Sci-Fi books
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I'm a bit excited because there's a 35% discount at one book house here for all books in their SF collection, and I'm gonna spend some cash on that. The titles that I've chosen are: H2G2 Dune (the initial 6 volumes) Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow The Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars) I can't go wrong with these, can I? The only SF I've read so far is some Asimov, Childhood's End by Sir Arthur C Clarke and Starship Troopers.
Pardon my knowledge on Sci-Fi books, but I have never ever read any Sci-Fi. Can anybody recommand a good Sci-Fi book to start with?
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I'm a bit excited because there's a 35% discount at one book house here for all books in their SF collection, and I'm gonna spend some cash on that. The titles that I've chosen are: H2G2 Dune (the initial 6 volumes) Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow The Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars) I can't go wrong with these, can I? The only SF I've read so far is some Asimov, Childhood's End by Sir Arthur C Clarke and Starship Troopers.
Cell (more horror then SF), by Steven King is fairly entertaing. I think he wrote it because he hates people who talk on cell phones at resturants, so he wrote horrific telepathic killer zombie book about these "rude people".
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Some others might be anything by Peter Hamilton (Night's Dawn, Fallen Dragon, et al), ditto for Greg Bear (Eon, Forge of God, Vitals, just to name a few), Ian Douglas is fun if you military sci-fi, and Stephen Baxter has some good stuff.
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I second Peter Hamilton. Also, Alastair Reynolds (Absolution Gap, Pushing Ice, The Prefect, etc.) is good.
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Cell (more horror then SF), by Steven King is fairly entertaing. I think he wrote it because he hates people who talk on cell phones at resturants, so he wrote horrific telepathic killer zombie book about these "rude people".
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Haven't read that particular one, but for a man who churns out books at the rate he does, SK is actually a damn good writer. He's earned his fame and fortune by virtue of his writing, not (just) because so many have been made into films.
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Pardon my knowledge on Sci-Fi books, but I have never ever read any Sci-Fi. Can anybody recommand a good Sci-Fi book to start with?
Ender's Game. it's a quick and easy read.
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I'm a bit excited because there's a 35% discount at one book house here for all books in their SF collection, and I'm gonna spend some cash on that. The titles that I've chosen are: H2G2 Dune (the initial 6 volumes) Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow The Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars) I can't go wrong with these, can I? The only SF I've read so far is some Asimov, Childhood's End by Sir Arthur C Clarke and Starship Troopers.
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I'm a bit excited because there's a 35% discount at one book house here for all books in their SF collection, and I'm gonna spend some cash on that. The titles that I've chosen are: H2G2 Dune (the initial 6 volumes) Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow The Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars) I can't go wrong with these, can I? The only SF I've read so far is some Asimov, Childhood's End by Sir Arthur C Clarke and Starship Troopers.
Anything by Niven and Pournelle is decent, especially Footfall. If you can find it, Anvil of the Heart, by Bruce T. Holmes is good. Stone, by Adam Roberts was fantastic!
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I'm a bit excited because there's a 35% discount at one book house here for all books in their SF collection, and I'm gonna spend some cash on that. The titles that I've chosen are: H2G2 Dune (the initial 6 volumes) Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow The Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars) I can't go wrong with these, can I? The only SF I've read so far is some Asimov, Childhood's End by Sir Arthur C Clarke and Starship Troopers.
For some more recent good work (particularly if you like Heinlien): John Scalzi : Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony. All three are most enjoyable.
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gmPhil wrote:
"Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson is a legend in it's own time - a real classic;
Was going to recommend that and Cryptonomicron
Read Cryptonomicon, then his Baroque Cycle. Those are some of the best books I've ever read. And to tack on my recommendation list: Jack McDevitt - three to start with are The Engines of God, Ancient Shores, and Eternity Road. The first is part of a series, the latter two are standalone George R. R. Martin - start with A Game of Thrones Allen Steele - Coyote, Coyote Frontier, Coyote Rising, and Spindrift Eric Brown - Helix and Kéthani
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Haven't read that particular one, but for a man who churns out books at the rate he does, SK is actually a damn good writer. He's earned his fame and fortune by virtue of his writing, not (just) because so many have been made into films.
I'm more of a Dean Koontz fan, but I finished all his books, Cell is the second of of SK's I'm on. Koontz is prolific as well but not as much success in films.
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I'm a bit excited because there's a 35% discount at one book house here for all books in their SF collection, and I'm gonna spend some cash on that. The titles that I've chosen are: H2G2 Dune (the initial 6 volumes) Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow The Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars) I can't go wrong with these, can I? The only SF I've read so far is some Asimov, Childhood's End by Sir Arthur C Clarke and Starship Troopers.
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code-frog wrote:
Never read Dune
Dude! You *have* to correct that ASAP! At least the first, fifth, and sixth novels. The later one by his son are largely crap, so probably not worth the effort unless you become really curious about where they take things.
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meh. Dune's probably the best regarded SF book I've ever read that I considered utterly worthless. I think Dune > P. K. Dick, the other highly prominent SF author I can't stand (my opinion of new wave SF in general is almost as low, but I've seen a few stories by contemporaries that only triggered indifference).
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Pardon my knowledge on Sci-Fi books, but I have never ever read any Sci-Fi. Can anybody recommand a good Sci-Fi book to start with?
Anything by Asimov on the Robot series or the foundation series.
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Pardon my knowledge on Sci-Fi books, but I have never ever read any Sci-Fi. Can anybody recommand a good Sci-Fi book to start with?
It's a very wide genre, could you define what you're interested in a bit better so that we can give more appropriate recomendations. eg political bias, military tolerance, hard (lots of real science) vs soft (eg star wars/trek), physics/space vs computers vs biology, upper vs downer, tolerance for good stories with dated gaps in their technology (almost no classic SF saw the growth of the PC).
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I'm a bit excited because there's a 35% discount at one book house here for all books in their SF collection, and I'm gonna spend some cash on that. The titles that I've chosen are: H2G2 Dune (the initial 6 volumes) Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow The Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars) I can't go wrong with these, can I? The only SF I've read so far is some Asimov, Childhood's End by Sir Arthur C Clarke and Starship Troopers.
The Saga of Seven Suns[^] by Kevin J. Anderson. Anything by Peter F. Hamilton or Greg Bear.
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Anything by Niven and Pournelle is decent, especially Footfall. If you can find it, Anvil of the Heart, by Bruce T. Holmes is good. Stone, by Adam Roberts was fantastic!
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Steve Echols wrote:
Anything by Niven and Pournelle is decent, especially Footfall.
Footfall and Mote in God's Eye are fantastic books. Also Niven and Pournelle did their own take on Dante's Inferno. Classic Stuff. But, and I hate to say this, stay away from Destiny's Road and Rainbow Mars....simply awful in my opinion.
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Pardon my knowledge on Sci-Fi books, but I have never ever read any Sci-Fi. Can anybody recommand a good Sci-Fi book to start with?
Ain't that fun, you're in a thread talking about good sci-Fi books. Isaac Azimov : Foundation, The Robots series. Frank Herbert : Dune, The Dosadi Experiment Dan Simmons : Hyperion (not easy but fascinating) Carl Sagan : Contact Kim Stanley Robinson : The Mars trilogy.
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I'm a bit excited because there's a 35% discount at one book house here for all books in their SF collection, and I'm gonna spend some cash on that. The titles that I've chosen are: H2G2 Dune (the initial 6 volumes) Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow The Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars) I can't go wrong with these, can I? The only SF I've read so far is some Asimov, Childhood's End by Sir Arthur C Clarke and Starship Troopers.
Another vote for Iain M Banks (Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games especially). And Neal Stephenson - Zodiac and The Diamond Age thoroughly recommended Bruce Sterling's written some excellent stuff - Heavy Weather's the one I remember best Jeff Noon - Vurt, Pollen and Nymphomation J.G.Ballard has written many excellent books that could almost be considered SF - The Drowned World, The Burning World/The Drought, The Crystal World and High Rise are the closest Joe Haldeman - The Forever War is excellent - an interstellar Vietnam novel And if you like the "cosy catastrophe" style, give John Wyndham (Midwich Cuckoos, Day of the Kraken) and Fred Hoyle (The Black Cloud, The Inferno)
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Steve Echols wrote:
Anything by Niven and Pournelle is decent, especially Footfall.
Footfall and Mote in God's Eye are fantastic books. Also Niven and Pournelle did their own take on Dante's Inferno. Classic Stuff. But, and I hate to say this, stay away from Destiny's Road and Rainbow Mars....simply awful in my opinion.
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Also, Legacy of Heorot was awesome! I agree about Rainbow Mars - pretty lame.
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I'm a bit excited because there's a 35% discount at one book house here for all books in their SF collection, and I'm gonna spend some cash on that. The titles that I've chosen are: H2G2 Dune (the initial 6 volumes) Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow The Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars) I can't go wrong with these, can I? The only SF I've read so far is some Asimov, Childhood's End by Sir Arthur C Clarke and Starship Troopers.
blackjack2150 wrote:
The only SF I've read so far is some Asimov, Childhood's End by Sir Arthur C Clarke and Starship Troopers.
:omg: Dude, I don't even know where to start. :) I could recommend pretty close to a thousand books just off the top of my head if I had the time. Those all sound like good choices, Dune I'm not so keen on it's decent enough but there are about 1000 books ahead of it that are ultra classics but YMMV and I've no idea what H2G2 is. Remember you can get all those classics for probably even less at a decent sized used book store these days. I envy you, I've probably read every notable or even semi interested sci fi book ever published in the english language over the last 30+ years. It would be cool if I could take a pill and forget the plot of all those books and happily read them all again. :)
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