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Looking for a good sci-fi book

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Nighmare

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I'm looking for a good sci-fi book that contains a deep plot with plenty of twists, memorable characters and a little romance between main characters can anybody help me out?
 
The Night Dawn books by Peter F Hamilton :) There are 3 books in the series if you are in the UK and I think 6 if you are in the US.
 
I agree with SillyWabbit. The nights dawn trilogy are brilliant. I am currently reading Pandoras Star by Peter F Hamilton and it's brilliant. Big book but the best ever. Highly recommended. :)
 
Yup, the 'Nights Dawn' series was pretty good. If you want a perverse take on the old sci-fi space piracy and romance thing though, look for 'The Gap' series by Stephen Donaldson'. The plot has more twists than a bag of twisty pasta stuff, and the characters are certainly memorable!
 
For a single book with those qualities, I like Dune by Frank Herbert. Never did like any of the sequels, though.
 
I'm going for something utterly different to the previous recommendations; Permutation City by Greg Egan. Hard-science fiction (NOT space opera), with some pseudo-philosophical musings thrown in, an intriguing web of interconnected storylines, even romance of a kind (even if it's not very romantic). Interesting, funny, well-paced and based upon a brilliant premise. Go hunt it down.
 
I'd suggest Titan by John Varley. I've read that, and its sequal, Wizard --both very good. I have yet to read the third and final on in the series, which is called Demon .
But the characters are very good, and the plot is very interesting! I found someone's synopsis of it on amazon.com:



A small space exploration stumbles across a fantastic satellite orbiting Saturn. A massive, hollow wheel, 1300 kilometers across, it sucks them inside an incredible, artificial alien world. Captain Cirocco Jones reunites her crew after their crash landing, and they begin to travel around the inside of the wheel - which they name Gaea - in search of a way home. They meet the citizens of Gaea, who are familiar and yet utterly alien. (They include winged humanoids and centaurs.)

Eventually, Cirocco and her friend Gaby make the grueling 600 Km vertical journey up one of the spokes of the wheel to the hub, where they meet the God of Gaea and learn some very interesting things about this alien "planet".



Of course, the romance is mostly between Cirocco and Gaby (there isn't a lot of it)--so if you're uncomfortable with that sort of thing you may not be interested.
 
Anything Heinlein, though I'd start with The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. Hmm...James P. Hogan--The Giants series is good too. Try This Immortal by Roger Zelazny. You can't go wrong with Orion by Ben Bova. Asimov's Foundation is a good one and Ursula K. LeGuinn's--the one where the guy dreams and it becomes reality? Shoot I can't remember the title. Thats a good one.
 
Try :
C.S. Friedman "In conquest born".
Stephen Donaldson The gap series.
Anything by Ian M. Banks.
Dan Simmons Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion.
 
Yes, second anything by Iain M Banks!

I especially recommend a book by him called Feersum Endjinn

Count Alandre Sessine VII has already died seven times. He has only one life left - one last chance to catch his killer. His only clues point to a conspiracy beyond his own murder. For a catastrophe is fast approaching the earth from which there is no escape - until a loophole through apocalypse is discovered. And a chosen few will do anything to keep it a secret. Someone has betrayed Sessine, killed him before he could uncover the truth. Now he has three days before his funeral to live the way men used to live: restricted to one life where one mistake could be his last. Suddenly he finds himself an outlaw, a fugitive, a desperado. And his only hope of survival is finding others like himself. Others who hold a piece of the puzzle to an enigmatic weapon of salvation and chaos...
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I'm going to put in a plug for Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith. Unless you have an aversion to foul language. It has lots of that, some of it even gratuitous.
 
Yes, that's a FANTASTIC book. However it's one of those books that I don't really view ( maybe oddly or wrongly ) as SF.
 
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