My favorite method for picking books, at least for Sci Fi, is to see which books won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, for any given year. One is the readers choice, and the other is the authors choice for best book of the year.
Like Seb, Dan Abnett is my current favorite with both the Eisenhorn trilogy and Gaunt\'s Ghosts, not to mention the Horus Heresy books.
Dune, Foundation, Starship Troopers, Ender\'s Game and several others have won both. I think Ringworld and the Forever War did as well.
Only 29 plot lines, that doesn\'t surprise me. I have also heard that there are only 500 important people in the world, the rest are sheep.
Like Seb, Dan Abnett is my current favorite with both the Eisenhorn trilogy and Gaunt\'s Ghosts, not to mention the Horus Heresy books.
Dune, Foundation, Starship Troopers, Ender\'s Game and several others have won both. I think Ringworld and the Forever War did as well.
Only 29 plot lines, that doesn\'t surprise me. I have also heard that there are only 500 important people in the world, the rest are sheep.