We all know the feeling once you are in a library / bookshop / DVD store and try to find something good, which you don't know... something good, which yo don't already know - well these two facts are exactly opposed to eachother. To help you a little, here are my personal favourites. Some books are part of a series, but I don't advise you to read the whole series. In this case I simply wrote the book's name.
My favourite SF books (in order of favouritism):
- William Gibson - Neuromancer
- Stephen Donaldson - The Gap Series
- Peter F. Hamilton - The Nightdawn Trilogy
- Stanislav Lem - Cyberiad
- Alastair Reynolds - Chasm City
- Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy
- Aldous Huxley - Brave new World
- Ursula leGuin - The right Hand of Darkness
- Frank Herbert - Dune
- George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Isaac Asimov - The Robots of Dawn
- Blade Runner
- Alien 1 & 2
- Star Wars 4-6
- Akira
- Ghost in the Shell
- THX1138
- Terminator 2
- Twelve Monkeys
- The fifth Element
- Appleseed
- Dune
- Mad Max 2 & 3
- Dr. Strangelove
- Clockwork Orange
- Wonderful Days
- Star Trek VI: The undiscovered Country
- Johnny Mnemonic
- Predator
- Battlestar Galactica
- Firefly
- Babylon 5