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Coagulation
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Check out the Nights Dawn Trilogy. The Commonwealth Sage is also really good, and it's sequel the Void Trilogy is spectacular. | ||
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Enderbantoo
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LaSt)ChAnCe
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jeeeeohn
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Neuromancer / Count Zero / Mona Lisa Overdrive (by William Gibson) Asimov is good, but it depends on what style you're looking for. Asimov's writing is pretty minimalistic, so if you appreciate a ton of description I'd turn to Gibson. OH, and freaking read The Left Hand of Darkness. It is SO good, maybe the best book I've ever read. | ||
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Thorg23
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sam!zdat
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On April 23 2012 09:54 jeeeeohn wrote: Neuromancer / Count Zero / Mona Lisa Overdrive (by William Gibson) These are, in fact, near future settings. Iain M Banks writes very far future settings. Read one of his books and it was ok. Can you elaborate on what you mean by far future? Galactic settings? edit: generally most far-future sf is not very good. | ||
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Silidons
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not exactly billions of years...but the technology is pretty amazing | ||
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HiroPro
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There aren't really any science fiction novels I can think of that are set billions of years in the future. The two I listed are set at a time when the Sun is cooling but are a blend of science fiction/fantasy/post-apocalyptic. Book of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe) Dying Earth (series) (Jack Vance) If you don't mind spending some time to search, you might be able to find far-far-future stories in anthologies by editors like Gardner Dozois. There are a lot of really good science fiction short stories and novellas that were never adapted into full-length books. | ||
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sc14s
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On April 23 2012 03:47 Coagulation wrote: I have been reading alot of sci fi lately ( dune starship troopers etc) and I often find myself wondering what book has the most futuristic setting written so far. like what story takes place the farthest in the futures timeline ( like billions of years from now i dunno ) anyway im looking for good far far future sci fi recommendations. uhh the longest in the future i can think of off the top of my head would be foundation trilogy by Asimov. It is so far in the future that earth is just a hazy myth and humanity has spread out across the known universe. Hell the home planet is literally one giant ball of a city. Uhhh super far hmmm, its hard for me as I tend to read more recent future sci-fi in the ball park of 50-300 years into the future or so. A good sci-fi book, granted its not super far future(~100+ years), is a book called Blindsight. Its a psychological, first contact hard science fiction novel. Currently I am reading Peter F. Hamilton's "Night's Dawn Trilogy". I'm about 1/2 through the first book and so far I like it a lot except for the gratuitous sexual content can be a bit much at times. It is set around 500ish years in the future. Some other good science fiction reads would be "Ender's Game" (and the parallel series that starts with "Ender's Shadow") as well as any of Ian M. Banks' books (If you are looking far future his books seem like they would be your best bet generally) On April 23 2012 16:27 UltimateHurl wrote: Some classics here I'd second, Ender's Game and Neuromancer, give Illium by Dan Simmons a go too Augh have you read Dan Simmons' Hyperion series? =.= + Show Spoiler + Death machine from the future! edit: also if you are into fantasy at all check out http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=210337 (shameless plug for my own old reading thread i know xD) edit2: On April 23 2012 09:12 Enderbantoo wrote: The Worthing Saga (single book by Orson Scott Card) , it is worlds upon worlds ahead of earth Oh i totally forgot about Orson Scott Card's other series that neither of us have talked about. The Homecoming earth series is set millions of years in the future after humans destroyed earth and had to evacuate and live on another planet for eons of time until the planet has repaired itself. | ||
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remedium
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I can't think of any "super" futuristic books off the top of my head - Foundation is the only series that comes to mind. | ||
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sam!zdat
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On April 23 2012 16:39 remedium wrote: Neuromancer is incredible, simply because it was written before the Internet was really conceived. Not true, unfortunately  TCP/IP was standardized two years before its publication.edit: it is the earliest literary evidence of the internet conceived of as an environment - Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in a short story written slightly earlier. He claims that the inspiration for the idea was seeing kids absorbed into arcade games - note that one of the first scenes in neuromancer takes place in an arcade. | ||
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On April 24 2012 01:00 Nallen wrote: Iain M Banks' Culture books are pretty far future stuff. I really enjoy (some of) them. Use of Weapons and Excession are good. Matter I didn't like as much. Matter was sort of hit and miss with me, so far of the books that i've read of his my favorite has been The Algebraist. | ||
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jeeeeohn
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On April 24 2012 02:51 sc14s wrote: Matter was sort of hit and miss with me, so far of the books that i've read of his my favorite has been The Algebraist. Only Culture books I've read are Matter and Pattern Recognition. I feel like Matter was pretty good, but Pattern Recognition seemed to touch on more interesting subjects than the main plot and never realized them XD | ||
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sam!zdat
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On April 24 2012 13:53 jeeeeohn wrote: Only Culture books I've read are Matter and Pattern Recognition. I feel like Matter was pretty good, but Pattern Recognition seemed to touch on more interesting subjects than the main plot and never realized them XD Pattern Recognition is by William Gibson... | ||
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jeeeeohn
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On April 24 2012 14:12 sam!zdat wrote: Pattern Recognition is by William Gibson... Err, I meant Surface Detail, obviously  My bad. | ||
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