Favourite SF Book

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toymaker

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Not so long ago I was a lurker on this forums.<br />There was a thread with many interesting book titles posted here with the same title as this one. It even had a web links to online SF stories. Could you post it again ?<br />One story was about American Soldiers in futuretech combat armour fighting their way through muslim Hell <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br />Also please post any interesting books you have read and recommend.<br />Thank you.
 
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tom_hobbes

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Sure thing.<br /><br />The site is SciFiction, part of SciFi.com: http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/archive.html<br /><br />And the story you liked was A Walk In The Garden by Lucius Shepard.<br /><br />Bookmark the site this time! <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />I highly recommend <i>Sarah Canary</i> by Karen Joy Fowler, a first contact novel like no other you'll ever read.<br /><br />I also recommend <i>Coelestis</i> by Paul Park, a strange post colonial scenario which explores the legacy left to the destroyed alien natives.<br /><br /><i>White Queen</i> by Gwyneth Jones is another colonial novel, but this time we are the colonised. After a fairly benign invasion human lives are nevertheless profoundly interupted, ideas are altered in an indefinable way. Ambiguous, rich, haunted and complex. Love it or hate it. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#339966"> I wish I could remember<br /> But my selective memory<br /> Won't let me</font><font size="2" color="#99cc00"> </font><font size="3" color="#339966"><font size="2">- </font></font><font size="1" color="#339966">Mark Oliver Everett</font></p><p> </p> </div>
 
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zootsuit

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Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey was a powerful story. After reading it, if becoming a Crystal Singer was possible, I would have tried for it, even considering the extreme dangers involved.
 
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summoner

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I'm a bit of a space opera fan, so David Weber tops my list. Probably the smoothest writer that I've read.
 
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lunatic133

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Eternity's End by Jeff Carver. I don't even know if it's THAT well written but everything inside me LOVES that book.<br /><br />I also love Weber's Honor Harrington series, and all the cheesey old fashioned space operas I can get my hands on ... however Weber spends a little TOO much time on the military strategy that normal people cant understand and can be tedious in places, I find.
 
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cosmictraveler

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Dune, Foundation Trilogy and Hitchhikers Guide To The Universe. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>It does not require many words to speak the truth. Chief Joseph</p> </div>
 
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cookie_thief

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I enjoyed most of the early Piers Anthony stuff.<br />Chthon, Macroscope and Rings of Ice come to mind. The Cluster series was pretty good, too. Oh and I liked OX, Orn and Omnivore, a neat trilogy by the same author.
 
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cryogenius

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Hmm, let's see..... Well there's the "Area 51" series, and perhaps "Eon" or "The Time Ships" or "Flinx in Flux" or.....so many, many more!!
 
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okami

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I agree with Cryoquark that there are far, far too many good science fiction books (old or new) to pick one favorite. Like they used to say about Lay's Potato Chips: "Betcha can't eat just one!" Heck, I can't pick one series, let alone a single book.<br /><br />My own favorites include Heinlein's "Future History" series, Jack Chalker's books of the "Well World", Asimov's "Foundation" series, the "Enderverse" of Orson Scott Card and, of course, Cordwainer Smith's "Instrumentality of Mankind". <br /><br />If you want to get in deep, anything of Olaf Stapledon's works could do the job, even after 70 years; however, for some reason Dennis Schmidt's "Wayfarer" always sticks in my head. . .it's a mixture of pure science fiction, bushido, and Zen.
 
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lunatic133

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Jeff Carver's Eternity's End, always, forever, and until I find a better book to obsess over <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />
 
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wmdragon

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<i>The Mote in God's Eye</i>... THAT's where you got your username from? ahhhh. great novel. did you read the sequel? opinions?<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#993366"><em>The only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.</em> <br /> --- James Clerk Maxwell</font></p> </div>
 
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witmoreland

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I have WAY too much "favorite" sf to pick one. If I had to pick something, I'd have to say anything by Asimov, and that's as narrow as I can get. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />
 
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avaunt

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Yeah, but it didn't fire my imagination the way Mote did. It was just 'Alright'. I did like the Sauron Superman along for the ride. The Warriors would have gobbled him up and wondered what he was as he digested, IMHO.<br /><br />RingWorld and Maker of Universes are my favourites, I think.
 
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mariecurie

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I Like Gordon R Dickson, especially "The Dosadi Experiment"<br /><br /><font color="black">Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got...Sophia Loren</font>
 
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vogon13

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Foundation and Earth, right now, but my favorite changes frequently. Running With Scissors isn't really sci-fi, but is so bizarre it might as well be. (based on real life supposedly)<br /><br />When I was a kid, read Age of Ruin several times and loved it, (Jalzar, purple hair, Dis, ambulating tree creature) but it was probably awful and I didn't realize it.<br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>
 
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avaunt

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Just read "Tides of God" by Ted Reynolds, from 1985.<br /><br />Gotta say i was really interested in the main idea, and SOME parts of it were quite excellent, but some of the characterisation and dialouge was FAR below the rest of the book, like he wrote it all in one draft, didn't go back and polish it. That said, I really recommend this for the central idea alone, folks.<br /><br />Sadly, it is not for YOU, though, MarieCurie, not your cup-o-tea at all, I think. I don't want to give away the plot, so will say no more.
 
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mariecurie

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I don't have anything on my bookshelf by Ted Reynolds.<br /><br />I like hard sci-fi the best. Sometimes blood and guts comes along with it. Sometimes silly, stupid stuff fills the narrative. <br /><br />I like a variety of teas. <br />Sometimes I'm surprised myself by what I like. <br />You can't judge a book by it's cover. <br />Please don't try to judge my preferences on such little data as you may have.<br /><br />I'd be grateful for a book review by PM if you think it's a book worth reading. <br />You could give it here and leave out the ending. <br /><br />My husband hates lima beans. I think they're OK once in a while. Still, our marriage survives. <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /><br /><br /><font color="black">Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer. Katharine Hepburn</font>
 
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avaunt

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Well I don't want to say more about the plot, but f you found my saying "G--d--m" to be swearing, you will not like this book, see?.<br /><br />I just read the first of the Artimis Fowl books.<br /><br />They are so superior in everyway to H.Potter., as to make comparison odious.<br /><br />Excellent book.
 
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hracctsold

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Favorite fantasy/SciFi book?<br /><br />Outside of Tolkien, Andre Norton, it would have to be Sphere by Michael Crichton. Wrote in the modern times, it includes time travel, suspense, action and mystery. But do not even think of the movie in the same thought. I have read it several times, and listened to the book tapes as well.
 
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arobie

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My favorite science fiction book is most definitely <i>Stranger in a Strange Land</i> by Robert Heinlein. <br /><br />If you like books that make you <b>think</b>, then that book is the way to go. Philosophical, questions common beliefs and accepted customs that are so accepted that we don't even think of them as customs. Expertly written, excellent characters, awesome character development, and an intertwined great plot.<br /><br />Read <i>Stranger in a Strange Land</i> and you will grok.
 
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