Fiction Book Suggestions

[Calibar]

I recently started reading some fiction and I do find it enjoyable. I feel though that there is too much emphasis on personal relationships and not enough investigation and mystery. Any suggestions on fiction that might appeal to people on the spectrum?

 

[Sabrina]

I recently read the Science Fiction / Dystopia saga Red Raising by Pierce Brown.Quoting a comment from Goodreads: "Recommend it to: Anybody with eyeballs" Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)

 

[Streetwise]

C.S LEWIS the lion the witch and the wardrobe
is mystery why did a human kill another human or mystical as in the ark of the covenant
MISTER GOD THIS IS ANNA-author Fynn published 1974
Publisher Collins issued by FOUNT Paperbacks
Sister Margarita-author Alex Stuart published 1961 Mills and Boon publishers
Heaven-close encounters of the God kind_Dr Jesse DuPlantis

 

[AGXStarseed]

The London Eye Mystery is a pretty good one in my opinion.
It centers on a boy with Aspergers and his sister trying to find their cousin Salim after he disappears riding the London Eye.

 

[Calibar]

Thank you for the suggestions. May try Red Rising. Hope it isn't too emotional though. I generally prefer anything set on a different world (e.g. vampires) where some mystery needs to be solved but without too much drama.

 

[Riley]

• Dragons In Our Midst & Oracles Of Fire by Bryan Davis (This is a brilliant series about teenagers who are the children of former dragons. As a result, they have traits such as fire breath and wings.)
• City Of Devils by Justin Robinson (This is pretty much in the same vein of Who Censored/Framed Roger Rabbit?: Noir with a twist. Our leading character is the ONLY human P.I. in a Los Angeles filled to the brim with classic movie monsters.)
• The Lunar Chronicles (A personal favorite of a friend of mine, who got ME reading it. Twists on classic fairy tales set in a futuristic world with a plague and alien immigration problem.)

 

[Sabrina]

Thank you for the suggestions. May try Red Rising. Hope it isn't too emotional though. I generally prefer anything set on a different world (e.g. vampires) where some mystery needs to be solved but without too much drama.

There's drama at the beginning, like the ignition to start a machine. But if you get through that part, I don't think you won't be dissapointed. The story starts on planet Mars, by the way.

 

[Sabrina]

I meant "I don't think you will be dissapointed".

 

[Calibar]

I am about to finish the vampire girl series (which was a bit too girly for me) so I will likely buy Red Rising next.
Thanks Riley. "Twists on classic fairy tales" Hmm. not sure I like the sound of that

 

[MrSpock]

I'm a big fan of Heinlein. His books aren't mysteries, but tend to focus more on larger social arrangements rather than on personal ones, it's science-fiction in which political and economic systems are different as well as technology being different. Stranger in a Strange Land is a very good one.

 

[Jorg]

Some months ago I read Bioshock: Rapture and Dead Space Martyr, they're based in videogames but you don't need to know anything about them to enjoy them because the storys are about everything that happened before the start of the game.

Bioshock is about a 1950's city underwater, an utopia where there's no religion, no capitalism, socialism or anything like that, where scientist can research witouth moral limitations but everything starts to fall apart when a civil war starts. There are some scy-fi things like powers given by genetic modification and stuff.

Dead Space is a horror story about an ancient/alien artifact discovered in the yucatan gulf, this artifact sends some kind of signals but everyone who's near him starts to experiment visionsa about dead relatives and fall into madness. Some scientist discovered a code in the signal which they transform into a genetic sample which in a madness attack one of them injects himself starting a mutation which spreads hundreds of zombie-like monsters. In the next books and series this madness turned into a religion which spreads in human space ships.

 

[Aeolienne]

I recommend The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin. That was the book that opened my eyes as to how brilliant science fiction can be.

 

[Pariah Dog]

Check out the author "Harry Turtledove"

He is a specialist in alternative history fiction. I am reading a series by him that's in 2 parts "The world war series" and after a 20 year intermission in the story time line it moves onto the "colonization" series. 8 books in all.

It is based around 1943 in the beginning. The second world war is raging on but an alien race invades earth during this time. The nations of the world quickly have to stop fighting each other and fight the alien threat. The aliens themselves had sent a probe to investigate earth for colonization 800 years earlier. They seen the world as it was then and assumed it would be the same when they finally arrived. These aliens have an ultra conservative culture and do not make any changes to their own society or technology without extensive research first, often spanning generations. They assumed earth would be the same way. They were not prepared to deal with an industrialized Earth when they arrive. To give that some perspective, one of these aliens life span is supposed to be similar to that of a human.

There is a butt load of characters who are extremely well written representing well researched ways of life from many parts of the world. Also many world leaders and prominent figures of the world during the span of the time line are also characters. As well there are several alien characters. The aliens are written in incredible depth as to how they feel and perceive things, their own hopes and desires, they way the interpret Earth and it's inhabitants and how it is alien to them.

A little about the aliens. Physically they resemble humanoid lizards, with chameleon eye "turrets", and stand about 4 ft tall. I imagine them like the argonians for any gamers who played the Elder Scrolls series. They are obedient to their superiors, and much more honest and honorable than humans tend to be, and show very poor resourcefulness when change occurs. They dislike violence and find humans apathy towards killing appalling. Despite this they have no trouble with dropping a nuclear bomb on cities as a means to an end when necessary. Though intelligent and technologically advance they have an almost child like naivety trying to comprehend beings and culture outside of their own.

Well worth the read. I am on book 7 of 8 right now. I have been hooked the entire way through.