Topic: Your Favorite Sci Fi books (Read 21195 times)

Acidrain · « **on:** January 02, 2004, 06:40:20 pm »

Some of my favorite books are: Star Wars, Star Trek! thats about it! Late Acid

EE · « **Reply #1 on:** January 02, 2004, 07:59:14 pm »

Starship Troopers. Not the stupid movie version, the REAL book.. you know, the GOOD version.

Kmelew · « **Reply #2 on:** January 02, 2004, 08:14:52 pm »

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Starship Troopers. Not the stupid movie version, the REAL book.. you know, the GOOD version.

Agreed!! "I am a 30-second bomb. I am a 29-second bomb. I am a 28-second bomb..."

I enjoy the alternate history sub-genre, particularly Turtledove's "The Great War" and "American Empire" trilogies.

The Proteus Operation by James P. Hogan is also outstanding.

Alan Dean Foster's Nor Crystal Tears is probably my favorite novel of first contact.

Death_Merchant · « **Reply #3 on:** January 02, 2004, 08:19:55 pm »

Ender's Game
The Left Hand Of Darkness
Lathe Of Heaven
1984
The Foundation series (Asimov)
Rendezvous With Rama
A Call To Arms (The Damned series, Alan Dean Foster)

Toasty0 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 02, 2004, 09:28:01 pm »

The Foundation Trilogy
The Mote in God's Eye
Bio of a Space Tyrant
Stranger in a Strange Land

TB613 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 02, 2004, 09:34:59 pm »

Anything by Robert Heinlein with Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land being my favorites. The Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle & SM Stirling CoDomimium and the later Second Empire of Man future history books with Prince of Sparta and The Mote in God's Eye being at the top of the list.

Green · « **Reply #6 on:** January 02, 2004, 10:35:45 pm »

Troopers was very good (emphasis on book, not movie)

Others include:

Lucifer's Hammer (okay, only kinda SciFi)
Forever War and Forever Peace
Man-Kzin Wars series (just to tie-in the Taldren SFC game if nothing else)
Foundation Trilogy (already mentioned above)

Dizzy · « **Reply #7 on:** January 02, 2004, 11:43:31 pm »

I grok it...

Rondo_GE · « **Reply #8 on:** January 03, 2004, 12:15:32 am »

There are so many...I think I'll take my time on this one...cya later

762 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 03, 2004, 01:06:15 am »

Anything by Asimov, especially the Foundation series and the Robot series.

P.S. I, Robot is being made into a movie!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/

Rondo_GE · « **Reply #10 on:** January 03, 2004, 01:41:54 am »

Ok I got em now...not a a complete list and in no particular order...

Dune - Frank Herbet - classic SciFi..just darn good

Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert

The Lensman Series EE"DOC" Smith - classic space opera decades before Star Wars...good vs Evil and the story of a family chosen to well, you know, save the universe. Dated but still good.

The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury (collection of Short Stories)

Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany - a curious and interesting work

Humanity Prime - Bruce McAllister - a little known work...but very well written and influential on me

Odd John and Sirius - Olaf Stapledon - well if you havn't rerad it then your odd...or maybe I am...hehe

Foundation by Isaac Asimov (and the other two)

Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card

The Forever War - Joe Haldeman

War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells...still pretty good

The Time Machine - H.G.Wells - read the actual work and see how every hollywood director missed the point...a modern alleghory

The Last Castle - Jack Vance (a novella) Vance influenced fantasy and fantasy gaming ...he is a giant...but he also wrote some pretty good SciFi

The Dragon Masters - Jack Vance

Evolution - Stephen Baxter ( a very good read)

Snow Queen - Joan D. Vinge

2001; A Space Oddessey - Arthur C. CLark

Childhood's End - Arthur C. CLark

Imperial Earth - Arthur C. CLark

I, Robot - Isaac Asimov (a great short story and anthology)

Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke

To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip José Farmer I never liked Farmer until i read this one and its sequels...the highlight of the series came when Sir Richard F. Burton dueled Cyrano de Bergerac (both considered the greatest swordsmen of their age) in a titanic sword duel...incredible

Ringworld - Larry Niven

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein ...I did not like Starship Troopers actually...

Rondo_GE · « **Reply #11 on:** January 03, 2004, 02:00:26 am »

Most of the above are novels...but many SciFi writers have done their best work writing short stories.

Iceman · « **Reply #12 on:** January 03, 2004, 08:54:22 am »

Indeed, still my all time favorite book is Shadows of the Empire, don't laugh. Ender's Game was a close second.

Yabrodan · « **Reply #13 on:** January 03, 2004, 09:39:54 am »

A few of my favorites I haven't seen listed yet:
Nueromancer- William Gibson
Snow Crash- Neal Stephenson
Canticle for Leibowitz- Walter Miller Jr.
Hyperion- Dan Simmons
Blade Runner- Phillip K. Dick

Toten · « **Reply #14 on:** January 03, 2004, 02:32:53 pm »

Dune

Beserker

Time Wars

Videssos Legion

The Vang

The World War : XXX The Balance

Hitch Hikers Guide (the four part trilogy)

Lepton1 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 03, 2004, 03:37:33 pm »

For being a Sci-Fi fan, I really have not read much sci-fi but Neuromancer would have to be near the top of my list as well as Vert. It is really a shame how Gibson's books just went downhill from there. Neuromancer was so tech-speak it was like reading a book in a different language. His books just got more and more ordinary in their subject matter and language. I think I must really read the Foundation Triology.

Falaris · « **Reply #17 on:** January 03, 2004, 04:13:19 pm »

Lepton, if you want Gibson on steroids, read 'Burning Chrome'. It's a collection of his short stories, and are all thought provoking and powerful.

Funny, but I think very highly of short stories; they often carry a powerful punch without all the waffling about you have in novellas.

Rondo_GE · « **Reply #18 on:** January 03, 2004, 09:45:44 pm »

Hyperion- Dan Simmons

This is one book I'd like to read...

Rondo_GE · « **Reply #19 on:** January 03, 2004, 09:51:08 pm »

Gibson tried to make "new wave" SciFi but it didn't take...

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