Dorsetmike
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SciFi, has to be Clarke and Asimov, not many Fantasy fans here, but how about Anne McCaffery, & Piers Antony, novels for me Ernest K Gann takes some beating. For something a bit different Jean M Auel's "Earth's Children" series has to be one of the best researched works ever, over the last 31 years she has written 6 books in this series set in prehistoric ice age times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_M._Auel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_M._Auel