Recommend to me some decent Sci-Fi novels please..

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Yeah, but the Seikai novels go beyond that. It's at least one of those epic series that contains its own complex, logical language and character set. It was a series of novels before anything else.

Neal Stephenson's "Quicksilver" was an exceptional read (The first of the three, at least--I can't speak for the 2nd and 3rd but for a 900 page tome, it's a ripping read, and a lot lighter than Umberto Eco). Not quite sci-fi in the traditional sense, but a good look into the backbone of the sciences and the political reality that gave rise to them. And Isaac Newton is in it, sticking needles into his eyeball. I also second "A Scanner Darkly", as well. That is a knock-you-on-your-ass-good kind of book. Seriously.

I'm partial to "old school": Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, etc. Hard to go wrong there.

Yes, i liked "A Scanner Darkly", but couldn't make 'head nor tail' of it.
There are only a few of Phil Dick's novels in which i have been able to follow the plot to the end.
Still a good read though.
Kind of like Raymond Chandler: usually i have no clue about what is going on after Chapter 4.
But he is such a good writer, and i don't think anyone can comprehend Chandler's plots.

Glory Lane By Alan Dean Foster ISBN 0-441-51664-5

Ender's Game

Iain M. Banks: The Player of Games, Consider Phlebas, Excession, Use of Weapons
Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle, Slapstick, Galapagos
Philip K Dick: As well as the other fine suggestions, the short story collections are excellent

Dunno if it's strictly sci-fi, but The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood is also good.

My Top 10 Favourite SF Novels:
Alphabetically, by author:

The Overman Culture, by Edmund Cooper
Starrigger, by John DeChancie
Replay, by Ken Grimwood
The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
Job: A Comedy of Justice, by Robert A. Heinlein
A Canticle for Liebowitz, by Walter M. Miller
Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
Guns of the South, by Harry Turtledove
Voice of the Whirlwind, by Walter Jon Williams

If I had to pick my #1, it would be Voice of the Whirlwind.

Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling.
Great Sky River by Gregory Benford.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe.

Three books I can re-read and still enjoy.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Time's Eye

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The Foundation Trilogy

Anthem by, Ayn Rand

The Honor Harrington series by David Weber is good classic sci-fi. One alt-history I've enjoyed immensely is the 1632 series. Finally, Neuromancer by William Gibson

Finally another Card fan!

Thanks for the suggestions everybody.
My local library is really pathetic: they buy very few recent sc-fi novels. Most of the sci-fi & fantasy section is taken up buy these five volume fantasy epics, which i have no interest in.
(When i was a teenager i enjoyed reading David Eddings, but that sort of stuff i can't read anymore.)

I don't like buying books new as there is a good chance that it will be a waste of money.
But i managed to find Walter Miller's "Canticle For Leibowitz" on a second hand bookstall.
Also, some Larry Niven; i have read most of the 'old-school' writers ( Heinlein, Clarke, Silverberg, Dick), but somehow Niven has past me by. Anyhow, he seems quite good.

Thanks again. And i would recommend Richard Morgan's "Altered Carbon". An ultra-violent Raymond Chandler type story; very nasty.

I forgot to mention this on my last pass--David Brin's "The Uplift War" was one of my favorite books when I was younger. Don't let the whole having had a terrible movie made out of one of his other books necessarily turn you off of his writing altogether.

Based on your description of Richard Morgan (who I'm a bit familiar with), you might want to try Neal Asher. "Gridlinked" would be the best Asher book to start with. Peter F. Hamilton would be another good choice.

I enjoyed The Reality Dysfunction, but gave up on the second book in the series after a few Chapters.
I thought that things had got a bit too silly.