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Dan Simmons - Hyperion Douglas Adams - Every one of his books Kevin J Anderson - Saga of Seven Suns David Brin - The Practice Efekt William R. Forstchen - Wing Commander Robert Heinlein - Every one of his books Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly Frank Herbert - Dune
Edit: Did not notice you already read Scanner Darkly .. never mind, read it again!!! That book is great
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Ctrl-f "tau zero" and "the mote" both got hits in this thread, TL I am not disappoint.
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Read Lem, Lem and more Lem! (not solaris)
Maybe start with something more traditional like The Invincible before you delve into his incredibly thought-provoking, "philosophical" science-fiction: His Master's Voice Golem XIV (my personal favourite) Fiasco And for hilarity: Mortal Engines (don't know if the english translation is any good, hard to translate) Tales of Pirx the Pilot
As for other authors, one gem of science fiction I found accidentally: The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson
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Isaac Asimov - The End of Eternity pure gold
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On August 13 2010 19:12 Uriel_SVK wrote:Dan Simmons - Hyperion Douglas Adams - Every one of his books Kevin J Anderson - Saga of Seven Suns David Brin - The Practice Efekt William R. Forstchen - Wing Commander Robert Heinlein - Every one of his books Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly Frank Herbert - Dune Edit: Did not notice you already read Scanner Darkly .. never mind, read it again!!! That book is great
I second William R Forstchen, for Wing Commander (Action Stations and Fleet Action are very well written, ignore the cover art) and also his Lost Regiment series is pretty good.
If you want something like alternate history/sci-fi I would recommend Harry Turtledove, he wrote a series about the south winning the civil war and how world war I and world war II would turn out with the south as a power. He also wrote a WWII series that involves aliens invading and the world powers teaming up to defeat them (its not as cheesy as it might seem).
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I personally also really enjoyed Passage of Arms and The Dragon never sleeps by Glen Cook. Hyperion and Windhaven are great too and Dune is obviously a must.
I really disliked the saga of the seven suns though .
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Useful Idiots by Jan Mark.
By far one of my favorites.
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On August 13 2010 19:40 Maenander wrote: Read Lem, Lem and more Lem! (not solaris)
Maybe start with something more traditional like The Invincible before you delve into his incredibly thought-provoking, "philosophical" science-fiction: His Master's Voice Golem XIV (my personal favourite) Fiasco And for hilarity: Mortal Engines (don't know if the english translation is any good, hard to translate) Tales of Pirx the Pilot
As for other authors, one gem of science fiction I found accidentally: The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson
Yeah Golem IV was sick! if you are even a little into AI (not some fancy robots, but computer intelligence), this is a must read.
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Stanislaw Lem - Solaris Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey Frank Herbert - Dune H. G. Wells - Men Like Gods A & B Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic
Just to name some classics everyone should read.
@ Maenander: Why not Solaris? It's way better than Pirx in my opinion. I know that they've ruined the movie, but the book was great.
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I was about to suggest The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov but I see you've already cut that out
I don't read as much Sci-Fi as I would like (a lot of Dark/ High Fantasy) but my recommendation would be the Horus Heresy series. The first book was fantastic.
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On August 13 2010 20:53 Manit0u wrote: Stanislaw Lem - Solaris Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey Frank Herbert - Dune H. G. Wells - Men Like Gods A & B Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic
Just to name some classics everyone should read.
@ Maenander: Why not Solaris? It's way better than Pirx in my opinion. I know that they've ruined the movie, but the book was great.
Yeah Solaris is good, but it is over-hyped in the sense that it is the only well-known book of Lem in english-speaking countries. I just liked other books of him more, and they are really unknown in the english-speaking world. The english translation of Golem XIV isn't even available as a stand-alone version. Thankfully the german translations are quite excellent.
As for Pirx I like it mostly for the laughs, it's not better than Solaris.
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Also worth mentioning is that there are lots of excellent classic SF short stories out there, like
Bradbury's "The Creatures That Time Forgot", Heinlein's "All You Zombies", Asimov's "Runaround", Sturgeon's "And Now the News ..." Bester's "The Pi-Man" Ballards's "The Subliminal Man" Zelazny's "For a Breath I Tarry"
etc.
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The Bible
On serious note I recommend Dune as well (1000 times better than any of the movies).
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On August 13 2010 20:53 Manit0u wrote: Stanislaw Lem - Solaris Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey Frank Herbert - Dune H. G. Wells - Men Like Gods A & B Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic
Just to name some classics everyone should read.
@ Maenander: Why not Solaris? It's way better than Pirx in my opinion. I know that they've ruined the movie, but the book was great.
Oh how could I forgot Roadside Picknick also from the classic C.J. Cherryh - Cuckoo's Egg Steinmüller - Andymon Brian Wilson Aldiss - Non-stop
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On August 13 2010 21:57 LastWish wrote: The Bible
hahahah good one, even though it probably isnt "science" fiction. more like fantasy.
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Let's not go there, thanks.
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the commonwealth saga (peter f. hamilton) is amazing, abosolutely recommend it
the void trilogy is decent, but is randomly interrupted by a not-so-good fantasy story =\
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On August 09 2010 13:30 0neder wrote: Asimov - The Robot Trilogy (3) - Better than Foundation IMO, very relevant issues for today's society (connectedness without closeness, virtual sexuality, the double-edged sword of progress, etc). Detective Mysteries + Sci Fi - AWESOME. The titles are: The Caves of Steel The Naked Sun The Robots of Dawn
Fahrenheit 451 - must read. Also very relevant today.
Maybe not sci-fi, but The Giver by Lois Lowry is one of my favorite books.
Yes yes yes. The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun are the best things that Asimov has written but you should start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rest_of_the_Robots
Short novels about robots.
The two last books i.e: The Robots of Dawn and especially Robots and Empire aren't as good ( they are longer and sometimes a bit dull ).
Foundation is good but not as good imo. The main problem of Asimov is that he is an awesome writer for humour / SF sociology / detective stories but when it comes down to battles/fights/epic stuff ewww... he just avoids it or writes it poorly and imo it hurts a bit the foundation cycle
Also Lovecraft ( not real SF, more like retro SF but mostly horror ) and Bradbury ( Retro SF + poetry ) <3
Lovecraft is really special so you might not like it. I think the best introduction/ first book to read is The Colour out of Space. If you don't like it don't bother with Lovecraft. Pretty much all his work has the same dark style. If you like it PM me and i will give you advice about what to read after that ( order is quite important imo ).
Bradbury -> The Martian Chronicles ( short novels ) Fahrenheit 451 ( edit: you have read it already :p ). The Illustrated Man ( short novels again ) <3
On August 10 2010 13:48 Severedevil wrote: Also, Flowers for Algernon is a keen short story. Yes i recommend this book too. Really touching.
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On August 13 2010 19:08 johanes wrote:intelligent, one of my favorite books ever focused on what it means to be human trying to understand the universe. A masterpiece.Deep as much as it gets.
Like this one too. You can read a good amount of it at google books.
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On August 13 2010 22:42 0neheart wrote: the commonwealth saga (peter f. hamilton) is amazing, abosolutely recommend it
the void trilogy is decent, but is randomly interrupted by a not-so-good fantasy story =\
This man knows of what he speaks.
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