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Blimey there's a load of stuff here I forgot I'd read in my yoof, great range of suggestions. To add my tuppence,

  Julian May :-  The Pleistocene series. The Golden Torc etc.
                       The Galactic Milieu series. Intervention etc.

  Ken Macleod :- The Fall Revolution books. In fact I've enjoyed all of Mr.Macleods stuff that I've read.

  William Gibson and Bruce Stirling :- The Difference Engine.

  Gene Wolfe :- The Book of the New Sun, The Book of the Long Sun and The Book of The Short Sun. Though "New Sun" is the      
                        classic.
 
  Dan Simmons :- Hyperion and Endymion.

  Peter F Hamilton :- All good, Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained are my Faves so far.

  Richard Morgan, Neal Asher and Charles Stross all good modern writers and Iain M Banks goes without saying ( I've got a        
   soft spot for Feersum Endjinn).

 On the Classic side of things, others here have mentioned The Mote in God's Eye and I couldn't agree more but I wouldn't bother with the much belated follow up, The Moat around God's Eye.
 
 Any body mentioned Kim Stanley Robinson's  Mars Trilogy yet? They're triffic.

  Anyhow just realised this is probably where I should have put the post which I stuck in Suggestions earlier. Hey ho, I'll try to keep fuck ups to a maximum of one a day in future.

Cheers Kerrin.

Being a neophyte you'll have to forgive me if this is an existing thread (if that is the case, could some kindly cyborg, teapot or prefect show me the light in the form of a link), but I'll run it up the block flagpole anyway.
For a long time now it's occured to me that there are a few books,trilogies and sagas that with a sympathetic writer/artist treatment would make excellent long run graphic serialisations in the Galaxy's Greatest.
Stainless Steel Rat is last one I can remember, but then my memory never was...um.
I know publishing rights and all that other arcane guff would almost certainly put paid to any suggestion, but I just wanted to lob a couple out there and see if the rest of the faithful had any ideas.

  Book of the New Sun  by Gene Wolfe.   Simon Fraser as artist.  This would make me a very happy bunny.

  Altered Carbon  by Richard Morgan.   Cam Kennedy on crayons?

  The Greg Mandel detective novels   by Peter F Hamilton.  The Bolland Droid.

There are many more where they came from but I'd love to hear what anybody thinks of these suggestions or what ideas you have of your own in this vein.

Again I hope I've posted this in the right place, still getting the the hang of this chatroom mallarky.

Sorry, realised I've got off thread there, schoolboy error.

Got to admit it Garageman you have a very good point. It's not like theyr'e Alpha and Sternhammer or anything is it. Mind you the way things have been going in the plot twist department round here I wouldn't be surprised if Ro-Jaws turned up and recruited them as security for the Ace trucking Co.

Know what you mean Garageman, but I have to read Sin/Dex for the puntastic establishment names. It's the little pleasures in life. Well thats what the most recent Mrs.Kerrin used to tell me. Mind you I just stick bits of wood together for a living and the other day I found an amusingly misshapen screw that had me chuckling for hours. So I'm probably not the best person to give advice on the relative wit of dimensionally confused gobshite hitmen, but as much as the plots for bollocks the banters still some of the funniest I've yet found in this esteemed journal. Except Skizz of course, "flippy neck" genius.

I've never really seen the the appeal of Bob's strips. Sure, the first few were interesting in their own, "Ooh, a strip with no dialogue or narrative, thats brave" way. But the novelty soon wore off and I now feel distinctly put upon when I turn the page to find another saga of indistinct invertebrates doing Grud only knows what. I know I'm only a lowly leftover from the mighty mandibles of Mekquake but surely there's better content than this to fill six pages of the Galaxy's greatest.

Thanks Buttonman, I'm pretty sure I'll get the hang of this sooner or later. This digital larks not as easy as they make it look on  Blue Peter.

Greetings to all, I,ve been a reader for the last 27 years and I can honestly say that the weekly prog is one of those things that keeps me ticking along in the face of the daily drudge.
However, as soon as I turn a page to be faced with the dreaded title, "Bob Byrne's Twisted Tales' my heart drops faster than a Nun's knickers at a stud farm. Am I the only one who feels put out by 6 pages of this indecipherable nonsense or have I finally become that which I most feared....a Grexnix.
Well now I've got that off my chest I would just like to say this is the only chatroom I've ever posted to, and this is my first time. I couldn't think of a better bunch of people to witter on to than those that share my love of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic. Look forward to hearing from you all. Kerrin.