Thread: Can you recommend me a sci-fi book?

Hey
I love Skulduggery Pleasant, I am number four and the Gone books. Can you recommend me any sci-fi books? Especially ones where people have super natural/magical powers

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Absolutely The Maximum Ride series, pleaseee you HAVE to read it!!! i've recommended it to my friends who read and all got obsessed, and it never disappoints you!

In SCIENCE FICTION, here are some I (Fittings Doc) would recommend:

"Dorsai" (1959 / 159 pages) by Gordon R. Dickson
(the first book of “The Childe Cycle”)
Deals with genetic drift and specialization, and there effects on humanity as a whole.
(Nominated for the Hugo Award.)

“Dune” (1965 / 412 pages) by Frank Herbert
(the first book of the “Dune Series)
(Won the Hugo and Nebula Awards.)

“For Love of Mother-Not” (1983 / 256 pages) Alan Dean Foster
(the first book in the “Humanx” series - featuring Pip and Flinx)

"The Planet Savers" (1958 / 91 pages) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
(the first book of the "Darkover" series)
It was first published in 1962, along with "The Planet Savers" (164 pages).

"The Heritage of Hastur" (1975 / 432 pages) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
(ninth book of the "Darkover" series)
(nominated fort the Hugo Award)

"The Man Who Never Missed" (1985 / 195 pages) by Steve Perry
(the first book of the "Matador" series)
An ex-soldier becomes a martial artist and then masters a new weapon, with which he never misses. He then begins a guerrilla action against the corrupt empire for which he once fought.

In HUMOROUS SCIENCE FICTION, here are some I (Fittings Doc) would recommend:

"Another Fine Myth" (1978 / 208 pages) by Robert Lynn Asprin
(the first book of the "Myth Adventure" Series)
It revolves around a boy from Klah (hence he is a Klahd) becoming a magician with the help of his mentor, a demon (dimensional traveler) from Perv (so he is a Pervect NOT a Pervert).

In FANTASY with a magical theme, here are some I (Fittings Doc) would recommend:

“The Gilded Chain” (1998) by Dave Duncan
(first book of the “Tales of the King's Blades” series)

“Sir Stalwart” (1999) by Dave Duncan
(first book of the “The King's Daggers” **YA** series)

"The First Book of Swords" (1983) by Fred Saberhagen
(first book of the "Books of the Swords" series)

"Legend” (1984) by David Gemmell (The MASTER of Heroic Fantasy!!!)
(first book of the “Drenai Saga”)

“The Seer King” (1997) By Chris Bunch
(first book of “The Seer King Trilogy”)

"Pawn of Prophecy" (1982) by David Eddings
(first book of the "Belgariad" series)

"The Sword of Shannara" (1977) by Terry Brooks
(first book in the Original "Shannara Trilogy")

"Magician" (1982) by Raymond E. Feist
(first book in "The Riftwar Saga")

"The Riddle-Master of Hed" (1976) by Patricia A. McKillip
(first book of "The Riddle-Master trilogy")

"A Spell for Chameleon" (1977) by Piers Anthony
(the first book of the "Xanth" series)

"The Dark Tide" (1984) by Dennis L. McKiernan
(first book of the "Mithgar" series)

“The Crystal Shard" (1988) by R.A. Salvatore.
(the first book of "The Icewind Dale Trilogy")

"The Misplaced Legion" (1987) by Harry Turtledove
(first book of the "Videssos" series)
One of Julius Caesar's legions is transported to a world with magic.

"An Oblique Approach" (1998) by Eric Flint & David Drake
(first book of the "Belisarius" series)

"Lord Valentine’s Castle" (1981) Robert Silverberg

“Seventh Son” (1987 / 256 pages) by Orson Scott Card
(first book of the “The Tales of Alvin Maker” series)
(Locus Fantasy Winner, nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards)

You might like the Midnighters series by Scott Westerfeld or the Gatekeepers series by Anthony Horowitz.

Tenchi was four years old when they came for him. Despite the best efforts by his mother to keep him hidden and safe, he was taken by force to Juneau Gardens, which is the home of the Homospiritus and the new governing order of the former United States of America, now named Juneau. It is a Gardens itself, one of a series of peaceful and beautiful utopian societies made up of the now free Homospiritus who, under the terms of the Accords, were allowed their independence and sovereignty. Gardens are realms, which demonstrate the height of Meteora manipulation and the coming together of humans with Meteora to create a utopian, Shangri-La-like paradise on a level with the Garden of Eden.

Now inside of Gardens, Tenchi is swept up in a world of Meteora, fighting, and war, to protect a world he does not really feel a part of. He is taken from his home, his mother, and the only family he has ever known and commissioned to fight in a war for the peace and safety of the planet. He is forced to go through rigorous training and trials, as well as torment from other Homospiritus, when the only thing he truly cares about is getting home to his mother.

And, after four years in the Gardens’ Academy comes to an end, he seems to get his chance when, at the age of ten, Tenchi graduates. Now he is an apprentice, under the command of a Master Agent who guards, trains, and protects him and his two other apprentices, Ko and Suki. In the field as a second level of training, Tenchi has a greater degree of freedom, though under the careful guidance and tutelage of Master Agent Shaun. The team members begin their journey all over the world carrying out peace missions while simultaneously improving and learning how to better use Meteora in real-life battle situations, all to prepare the young Agents to eventually go out on their own. This is vital, as it is public knowledge that the life of an apprentice is a very short one.

Tenchi is then swept up in a series of missions, both dangerous and important to the fate and the safety of the whole world. Eventually, he is sent on a mission where he encounters terrorists with nuclear arms who have also taken their own dark dive into the use of Meteora, only to corrupt it. Tenchi is given the chance to abandon his mission and continue his own, which has always been to return to his mother. But now he is faced with a choice, to return home or to fight to secure and prevent the misuse of The Sword of Heaven, an ancient weapon of unparalleled power forged of Meteora itself. If not kept in check, The Sword will throw the world into an apocalyptic age from which we may never recover, a fate that will visit both Homospiritus and humankind alike.