dino4 Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Sci-Fi Books what your fav? (note it must not have been made into a film) One of mine all time Fav's was "Time patrolman" by Pol Anderson.. It was one of those books you just could not put down!! :stare: So lets see what you lot like............... What is your choice of a good Sci-fi Book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dino4 Posted September 27, 2005 Author Share Posted September 27, 2005 Just rememberd another that Pol Anderson did.. "There will be Time" Another cracking read! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str82u Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 "The Long Arm Of Gil Hamilton", but for the life of me I can't remember the author anymore. Piers Anthony's Xanth series too, but that is fantay, not sci-fi. "Splinter of the Minds Eye", the Star Wars book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c4evap Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 Anything by Robert A. Heinlein. He could sh!t on a cracker and I'd read about it! Love his style. c4 :D ~ that reminds me...I'm hungry :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
queenhank Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 The Otherland series, by Tad Williams. Hugely, insanely long and complex, and probably the best I've ever read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuages Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 For One that has not been made into a movie, i would have to say Greg Egan - Diaspora for sure, just thinking of that book makes me happy :) so many great ideas in it. If you like the science part of science fiction alot its deffently a book to check out. here is the author's web-site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TV Man Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yogurth Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 Philip K. Dick's "Ubik" I had a week long "depression" after reading it at the end of my highschool :) That book really brought me down, afterwards I read 2 more Dick books: "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" and "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said", but even if written in same style and dealt with alternate realities haven't been that good, well not to me anyway. I have to add as a second choice "The Book Of Skulls" by Robert Silverberg, this book is like a dark version of Stephen King writing style. Great. .... If anyone here is into Fantasy, I can recommend "Weave World" by Clive Barker and Stephen Donaldson "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" Series. Especially the second ones. Weave World was great up until the very end which was somewhat unticlimactic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lymbery Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 The Long Arm Of Gil Hamilton is by Larry Niven one of my favorite authors also can`t beat a bit of asimov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dino4 Posted September 28, 2005 Author Share Posted September 28, 2005 How could i have forgotten to mention Harry Harrison.... "The Stainless Steal rat" Books....... So funny they make your ribs hurt!!!! Here's a link to the first short story! http://www.iol.ie/~carrollm/hh/ssrshort.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaphodiLe Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 The Foundation series no doubt. If I have to choose one book I'd go with "Forward the Foundation", although not in the original 3, I just read it and totally loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psheldrake1 Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 Anything by Philip K. Dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theaveng Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 Sci-Fi Books what your fav? (note it must not have been made into a film) What if the film sucked? Lots of great books made lousy movies... like Earthsea. Or Foundation. Or Starship Troopers. The movies sucked, but the books were excellent. Isaac Asimov... almost everything he wrote was a classic. The Forever War The Mote in God's Eye Speaker for the Dead The Best Science Fiction of the Year (anthology series) Heck just go search "Hugo Award" and you'll get over 50 novels worth reading. troy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 Asimov, prelude to foundation is one of my all time favourites... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuages Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 Sci-Fi Books what your fav? (note it must not have been made into a film) What if the film sucked? Lots of great books made lousy movies... like Earthsea. Or Foundation. Or Starship Troopers. The movies sucked, but the books were excellent. Isaac Asimov... almost everything he wrote was a classic. The Forever War The Mote in God's Eye Speaker for the Dead The Best Science Fiction of the Year (anthology series) Heck just go search "Hugo Award" and you'll get over 50 novels worth reading. troy isn't the forever war by Joe Haldeman , and Speaker For the Dead, Orson Scott Card?? and I thought Foundation hadn't been made into a movie yet?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wargames Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 anything by Heinlein. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foil Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 If anyone here is into Fantasy, I can recommend "Woven World" Clive Barker... I think you meen Weave World unless he made a sequal I'm unaware of. Current choices that I didn't state in that other thread with the same subject: Girlfriend in a Coma, by Copeland. -Social commentary - A group of teenage freinds lose one of there own to cancer. A year later another of the group is stricken in a coma. The original friend visits her during this time. Skip ahead 15 years and the girl who had the coma wakes up with a premonition of the end of people on earth. Soon after people start to drop into a sleaping death leaving the original group of now 30 something teenagers alone to decide how they want to continue their, up to now, empty lives. Finding meaning to their own lives may/may not help revivie the world. All through this trip they are guided by their friend lost to cancer who is allowed to interfere with their lives. Monalisa overdrive, William Gibson Several stories that come together in the end. Based around a near future world where the internet has taking a profound leep forward and gained its own set of gods and angels. Similar to Philip K. Dick style of story telling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuns Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 this is my favorite book,,science fiction and fairy tale. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yogurth Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 @Command Chief Foil ...corrected the book title. Lol, I haven't bothered to check the Original English Title, in my language the translation of title was in the past time. Thx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phabianh20 Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 This thread sounds familiar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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