Hi guys I've read a ton of Sci-Fi books. I was wondering if you can suggest a few I might not have read. Please no Warhammer/ST/SW. I read most of the culture novels really like them, as well as the Discworld series, thought that's more fantasy. Also read most of the Baen Books. I liked the News Flesh triology by Mira Grant. Thanks

David Weber: Honor Harrington, Empire of Man, and Safehold (although you may have already read these since Weber is a Baen author)
Anne McCaffrey: Dragonriders of Pern and Catteni
Marion Zimmer Bradley: Darkover

If you're willing to venture into fantasy:
Patricia Briggs: Mercy Thompson (urban fantasy)
Anne Bishop: Black Jewels (dark fantasy)

Well SF is a bit... vast

Since you like Baen, here are some recommendations tending towards military SF (think space battles, ground troops in battle armor, etc) but also some space opera :

• David Drake - Redliners, RCN (Lt Leary), Hammer's Slammers
• Ian Douglas - Galactic Marines (3 trilogies following generations of space marines, the 1st (heritage) being the best), his Warstrider series as William H. Keith isn't bad either (Humans dominated by Japanese culture battle aliens with mechas)
• Joe Haldeman - Forever War (Vast conflict with undertones of Vietnam War)
• Keith Laumer - Bolo (lots of short stories and a few novels introducing huge tanks with AIs),
• John Scalzi - Old Man's War
• Jack Campbell - Lost Fleet
• Lois McMaster Bujold - Miles Vorkosigan
• David Gerrold - War against the Chtorr (unique take on an alien invasion)
• David Gunn - Death's Head (Non stop action)
• Peter F. Hamilton - Night's Dawn, Commonwealth (Great space opera)
• C.J. Cherryh (lots of novels from space opera to miltary sf, with a focus on alien cultures and their interaction with humans)
• James S. Corey - Expanse
• Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos
• Frank Herbert - Dune
• Richard K. Morgan - Takeshi Kovacs
• Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game and its sequels
• A. A. Attanasio - Radix
• John Steakley - Armor (Classic novel about power armored soldier)
• Scott Westerfeld - Succession series

And here are a few less well known/indie authors you might like :

• James Galloway - Subjugation (free novel series, about elf like aliens invading earth)
• B. V. Larson - Imperium, Star Force (kinda similar to John Ringo)
• Nathan Lowell - Solar Clipper (No war or vast conflict for once, just some normal working guy... in space)
• Scott Sigler - Galactic Football League (fun series following a quarterback in the future, with various aliens)
• Sara King - The Legend of ZERO
• Marko Kloos - Frontlines
• Elliott Kay - Poor Man's Fight

I think Solaris is great! You should give it a try.

[peterk9]

Try China Miéville, I can highly recommend him. A good start is "Perdido Street Station". Also David Brin - try his Uplift war books.

Try steelheart by brandon sanderson. Its the latest one I've read so far.

Try Alastair Reynolds:
* REVELATION SPACE (2000) BSFA and Clarke shortlist. Gothic space opera with slower than light travel and speculation about extra-terrestrial intelligences.

* CHASM CITY (2001) BSFA winner in 2002. A hardboiled pursuit/revenge thriller set in the RS universe.

* REDEMPTION ARK (2002) More fun with killer aliens.

* ABSOLUTION GAP (2003) BSFA shortlist. End times approach; religious lunatics appear. Contains moving cathedrals and speculation about braneworlds.

* CENTURY RAIN (2004) A murder mystery in 1959 Paris opens a can of worms for struggling PI and jazzman Wendell Floyd. Space opera, parallel worlds, jazz, etc.

* PUSHING ICE (2005) Clarke shortlist. Near future space exploration and first contact, and a wild ride into the deep, distant future for the crew of the mining vehicle Rockhopper. Perhaps my most Clarkean book to date.

* THE PREFECT (2007) Crime and punishment in the RS universe. A crisis for Prefect Dreyfus in the near-utopia of the Glitter Band. Will there be more?

* HOUSE OF SUNS (2008) Clarke shortlist. Six million years in the future, starfaring clones, tensions between human and robot metacivilisations, King Crimson jokes.

* TERMINAL WORLD (2010) Wales Book of the Year finalist. Steampunky action on a dying world, with a mystery under the skin of things.

Peter F. Hamilton

You might really like Dies the Fire by SM Stirling. Basically the apocalypse, but goes a lot deeper into what happens when electricity just stops working. Never attempts to explain why it stopped (They just call it the change). It goes a lot deeper than most apocalyptic/dytopian fiction though. Much more realistically, in my mind.

Have you looked at John Hemry yet? In addition, there are always the classics from Robert Heinlein. If you like military style SF, go for Timothy Zahn and Jerry Pournelle.

Nightside, #1 by Simon R. Green https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/41942.Simon_R_Green.
(Secret Histories, #1) by Simon R. Green
The Lost Fleet by Jack Campbell https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/55547.Jack_Campbell

Lockstep by Karl Schroeder

[karyn531]

I second John Scalzi's Old Man War series. Loved the humour and the descriptions of alien races.

Neal Asher is always good

Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash is pretty great. Hard to beat a book where the main character is literally named 'Hiro Protagonist'.

Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow and Children of God aren't conventional sci-fi, but they're absolutely beautiful