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Might not be considered quite Sci-Fi, but I just finished "The DaVinci Code". Presents some VERY intriguing ideas in a nicely done manner.

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From what I gather the "Da Vinci code" could be described more as fantasy.

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If you like Star Wars, Timothy Zahn writes good books.

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Spolier(ish): The DaVinci Code
On the ideas some are true but some are made up. On the one hand the divinity of christ was decided on by a Roman committee, on the other hand the secret society that is supposed to protect the Holy Grail was made up by two Frenchmen for a joke. Unfortunately people took it seriously and the more they claimed it had been a joke, the more that 'proved' it was a conspiracy to hide the truth!

A good book that I recommend, but don't take it too seriously.

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OK, this is just my opinion but, I think "the Da Vinci Code" sucks. That's my opinion.

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Ok, just to help narrow the range of suggestions, I am mostly interested in far future sci-fi. Space ships and stuff. Gritty near future stuff is ok, e.g. William Gibson style stuff.

I am really not interested in alternate history, and I do not consider that to be sci-fi. I have already read all of the Timothy Zahn Star Wars books, which I must say were pretty good considering that I don't really like SW that much. Niven is one of my childhood heroes and I have read most of his books, most of them several times. I like some of David Webber's books, but I really don't like the Honor Harrington books.

Anyway, I think I will try out some of the suggestions here. Of course feel free to keep them coming. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Check out David Brin's Uplift Saga.

http://www.davidbrin.com/

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The first trilogy of the uplift war was good.

Never got into the second group.

I would recommend "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons (which is chased by 3 other books). It is the Canterbury Tales of sci-fi in my opinion.

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It wasn't so much the storyline as the premise that grabbed my attention. Kinda like that song by Alanis Morrisette....

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A quote and a link to/from Amazon.com:

A legend among sci-fi readers, C.J. Cherryh's Union-Alliance novels, while separate and complete in themselves, are part of a much larger tapestry-a future history spanning 5,000 years of human civilization.

Downbelow Station is the book that won Cherryh a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1982. A blockbuster space opera of the rebellion between Earth and its far-flung colonies, it is a classic science fiction masterwork.