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Dagit
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Posted - 2005.05.31 14:45:00 -
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Show me your top 5 favorites.
Mine are.
#1 The Mote in Gods Eye
#2 The Foundation Trilogy ( 1st three books only )
#3 Childhoods end ( very old book )
#4 Enders Game
#5 The Worthing Cronicles
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Rodj Blake
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Posted - 2005.05.31 15:10:00 -
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Edited by: Rodj Blake on 31/05/2005 15:11:19
#1 - Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks
#2 - The Player of Games by Iain M Banks
#3 - When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
#4 - Neuromancer by William Gibson
#5 - The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
Can you guess who my favourite SF author is?
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Vicarrah
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Posted - 2005.05.31 15:11:00 -
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 Originally by: Dagit
#3 Childhoods end ( very old book )
slipstick libby ftw 
Vicarrah
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Dray
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Posted - 2005.05.31 15:54:00 -
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not in any real order..
1. ringworld - larry niven
2. dune and children of dune - frank herbert
3. protector - larry niven
4. chung kuo series - david wingrove
5. ilium - dan simmons (pending the iminent release of the concluding book)
I picked up this ace book today everyone rates it as a must buy for the budding military genius, tho ive decided to rename it as "Sun Tzu's art of the bloody obvious" |
Salusa VC
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Posted - 2005.05.31 16:02:00 -
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Not in any particular order...
1. Dune - Frank Herbert
2. Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert
3. Excession - Iain M Banks
4. Consider Phlebas - Iain M Banks
5. Neuromancer - William Gibson
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Burga Galti
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Posted - 2005.05.31 17:28:00 -
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1. Herbet's "Dune" (The whole Saga really has to be read)
2. Baxter's Phase Space Trilogy "Time", "Space" & "Origin"(again have to read all three to get the big picture)
3. McDevitt's "The Engines of God"
4. Blish's "Cities in Flight"
5. Matheson's "I am Legend"
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Siri Danae
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Posted - 2005.05.31 17:36:00 -
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1. Foundation Trilogy
That's all I've got to say.
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Dagit
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Posted - 2005.05.31 17:48:00 -
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In retrospect
Dune ( 1st book only ) would have pushed Childhoods End out of the #3 slot on my list.
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Ralus
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Posted - 2005.05.31 18:16:00 -
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Edited by: Ralus on 31/05/2005 18:17:21
In no perticular order:
1) Reality Disfunction (Peter F. Hamilton)
2) Excession (Ian M. Banks)
3) Redemption Ark (Alister Reynolds)
4) Illium (Dan Simmons)
5) Use of Weapons (Ian M Banks)
was tought but i got there - still so many more i could list
edit: spelling
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Galavet
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Posted - 2005.05.31 19:36:00 -
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Edited by: Galavet on 31/05/2005 19:36:14
Originally by: Dagit
Show me your top 5 favorites.
Mine are.
#1 The Mote in Gods Eye
#2 The Foundation Trilogy ( 1st three books only )
#3 Childhoods end ( very old book )
#4 Enders Game
#5 The Worthing Cronicles
Any book by Orson Scott Card is a great read 
Foundation was good,(if I am thinking about the right books) while reading it I got the feeling that this was the place George Lucas got his vision for the starwars galaxy from.
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Ghost Red
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Posted - 2005.05.31 21:05:00 -
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Originally by: Rodj Blake
#5 - The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
Can you guess who my favourite SF author is?
I take my hat off to you. At last, someone that plays Eve that actually knows decent sci-fi. Stand On Zanzibar and Shockwave Rider are also total genius.
Thomas M Disch is a good read too: The Genocides, Camp Concentration (better than Enders Game) and 334.
Old sci-fi > modern pretend sci fi.
Have a nice day.
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Irias Salo
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Posted - 2005.05.31 22:10:00 -
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Can't give u them in order, but heres what they are.
Enders Game
Ringworld
Dune
His Majesty's Starship
The Xenocide Mission.
The Freeborn Lancers, charging into the future. |
Calderio
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Posted - 2005.05.31 23:21:00 -
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for fantasy the terry brooks shanara set was pretty good
for sci fi
when the star kings died
and about anything by orison scot
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Omber Zombie
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Posted - 2005.05.31 23:21:00 -
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everyone always forgets teh Lensman series by EE Doc Smith. there's morethan 5 of em, so they can be my 5...
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Waagaa Ktlehr, BDCI
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Tar Ecthelion
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Posted - 2005.05.31 23:32:00 -
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1: Titan by Stephen Baxter
2: War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells 
3: Manifold series by Stephen Baxter
4: 2001 by Arthur c. Clarke
5: Neuromancer by William Gibson
"Modus Vivendi"
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mahhy
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Posted - 2005.06.01 07:49:00 -
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Not sure I can give a top 5 books... maybe top 5 authors. Although that changes every few months too as I try a new author, or stumble across a new book.
1.) Richard Morgan
2.) Peter F. Hamilton
3.) Orson Scott Card
4.) Niel Asher
5.) Iain M. Banks
That'd be my current top 5 Sci Fi authors, because I just read (and thought all 5 were fantastic):
- Woken Furies (RM)
- Pandoras Star (PFH)
- Enders Shadow (OSC)
- Brass Man (NA)
- Algebraist (IMB)
That list will be different next month
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Ghost Red
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Posted - 2005.06.01 08:10:00 -
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Forgot one more: anyone here ever read "I am Legend"? Probably the cleverest vampire book ever written and it has a nice post apocolyptic setting too. Seriously great novel.
Linkage
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Benedictus Setaro
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Posted - 2005.06.01 10:48:00 -
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The Forever War. (Joe Haldeman)
Genius, and without a single shread of the pretentiousness that runs through SF like a disease.
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Rodj Blake
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Posted - 2005.06.01 11:16:00 -
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Originally by: Ghost Red
Originally by: Rodj Blake
#5 - The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
Can you guess who my favourite SF author is?
I take my hat off to you. At last, someone that plays Eve that actually knows decent sci-fi. Stand On Zanzibar and Shockwave Rider are also total genius.
Thomas M Disch is a good read too: The Genocides, Camp Concentration (better than Enders Game) and 334.
Old sci-fi > modern pretend sci fi.
Have a nice day.
John Brunner's stuff isn't that old when you think about it.
HG Wells, Aldous Huxley and Jules Verne - now that's the real old SF.
Mentioning Aldous Huxley makes me want to find a place in my top 5 for Brave New World. And Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four deserves a place there too, I guess
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mahhy
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Posted - 2005.06.01 11:35:00 -
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Originally by: Rodj Blake
HG Wells, Aldous Huxley and Jules Verne - now that's the real old SF.
Mentioning Aldous Huxley makes me want to find a place in my top 5 for Brave New World. And Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four deserves a place there too, I guess
Those are what I term "The Classics", along with Herbert, Clarke, Asimov and such. I've been on a mission to read all "The Classics" of Sci-Fi, and generally I keep them out of any top "number" lists. Nothing really compares to reading Brave New World, or Nineteen Eighty-Four, they're in a class of their own.
I still remember reading Brave New World for the first time when I was about 12 or 13, and missing about 95% of the content/point. Its a much better read now
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Zille Zillando
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Posted - 2005.06.01 12:47:00 -
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Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
Endymion
The Rise of Endymion
Dune
All Sci-fi I have been reading :)
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Ghost Red
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Posted - 2005.06.01 13:04:00 -
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Originally by: Rodj Blake
Originally by: Ghost Red
Originally by: Rodj Blake
#5 - The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
Can you guess who my favourite SF author is?
I take my hat off to you. At last, someone that plays Eve that actually knows decent sci-fi. Stand On Zanzibar and Shockwave Rider are also total genius.
Thomas M Disch is a good read too: The Genocides, Camp Concentration (better than Enders Game) and 334.
Old sci-fi > modern pretend sci fi.
Have a nice day.
John Brunner's stuff isn't that old when you think about it.
HG Wells, Aldous Huxley and Jules Verne - now that's the real old SF.
Mentioning Aldous Huxley makes me want to find a place in my top 5 for Brave New World. And Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four deserves a place there too, I guess
Oops, I meant 'old school', as in Pre-Neuromancer, which marks the start of post-modernist sci-fi. Alot of modern stuff isn't really sci fi, its just fantasy. People think that cos something is set in space, its sci fi. Its not.
Talking of dystopian fiction, the daddy of them all is Yevgeny Zamayatins "We" or "Ourselves" depending on which translation you use. It predates 1984 and Brave New World, and was the inspiration for both. Its another book that is criminally overlooked.
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Dagit
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Posted - 2005.06.01 13:56:00 -
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If you are going back to read the classics of SF, dont forget
Childhood's End - Arthur Clarke.
One of his best.
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