What is your favorite type of sci-fi? For me since Ive always been interested in life in the universe/space exploration, anything regarding that. I love golden age sci-fi and reading what they thought we would do in space back in the 40s and 50s
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Sci-Fantasy. A mix of future tech and the supernatural high fantasy.
I’ve read Piers Anthony books where he combines the two. What’s a good mixture you’ve read?
Star Wars (EU).
But I'm also mostly coming off of video game settings too. Final Fantasy has gone that route often, and there's the Phantasy Star franchise.
Cool! I love the Star Wars EU. I can’t remember if you are the one that liked it up until NJO?
Sounds about right. I never read NJO, and some of the plot synopses I'd read of it and later stuff started to turn me off.
Was that written before or after Piers Anthony wrote a lot of books prominently featuring precocious, nubile tweens?
I think you are talking about the Incantations of Immortality, which I have read, or Blue Adept, which I have not read.
Incarnations of Immortality starts well, but every book is worse than the last.
These were in the 90s. One book was about a guy in a futuristic world finding a portal into a fantasy world and going back and forth. Cant remember the name. Another one was about a person playing a VR game and it had some levels that were fantasy
The first one is the Blue Adept series. I don't know about the second one.
Piers Anthony was not a great author. Eventually he discovered that he got paid by the word and churned out huge tomes of low-effort crap.
His most successful series is a fantasy setting called Xanith or something close. It is about adventures in a magical kingdom where most of the magic is based on puns. Piers writes long, 'educational forwards' that don't age well.
I can recommend other, better series. Try out Dungeon Crawler Carl.