Could you recommend any books by Phillip Jose Farmer?
Or any of these authors, come to think of it.
Nagru
Well, for Philip Jose Farmer - my favourite series which he has written in the Riverworld series - its about where we go when we die - and in this case, its the artifically created world of a group of Aliens, created for the purpose of letting us live many more years to acheive a state where we can 'go on'. Its set over I think 6 large books with mulitple charcters and really educative in parts.
Dayworld - is another series which he wrote, its about a world that is overpopulated and so, each person can only live on day in a week, the other days he must remain in suspended animation, or 'stoned'. However, the main character wants to live everyday of the week, but to do so, he must adopted a new persona for each day, but over time the authorites catch on to him and he becomes confused in his stress as each persona tries to take control of the main and orignal persona. but the problem is, which is the real one?..
There are loads more and each of them have interesting stories - for example - Traitor to the living - a machine called 'MEdium' is created which can contact the dead. The main character thinks it s fraud and a money making scheme. However, when the creator starts blackmailing the dead and then providing the dead with bodies to live in again, things get spooky..
http://www.pjfarmer.com/books.htm
Clifford D Simak - he has a homely style of writing - The Waystation is about Enoch, the main characrter who has lived too long, the authorites become suspicious and a givernment man is sent to watch him. Little did he know that Enoch's house just wasn;t any ordninary house, but a waystation for aliens travelling from one point of the galaxy to the other. Enoch though, also holds the future of the Earth in his hands..
All Flesh is grass - What would happen if we were invaded by aliens, but they looked like flowers and were not only harmless, but wanted to serve us?
Greg Bear - The Forge of God - Aliens come to destroy the earth; literally blow it to tiny peices by planting millions of nuclear devices in fault libes below the sea and placing worm holes in orbit to pull apart the destroyed earth.. what do you do? Who can be saved? Another aalien race or a combination - have created self replicating machines to help other races faced by this menace, but will their help be too late? And they cannot hope to save eveyone..
Blood Music is another I'd reccomend by him
http://www.gregbear.com/books.cfm
For a Space faring series which is rich and modernly told, David Feintuch's Hope Series is hard to beat. Midshipman's Hope places the main character as a midshipman on a spaceship going from Earth to another planet - a voyage expected to take months. However, ont he trip a seies of unfortunate events including the first contact with an 'intelligent Alien Species', beset the crrew and have a series impact upon the chain of command. This leaves the midshipman, young, inexperienced and stictly christian placed in command, and he sees it as his duty to keep to his oath, an oath not just to the service, but to God - to take his place as Captain. There is something innocent, starnge, certainly religous about this young man, he is extraordinary lucky and beyond all odds it the right person for the job. The voyage continues and trouble never stops... The series devlops and the hero ages, has a child, gets married and becomes famous. And Damned.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/david-feintuch/
Hope that helped
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