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[Books]Looking for some good sci-fi

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{CC}StealthBlue United States41117 Posts December 23 2008 06:34 GMT #1 So I seem to have lost my copy of Battlefield Earth, which I think is a great read seeing as how I have read three times. But I guess it is time for me to move on to something else. I am thinking about reading Starship Troopers but my local B&N seems to be out of stock so I would have to order a copy. I have googled and certain titles keep popping up. Such as the Dune "series", Stranger in a Strange Land, and Ringworld. Problem is the last two sound extremely boring IMO. I have manged to find an interest in a book called Forever War. But it is also out of stock. Anybody have any good titles, or opinions?

Abydos1 United States832 Posts December 23 2008 06:41 GMT #2 Both Forever War & Starship troopers are good books. Have you read Ender's Game, anything by Neal Stephenson (not all are sci fi -- try Snow Crash & The Diamond Age), there's a lot more I can't think of right now; I'll edit this list if anything comes to mind. Also check this list out: http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/topscifi/lists_books_rank1.html

Caller Poland8075 Posts December 23 2008 06:41 GMT #3 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Abydos1 United States832 Posts December 23 2008 06:44 GMT #4 On December 23 2008 15:41 Caller wrote: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress ^^ thats a good one too

Azrael1111 United States550 Posts December 23 2008 06:44 GMT #5 The Hyperion series by Dan Simmons is good, and of course every single one of the Enderverse books by Orson Scott card, but i would imagine you read them (read all of them). Hyperion by Dan Simmons - It's a little bit more on the creative fantasy side, but i thought they were pretty good. Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo - Awesome sci-fi horror. The Collapsium by Wil McCarthy - Pretty good read, standard sci-fi.

BlackStar Netherlands3029 Posts December 23 2008 06:51 GMT #6 Dune is one of the best written books both literature and story-wise I have read. I also recommend Aleister Reynolds. It's serious solid hard SF without any needless ornamentations written by a astronomist that worked for ESA in building space probes.

excess1ve United States359 Posts December 23 2008 06:53 GMT #7 Kurt Vonnegut - slaughterhouse-five or cats cradle if you have not read them already

fusionsdf Canada15390 Posts December 23 2008 06:53 GMT #8 ringworld is actually pretty good its a very...fundamental book in that it uses a lot of scifi archetypes but its worth reading forrver peace is out, but its not quite as good as forever war you should read ender's game if you havent try the neuromancer trilogy by william gibson if you like cyberpunk if you havent tried/heard or cyberpunk, then try it anyways, its very very good the foundation series by asimov is solid, but like ringworld, so many things have borrowed from it it wont be entirely novel snow crash is another good one (reads a bit like a graphic novel though :D) chrysalids is a really overlooked book to be honest...but its not quite the same kind of sci-fi as ringworld/forever war helm by stephen gould is another overlooked book...fairly simple, but I really liked it. those are the ones I can think of right now I need to buy some more books

meegrean Thailand7699 Posts December 23 2008 06:55 GMT #9 Read the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. Kinda too long though.

Caller Poland8075 Posts December 23 2008 06:55 GMT #10 hyperion is also good as is ilium and olympos

thoraxe United States1449 Posts December 23 2008 06:57 GMT #11 I just buy random Starcraft books in Amazon, nothing else.

MidnightGladius China1214 Posts December 23 2008 06:59 GMT #12 Going to recommend the Foundation by Asimov, again. The original trilogy was written and meant to be read in installments, so it's very convenient, and the writing style is very clean and satisfying. The last two books ("chronologically"), though, kinda overextend themselves (written nearly 50 years after the first, to be fair), but even then it was fun to read.

Fontong United States6454 Posts December 23 2008 07:29 GMT #13 Any book by Alastair Reynolds is pretty damn awesome.

fusionsdf Canada15390 Posts December 23 2008 07:32 GMT #14 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_joint_winners_of_the_Hugo_and_Nebula_awards that should be a really helpful list

CommanderFluffy Taiwan1059 Posts December 23 2008 07:35 GMT #15 Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey

fusionsdf Canada15390 Posts December 23 2008 07:54 GMT #16 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yiddish_Policemen's_Union not really sci-fi but lots of scifi awards I think this is the next book I'm going to buy

caelym United States6421 Posts December 23 2008 07:55 GMT #17 if you haven't read the Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov, do it now

defenestrate United States579 Posts December 23 2008 07:59 GMT #18 Snow Crash and Eifelheim are the best two that come to mind right now.

Abydos1 United States832 Posts December 23 2008 08:03 GMT #19 A lot of people keep mentioning the foundation series; I read the first couple books and found them interesting but they didn't seem to be getting anywhere. I guess part of that is the story they set up is so long and you only see a tiny piece of it. Are the last couple books any better? If so I might have to go back and finish the series.

frankbg Canada335 Posts December 23 2008 08:33 GMT #20 just get Dune ... best sci-fi series ever written. Foundation is nice but it's a love/hate thing. You either like or you don't. I personally thought it was really good but it's very different from your "regular" sci-fi.

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