Book / Audiobook Recommendations?

[asterroc]

Any suggestions on what audiobooks I should look for next? Or if you don't know audiobooks as much as any ol' books, recommend one there too. I prefer sci/fan, especially ones that play with the border between the Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Hard science without good characters and plot (like Gregory Benford) drives me insane, but speculative fiction where some new scientific breakthrough drives the characters and story (like Larry Niven) is awesome. I prefer adult to young adult, but I don't mind young adult. I don't mind serieses just so long as there are fewer sequals than letters in the author's name.

Comments

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

"Windhaven" is one of the best border-of-sf-and-fantasy books I've read. It's typically the first book I recommend to fans too, since for some reason it's just unubiquitous enough that people are likely not to have read it.

I'm currently reading Niven's "Building Harlequin's Moon"; it's shaping up very well thus far.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I was actually thinking of rereading "Building Harlequin's Moon" sometime. I think I read it a year and a half ago, and it was quite good. Niven does a remarkable job of not only the science in his novels, but the characters and how they interact. Maybe I should read the Man-Kzin War serieses, or re-read Ringworld.

I'll look up Windhaven.

[delennamachoo.livejournal.com]

I recently listened to John Irving's Son of the Circus. It's not Scifi, but it's great for the character development, subtle humor, and strange subplots.