lead me in the right direction?

[NecroCombine666]

i I'm brand new to this site. I was looking for a place to have some good author and book discussion and I hope I found it. Some of my favorite books are...

H. G. Wells The War In The Air
H. G. Wells The Isle of Dr Moreau
H. G. Wells The War Of The Worlds
H. G. Wells The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells The Time Machine
Any J. R. R. Tolkien
The Resident Evil books by S. D. Perry
Lords of Chaos the history of black metal
The encyclopedia of heavy metal
The Serial Killer Files
Any H. P. Lovecraft
Zecharia Sitchin's The 12th Planet.
I am Legend by Richard Matheson
Fall of Cthulhu The Fugue
Tales from the Time Loop by David Icke.
The Grays from Whitley Strieber.

I'm interested in checking out Robert E Howard, Michael Moorcock, William Gibsom, Brian Lumley and August Derleth< John Wyndham, Frank Herbert, Robert A. Heinlein, Aleister Crowley, William Golding, Cornelius Ryan, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert A. Heinlein, hunter s. thompson, Terry Brooks, and terry prachett

I'm especially interested in the Conan series but have no idea where to start. If by reading any of what I enjoy brings a certain author to mind please let me know. I'd like to get ahold of some cyber punk and dystopian stories but have no idea where to begin either.

I'm very interested in science fiction from the the 60s and 70s. My best friends dad had this book rack in the their basement with all theses old lovecraft and cthulhu mythos reprints and old science fiction and moorcock stories with very epic covers that looked straight out of comic books and some had crazy planets and alien beings on them and these authors I listed are just some I remeber he had. Out of the silent planet seemed intriging but I'm not a big Narnia fan.

I'm just wondering if any of you could recommend anything from these authors or tell me what to not bother with as I've never got ahold of any of their works before but I am looking to very soon.

Thanks alot for any help you provide.

Hopefully it'll be more help than the last book forum I asked these questions on. No one ever responded last time.

[Tallon]

I recommend
Frank Herbert - Dune
Arthur C. Clarke - The Fountains of Paradise
Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
Asimov - the Gods Themselves
John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids, The Chrysalids (Brian Aldiss calls them 'cozy catastophies' but that is partly unfair)

As for sci-fi in general, i'm a big fan of that period. Other books/authors you might want to read are:

Theodore Sturgeon - More Than Human (one of the more literary sci-fi books)
George R. Stewart - Earth Abides (post apocalyptic)
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
anything by Philip K. Dick or Kurt Vonnegut
Frederik Pohl - Gateway
Ursula K. LeGuin - The Left Hand of Darkness, The Lathe of Heaven.
Alfred Bester - Tiger, Tiger(now called The Stars, My Destination)
Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker (earlier period but very ahead of his time)

In general a good thing to check out is the Hugo and Nebula award winners, especially books that won both.

[DuskHasBlown]

"Lords of Chaos the history of black metal
The encyclopedia of heavy metal"

Good game, good game. I'm glad to see another fan of black metal.

[NecroCombine666]

I am a fan a black metal. I love it man. Secondly is that Bill Hicks in your picture Tallon?

Anyways thanks alot for the recommendations I'll look into it.

[Tallon]

It is the great Bill Hicks :)

[NecroCombine666]

I recently saw a video of him talking about the kennedy assassination. It was genius. Everyone has talked about how genius he was and upon seeing vids of him on youtube I agree it was a great loss to the world when he died.