"Heard of" Neuromancer?! What the hell are you doing on the internet if you've only "heard of" it?
Seriously though, I really enjoy Gibson's writing style. He runs concurrent threads featuring several characters, and brings them together. Read the first trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive) and his early short stories (Burning Chrome), then his second trilogy (Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties), and *THE* steampunk novel, The Difference Engine. The world conspires to keep me from the stuff he's written in this century.
There are quite a number of Dune novels. Six by Herbert himself, which is what I've read. Another ten, I think, by his son and someone else, that I haven't touched.
I haven't read Asimov since high school (back in the '80s). In his later works he tied most of his stuff together, so Robots, Empire, Foundation, the whole thing is about 17 novels, most of which are short on action (I think I rather enjoyed the Robot series, starting with The Caves of Steel). I couldn't say how best to read them all, except in the order they were written.
As always, less-classic recommendations of Dan Simmons, Peter F. Hamilton. Can I add Thomas (a.k.a. Tom) Easton?
If I ever get through this stack of magazines, there's a stack of old books next to it. I can see Sturgeon and Bradbury near the top....
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