Favorite Sci-Fi Books
This is a discussion on Favorite Sci-Fi Books within the Sci-Fi forums, part of the Men's talk category; I figured while I was starting a thread on best movies, I'd be remiss if I left out favorite Sci-Fi ...
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19th-August-2007
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I figured while I was starting a thread on best movies, I'd be remiss if I left out favorite Sci-Fi books, so here's my list of favorite books. 1. Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game' 2. Aldus Huxley's 'Brave New World' 3. Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five' 4. Orson Scott Card's 'Speaker For the Dead' 5. George Orwell's '1984'   | ||||
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19th-August-2007
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In books, I don't read too much sci-fi, I'm a horror reader. So, at this moment (having not long awoken), I can't think of many that I've read... but I'll get there, I'm sure.
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22nd-August-2007
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What? Only 5? And I have to pick one over all the rest? Wha? Well, forget that, I'll stop when I run out. 1. Frank Herbert's Dune 2. Heinlein's Time Enough for Love - brought tears to my eyes 3. Heinlein's Job: A Comedy of Justice - absolutely hysterical, and great at kicking sacred cows. 4. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land - I have a major weakness for the classics. 5. John De Lancie and Peter David's I, Q - Now I'll have to read it again. Yes, it's Star Trek, but it's beautiful, elegant, and relentlessly funny. 6. Heinlein's Starship Troopers - There was no movie. 7. William Giboson's Neuromancer - The Matrix wouldn't EXIST without Neuromancer. 8. Douglas Adam's The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Too bad Pan-Galactic Gargle blasters don't really exist... 9. Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game 10. Heinlein's - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Can you tell, I like Heinlein?
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18th-October-2007
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Ahh yes Kim, I read that when I was younger and I've never been able to find a copy of it here since. Not sure if it's actually a Sci-Fi (genre) story but I've read The Day of the Triffids a few times. But my favourite Sci-Fi book would have to be the original H.G Wells' War Of The Worlds. You can actually download it free from a place on the net called Project Gutenburg, I'm reading it at the moment.  "I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings, and would surely perish without male protection." -- Queen Victoria, 1870. | ||||
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18th-October-2007
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 My wife & I used to read in bed, back before her so-called mother was lay between us night after night... Anyway, she'd read sloppy romance novels and what not, while I would read Sci-Fi books. I'd already read 'THGTTG' as a teenager, but saw the complete volume in one paperback. So there lay I - guffawing & tittering, shaking the bed gently as I did so... serving only to annoy her Oh boy, re-reading that book was a gem - I was in hysterics. And then, I'd try & explain to her what was so funny... and she'd just look at me with a straight face. No humour at all, which of course, made it all the funnier.
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18th-October-2007
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Really enjoyed Stainless Steel Rat series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless_Steel_Rat Man Kzin wars - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Kzin_Wars I read a few years of Nebula or Hugo compilation of sci-fi stories, normally get a few really good ones in the mix. Visit my blog @ misandry.us I shouldn't have to ask to "VISIT" my children. As a MAN, I am not a criminal by gender. | ||||
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18th-October-2007
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IF I had to pick one, it would be a series.... The DragonLance Series... Only the ones written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman though.... TMOTS DA RULES! Learn 'em! ____________________ WTF am I even here...... ____________________ http://themanonthestreet.blogspot.com/ | ||||
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18th-October-2007
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Julian May SAGA of the exiles and DUNE
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19th-October-2007
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The 2001 series, Rama series, The City and the Stars (Clarke) The Ringworld series (Larry Niven) West of Eden (Harrison) alternate history with gender themes Stranger In A Strange Land (Heinlein) Neuromancer (William Gibson) cyberpunk Foundation trilogy (Asimov) classic postwar scifi almost everything by Wells and Verne Gulliver's Travels (Swift) classic satire Feminism = Fear + Flattery | ||||
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3rd-November-2007
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Novels and such Foundation Series(Asimov) A Clockwork Orange(Burgess)(Its more speculative fiction, but whatever) The Gods Themselves(Asimov) Hyperion(Simmons) The Martian Chronicles(Bradbury) A Scanner Darkly(Phillip K Dick) Short Stories The Shadow over Innsmouth(Lovecraft) The Balloon Hoax(Poe) Moxon's Master(Bierce) The Dunwich Horror(Lovecraft) I am currently reading The Night Land(more horror-fantasy than scifi) and Ive been meaning to read Nueromancer.  Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Phillip K. Dick | |||
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