We seem to have this thread every year or so, and every time I say the same damn thing, I really should just bloody well start them again).

That or:

Dune, by Frank Herbert
We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin (book that influenced Brave New World and 1984)
Rendezvous With Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
The Mote In God's Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Stranger In A Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
Noir, by KW Jeter
Fairwell Horizontal, by KW Jeter
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
Neuromancer, by William Gibson

Anything by Phillip K Dick, but especially:

A Scanner Darkly
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
The Man In The High Castle
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
The Crack In Space

(Stay away from Lies, Inc though)

EDIT

How could I forget CS Lewis' Space Trilogy? The books, in order:

Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength

The Space Trilogy is cool in that it is set during modern day (WW2 actually, which was modern day when they were written) and assumes that the events of Lord of the Rings took place. It's not mentioned until That Hideous Strength, but the descendants of the Numenorean Kings and the Istari play an important part in the third novel.

Are you guys talking about the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson or Ray Bradbury? I recommend reading some of the following authors, authors I find to be quite exceptional: Dan Simmons, David Brin, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Henlein, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, and Kim Stanley Robinson. I've read a hell of a lot more but I'm currently a little tipsy so my recall is not as sharp as it normally is. I listed these authors in order of what you should read.

Dan Simmons' Hyperion series is HIGHLY arsekicking.

You're thinking of Bradbury's Martian Chronicles. I've not read them but I've heard its good.

I'll second Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. I also liked the 14 or so Foundation books by Isaac Asimov, but those really don't fit your 1984ish preference. Ooh, one that does though is The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Btw, i'd recommend the Tripod trilogy and the prequel. The story might be a bit childish, but like the Narnian Chronicles its still great. Also the prequel is pretty good :).

*space trilogy spoiler below*



Hey, I just started the Hideous Strength and finished the previous two. THANKS FOR RUINING IT FOR ME JERK! Haha, j/k with you bro, you might wanna consider adding spoiler tags around it though :/

Hey thanks guys, I know I passed a few of those books today at the school library, so I will check some of them out