New books to read? NO TWILIGHT?

Question

I need new sci-fi or fantasy books...

I like and have read

William Gibson,

Nick Sagan,

Neal Stephenson,

Richard Morgan...

I love cyber punky - urban stuff and stuff with a dark edge.

any suggestions?

NO VAMPIRES/ NO WEREWOLVES/

Answer 1

PSH NO TWILIGHT? never mindd... :(

Answer 2

I'll bet anything by Philip K. d**k would be right up your alley. He's a the master of twisted Sci-Fi.

If you like dark fantasy AND Sci-Fi, Ray Bradbury cannot be beat. My favorite is Something Wicked This Way Comes, but honestly, there's no such thing as a book by him that is less than phenomenal.  

Answer 3

Try Love, Hollywood Style----P.J. Ruditis

Its a great book and has a lot of humour in it.

Answer 4

Try Harry Potter,Agatha Christie,Goosebumps,Fear Street and Books by Meg Cabot.

Answer 5

This one right here:

http://www.amazon.com/Valiant-Modern-Fae...

I just found it at my local B&N in New York - no vampires, no werewolves - urban and freaky and a really good read.

I'm planning on reading the other books by the same author.

Answer 6

Cyberpunk novels:

Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling

Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling

Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling

The Artificial Kid by Bruce Sterling

Crystal Express by Bruce Sterling

Mindplayers by Pat Cadigan

SYNNERS by Pat Cadigan

Tea From An Empty Cup by Pat Cadigan

Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology by Greg Bear

Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra 2, and Eclipse Corona by John Shirley

City Come A-Walkin' by John Shirley

The Exploded Heart by John Shirley

Deserted Cities of the Heart by Lewis Shiner

Frontera by Lewis Shiner

White Light by Rudy Rucker

Master of Space and Time by Rudy Rucker

Software by Rudy Rucker

Wetware by Rudy Rucker

The Glass Hammer by K.W. Jeter

Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick

In the Drift by Michael Swanwick

Metrophage by Richard Kadrey

Other:

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King

h**l House by Richard Matheson

Dune by Frank Herbert

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (and anything else by these authors)

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Also, other stories related to HHGTG:

Life, the Universe and Everything

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Young Zaphod Plays it Safe

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Mostly Harmless

The Salmon of Doubt

Answer 7

Lush----Natasha Friend

Bounce----Natasha Friend

How Not to Spend Your Senior Year----Cameron Dokey

Royally Jacked----Niki Burnham

Ripped at the Seams----Nancy Krulik

Spin Control----Niki Burnham

Cupidity ----Caroline Goode

South Beach Sizzle----Suzanne Weyn

She’s Got the Beat----Nancy Krulik

30 Guys in 30 Days----Micol Ostow

Animal Attraction----Jamie Ponti

Scary Beautiful----Niki Burnham

A Novel Idea----Aimee Friedman

Getting to Third Date----Kelly McClymer

Dancing Queen----Erin Downing

Major Crush----Jennifer Echols

Do-Over----Niki Burnham

Love Undercover----Jo Edwards

Prom Crashers----Erin Downing

Gettin’ Lucky----Micol Ostow

The Boys Next Door----Jennifer Echols

In the Stars----Stacia Deutsch

The Secret Life of a Teenage Siren----Wendy Toliver

Impulse----Ellen Hopkin

Glass----Ellen Hopkin

Burned----Ellen Hopkin

Crank----Ellen Hopkin

Love, Hollywood Style----P.J. Ruditis

Something Borrowed----Catherine Hapka

Party Games----Whitney Lyles

Perfect ----Natasha Friend

Teen Idol----Meg Cabot

hope you enjoy reading them!! happy reading!! :)

Answer 8

Try some of these.

Children/Young Adult

Last Chance by Sarah Dessen

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funkt

Ingo series by Helen Dunmore

Whistling for the Elephants by Sandi Toksvic

The Book Thief by Markus Zusack

All the Harry Potter books

Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

The Railway Children - E Nesbit

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carol

Treasure Island and Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Dating Hamlet by Lisa Fielder

Adult

No! I don’t want to join a Book Club by Virgina Ironside

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir......and her other books

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger

Best of Fathers by Anne Baker

The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood

Cell by Stephen King

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Swimming with the Fishes and Swimming without a net by MaryJanice Davidson

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Mr Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle and his others

Mr McGreggor, The Last Lighthouse Keeper, Animal Instincts, Only Dad, Rosie, Love and Dr Devon all by Alan Titchmarsh

Pillars of the Earth and the sequel World Without End by Ken Follett

Anything by Stephen King, John Saul, John Connolly, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert

Classics

Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors by William Golding

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence

Great Gatsby - Scot Fitzgerald

1984 and Animal Farm - GeorgeOorwell

Mrs Dalloway - Virgina Wolfe

I Claudius - Robert Graves

Rebecca - Daphne de Maurier

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh

Women in Love - D H Lawrence

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

A Portrait of an Artist as a Young man - James Joyce

Goodbye to all That - Robert Graves

Shirley - Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Brave New World - Aldais Huxley

Anna Karnina - Tolstoy

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Lolita - Vladimer Naborkov

Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson

Burning Bright - John Steinbeck

Travels with my Aunt - Graham Greene

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

A Room With a View - E M Forster

Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo

Les Miseriables - Victor Hugo

Lorna Doon - R D Blackmore

Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh

War and Peace - Tolstoy

Anything by Jane Austin

Series

Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz

The Arthur Trilogy by Bernard Cornwall starts with Winter King

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind starts with Wizards First Rule

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King starts with The Gunslinger

The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon starts with Cross Stitch

Answer 9

Neal Stephenson ruined cyberpunk for me because no other author could compare to him, even Gibson and Sterling.

John Brunner - The Shockwave Rider (pre-cyberpunk)

John Brunner - Stand on Zanzibar

Rudy Rucker - Software and Wetware (I haven't read the other two books in the series. The only true cyberpunk on this list.)

Mark Fabi - Wyrm (I've never seen anyone else mention it, but it's very entertaining.)

Philip K. d**k - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (the basis for Bladerunner. d**k's dystopian visions make today's cyberpunk worlds look like Disney Land.)

Philip K. d**k - The Man in the High Castle

Nancy Kress - Beggars series

Robert Anton Wilson (and Bob Shea) - The Illuminatus! Trilogy (a must read - my most borrowed book)

Edit: To Say Nothing of the Dog (above) and anything else by Connie Willis is excellent, but I'm not sure if it's what you're interested in. I should have mentioned Pat Cadigan's Tea from an Empty Cup (also above). I would probably put him second to Neal Stephenson and "Tea" is excellent. I may have read a cyberpunk short story of his in Omni magazine even before Neuromancer.

Edit: S.P. Somtow - Riverrun Trilogy (the most original science fiction I've ever read)

Answer 10

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (space travel)

To Say Nothing of the Dog (time travel)

Answer 11

the host by stephenie meyer (and no its nothing like twilight)

Answer 12

iiDK if yuh would like Lurlene McDaniel books

she has two new books

"Prey" and "Hit and Run"

they are pretty good

:)