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Mayoz Miner
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Posted - 2006.11.15 19:50:00 -
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Anyone read any of this guy's books particular the Foundation series ?
Also has anyone got any other good sci-fi books they recommend ?
P.S. what do you people think of the GAP books by Stephen Donaldson ?
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Mtthias Clemi
Gallente
Momentum.
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Posted - 2006.11.15 19:52:00 -
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Edited by: Mtthias Clemi on 15/11/2006 19:52:58
Greatest books of all time IMO, i really love them , especially forward the foundation... tear in my eye at the end of that book!   Salvor hardin is the greatest.
I reccomend books by peter f hamilton... i find them extremely good, especially his newer ones Pandoras Star/ Judas Unchained.
ok ok that was harsh, i dont hate mods.. as an apology the mod who shows the most wuv gets a free mercedes...
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Preliator
Caldari
The Wolves' Pack
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Posted - 2006.11.15 19:59:00 -
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Yeh, I've got most of his short stories. I love 'em 
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Mayoz Miner
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Posted - 2006.11.15 20:02:00 -
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 Originally by: Mtthias Clemi
Edited by: Mtthias Clemi on 15/11/2006 19:52:58
Greatest books of all time IMO, i really love them , especially forward the foundation... tear in my eye at the end of that book! Salvor hardin is the greatest.
I reccomend books by peter f hamilton... i find them extremely good, especially his newer ones Pandoras Star/ Judas Unchained.
Cool I'll check 'em out  I found when I was reading the GAP books by Stephen Donaldson that they had a sligthtly more ruthless way of getting his story across than Issac Asimov  .
Have to say though Issac Asimov is my personal best sci-fi writer to date and IMHO greatly overlooked( even if they have made a few films out of his books).
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Detavi Kade
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Posted - 2006.11.15 21:41:00 -
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Great books! Wish I held on to the copies, but I think I might have sold them back for food during my college years...desperate times!
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Beef Hardslab
AlphaHivE
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Posted - 2006.11.15 21:48:00 -
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One of my favorite sci-fi books is "The Forge of God" by Greg Bear, and it's sequel "Anvil of Stars". Of course, got to mention the Dune books, and Ender's Game, oh and an odd one but one I love - "Sentenced to Prism" by Alan Dean Foster. Foster also has his Adventures of Pip and Flynx series, which I loved when I was younger.
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Elliot Reid
Gallente
Digital Fury Corporation
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Posted - 2006.11.16 00:51:00 -
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My favourite Asimov books are the Elijah Bailey novels. What I do like is in Foundation and Earth when they arrive in our solar system and discover whats on the moon.
I've said it before on these forums and I'll say it again.
The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
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Gloria Stitz
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Posted - 2006.11.16 00:56:00 -
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Best sci-fi author is Iain M Banks.
Read (in order) 'Consider Phlebas', 'Use of weapons', 'Player of games' and 'Excession'.
Stephen Donaldson should have been smothered at birth.
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Caleb Paine
ISS Navy Task Force
Interstellar Starbase Syndicate
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Posted - 2006.11.16 02:57:00 -
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Edited by: Caleb Paine on 16/11/2006 02:57:33
I've read quite a lot of Asimov but I just can't stand the Foundation series, it spans to too much time , I just feel lost in that. And yes, I like the Elijah Baley series a lot.
Other good writers are ; A.C. Clarke, Heinlein, J. Pournelle, Jack Vance, larry Niven.
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Hllaxiu
Shiva
Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2006.11.16 06:08:00 -
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Edited by: Hllaxiu on 16/11/2006 06:09:54
Originally by: Mayoz Miner
Anyone read any of this guy's books particular the Foundation series ?
I'd imagine a few of us have, yes. 
(Reminds me of someone walking into a EE lab last semester and asking if anyone had watched BSG the previous friday)
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Bardi MecAuldnis
Amarr
Pirates of Destruction Union
Pirate Coalition
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Posted - 2006.11.16 06:42:00 -
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Best Sci-Fi author EVAR is L. Ron Hubbard.
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Alvar Ursidae
Amarr
Agony Unleashed
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Posted - 2006.11.16 07:59:00 -
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L Ron Hubbard is a freak - HE start scientology donchaknow!
Anyhoo - Depending on the feel for the kind of Sci0Fi there is a slightly different way to go for some good reading. The CyberPunk genre has some great stuff. William Gibson and Neal Stephensen are the 2 most recognised ones.
Think Blade Runner, and you get close.
Also going on from Blade Runner, almost anything by Philip K **** is good too.
Aasimov is a good read, especially Foundation series. He certainly has done some great stuff. Frank Herbert's Dune series is also good, but stop at book 3, it's a bit weird after that. And don't think you saw the movie, you know the book, the movie is about 10% of the first book.
There are some great books out there. I have not yet read Greg Bear, but I do hear a lot of good things.
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Ione Hunt
Celestial Fleet
Ascendant Frontier
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Posted - 2006.11.16 12:46:00 -
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Oh, that thread again 
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Zezman
Murder of Crows
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Posted - 2006.11.16 14:30:00 -
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Larry Niven
Poul Anderson
Orson Scott Card
Anything written by these three are classics, and in the same class as Asimov, though with different writing styles.
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Aaron Rex
Caldari
The Fated
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Posted - 2006.11.16 14:32:00 -
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If you like Asimov you should give Heinlein a try. Stranger in a Strange Land is a good starting place. Other good books are Starship Troopers (don't let the ****ty film put you off), I Will Fear no Evil, and the 6 last novels he wrote. All good stuff.
And you might want to check out Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trillogy too, hardcore, but ace!
Aaron Rex - Remember the Scordite...
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mamolian
Vortex.
Maelstrom Alliance
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Posted - 2006.11.16 17:01:00 -
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Originally by: Mayoz Miner
Anyone read any of this guy's books particular the Foundation series ?
Also has anyone got any other good sci-fi books they recommend ?
P.S. what do you people think of the GAP books by Stephen Donaldson ?
I'm Currently about half way through the last of his Foundation Books.. I'm so disappointed with myself I waited so long, to read one of the best of the Genre..
Great author.
PS:
Iain M. Banks, Is still my fav Sci-Fi Author.. But Assimov has come close..
Id also check out, Arthur C Clark, Stephen Donaldson, Peter F Hammilton and lots more I cant remember off hand.
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Electric Cucumber
Amarr
coracao ardente
Sani Khal'Vecna
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Posted - 2006.11.16 22:18:00 -
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robot series is great and robot dreams has fun stuff to read
asimov ftw
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Mayoz Miner
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Posted - 2006.11.17 01:17:00 -
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Edited by: Mayoz Miner on 17/11/2006 01:18:08
hehe great replies read some of them books y'all posted about but some I haven't
I always find it a bit funny when I start talking to someone who reads books like in work or w/e, beacuse I say half way through the convo " so you heard of Issac Asimov" then they says no what type of books so when I say sci-fi the convo' take a downward spiral, oh well hehe.
Another thing is theres tones of people into sci-fi but I NEVER meet any IRL although I have tried to convert a few
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Micia
Minmatar
Thrace Inc
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2006.11.17 09:40:00 -
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Originally by: Mayoz Miner
Anyone read any of this guy's books particular the Foundation series ?
Also has anyone got any other good sci-fi books they recommend ?
P.S. what do you people think of the GAP books by Stephen Donaldson ?
Just my opinion, but Stephen Donaldson never wrote a good story aside from the Covenant series.
Other authors to consider...
Robert Heinlein ("Number of the Beast", "Cat Who Walks Through Walls"... and a bunch of other books from the same mythos)
Harry Harrison (esp. "Stainless Steel Rat" & "Bill the Galactic Hero"... though the Bill sequels sucked) Very tongue-in-cheek, and fun.
Jules Verne. 'nuff said. 
Frank Herbert - Dune series, and a lot of other great ones. The Jesus Incident, The Lazrues Effect, The Godmakers, tonnes of other great shorter (and pulpier works). Very hung up on genetic manipulation.
Arthur C. Clarke... short stories to die for.
Ray Bradbury. 
Never did care much for Alan Dean Foster, but many do. Oh well.
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Nova Z
Caldari
Agony Unleashed
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Posted - 2006.11.17 12:23:00 -
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Iain M Banks FTW! That guy has an evil sense of humour!
Also good:
Alistair Reynolds, Richard Morgan and Dan Simmons
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Haldane IV
Crisis Corp
Lotka Volterra
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Posted - 2006.11.17 18:59:00 -
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Yeah, I like Asimov, one of the "Old School" Sci-Fi writers. If you like Foundation you would probably like A C Clarkes' "Childhoods' End", and Bradburys' Martian Chronicles - but you have probably read those. I only read Heinleins' Starship Troopers fairly recently, which is pretty ggod.
Anyhow enough of that. I wandered over to my bookcase to look for something you mightnot have read:
Two Asimov "popular Science" essay collections -
"Far as Human Eye can See" - ...a captivating scientific scientific smorgasborg - enlightening, entertaining, and sparkling with wit, charm and intelligence...that is what is says on the back cover and I would'nt disagree. More of the same? Check out "Frontiers".
And now an old school classic that IMO really deserves Cult status - its a simple litle book, nothing really staggering, but its gotsomethingI keep coming bacj to:
"The Last Starship from earth" by John Boyd. Crap title, but the tale is better than that.
And another little gem is "Einstein's Dreams" by Alan Lightman. Its quite poetic, the premise is Einstein muses on various possible forms Time might take, and what a world governed by such rules might be like. I quote:
"Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly"
or this one that starts:
"In this world, time is like a flow of water, occasionally displaced by a bit of debris, a passing breeze. Now and then, some cosmic disturbance will casue a rivulet of time to turn away from the mainstream, to make connection upsteram. When this happens, birds, soli, people caught in the branching tributary find themselves suddenly carried to the past..."
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Ione Hunt
Celestial Fleet
Ascendant Frontier
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Posted - 2006.12.05 14:01:00 -
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Originally by: Bardi MecAuldnis
Best Sci-Fi author EVAR is L. Ron Hubbard.
Scientology is the devil!! 
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Al Haquis
Minmatar
Reikoku
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2006.12.05 16:12:00 -
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Stephen Donaldson and Dan Simmons.
The GAP series is hands down the best work of gritty sci-fi you will ever find.
But you need a hard stomach for it.
With love from Al Haquis
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente
Lyrus Associates
Interstellar Starbase Syndicate
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Posted - 2006.12.05 17:09:00 -
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I've been quite enjoying Singularity Sky, Iron Sunrise and Accelerando by Charles Stross.
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