Favorite Sci-Fi Books - or "Why This Book Rocks"

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Has anyone mentioned Tom Holt yet? He's quite good too; his writing style is somewhat similar to Adams' non-Hitch-hiker books.

I finished the tenth [iost_uid0]Dune[/iost_uid0] novel recently (The Butlerian Jihad), otherwise known as the first of the new 'Legends of Dune' trilogy. It's really very good indeed, though it made me wonder if the 'Prelude to Dune' trilogy wasn't just an exercise by K.J. Anderson and Brian Herbert to see if they could write the [iost_uid0]Dune[/iost_uid0] universe (though to be fair they were well written and had some rather ingenous plot points).

I've now just started on [iost_uid0]Red Mars[/iost_uid0] (after a brief Banks interlude with [iost_uid0]Canal Dreams[/iost_uid0]), though it was a hard choice. I've also got copies of [iost_uid0]2001[/iost_uid0] (which I've read) and all it's sequels (which I haven't), plus Tolkien's [iost_uid0]Unfinished Tales[/iost_uid0], which I'm dying to read.

So many books, so little time.[/colorost_uid0]