11th November 2010, 9:14 PM
Oh, for Sci-fi, looking at modern works as opposed to the obvious classic authors like Bradbury, Clarke, etc., one author I definitely like is Jack McDevitt. He's written some pretty good sci-fi books, some standalone novels and some part of a series, and they're all good. My favorite book of his, though, is Eternity Road, which is post-apocalyptic, not sci-fi. It's set long after the event though, about people exploring this future America, seeing both the state of the humanity that survived and looking at the ruins of the lost civilization. Good book. His sci-fi books are pretty good too, though. It's not the hardest of sci-fi, I guess, but they're definitely high quality stuff.