As a massive Heinlein fan I’ll say Starship Troopers because I think that’s a fascinating discussion about what you owe your country or the price of citizenship. Since Heinlein is my favorite author I’ll pick another one as well.. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick. I know he had drug issues and this book is an interesting look at the cycle of drugs and addiction and the ending was tragic but also very realistic. I like that the movie included his tribute at the end.
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I really do not read that much Sci Fi... Has got to be the Darth Bane trilogy then, still my favorite Sith and the one thing I would make into a movie series if I was the one who hold the reigns at Lucas. I generally read more fantasy so my selection of Sci Fi is pretty little, I read a couple others but only Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy would be worth mentioning.
I was going to say Admiral Thrawn trilogy, glad I'm not the only guy who normally reads fantasy and not sf. And it says a lot that we chose basically fantasy sf ;)
I’m a massive fan of the Star Wars EU (strictly pre Disney of course). I bought the first book of Darth Bane trilogy but haven’t read it yet. What’s your favorite fantasy?
I can only recommend Bane, is really well worth it and yes, pre Disney 100%.
Favorite fantasy is rather hard. Years ago when I was optimistic that we'd get the conclusion soon I would've in a heartbeat recommended the Kingkiller chronicles, fuck you Patrick for not finishing your story and being woke on twatter(with he/him pronounce in the bio obviously). Honestly, the guy apparently wrote the book already and entirely scrapped it, he's AFAIK also someone who suffers from TDS and is more "busy" with appearing in podcasts and on conventions where he's having his ass kissed for writing 2 good books and doing a Martin.
Nowadays I'd probably say Tolkien as his writing style is just so soothing, great to read and meaningful. There's a reason the classics are classics. My favorite of the books is still gonna be the Lord of the Rings, it's the one book I have multiple copies of(since I had a really badly translated one, a well translated one and an English one when I started getting into English books). Don't think there's much reason to explain why Tolkien is great tbh :)
Extra recommendation: I started "recently"(think 5-6 years ago) reading some light novel, some are alright, some are the usual isekai trash(and I really enjoy some trash sometimes). One has profoundly stood out amongst the rest: Ascendance of a Bookworm by Miya Kazuki. Her level of worldbuilding, character writing and story is weirdly enough out of the medium of light novel I feel(which as I guess is more aimed at a younger demographic with a little easier writing style). Can only recommend, I've preordered the books well into the future because I enjoy them so much. I've not read all of them yet(since I've been busy with other stuff lately) but up until part 4(it's segmented into parts aka story arks) it's pretty great. Yes, it's an isekai but not a powerfantasy one you usually have, the MC is not some Mary Sue but someone flawed who gets into trouble because she's not thinking things through and only follows her main goal.
That all turned out a lot longer than I expected :)