Anyone know of some good sci-fi I shoud read, I'm thinking of trying out a new author
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Anonymous2006-08-01 2:14
Ringworld
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Anonymous2006-08-01 2:14
Dune
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Anonymous2006-08-01 2:14
Otherland
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Anonymous2006-08-01 2:15
Butt Sluts 4: Sluts in Space
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Anonymous2006-08-01 3:39
The Isaac Asimov books (the Foundation Saga and the Robot novels)
the Dune series by Frank Herbert
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy in Five Parts by Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently series by Douglas Adams
Legend of the Galactic Heroes if you can find a translation of the novels
The Tripod series
Books based on Sci-Fi series (Doctor Who, Star Trek, Star Wars, Red Dwarf, etc)
H.G. Wells stuff
...and that's all I can think of off the top of my head
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Anonymous2006-08-01 22:43
Anything by Iain M. Banks (note the 'M' as he also writes general fiction but doesn't use the 'M' in his name for that).
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Anonymous2006-08-02 13:12
Stanislaw Lem
Walter M. Miller Jr
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Anonymous2006-08-02 14:24
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
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Anonymous2006-08-02 21:30
By Alfred Bester:
The Demolished Man
By Robert A. Heinlein:
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Starship Troopers
Stranger in a Strange Land
By Neal Stephenson:
Snow Crash
Diamond Age
By William Gibson:
Neuromancer
Count Zero
Mona Lisa Overdrive
First you must read at least 3 books from the "Big Three" of science fiction.
Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke.
They have already been mentioned in this thread. But, i must reinforce that you must read at least a few books from them. Because they are the masters. Without them, science fiction would not be what it is today. Start with them, you wont be dissapointed.
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Anonymous2006-08-29 4:11
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Depends which novels though. Each of those authors varied wildly in quality.
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Anonymous2006-08-29 6:14
For Asimov, the original Foundation trilogy and "Nightfall". Also any of his short story collections.
For Heinlein, "A Stranger in a Strange Land", "Citizen of the Galaxy", and "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". Also "Starship Troopers" if you like those, though some find it too blatantly preachy.
For Clarke, his "2001: Space Odyssey", though the sequels have mixed reviews. Also "Rendezvous with Rama" and possibly the rest of the Rama series.
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Anonymous2006-08-29 21:15
without a doubt iain m banks
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Anonymous2006-08-30 4:55
Charles Stross - Singularity Sky and the sequel Iron Sunrise.
Involves singularity, Luddites, interstellar wars, artificial gods, sex and facist states.
>8, >11
seconded & age for Lem!
as for Ender's game - it's amusing, but rather psychologically flat. if one would seek something like that in sci-fi at all. ^^
Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash and Diamond Age...more modern.
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Anonymous2006-09-04 6:21
I-O by Simon Logan
Punktown by Jeffrey Thomas
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
I'm more into fantasy, so that's pretty much all the scifi on my reading list that I've bothered to plan out for the present. As you may be able to tell I'm more into cyberpunk than actual hard or traditional scifi. And yeah I know I fail for not having read PKD yet.. his books are like the only cyberpunk classics I've missed. Also the OP failed to specify what kind of scifi he wants... so this thread is now about cyberpunk lolol.
_Foundation_ is incredible, and also EVERY Gibson novel is worth reading. Personally, I think that Gibson's a better prose stylist. Also you should check out some of Ursula LeGuin's scifi stuff, like _The Left Hand of Darkness_
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Anonymous2006-10-14 20:23
Frank Herbert is a good choice, if you dont like to hear how someone is being photon torpetoed sideways up his ass.
ConSentiency/Jorj X. Mckie books are good ones to start with if you are interested in interracial affairs. And with interracial I don't mean niggers.