Can you suggest me a good Sci-Fi book?

Anathem, by Neal Stephenson.

It’s not as laser-y as Hyperion—in fact the first three-fourths of the book have nothing to do with outer space. But there is a spaceship and the last part of the book that deals with it is one of the most awesome things I have ever read.

You seem to like space opera. That’s a list of books to peruse from Amazon. I hope you are not a fan of the Star Trek knock-offs. Despite the fact that they help many a writer get a start, they are just too restricted for me.

Heinlein’s “Storm Troopers” is a classic…...... and then pursue Heinlein as far as you want…... many good books I can tell you about later…......

Also Orson Scott Card’s——Ender’s Game and the 2 sequels….....

Thanks for the hints everyone!
@Qingu, will follow your advice and check it out.
@daloon, NO Star Trek lover here though :) . Thanks for introducing the term “space opera” in my books ;)
And @virtualist, Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow are two of my favorite books.Will check out your suggestion (the title sounds good :D )

Hmm. I would suggest Niven and Pournell, at least ‘A Mote In God’s Eye’, and ‘The Gripping Hand’. Much else by the two of them are very good, but those two (‘Mote’ is the first, and ‘Hand’ the sequel, by the way), fit your description better.

Also, Ursula K. LeGuin. Her writing, at least in ‘Changing Planes’ (one of my favorite books), is… luminecent, I’ll say. Things come alive in amazing ways. Her other Sci-Fi, especially the Hainish Cycle, is also very good, but I’d suggest starting with ‘Planes’.

Hope you enjoy them!

I’m not too much of a fan of the “Space Opera” genre in reading (though I like them quite a bit in movie form), but love good “hard Sci-Fi.” Almost anything Clarke or Asimov is a great read.

Heaven by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.

This is a mind-blowing imagining of alien worlds and beings drawn from the new biology minds, machines, and social systems. It weaves the mimetics of religion, cybernetics, collective intelligence, quantum-mechanical entanglement, and the ecology of mind to create some of the most exotic yet plausible characters ever to be assembled in one story.

Consider, for example, a species of coral whose female sex is capable of conducting massively parallel computation on a planetary scale, and equally deadly biological warfare, while the males travel the seas and conduct commerce in upside down sail boats; a Borg-like meta-organism called Cosmic Unity whose missionaries are disseminating the Memeplex of Universal Tolerance throughout the galaxy; a species of telepathic feline Neanderthals; and you meet these in just the first few pages.

It is an exuberant romp through the many ways organisms, or collections of organisms can evolve or co-evolve to become sentient. It quickly becomes clear that sentience, intelligence and evolutionary fitness are quite different things and not necessarily related. What is adaptive in one environment or at one scale can be maladaptive in another. Cosmic Unity, for example is highly intelligent, and is fit insofar as it is taking over the galaxy, but it is dangerously maladaptive in initially unforseen ways.

If you are looking for something satisfyingly different, this is it.

Someone on here (I’m sorry I don’t remember who) recommended John Varley to me and I have since fallen for his writing! So far I’ve read Steel Beach, Titan and I’m currently reading Wizard! So I will pass him on to you!

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Stranger In a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Midshipman’s Hope by David Feintuch

Earth starts colonizing other planets and battling aliens. The book is about a young junior officer in Earth’s “Space Navy” who gets promoted to command a ship after the Captain and senior officers die..

It’s the first part of a series called the Seafort Saga though it’s good on it’s own too. Brilliant series.

Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan. Very imaginative and a good story to boot!

Phillip Jose Farmer put out two series’ that were quite enjoyable. Riverworld, and I can’t remember the title of the other series but they were both a real fun read.

For everyone who is interested: I discovered that what I actually like is a genre called “Space Opera” (thanks @ the guys above who introduced me to this term).

Thank you all!