User blog comment:SpartHawg948/SpartHawg's Book Corner!!!/@comment-2088100-20100704001457

My tastes are not as sophisticated as yours, sadly. Most of my reading is sci-fi related, because I really like to see authors opinions of where we're headed in the future. They're almost all completely different, and they're all pretty interesting in their own way.

That said, I'll recommend two books if you haven't already read them. A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, both by Vernor Vinge, are really really fantastic. A Fire is far-future, where there's FTL, sentient AIs, and a pretty compelling story. Its prequel, A Deepness is not quite as far-future. Everyone is still sub-luminal, having to use cryo-stasis to get around.

While the plot for both have a similar formula, they were so interesting that I couldn't put the books down. I think the greatest thing about novels is Vinge's ability to conjure up two completely different and alien races (one per book). I really enjoyed them, so I'll recommend them. :)