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xRazoRx
The xDEATHx Squadron
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Posted - 2007.08.06 18:23:00 -
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All the BattleTech (google to your aid ;p).
King Leonidas > well this is good
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Elliot Reid
Digital Fury Corporation Digital Renegades
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Posted - 2007.08.06 18:32:00 -
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Edited by: Elliot Reid on 06/08/2007 18:35:23 This subject comes up every now and again and I always recommend the same book
The Mote In God's Eye
That's an excellent book. __________________________________
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Vladimir Ilych
Gradient Electus Matari
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Posted - 2007.08.06 19:52:00 -
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Originally by: VD ThatsNotRight alistair reynolds books,good grungy sci-fi
Yep. My current favourites for sure.
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Iwishai Wazahero
Scrofulous Wealth Derek Knows Us
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Posted - 2007.08.06 20:11:00 -
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Edited by: Iwishai Wazahero on 06/08/2007 20:13:47 A lot of the suggestions in this thread are good, some very very good, however for the most part they don't seem to match up with your love of the Old School Philip K. Dic(stupid word filter)k style sci-fi.
If you want a thought-provoking yet thoroughly enjoyable old school book then check out "A Canticle for Liebowitz" by Walter M Miller.
Amazon Link
Hard to sum up simply, so I won't bother :) Read the Wiki article if you want a bit more background on it. It is very good. And the style will seem more familiar some of the other suggestions in here!
Edit: Actually that Wiki article does have a whole huge raft of spoilers in it. So I've replaced it with an Amazon link. No need to ruin the books for you before you get a chance to look for yourself :)
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Imperator Jora'h
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Posted - 2007.08.06 20:32:00 -
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Originally by: Iwishai Wazahero Edited by: Iwishai Wazahero on 06/08/2007 20:13:47 A lot of the suggestions in this thread are good, some very very good, however for the most part they don't seem to match up with your love of the Old School Philip K. Dic(stupid word filter)k style sci-fi.
Philip K. Dic(stupid word filter)k (will just write PKD from here on) is great. For those unfamiliar you may be more familiar with the movie Blade Runner which was adapted from PKD's book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. This is back when sci fi was less about pew pew and more about using the future in such a way as to setup explorations in morals and persecution and so on. It is good stuff to be sure.
If you like PKD you also might want to try on Robert Heinlein. Although the book is old (1960ish) you may know the name from the movie Starship Troopers. Make no mistake the movie is nothing like the book. The book is far better. Also, Stranger in a Strange Land is a classic and well worth a read.
Also in the same vein as above would be Ray Bradbury. Perhaps most famous for the book Farenheit 451*. The Illustrated Man is a good collection of short stories.
Again though realize the above books are more thought provoking exploring various social concepts than action stuff. All excellent but not everyone's cup of tea sadly.
* - Side note: While playing Trivial Pursuit with some friends the question was asked, "At what temperature does paper burn?" I answer, "451 degress." My friends decided I was the biggest geek in the world to have know that and they were totally unaware of the book Farenheit 451 which is why I knew that. Ah well...
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Iwishai Wazahero
Scrofulous Wealth Derek Knows Us
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Posted - 2007.08.06 20:40:00 -
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Originally by: Imperator Jora'h
Also in the same vein as above would be Ray Bradbury. Perhaps most famous for the book Farenheit 451*. The Illustrated Man is a good collection of short stories.
Oh god yes. These most certainly!
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Red Crown
Kudzu Collective
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Posted - 2007.08.06 21:08:00 -
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Duck,an excellent novel.
1984 by Orwell, absolute classic. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark.
2001 and 2010 by him as well, but not 2061 or 3001, which were crap.
Get a compliliation of Sci-Fi short stories by old authors, they are generally goldmines of goodness.
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Quetzalcoatle
Silver Snake Enterprise Interstellar Starbase Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.08.07 12:56:00 -
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Originally by: Orvas Dren Anne McAffery's Pern series may look a bit like a fantasy novel, but once you actually read them they are a perfect mix of Sci-Fi and moderate fantasy.
Since its got the parts of fantasy that most people like, but its all Sci-Fi explained.
Very well written either way.
And the full Ender series in chronological order is:
Ender's Game Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Ender's Shadow Shadow of the Hegemon
Last 2 might be inversed, but I think thats the order.
Actually it's:
1.Ender's Game 2.Speaker for the dead 3.Xenocide 4.Children of the mind
1.Ender's Shadow 2.The shadow of the Hegemon 3.Shadow Puppets 4.Shadow of the Giant
And yes, very well written. I especially like that it's not all about 'hard' science but alot about ethics as well.
Also, 'The gods themselves' from Asimov is (imo) one of his better written novels.
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Leilani Solaris
Gallente 0utbreak
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Posted - 2007.08.07 13:09:00 -
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I like the Artemis Fowl collection. Kinda like a cross between fairies and sci-fi. Very good, i couldn't put them down.
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Rana Ash
Minmatar Aeon Trinity
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Posted - 2007.08.07 15:21:00 -
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Originally by: Kyguard Richard Morgan's books;
Altered Carbon Woken Furies Broken Angels
Skip market forces, it ain't that great.
/signd
Ļon Trinity is recruting, inquire within for details lyret dedreen
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Alias11
GoonFleet GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.08.07 15:35:00 -
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you expressed an interest in "left-of-centre" so I'm assuming you want soft sci-fi.
Go out and get a copy of Callahan's Cross-Time Saloon by Spider Robinson right now
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Natalie Cunningham
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Posted - 2007.08.07 16:13:00 -
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Wonder why no one has mentioned Ben Bova's Asteroid Wars sequel yet. So far it's consisted of three books... but as far as I'm conserned more is to come. I'm not really an avid reader at any aspect but I can say that Ben Bova can write some awesome stuff. The world he creates in the books are the most believable... full of cool sci-fi stuff descripted with a great detail. And I love it :)
Gotta mention Ender's Game as well... as so many other has said it loud here... it's worth reading.
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Miss Anthropy
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2007.08.07 16:33:00 -
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Edited by: Miss Anthropy on 07/08/2007 16:34:29 Read Philip K ****'s books. Brilliant 50's and 60's cold war (and thus paranoid) sci-fi. My favourites are;
A Scanner Darkly Time Out of Joint Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Man in the High Castle Flow My Tears, The Policemen Said Clans of the Alphane Moon We Can Build You Martian Time-Slip Valis
I include Valis provisionally. It was written just after PKD's breakdown and is a really warped novel on what he perceived to be a religious experience (but was in fact a nervous breakdown from years of drugs abuse). Read some of his short stories too; especially the 4th Collection called "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (from where the movie Total Recall came from).
Damn word filter; the full name is Philip K Richard (abbreviate Richard to laughable male appendage).
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Freki Grimnir
Minmatar The Plexus Syndicate The Order of New Eden
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Posted - 2007.08.07 21:43:00 -
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The original Starship Troopers novel is superb - nothing like the truly dreadful ****-take movie.
If you enjoyed Roadside Picnic you should read The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.
Classic line. Protagonist to the barman: "I'm sitting at a bar with an A-sexual cyborg and he's the only other normal guy on the planet. Better make that a double."
Also I've just started reading the Vatta's War saga by Elizabeth Moon; I'm only a few chapters in but there's a nice Eve-chronicle feeling to it, especially if you're an old-timer who played the Elite games religiously.
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Per Bastet
Amarr B.O.O.M
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Posted - 2007.08.07 21:52:00 -
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Robert A. Heinlein.
Any of his Books will be a good read. I recommend Stranger in a Strange land first.
And once you grok that move on to some of his other books.
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Kain Bodom
Gallente SIDEWALK SAMURAI Band of Bums
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Posted - 2007.08.07 23:00:00 -
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Edited by: Kain Bodom on 07/08/2007 23:01:40 Edited by: Kain Bodom on 07/08/2007 23:01:23
Originally by: Raoul Endymion Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Series (simply awsome) Frank Herbert - Dune Dan Simmons - Hyperion Series William Gibson - Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive & Count Zero
qft. The Foundation Trilogy is the best 3 book tril i have ever read. It became more books are they are just as awesome. do yourself a favor and buy the foundation trilogy lock yourself in a room for a week and dont come out! Then you will understand why Asimov is a Grand Master of SF
I also really love The Forever War by Joe Halderman
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Amasera
Twilight Trading
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Posted - 2007.08.07 23:35:00 -
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Shame on you all.....
Never to be left out of a discussion of serious sci-fi literature: Douglas Adams
The Hitch Hikers Trilogy:
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Restraunt at the End of the Universe Life the Universe and Everything So Long and Thanks for All the Fish Mostly Harmless
The Dirk Gently books are a fun read as well and have some sci-fi spins:
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
And it's not sci-fi but it's still an engrosing read:
Last Chance to See
I also heartily endorse all of PKD's work, but you said you've already discovered his genious. Check out the Dune books, the first 2 are suprisingly good, but they go downhill very fast after that.
If you don't mind fantasy as well as sci-fi then check out the Eternal Champion series by Michael Moorcock, the Cornelius Chronicles are a very nice bit of sci-fi but I wouldn't start with Jerry, Go back to the "Elric of MelnibonT" novel and start there or you'll probably be lost. ____________________________________________________
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Kent Druall
Quantum Empire
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Posted - 2007.08.08 00:08:00 -
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You've probably read it, but Enders Game?
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Mary Makepeace
Caldari Neh'bu Kau Beh'Hude Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2007.08.08 10:39:00 -
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i would like to endorse two award winning classics that has come up a couple of times already.
Joe Halderman's "forever war" Fredrick Pohl's "Gateway"
both are contempory of PKD. Another one is John Brunner's "shockwave rider" which was a lead in to the cyberpunk genre.
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Lluthiunne Egan
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Posted - 2007.08.08 10:41:00 -
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Aaaaaah less of Enders game it's utter ****e!
Horrible horrible soulless little book, written by a hopelessly talentless writer.
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bronyra
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Posted - 2007.08.08 13:42:00 -
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I would recommend Red,Green and Blue mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. |
Jago Kain
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.08.09 11:56:00 -
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Edited by: Jago Kain on 09/08/2007 11:58:35 I can heartily reccommend The Saga of the Exiles and The Galactic Milieu Trilogy by Julian May. A total of 8 books (9 if you bother with A Pliocence Companion... which I didn't) but well worth reading.
The first series tells the story of a time-gate from our future to the distant past and a race of extra-terrestrials living in the Pliocene era whose relative peace is interrupted by the arrival of malcontents from our near future.
The second covers a time frame from post-war era to the relatively near future and is about the development of "metapsychic" powers by the human race and our induction into a galactic civilisation, with all the problems that would likely involve.
I can't say too much about the series without spoiling it, but the second series ties in well to the first and I found them to be absolutely un-putdownable
Incidentally, Olaf Stapledon is referenced quite a bit by Julian May in the second series and both sets of books show signs of having been influenced by "Odd John".
If it's something a little left of centre you are loooking for, this may be the very thing.
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Reyold Bengali
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.08.11 22:47:00 -
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Might want to give "Gravity Dreams" by L. E. Modesitt Jr. a read.
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Reycks Armunicus
Gallente CoreTech Industries E.A.R.T.H. Federation
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Posted - 2007.08.14 21:15:00 -
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First off, I'd like to thank the OP for starting this thread. If no-one's mentioned already Norstrilia, by Cordwainer Smith, is good. --------------- mods are strangely fixated on content... |
Phiend
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Posted - 2007.08.14 21:27:00 -
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Book that I very doubt anyone else on here has read, I've never met anyone else who's read it.
Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis.
Its not exactly what you expect from the title. The title is based off of the Domesday Book, an old english census.
Its a really good read.
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Ealiom
Infinitus Morti R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2007.08.14 23:38:00 -
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Originally by: Phiend Book that I very doubt anyone else on here has read, I've never met anyone else who's read it. Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis. Its not exactly what you expect from the title. The title is based off of the Domesday Book, an old english census. Its a really good read.
You see that is where you are wrong, I have it in my bookcase.
I particularly like how understated it is, how it flicks back and forth between 'times' teasing you to make your own assumptions. The end was a little bland for me, but never the less a good read!
Reag Greg Egan's Permutation City. I found that a really good read. Not as good as Diaspora but definetly easier to read.
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Moncada
Amarr Fusion Enterprises Ltd Mostly Harmless
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Posted - 2007.08.15 00:18:00 -
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William gibson: Neuromancer, count zero and mona lisa overdrive. Frank herbert: Arrakis(dune), dune messiah, (Children of dune), God emperor of dune. Lazarus incident Bruce sterling: Dunno the names >_< Stanislaw lev: Solaris
More to come as I remember them >_<
Montada Cardinal Maledictus Sanguine
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Xanos Blackpaw
Amarr The Firestorm Elite
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Posted - 2007.08.15 10:11:00 -
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Empire from the Ashes by David Webber. buy it. read it. love it.
Playing minmatar is "like going down a flight of stairs in a office chair firing an Uzi". |
ry ry
StateCorp The State
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Posted - 2007.08.15 11:59:00 -
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Originally by: Moncada Frank herbert: Arrakis(dune), dune messiah, (Children of dune), God emperor of dune.
do not listen to this man. only the first dune novel is any good.
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Shinhan
Phoenix Knights Dark Nebula Galactic Empire
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Posted - 2007.08.15 12:46:00 -
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Somebody else also recommended me Accelerando, I really oughta pick it up and read it already. Btw, did you know its author released it under Creative Commons licence and it can be legally downloaded for free?
For recommendations I will skip on those authors that have been mentioned already and will ask you to read the Honor Harrington series. The main actor starts as a midshipman on a combat starship and goes up through the ranks during the novel series. I really like the physics of the starship combat there. Unfortunately, by the end of the series Honor is Admiral and those later novels concentrate more on politics than pew-pew.
Also, take a look at Bolos, written by several different authors.
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