Topic: Your Favorite Sci Fi books (Read 20715 times)

S'Raek · « **Reply #100 on:** January 04, 2004, 07:56:00 am »

My favorites would have to be:

Dune - Frank Herbert (and the rest of the series is good too)

Star Trek - some of them at least

BattleTech - not something that troubles your brain

Martian Chronicles - Bradbury (I really wish he had written something new in the last 30 years.)

Too many others to really list.

E_Look · « **Reply #101 on:** January 05, 2004, 11:07:41 pm »

Dune- Frank Herbert (the first one really, then the first trilogy only)

Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury

City on the Edge of Forever- Harlan Ellison

Orphans of the Sky- Robert Heinlein (or whatever the newer title is)

The Foundation trilogy- Isaac Asimov

Startide Rising- (David?) Brin

Spock Must Die- (man oh man, I forgot who and I'm going to amazon to figure it out, either)

and a few of Fritz Leiber's Fafherd and Gray Mouser stories

Speaker to Aliens · « **Reply #102 on:** January 07, 2004, 12:58:08 am »

Protector, Ringworld, The Integral Trees, The Smokering - Larry Niven
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Time Enough for Love, Friday - Heinlein
Against a Dark Background, Excession! - Banks
The City and the Stars/Against the Fall of Night, Childhoods End - Clarke
The Cities in Flight series - Blish
The Chrysalids, The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckcoos - Wyndham
The End of Eternity, The Foundation series (just the first 3) - Asimov
Dune - Herbert
Dragons Egg - Forward
The Skylark Series - EE "Doc" Smith
Dragon Flight - McCaffery
Footfall, Lucifers Hammer, The Moat in Gods Eye, The Burning City - Niven & Pournelle
The Long Habit of Living, The Worlds series - Joe Haldeman
Strata - Pratchett
Tiger Tiger - Bester

Now, if I were to turn around and look at the bookshelves behind me... But no. We'd be here all day.

KATChuutRitt · « **Reply #103 on:** January 07, 2004, 06:36:14 am »

Add to many of the above

Dorsai by Gordan R Dickson

The Hammer's Slammers series by David Drake

Stainless Steel Rat series of Harry Harrison

Sandkings (a short story) by George R. R, Martin

Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard

Chung Kuo series by David Wingrove

Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke

Gateway by Fredrick Pohl

FPF_TraceyG · « **Reply #104 on:** January 08, 2004, 09:11:12 am »

Quote:

Dune- Frank Herbert (the first one really, then the first trilogy only)

Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury

City on the Edge of Forever- Harlan Ellison

Orphans of the Sky- Robert Heinlein (or whatever the newer title is)

The Foundation trilogy- Isaac Asimov

Startide Rising- (David?) Brin

Spock Must Die- (man oh man, I forgot who and I'm going to amazon to figure it out, either)

and a few of Fritz Leiber's Fafherd and Gray Mouser stories

James Blish, author of the novelisation of TOS, wrote Spock Must Die. It was the only original Star Trek novel he wrote, aside from the original short story about Harry Mudd, which he included in the book Mudd's Angels (later renamed Mudd's Enterprise) which contained the novelisation of the two Harry Mudd TOS episodes.

SL-Punisher · « **Reply #105 on:** January 08, 2004, 11:40:52 am »

I have just about every star wars novel ever printed

The best decision Lucas made was to link events in one novel to the next....and create an ongoing story told by a variety of authors.

E_Look · « **Reply #106 on:** January 08, 2004, 06:21:36 pm »

Tracey, thanks a million! I did enjoy it when I read it, so I a glad to be reminded of who wrote it. I like his translations of the screenplays to normal prose, too.

IKV Nemesis D7L · « **Reply #107 on:** January 09, 2004, 06:42:41 pm »

Eric Frank Russell

H. Beam Piper

ferretlxix · « **Reply #108 on:** January 09, 2004, 07:56:44 pm »

A Matter for men
A day for damnation
A rage for revenge
A season for slaughter.

I know the titles sound like a bunch of bad Steven Segall movies but
the titles above belong to the 'War angainst the C'Thorr series'

David gerrold is a sick visionary. heh

Dogmatix! · « **Reply #109 on:** January 10, 2004, 12:42:40 am »

Hmm...love me some sci-fi/fantasy...

Faves include:

The Gor series
The Horseclans series
The Sword of Shannara
Lord of the Rings
Battlefield Earth
Mission Earth dekology
Mars
Timothy Zahn's Star Wars novels
Dune series

...anything by Miachael Moorcock

Barabbas · « **Reply #110 on:** January 10, 2004, 10:49:36 pm »

I was a bit of an Andre' Norton fan back in my school daze.... Anybody else remember him? (actually, I think it was a pseudonym for a her, but that's not important now)

And if we can include short stories, has anyone ever heard of:

For a Breath I Tarry by Roger Zelazny?

Thor Meets Captain America by David Brin?

...Two of my favorites _EVER_!

GE-Raven · « **Reply #112 on:** January 12, 2004, 09:41:34 am »

Martian Chronicles is WAY up there.. (Bradbury)

I will admit that in Fantasy... I would have to go with Harry Potter... (J.K. Rowling)

Anyone who can write a book that can be read an understood on so many levels is a genius.

GE-Raven

KOTH-Steel Claw · « **Reply #113 on:** January 13, 2004, 09:00:35 am »

Time Enough For Love

Stranger In A Strange Land

The Number Of The Beast

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

Anything else from Heinlein (GRHS)

The Foundation Series

Robot Series (Caves Of Steel, etc.)

The Currents Of Space

Anything else form Asimov

The Dosadi Experiment

The Whipping Star

Dune Series

grimbeard · « **Reply #116 on:** January 14, 2004, 05:21:45 am »

The Rama series by Arthur C Clark and Gentry Lee
Count Zero
Burning Chrome
Neuromancer

The Fleet series- a collection of shorts by authors such as Heinlein, Clark, Sagan, Anne McCaffery (Dragon riders of Pern) and many other sci-fi authors. A wonderful collaboration by this eras finest sci fi and fantasy writers. I believe some of them continued in the series Armada.

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (forget author, excellent read)

N-Space, a collection of shorts by Larry Niven.
Most Niven books are excellent.

I read so many back when I was in the army, I forget many of the really good reads. I gave all my paperbacks to a local reading foundation (about 80 paperbacks) back in 93.

Reptor7 · « **Reply #117 on:** January 14, 2004, 06:07:27 am »

The John Carter of Mars series were my favorite. The Dragons of Pern as well. Been awhile since I've read them, or any novel.

vsfedwards · « **Reply #118 on:** January 14, 2004, 06:53:23 am »

Just finished Star trek enterprise: by the book. Was interesting. Didnt like the way it was written at first, but I soon got used to it. Just bought Tng: Genesis wave, which looks pretty cool...got that whilst unsuccesfully searching for nwn: hotu *sobs*

Capt. Mike · « **Reply #119 on:** January 17, 2004, 08:06:38 am »

Zelazny: Lord of Light
Jack of Shadows

Heinlein: Most everything

Asimov: See above

L. Neil Smith: Paratime series

EE Doc Smith: Everything

A. Bester: Most everything

And all the cover art from Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo (When men were men, women were women, and monsters were Monsters!!)

Mike

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S'Raek

E_Look

Speaker to Aliens

KATChuutRitt

FPF_TraceyG

SL-Punisher

E_Look

IKV Nemesis D7L

ferretlxix

Dogmatix!

Barabbas

Scott Allen Abfalter

GE-Raven

KOTH-Steel Claw

Dogmatix!

GE-Raven

grimbeard

Reptor7

vsfedwards

Capt. Mike

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