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Haradgrim
Tyrell Corp INTERDICTION
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Posted - 2009.04.04 00:46:00 -
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I'm curious, mainly because I'm almost done the book I'm reading (non-sci-fi: Noble House by James Clavell), who are other EVE-O player's favorite sci-fi authors are and which of their books/series would you consider their best or at least the one that made you like them?
I'll start:
1. Isaac Asimov "The Foundation/Galactic Empire Saga"
- The Grand-Daddy of most good sci-fi, the three "Laws of Robotics" have pretty much become gospel for sci-fi fans and authors.
2. William Gibson "Neuromancer"
- The thought of Case "fencing a few megabytes of RAM" still gives me shivers.... lol, but seriously, Gibson's work has been consistently some of the smartest SCI-FI around (even if some of it is a bit outdated)
3. Arthur C. Clarke "Rendezvous with RAMA"
- He wrote so many great ones that its hard to pick the best, I went with the first I ever read (though I'm hard pressed to put it above Childhood's End). Too bad it looks like Morgan Freeman will never get to make it into a movie (he has been trying for years).
Honourable mentions:
Larry Niven "Ring World", Phillip Jose Pharmer "Riverworld Series", Neil Stephenson "Snow Crash"
....and many more...... but what do YOU like? I'm only interested in what you think is "The Best," no crappy sci-fi version of David Eddings-esque fantasy novels that read like a grade 3 reading primer...
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Originally by: CCP Oveur Just donæt forget the reach-around.
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Zyck
Dark-Rising
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Posted - 2009.04.04 00:49:00 -
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I agree on Clarke and Aasimov. Not so sure on Gibson. I just recently read Neuromancer actually, and while it was a good book that I enjoyed, I just didn't see it as really that great. Maybe I'm just missing something :/
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Xen Gin
Solar Excavations Ultd.
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Posted - 2009.04.04 00:55:00 -
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1) Rick Berman and Brannon Braga!
*shoots myself!*
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Abrazzar
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Posted - 2009.04.04 01:22:00 -
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Time isn't over yet. Science Fiction isn't dead yet. This is quite premature. -------- Ideas for: Mining
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Ryushe
Tengo Kagegetsu
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Posted - 2009.04.04 01:43:00 -
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Robert Heinlein anyone? He's at least one of the 3 greatest sci-fi writers to have lived. As for a best book by him, I'd vote for The Number of The Beast, although he wrote so many good books it's hard to choose a best one.
Honorable mentions: - Peter F. Hamilton, with his Night's Dawn Trilogy. - Alistair Reynolds, pretty much everything written in his Revelation Space universe - Richard Morgan, the Takeshi Kovacs series
But there are so much more awesome writers out there, search the forums for a couple of posts by now on great sci-fi writers and books.
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Nefrin Maldoes
Minmatar Outer Rim Survey and Salvage
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Posted - 2009.04.04 01:58:00 -
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The authors you listed are quite good, but I have also found that Stephen Baxter is an outstanding SciFi author. He's co-written several books with Arthur C Clarke (The Light of Other Days is my favorite) and has written the "official" sequel to HG Wells' Time Machine (Believe the title is "The Time Ships").
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Haradgrim
Tyrell Corp INTERDICTION
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Posted - 2009.04.04 02:13:00 -
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Originally by: Ryushe Robert Heinlein anyone? He's at least one of the 3 greatest sci-fi writers to have lived. As for a best book by him, I'd vote for The Number of The Beast, although he wrote so many good books it's hard to choose a best one.
Honorable mentions: - Peter F. Hamilton, with his Night's Dawn Trilogy. - Alistair Reynolds, pretty much everything written in his Revelation Space universe - Richard Morgan, the Takeshi Kovacs series
But there are so much more awesome writers out there, search the forums for a couple of posts by now on great sci-fi writers and books.
Stranger in a Strange Land was a great book but I don't know if I'd say it was one of the best ever. I did really like Night's Dawn on the other hand..
Anyone ever read The Forever War? That was another good one I had forgotten about --
Originally by: CCP Oveur Just donæt forget the reach-around.
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Dmian
Gallente Gallenterrorisme
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Posted - 2009.04.04 02:43:00 -
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As I like dystopian literature (otherwise I wouldn't be here,) I can name authors like Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Philip K. ****. Of course I like Asimov, Gibson and Clarke too. I haven't read something by Ursula K. Le Guin yet. ----
Originally by: Anne M. Lindbergh There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change
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Fraszoid
Caldari Miner Guide to the Galaxy Meerkat Federation
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Posted - 2009.04.04 02:52:00 -
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Originally by: Haradgrim Anyone ever read The Forever War? That was another good one I had forgotten about
I read Forever War by Joe Haldeman, one of the few books I can just read repeatedly and not get bored with. I certainly agree with Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land still leaves me deep in thought when I finish it, and Starship Troopers leaves me wanting more.
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Haradgrim
Tyrell Corp INTERDICTION
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Posted - 2009.04.04 03:03:00 -
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Originally by: Dmian As I like dystopian literature (otherwise I wouldn't be here,) I can name authors like Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Philip K. ****. Of course I like Asimov, Gibson and Clarke too. I haven't read something by Ursula K. Le Guin yet.
The Left Hand of Darkness is a great novel but Le Guin's best were her fantasy Wizard of Earthsea series
Brave New World was a fantastic book --
Originally by: CCP Oveur Just donæt forget the reach-around.
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Ka Jolo
The Tuskers
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Posted - 2009.04.04 05:20:00 -
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I'm with you on Asimov and Heinlein. But whenever someone who thinks they don't like SciFi challenges me to name a book that'll change their mind, I give them Orson Scott Card.
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Eomar
Veto Corp
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Posted - 2009.04.04 06:36:00 -
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Originally by: Ka Jolo I'm with you on Asimov and Heinlein. But whenever someone who thinks they don't like SciFi challenges me to name a book that'll change their mind, I give them Orson Scott Card.
Im with you on Heinlein,
Asimov ive never ever gotten into,
As for orson scot card, while I have pretty much every single one of his books, spread amongst my various homes, and while enders game and speaker are in my top 5 all time favourites, I really really dont rate Orson among my list of top writers.
I rate Iain M Banks very highly,
really struggling to decide on a top 10 anyway so narrowing down as far as top 3 is near impossible!
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F'nog
Amarr Celestial Horizon Corp. I.C.C Industrial Drive Yards
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Posted - 2009.04.04 06:46:00 -
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Originally by: Zyck I agree on Clarke and Aasimov. Not so sure on Gibson. I just recently read Neuromancer actually, and while it was a good book that I enjoyed, I just didn't see it as really that great. Maybe I'm just missing something :/
You have to look back at when the book was written, 1984 IIRC. Back then the Internet wasn't a household name, there was no web, and very few comps had modems, let alone networks. Then there were the cultural aspects of it that were so amazing and new to most people.
It's a lot like Shakespeare. People read his plays and say, "They're full of cliches." Then you have to explain that they're only cliches because Shakespeare has been so popular for so long. The same sort of thing is true of Neuromancer. It's had such a profound effect on Cyberpunk and other areas of sci-fi that if you first read it now and have a good background in the genre it all seems so common and everyday.
It and Snow Crash have had some of the biggest impact on modern sci-fi. Maybe in 20 years we'll be saying the same thing about Reynolds and Hamilton.
Originally by: Kazuma Saruwatari
F'nog for Amarr Emperor. Nuff said
Originally by: Chribba Go F'nog! You're a hero! Not a Zero! /me bows
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Chereadenine Zakalwe
Slacker Industries The Boat Violencing Initiative
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Posted - 2009.04.04 07:13:00 -
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Edited by: Chereadenine Zakalwe on 04/04/2009 07:13:22 Too easy...
1>Gotta be Iain M Banks..Excession,love the dialog between the ships.
2 Alistair Reynolds..Pretty much all his stuff,cool gothic/punky vision of spaceflight
3 Peter F Hamilton..Pretty epic spope of the various series he has wrote.
Also worth looking up, Stephen Baxter, Ken Mcleod and Kevin Anderson amongst others ô您 |
Zakarazor
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Posted - 2009.04.04 07:48:00 -
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Originally by: Chereadenine Zakalwe Edited by: Chereadenine Zakalwe on 04/04/2009 07:13:22 Too easy...
Gotta be Iain M Banks..Excession,love the dialog between the ships.
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Malcanis
R.E.C.O.N. Dara Cothrom
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Posted - 2009.04.04 08:38:00 -
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Gene Wolfe has to be on the list, if only because he's simply one of the best writers regardless of genre.
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Dong Ninja
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Posted - 2009.04.04 08:41:00 -
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Man it sure is DOUGLAS ADAMS in here.
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TimMc
Gallente The Black Rabbits The Gurlstas Associates
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Posted - 2009.04.04 10:25:00 -
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Wheres Frank Herbert or H G Wells?
Or does Frank Herbert not count since he wrote alot of non-scifi?
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Senyru Suru
Gallente Center for Advanced Studies
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Posted - 2009.04.04 10:26:00 -
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1. Iain M Banks 2. Richard Morgan 3. Neil Stephenson (although perhaps only 2 of his books count as sf) -- --- one day we're all gonna die, and then we'll see who's laughing! |
Nigel Sheldon
Caldari VIRTUAL LIFE VANGUARD Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2009.04.04 10:44:00 -
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1 - H.G Wells (war of the worlds) 2 - Alfred Bester (demolition man) 3 - Peter F Hamilton (nights dawn)
simples
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TraininVain
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Posted - 2009.04.04 12:47:00 -
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I'm gonna go with PKD for my number 1 spot. He may have been a druggy paranoid nutcase but he had so many ideas Hollywood are still picking over his short stories for ideas.
After that I find it hard to pick "Greatests".
Heinlein left me unimpressed. Everyone raves about SSTs but I cannot see why. The robot suits are cool. The rest I found frankly infantile given how hyped it is. I'll be honest and say I kinda enjoyed it on a dumb military sci-fi level. On any other level it's pretty bad. Maybe I'll read some of his others but I'm really not that impressed so far.
Read a whole bunch of Asimov's (like most of the Foundation series) but I can't remember what happened other than "lots of spaceships". I, Robot was great. Maybe he gets a spot for that.
Samuel Delaney gets the a spot for being able to write convincingly different social settings and for having really different ideas. Predicting body mod enthusiasts? Space sailing ships? Computer viruses for the human brain?
Joe Haldeman I'd put on there for "The Forever War" but that's just one book and maybe the rest of his output I haven't read is terrible.
Ditto Alfred Bester and "Tiger, Tiger". I did read one more by him but that on it's own wouldn't get him a spot on my "greatest" list.
Iain M Banks is another possibly, although I haven't been really blown away by his stuff for a while.
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Omber Zombie
Gallente Frontier Technologies
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Posted - 2009.04.04 15:20:00 -
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everyone always forgets E.E. Doc Smith ----------------------
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BlackDragonShadow
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.04.04 16:52:00 -
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Originally by: Haradgrim I'm curious, mainly because I'm almost done the book I'm reading (non-sci-fi: Noble House by James Clavell), who are other EVE-O player's favorite sci-fi authors are and which of their books/series would you consider their best or at least the one that made you like them?
I'll start:
1. Isaac Asimov "The Foundation/Galactic Empire Saga"
- The Grand-Daddy of most good sci-fi, the three "Laws of Robotics" have pretty much become gospel for sci-fi fans and authors.
2. William Gibson "Neuromancer"
- The thought of Case "fencing a few megabytes of RAM" still gives me shivers.... lol, but seriously, Gibson's work has been consistently some of the smartest SCI-FI around (even if some of it is a bit outdated)
3. Arthur C. Clarke "Rendezvous with RAMA"
- He wrote so many great ones that its hard to pick the best, I went with the first I ever read (though I'm hard pressed to put it above Childhood's End). Too bad it looks like Morgan Freeman will never get to make it into a movie (he has been trying for years).
Honourable mentions:
Larry Niven "Ring World", Phillip Jose Pharmer "Riverworld Series", Neil Stephenson "Snow Crash"
....and many more...... but what do YOU like? I'm only interested in what you think is "The Best," no crappy sci-fi version of David Eddings-esque fantasy novels that read like a grade 3 reading primer...
Interesting things about Isaac Asimov:
He had a Ph.D in Biochemistry
He was drafted into the Army during WW2
Had a fear of flying
Died of AIDS due to contracting the virus from a blood transfusion.
Touched by his noodly appendage. Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster |
HankMurphy
Minmatar Pelennor Enterprises
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Posted - 2009.04.04 18:09:00 -
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-I Asimov -C Sagan -A Clarke also, -F Herbert -O S Card
Sagan is just awesome period, not just from a fiction writer standpoint. Just a great man in an array of categories.
---------- Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherf***er. |
Boydsan DeZinj
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Posted - 2009.04.06 06:51:00 -
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Michael Stackpole
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Anyura
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Posted - 2009.04.06 09:22:00 -
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I'm going to go with a couple of outside bets here:
* Philip K. D1ck (goddamn censor =/) * Ray Bradbury
As for Dune....well, if someone wanted to literally **** a long standing and well established sci-fi book series, I'd hand it to Kevin J Anderson as well. His books strip Dune of its majesty, its sense of political intrigue, the religous overtones and turns it into some sort of bastardised space opera.
I had better stop here because I really could go on about this for hours although I will say Christopher Tolkien, I'm watching you....>:/
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ry ry
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Posted - 2009.04.06 09:59:00 -
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Edited by: ry ry on 06/04/2009 10:02:03
1. Iain M Banks - The whole Culture series is superb, although my personal favorite by a cat's whisker is probably Player Of Games or Excession. his regular fiction isn't so hot though, Dead Air being particularly terrible.
2. Peter F Hamilton - Nights Dawn trilogy. very, very worthy books. read them today.
3. Frank Herbert - Dune. Utterly mindblowingly good book, but the epic tale is not accessible enough to draw in a casual reader. Without Bank's knack for minutiae some of the narrative swings between building up detailed layers of immersion, and tedious self-indulgence. Persevere.
honorable mentions:
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash. Should be read back-to-back with Neuromancer. two cornerstones of the sub-genre.
Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon. his other books aren't nearly as good.
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ry ry
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Posted - 2009.04.06 10:04:00 -
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Steampunk is scifi too!
i enjoyed Quicksilver and The Difference Engine.
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comrade captain
Aliastra
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Posted - 2009.04.06 10:09:00 -
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Last night i dreamt i wrote the lord of the rings trilogy!
I was tolkien in my sleep.
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comrade captain
Aliastra
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Posted - 2009.04.06 10:10:00 -
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Richard morgan and altered carbon are a tad over rated, not bad for a debut but it took me 3 years to read as it just didnt grip me at all.
I have however just finished a book on the history of glue, and i couldnt put that one down.
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