SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

I am looking for recommendations for book series that has to do with aliens, apocolyptic events/post-apocalypse, space travel, multi-dimensions, and even horror

I love stand alone books, but I really love a good series of books. Currently I’ve purchased the below series, but looking for even more:

- Silo Series by Hugh Howey
- Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Wayward Pines Series by Blake Crouch
- Remembrance of Earths Past series by Liu Cixin

Please suggest more!

The Expanse series, starting with Leviathan Wakes, ticks almost all of those boxes.

Here are some others...

Aliens/Space travel
The Lesson
Blindsight
Project Hail Mary
Solaris
Walking to Aldebaran
Annihilation
The Sparrow

Post-Apocalyptic
The Stand
The Passage (also horror)
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
The Windup Girl
The Last Policeman
Oryx and Crake

Multi-dimensional
Perdido Street Station
The Hollow Places (also horror)
The Dark Tower series
The Talisman
The Library at Mount Char
London Falling
The Eyre Affair
It
Lisey's Story

Horror
A Head Full of Ghosts
Hell House
The Ruins
The Only Good Indians

Aliens/Space Travel:

C.J. Cherryh's Chanur Series starting with The Pride of Chanur
and the rest of the Alliance-Union various series (see here fo a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._J._C... )

Becky aren't almost all of those standalone? Great standalone but not series so much

The Foundation books by Isaac Asimov or the Dune novels by Frank Herbert.

Ilium and Olympos is a duology that is almost all of those genres at once... plus the classics/mythology

I'll second the recommendation for Cherryh's Alliance-Union series. The core series, covering the time period of the Company Wars, is one of the best. Also technically in this universe but very separated are the Faded Sun series and the Morgaine series. Also by Cherryh, in the realm of fantasy, is the series beginning with Fortress In the Eye of Time. Going back to space travel, pick up Becky Chambers's Wayfarer series.

Allison wrote: "Becky aren't almost all of those standalone? Great standalone but not series so much"

Some of them are, yeah, mostly the horror ones. I didn't read the initial request as ONLY series, but I may have misinterpreted that. Whoops! :S

Hit post too soon.

From the period of classic sf, a terrific space travel series I do not see mentioned much anymore is James Blish's Cities in Flight. (You have to love a star drive called the "spindizzy"!)

For post-apocalyptic/dystopian, if you are okay with YA, go for Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games (including the prequel).

Becky wrote: "Allison wrote: "Becky aren't almost all of those standalone? Great standalone but not series so much"

Some of them are, yeah, mostly the horror ones. I didn't read the initial request as ONLY seri..."

I was mostly going oh wow, does [very connected and aware friend] Becky know something about some of these?! Because I'd love a sequel to Walking to Aldebarran lol

Those words have never been used to describe me. I’m very out of the loop on everything! *she says while pointedly avoiding the Digging for TBR Gold thread * lol

I too would love sequels to several of the standalones I mentioned!

I would second “Cities in Flight,” four short novels/fix-ups which are most readily found in an omnibus under the series title. These days single entries in some series are that long.

David Drake has several series running, mostly
Military SF. He made his reputation with the Hammer’s Slammers stories dealing with mercenaries, which has a complicated bibliography (see Wikipedia for the collections and omnibus editions.) The 13 (so far) novels of the RCN (Republic of Cinnabar Navy) series mostly feature a somewhat conventionally heroic naval officer, Daniel Leary, whose name was the series title for the first few volumes, but another main character is the most dangerous librarian in the human galaxy.