10 ACTION-PACKED Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- In this video I'm joined by the amazing Dan from @TreeBeardBookReviews in order to recommend 5 adrenaline-pumping adventures from the science fiction and fantasy genres. What are some of your favourite action-heavy novels?
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00:00 - Intro
01:46 - Dragon Champion
03:47 - Old Man's War
05:50 - The Blackest Heart
08:11 - Red Rising
11:32 - Mistborn
15:00 - Horus Rising
19:19 - The Dresden Files
22:39 - Sun Eater
27:12 - Ruin
29:57 - Endymion
33:21 - April Patron Pick
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But I don't want action packed. I want intelligence packed.
That’s okay, that’s why I make videos on different types of books. I did a collaboration called 10 Thought Provoking Books which you might enjoy if you haven’t seen that one. I also have a number of other concept focused videos.
@@WordsinTime Thanks, I enjoy your videos. Sometimes I try to be funny and leave silly comments.
@@wburris2007 I appreciate it haha
Old Man's War sold me on Scalzi.
It’s the only Scalzi I’ve read so far but I enjoyed it!
I recently read the first of the Collapsing Empire series which follows the Scalzi mix of sci-fi intrigue and humour, yet pays more attention to the characters and politics
I’m so happy Dan mentioned Durfee. He does not get enough love and should be up there with the most popular fantasy writers. The Blackest Heart has one of the best battles scenes I have ever read in a book. I thought about it for days afterwards.
That’s awesome to hear! We love Durfee!
That fight around the end of Endymion is one of my all time favorites. Apart from being all around fantastic it raises the stakes by bringing in something worse than the worst thing we've seen up to this point in the story.
Yes! I’m glad you also enjoyed it, I feel like no one else ever mentions it!
Enders Game . Yes The Dresden series is action packed . ( You had me for a moment with a wizard name Harry 😂🤣 ) . I am told that a Kim Harrison Hollow series...with the books titles a play on Clint Eastwood westerns is a similar read. I was looking to hear some old school authors of both SF and fantasy . Mayhaps next round . PS one more Ready play Onev
Lol sorry Sylvan!
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Ender’s Game and RP1 are fun choices for this as well!
'Altered Carbon' and the other Takeshi Kovacs books by Richard K Morgan are fun sci-fi noir with well written action IMO. Actually a lot of his stuff is action-y so the unrelated 'Black Man'/'Thirteen' (depending on where you live) and 'Thin Air' fit the bill too (though for me the latter felt a bit like "Kovacs-lite", like Morgan kind of doing a Morgan knock-off). He's written some fantasy too which I hear are in a similar style but though i've got one on my TBR shelf I haven't tried them yet.
'Armor' by John Steakly has great action but as with 'The Forever War' and "Old Man's War", there's more going on too (the military sci-fi I have the most time for tends to be _anti_ military sci-fi in disguise :).
'Hardwired' and 'Voice of the Whirlwind' by Walter Jon Williams have good cyberpunk-ish action. Or the "Cass" trilogy, starting with "Crashcourse", by Wilhelmina Baird (pen name of Scottish author Joyce Hutchinson) were a lot of fun when I read them.
And i've mentioned them before but the "Murderbot Diaries" by Martha Wells are action packed, pacy reads that also have an entertainingly wry tone.
(don't read that much fantasy myself but i've enjoyed David Gemmell's heroic (or anti-heroic) fantasy like the Druss books (e.g. 'Legend') or the Waylander books. And I guess the Dark Tower books are action fantasy, sort of ?)
I recently picked up All Systems Red and am currently reading The Dark Tower. I’ll have to check out the others. Thanks for the recommendations!
@@WordsinTime Ah, hope you enjoy both. The Dark Tower series in particular goes in a direction that was somewhat divisive at the time as I recall so it'll be interesting to see your take on it.
One of my top action author is Larry Correia. He has 3 top notch series: Monster Hunters, Grimnoir Chronicles, and Saga of the Forgotten Warrior. Great plots, inventive use of magic, high octane action. More amazing is his "voicing" of each series is different. You don't know it is the same author.
I have heard good things about Monster Hunters. I’m glad to hear you enjoyed each of those series!
If you want action packed, then Bruce Bretthauer's The Families War series (first one is Firestar). Another great set of stories is Gina Marie Wylie's Kinsella series. Finally, There is the first series of Ben Winston's The Talosian Chronicles. Don't get started on the second series, as he seems to have stopped writing after the first book.
Thanks for the recommendations Mark!
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Thanks for spreading the love Dale!
Oh yeah, I love the Red Rising series.
Thanks for the recommendations.
You’re welcome Lisa, let us know if you pick any of them up!
That was fun to watch, great stuff! Cheers, I think you both are fantastic. 📚
Thanks for the kind words Jim! I’m glad you liked the video and I hope you enjoy these books!
I read the first 2 Hyperion books years ago and never continued, and you’ve totally sold me on Endymion!! Love some of your other recs already like Red Rising and Sun Eater and at least the First Old Man’s War book. You also have me intrigued by Horus Rising!
Nice! Let me know what you think of Endymion if you read it!
What an interesting list!! Very cool idea. Will have to go check out Dan's channel. Cool video.
Thanks Whitney, glad you enjoyed it! Dan has read a ton of fantasy!
Age of Fire was fun. I very much enjoyed that series. I never considered it YA
Nice, I’m glad you enjoyed it! 🐉
I've read all the Dresden files books so far. I find Butcher a real master of the action scene. They're always creative, different from the previous ones, and no matter how long they go on they never get boring.
That’s cool, the series sounds fun!
The Dresden books are consistently excellent.
Really nice video! I'reading dresden files and I really like it. Reminds me of the GRIMM tv show wish I like a lot
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed the video and that you’re liking The Dresden Files!
If you like Old Man's War by Scalzi, you might also enjoy The Android's Dream. It has a lot of action and some humor. I haven't read them in many years, but remember liking most of the Vor series by Lois McMaster Bujold and Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson.
Thanks for the recommendations Jen! I’ve read one Vorkosigan book, I’ll have to check out the others!
This is so great. That’s for making this
Cheers Adam, I’m glad you enjoyed!
Endymion and Rise of Endymion are both great books and must reads in my humble opinion. I love the Hyperion series from beginning to end. Thanks for another great video Jonathan.
Yes, the sequels are underrated!
The Dresden Files is good fun, and really picks up in quality from book 3 on (the first two are decent, but are more for giving you the premise, and introducing the main characters). But there's loads of action, and some good mysteries too. And I'm a sucker for some good re-interpretation of mythology.
On the sci-fi front, I'll once again throw out a recommendation for Neal Asher's novels. There are several different series but all those i've read so far have been action packed. The Agent Cormac series is 6 books set within the larger Polity Universe which gives you human super agents, Sentient ships, strange alien intelligences and several mysteries. Annoyingly when it comes to recommending a series, the first in the series (Gridlinked) is by far the weakest, kind like The Dresden Files (and Stormfront). But once you're through the first one its really off to the races.
Thanks for all the helpful info Gearoid, I’ll look them up!
Deathstalker books are underated classics of mad scifi. Simon R Green is one of the best authers ive read, every book hes written is impossible to put down.
Yes! More people need to try Deathstalker!
Another good one full of action is Larry correia's monster hunter series.
Nice! I believe Andrew from Andrew’s Wizardly Reads is a fan of that one.
MHI is so good. But it's urban fantasy, so I don't know how interested Jonathan will be in that.
13:10 I wouldn't call Skyward "SciFi" personally. It's a fantasy story in an advanced society that happens to have spaceships. It leans on Fantasy tropes and ignores the things that typically make a book "SciFi" in my mind. Furthermore, it's VERY YA at times (especially the novellas). With all that said, it's not terrible. My 10 year old loved the series. But personally I found it derivative of other more iconic works.
I would also not recommend The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England. I gave that book a 2 star rating. It felt rushed and just didn't have a lot of depth or quality in the end.
Just read Mistborn. Actually, read the whole first Mistborn trilogy. It's worth it. It's excellent. The sequel series of 4 books? Not nearly as good. But that first trilogy is chef's kiss.
Thanks for the info Colin! I’ll try Mistborn at some point in the future!
Warhammer 40k very much didn’t start out serious
It was originally a satire of 80s Britain under thatcher and related themes, somewhat akin to 2000 AD
Much of the more recent material has lost some of that as it has become more popular
Some of the books, in particular the Ciaphas Cain series, have retained that sense of wry humour
That’s some interesting info, thanks Marc!
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There is no way Empire of Silence is action packed hardly anything even happens in the book.
I would describe it as medium-paced, but I picked Sun Eater for the bigger battles in the sequels.
The first 200 pages nothing happens. There is a whole chapter that he sits around at his moms house.