If you have an appetite for hard boiled sci-fi that is conceived way outside the box of conventional mainstream normalcy, and a strong stomach for horrific technological terror, I recommend the Company Series, By Author Kage Baker. It is a series that explores the limitless boundaries of human inovation, greed, hope, and evil, and exposes a reality of the human condition that has the capacity to use time travel and cybernetics technology as a Corporate Vehicle to self sustaining evil and pestilences that surpass the horrific imaginings of and religious inspired hell or pergatory existence. Ironically, the creators and owners of these Corporate think tanks are completely unaware of the pestilence their Corporate assets are creating throughout history, as their cybernetic slaves wage a temporal genetic war of unimaginably gruesome finality.
12 volumes for the Company Series, 4 novela based on primary characters, and a number of other related spinoff and supliment stories to that series.
If you have an hour to or two too kill, I estimate about 12 and a half million pages to breeze through, at 400 to 900 pages per book.
I hope you don't mind me trying out some graphic book mark ideas on you for each volume. 🤘
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I just finished re reading Asimov's foundation series, I read Robert aspreys biography of Frederick the great over the weekend and am currently reading "the soul of a new machine" about the creation of the DEC alpha. Which really hit home as I identify closely with the engineers in the project and worked on those systems when I was a kid.
This isn’t a book series but might as well be since the writing style is very similar. I like any book by John Fowles or J. D. Salinger. Their books are not series style books but the themes and ideas and style is consistent in their works. You could also read Iliad or the odyssey for free by downloading it online and Shakespeare is also available online for less than $5.00. I will not recommend the site I use because if your device isn’t properly formatted, it could give you a virus.
Any of the Jack London books are particularly well written. I'm not sure I would label it a series, rather a collection of short stories that all intertwine.
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The very best adult fantasy fiction I've ever read is "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" by Stephen R Donaldson. It will leave you breathless in it's scope, ambition, and realism... I also still love the Ursula LeGuin "Earthsea" Trilogy, and Dragonriders of Pern Series. Piers Anthony is a great writer too and has several worthwhile series (Xanth, Blue Adept is my favorite.)
The 'Earth's Children' series by Jean Auel. Fiction during the Ice Age, when modern humans and Neanderthals existed at the same time. Warning: Auel gets really detailed describing all the environment and fauna, the sex can be really detailed, and the last book in the series is a phoned-in waste, but overall it's a good story.
Jeffrey Archer has written a couple of long book sagas. They´re rather historical books playing in the last hundred years. Another good author writing historical books is Ken Follet. I´ve read "Fall of Giants" and I liked it.
Mine, but it premieres in maybe like, 4 years. And don’t worry, it’ll last long. Started in late 2020 an PhD am already on the third series. There’s most likely gonna be a fourth. YEAH
What’s UF? Series of books are harder for me, since eventually the publishers pass it off to other writers and it gets stale. But my favorites:
1) Foundation (Asimov)
2) Informationist
3) SandmanI recommend Sea Change, in the book the guy is the mermaid this time
A Song of Ice and Fire (all 5 Game of Thrones books)
If you like Harry Potter type stuff, check out Kobe Bryant's series of books. He had it published before he past.
You could try The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
So far as I know, it's still the only five book trilogy ever written.Terry Pratchett's Discworld (with the Science of...), or Long Earth series.
Lee Child's Jack Reacher.
Bernard Cornwall's Sharpe, etc., but they do get a bit repetitive.The Boxcar Children, Junie B. Jones and Matt Christopher.
Hellequin Chronicles by Steve McHugh. Not a typo. They were originally e books, but there are print copies available now.
I like Gotrek and Felix, its a fantasy fiction set in the Warhammer universe.
I dont have a series to recommend but a good book for not sensitive readers is 'The Lovely Bones'
Redwall or Wheel of Time
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I like the Dr. Seuss books read them all
You could always reach back and grab Asimov or Heinlein. Niven is good too
Ik it's like super mainstream but Harry Potter.
The Snowpiercer series
The Tripods.
Sword of the Spirits.
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