/lit/ - Literature

Okay, well,

>Ray Bradbury: Martian Chronicles, short story collections
>Phillip k Dick: Scanner Darkly, VALIS trilogy, DADOLS, Flow My Tears, short stories
>Larry Niven: pretty much anything from the 'Known Universe'... universe. Ringworld and sequels, Neutron Star, etc.
>Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle: Lucifer's Hammer (more a disaster story than sci-fi, about a comet striking earth, but still really intense and cool)
>Neal Stephenson: Anathem, Snow Crash
>James A. Corey: Leviathan Wakes trilogy. fantastic 'space opera', all takes place in our solar system, very plausible technology.
>Joe Haldeman: The Forever War
>Ursula K. Le Guin: The Disposessed, The Left Hand Of Darkness. I would call these 'social science fiction'. Disposessed is about a colony on the (habitable) moon of a planet that might as well be earth, inhabited and run by anarchists. it's been centuries since they've interacted, they send a diplomat to earth, story ensues. Left Hand is about a sexless, genderless race and what kind of society would be like, from the point of view of a human reporter.
>last but never least, Arthur C Clarke: Childhood's End, 2001, short stories.

...are my favourite sci-fi books.

So I'm about 70 pages into Ringworld. I'm having trouble caring about most of it, and I can't really tell where they are most of the time, and nothing is described well enough for me to really get a good picture.

Does it get better? I mean it won the Hugo and the Nebula, so it must be good, right?