Science Fiction Recommendations

Apoloto said:
Hey it's me apoloto!
So, I would like to know what kind of Scifi books you would recommend:confused:, because I am a huge fan of the genre. Now, first of all, don't post any of the books listed, because I have already read them:

Jurassic Park
The Andromeda Strain
The Lost World
Timeline
The Time Quartet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, & Many Waters)
Double Helix
The Maze Runner
The Hunger Games
The Giver

I hope that you recommend some really good reads!
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Well, I'm writing a sci-fi book right now! But I can hardly recommend it, seeing as it is not yet complete!
 
The Old Man and the Wasteland

99 cents on Amazon for kindle! What a great post-apocalyptic novel. Takes place in the American southwest after terrorists blow up almost all major American cities with nukes.
 
spidergoat said:
The Old Man and the Wasteland

99 cents on Amazon for kindle! What a great post-apocalyptic novel. Takes place in the American southwest after terrorists blow up almost all major American cities with nukes.
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Also post-apocalyptic A Boy and His Dog is quite entertaining.

Synopsis: Based on the novella by Harlan Ellison, A Boy and His Dog is set in a post-apocalyptic future where canned goods are used as currency and where entertainment often consists of old porn reels. Vic (Don Johnson) is a violent, illiterate scavenger, principally interested in getting laid. He communicates telepathically with his deceptively cute-looking dog Blood (voiced by Tim McIntire); Vic finds food for Blood, while Blood sniffs out girls for Vic. One of these girls is the sexy Quilla June (Susanne Benton), who, unbeknownst to Vic is a spy for an underground society, headed by a Mr. Craddock (Jason Robards Jr.). This subterranean civilization needs a human "sperm bank" to stay alive, and the oversexed Vic fills the bill. Produced by character actor Alvy Moore (Mr. Kimball of TV's Green Acres), A Boy and His Dog was written and directed by another veteran actor, L.Q. Jones
 
All three of his Takeshi Kovacs books (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Woken Furies are worth it.
Black Man isn't so good, Market Forces even worse, but his new fantasy series (only The Steel Remains out so far) is pretty good.
 
Dywyddyr said:
All three of his Takeshi Kovacs books (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Woken Furies are worth it.
Black Man isn't so good, Market Forces even worse, but his new fantasy series (only The Steel Remains out so far) is pretty good.
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hmmm... tried to buy his books ( the ones you recommend ) all sold out

hard and soft

try later
 
Wow this is the only thread I have that isn't dead yet lol
 
'The Dispossessed' by Ursula Le Guin
'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley
'The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress' by Robert a. Heinlein
'The Land of Laughs' by Johnathan Carroll

Reading 'The Land of Laughs' right now and thoroughly enjoying it. Johnathan Carroll's descriptions are succulent and full of substance. His writing is like a modern Borges.
 
Apoloto said:
Hey it's me apoloto!
So, I would like to know what kind of Scifi books you would recommend

I hope that you recommend some really good reads!
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I think some of these have been mentioned, but...

Dune - Frank Herbert
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
The End of Eternity - Isaac Asimov
Gateway - Frederik Pohl
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon - Frederik Pohl
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
A Canticle for Leibowitz - William Miller
Stranger In A Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein

So many others...
 
All of these are very fine science fiction, but let's not forget the granddaddy of them all: Herbert George Wells. Given his era, it's amazing that anyone could have anticipated so much. Where are the likes of H.G. Wells today? I think it's barely possible for one person to know/keep up with all the aspects of modern science well enough for such a genius to exist.

A few years back I read of the discovery of a previously unknown H.G. Wells novel, but haven't heard anything since. The hero lived in the distant future world of the 1960s :eek:. It was an impersonal world of over urbanization, monstrously tall buildings, prohibitively expensive self-propelled horseless carriages. The hero was a down and out 'poet' wandering bleakly through this brave new world. I tell you, the man was a prophet! (Does anyone have more info on this novel, please?)

Incidentally, below are photos of H.G. and his great grandson Simon Wells who directed the 2002 film The Time Machine It amazes me how much people resemble their ancestors. Even I, when I see photos of my ancestors from the 19th century, people I don't even know the names of, I think "Oh! Oh!" Somehow they are as familiar as my own brothers and sisters. It's amazing! But, I suppose to be expected.


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