There's only a handful of good sci-fi books the rest is escapist fantasy that would only appeal to the most sheltered sort of nerd who takes no solace in reality today.
I like Starship Troopers, Brave New World and Slaughterhouse Five. All those books have strong sci-fi elements but are firmly grounded in reality. If your the type of person that enjoys "Star Trek: Return from the Gamma Quadrant" then you are a fucking waste of flesh.
Are there any other sci-fi books out there that you think I might enjoy?
read john steakley - armor.
it's like starship troopers in the action department but focuses more on the mental impact of war and violence.
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Anonymous2007-05-10 2:42 ID:YBCS28Hi
You're an unimaginative, idiotic faggot who can't wrap your brain around anything you can't directly relate to yourself.
Stop reading, you're obviously too much of a gigantic fucking retard to understand any of the words.
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Anonymous2007-05-10 3:21 ID:U3JekgRb
If you can handle sci fi, then you simply don't have an imagination.
And if you dont have an imagination you shouldn't be reading.
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Anonymous2007-05-10 10:17 ID:SZmTreWj
How many science fiction books have you read, OP? Or are you just throwing out things you think seem plausible? Well, they're not.
Btw, why even bring Star Trek up? Star Trek is fucking skiffy shit anyway. Same goes for Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica and the other time wasting garbages. Star Trek nerds, gtfo the turf of real science fiction.
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Anonymous2007-05-10 12:33 ID:N2S0+GEt
SCI-FI NERD RAGE.
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Anonymous2007-05-10 14:12 ID:jfk4tWIb
>>5 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Sounds... fun?
Fuck you Martin Prince Bradbury is a Sci-Fi genius
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Anonymous2007-05-14 7:55 ID:f51HNGRs
Neil Asher
Alastair Reynolds
Stephen Baxter
Heinlen's a bit weird, but I enjoy quite a few of his books
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Anonymous2007-05-18 20:57 ID:LB+FIzZf
Stop posting gay rants on this gay website after typing them gayly on your gay keyboard. I don't like it cause it's really gay. I would know 'cause I'm gay. But not as gay as someone who hates gay Sci-fi gayly for being gay. Now that's gay. Because I don't like it.
Some of these are borderline sci-fi, but they still count.
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Anonymous2007-05-21 8:00 ID:AyeFYx9/
Steve Baxter, Bob Heinlein, and some of Asimov is cool.... and then there's Poul Anderson.
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Anonymous2007-05-21 8:03 ID:AyeFYx9/
But NOT Hubbard - that guy invented a fucking religion simply because he wanted to fucking make money. Scientology. He then proceeded to make it so that worshipping cost thousands of dollars every time, and that followers were nagged heavily as heck.
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Anonymous2007-05-21 12:26 ID:CDFeZDoH
>>23
Well, who the fuck cares if scientologists get scammed anyway?
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Anonymous2007-05-23 13:45 ID:IXIUQ2yd
OP has just paraphrased Sturgeon's law. "Ninety percent of everything is crud."
The thread became laughable after the novel "Starship Troopers" was linked to "firmly grounded in reality". (The bitching about escapist fantasy sci-fi being the prevalent mode makes me think OP isn't very well read, too)
im not a scifi fan, but all must check out A Canticle For Leibowitz
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Anonymous2007-05-26 3:55 ID:Jp/1gvio
I recently finished Asimov's original Foundation trilogy and I liked it a lot. I finished The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick about a month ago, another good one. Try some of those.