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Robert Heinlein and Harry Turtledove are my favorite science fiction authors, and JRR Tolkein and CS Lewis are my favorite fantasy writers.

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David Brin: The Postman. They even made a movie, but only the book has the original atmosphere.

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I'm rather partial to Piers Anthony novels myself. His incarnations of immortality series is quite engrossing. I'm sure there are better books out there though. Those were the first sci-fi I had ever read however, they hold a somewhat sentimental/nostalgic value to them.

I really want to read the original DUNE. Yet, I had just finished a fantasy book "The Dark Elf Trilogoy" (which is awesome by the way), and was eagerly awaiting the next in the series, when I came across the 'prequels' to DUNE. Having nothing else to read at the time, I decided to give them a shot. Now comes the critque:

As Smudge seemed to imply earlier, the original DUNE is mostly likely a great deal better. I'm not sure how much of the prequels are original ideas that don't have some basis from what was in the original DUNE, but I have found the prequels to be very excitingly imaginative. I have enjoyed reading them so far. They are well written for the most part, and I woudl reccomend them if you absolutely need something to read, but I would otherwise say to read them in between reading other books, as they can be a bit slow. Now, as I have said, they are enjoyable, yet they fail to capture a certain feeling that is necessary to make any sci-fi or fantasy novel great. I think that feeling is a lack of attatchment to the primary characters. It seems as though you're watching all of these events from a far-away place whereas in many other books, you feel as though these events are happening to you. I have come to the conclussion that the problem has to do with the fickleness of the books' structures. They jump from character to character and situation to situation so much that you have a hard time becoming attatched to anything. So to sume up, the DUNE prequels are good on many levels, but there are certainly more enjoyable reads out there.

Well then, I'm rambling at this point so I'll knock it off. Anyway I hope you guys have some more great book suggestions or reviews. I can't get enough when it comes to a good story.

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I'm very happy that someone mentioned this trilogy, but I can't believe you say that. Of course Ender's game was a good reading, but the other 2 were more complex, and complete. I loved Xenocide more than maybe any other sci-fi book ... well except Asimov's works.

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Comments: Dark Tower series by Stephen King. That's all that needs to be said.