Post by: Acidrain on January 02, 2004, 06:40:20 pm
Post by: EE on January 02, 2004, 07:59:14 pm
Post by: Kmelew on January 02, 2004, 08:14:52 pm
Quote:
Starship Troopers. Not the stupid movie version, the REAL book.. you know, the GOOD version.
Agreed!! "I am a 30-second bomb. I am a 29-second bomb. I am a 28-second bomb..."
I enjoy the alternate history sub-genre, particularly Turtledove's "The Great War" and "American Empire" trilogies.
The Proteus Operation by James P. Hogan is also outstanding.
Alan Dean Foster's Nor Crystal Tears is probably my favorite novel of first contact.
Post by: Death_Merchant on January 02, 2004, 08:19:55 pm
The Left Hand Of Darkness
Lathe Of Heaven
1984
The Foundation series (Asimov)
Rendezvous With Rama
A Call To Arms (The Damned series, Alan Dean Foster)
Post by: Toasty0 on January 02, 2004, 09:28:01 pm
The Mote in God's Eye
Bio of a Space Tyrant
Stranger in a Strange Land
Post by: TB613 on January 02, 2004, 09:34:59 pm
Post by: Green on January 02, 2004, 10:35:45 pm
Others include:
Lucifer's Hammer (okay, only kinda SciFi)
Forever War and Forever Peace
Man-Kzin Wars series (just to tie-in the Taldren SFC game if nothing else)
Foundation Trilogy (already mentioned above)
Post by: Dizzy on January 02, 2004, 11:43:31 pm
Post by: Rondo_GE on January 03, 2004, 12:15:32 am
Post by: 762 on January 03, 2004, 01:06:15 am
P.S. I, Robot is being made into a movie!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/
Post by: Rondo_GE on January 03, 2004, 01:41:54 am
Dune - Frank Herbet - classic SciFi..just darn good
Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
The Lensman Series EE"DOC" Smith - classic space opera decades before Star Wars...good vs Evil and the story of a family chosen to well, you know, save the universe. Dated but still good.
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury (collection of Short Stories)
Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany - a curious and interesting work
Humanity Prime - Bruce McAllister - a little known work...but very well written and influential on me
Odd John and Sirius - Olaf Stapledon - well if you havn't rerad it then your odd...or maybe I am...hehe
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (and the other two)
Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells...still pretty good
The Time Machine - H.G.Wells - read the actual work and see how every hollywood director missed the point...a modern alleghory
The Last Castle - Jack Vance (a novella) Vance influenced fantasy and fantasy gaming ...he is a giant...but he also wrote some pretty good SciFi
The Dragon Masters - Jack Vance
Evolution - Stephen Baxter ( a very good read)
Snow Queen - Joan D. Vinge
2001; A Space Oddessey - Arthur C. CLark
Childhood's End - Arthur C. CLark
Imperial Earth - Arthur C. CLark
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov (a great short story and anthology)
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip José Farmer I never liked Farmer until i read this one and its sequels...the highlight of the series came when Sir Richard F. Burton dueled Cyrano de Bergerac (both considered the greatest swordsmen of their age) in a titanic sword duel...incredible
Ringworld - Larry Niven
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein ...I did not like Starship Troopers actually...
Post by: Rondo_GE on January 03, 2004, 02:00:26 am
Post by: Iceman on January 03, 2004, 08:54:22 am
Post by: Yabrodan on January 03, 2004, 09:39:54 am
Nueromancer- William Gibson
Snow Crash- Neal Stephenson
Canticle for Leibowitz- Walter Miller Jr.
Hyperion- Dan Simmons
Blade Runner- Phillip K. Dick
Post by: Toten on January 03, 2004, 02:32:53 pm
Beserker
Time Wars
Videssos Legion
The Vang
The World War : XXX The Balance
Hitch Hikers Guide (the four part trilogy)
Post by: Green on January 03, 2004, 02:56:37 pm
Quote:
Most of the above are novels...but many SciFi writers have done their best work writing short stories.
If you get a chance, grab "The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Centurey" edited by Turtledove and Greenberg. 544 pages of scifi shorts (or excerpts).
Yes, not a very concise title, but it contains works by Clarke, Martin, McCaffrey and many others. Check out a short by Orson Card called "Ender's Game" ... fantastic.
Post by: Lepton1 on January 03, 2004, 03:37:33 pm
Post by: Falaris on January 03, 2004, 04:13:19 pm
Funny, but I think very highly of short stories; they often carry a powerful punch without all the waffling about you have in novellas.
Post by: Rondo_GE on January 03, 2004, 09:45:44 pm
This is one book I'd like to read...
Post by: Rondo_GE on January 03, 2004, 09:51:08 pm
Post by: S'Raek on January 04, 2004, 07:56:00 am
Dune - Frank Herbert (and the rest of the series is good too)
Star Trek - some of them at least
BattleTech - not something that troubles your brain
Martian Chronicles - Bradbury (I really wish he had written something new in the last 30 years.)
Too many others to really list.
Post by: E_Look on January 05, 2004, 11:07:41 pm
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
City on the Edge of Forever- Harlan Ellison
Orphans of the Sky- Robert Heinlein (or whatever the newer title is)
The Foundation trilogy- Isaac Asimov
Startide Rising- (David?) Brin
Spock Must Die- (man oh man, I forgot who and I'm going to amazon to figure it out, either)
and a few of Fritz Leiber's Fafherd and Gray Mouser stories
Post by: Speaker to Aliens on January 07, 2004, 12:58:08 am
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Time Enough for Love, Friday - Heinlein
Against a Dark Background, Excession! - Banks
The City and the Stars/Against the Fall of Night, Childhoods End - Clarke
The Cities in Flight series - Blish
The Chrysalids, The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckcoos - Wyndham
The End of Eternity, The Foundation series (just the first 3) - Asimov
Dune - Herbert
Dragons Egg - Forward
The Skylark Series - EE "Doc" Smith
Dragon Flight - McCaffery
Footfall, Lucifers Hammer, The Moat in Gods Eye, The Burning City - Niven & Pournelle
The Long Habit of Living, The Worlds series - Joe Haldeman
Strata - Pratchett
Tiger Tiger - Bester
Now, if I were to turn around and look at the bookshelves behind me... But no. We'd be here all day.
Post by: KATChuutRitt on January 07, 2004, 06:36:14 am
Dorsai by Gordan R Dickson
The Hammer's Slammers series by David Drake
Stainless Steel Rat series of Harry Harrison
Sandkings (a short story) by George R. R, Martin
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
Chung Kuo series by David Wingrove
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke
Gateway by Fredrick Pohl
Post by: FPF_TraceyG on January 08, 2004, 09:11:12 am
Quote:
Dune- Frank Herbert (the first one really, then the first trilogy only)
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
City on the Edge of Forever- Harlan Ellison
Orphans of the Sky- Robert Heinlein (or whatever the newer title is)
The Foundation trilogy- Isaac Asimov
Startide Rising- (David?) Brin
Spock Must Die- (man oh man, I forgot who and I'm going to amazon to figure it out, either)
and a few of Fritz Leiber's Fafherd and Gray Mouser stories
James Blish, author of the novelisation of TOS, wrote Spock Must Die. It was the only original Star Trek novel he wrote, aside from the original short story about Harry Mudd, which he included in the book Mudd's Angels (later renamed Mudd's Enterprise) which contained the novelisation of the two Harry Mudd TOS episodes.
Post by: SL-Punisher on January 08, 2004, 11:40:52 am
The best decision Lucas made was to link events in one novel to the next....and create an ongoing story told by a variety of authors.
Post by: E_Look on January 08, 2004, 06:21:36 pm
Post by: IKV Nemesis D7L on January 09, 2004, 06:42:41 pm
H. Beam Piper
Post by: ferretlxix on January 09, 2004, 07:56:44 pm
A day for damnation
A rage for revenge
A season for slaughter.
I know the titles sound like a bunch of bad Steven Segall movies but
the titles above belong to the 'War angainst the C'Thorr series'
David gerrold is a sick visionary. heh
Post by: Dogmatix! on January 10, 2004, 12:42:40 am
Faves include:
The Gor series
The Horseclans series
The Sword of Shannara
Lord of the Rings
Battlefield Earth
Mission Earth dekology
Mars
Timothy Zahn's Star Wars novels
Dune series
...anything by Miachael Moorcock
Post by: Barabbas on January 10, 2004, 10:49:36 pm
I was a bit of an Andre' Norton fan back in my school daze.... Anybody else remember him? (actually, I think it was a pseudonym for a her, but that's not important now)
And if we can include short stories, has anyone ever heard of:
For a Breath I Tarry by Roger Zelazny?
Thor Meets Captain America by David Brin?
...Two of my favorites _EVER_!
Post by: Scott Allen Abfalter on January 12, 2004, 09:26:41 am
Quote:
A few of my favorites I haven't seen listed yet:
Nueromancer- William Gibson
Snow Crash- Neal Stephenson
Canticle for Leibowitz- Walter Miller Jr.
Hyperion- Dan Simmons
Blade Runner- Phillip K. Dick
Nice Cyberpunk list. Although I thought "Count Zero" was actually better than Neuromancer!
I agree with the William Gibson "Sprawl" novels and the Dan Simmons "Hyperion" novels.
Have to add Roger Zelazny's "Amber" novels which are both scifi and fantasy (a reviewer once said "Zelazny writes about magic like it was science, and he writes about science like it was magic..."
Post by: GE-Raven on January 12, 2004, 09:41:34 am
I will admit that in Fantasy... I would have to go with Harry Potter... (J.K. Rowling)
Anyone who can write a book that can be read an understood on so many levels is a genius.
GE-Raven
Post by: KOTH-Steel Claw on January 13, 2004, 09:00:35 am
Stranger In A Strange Land
The Number Of The Beast
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
Anything else from Heinlein (GRHS)
The Foundation Series
Robot Series (Caves Of Steel, etc.)
The Currents Of Space
Anything else form Asimov
The Dosadi Experiment
The Whipping Star
Dune Series
Post by: Dogmatix! on January 13, 2004, 03:53:21 pm
Quote:Quote:
A few of my favorites I haven't seen listed yet:
Nueromancer- William Gibson
Snow Crash- Neal Stephenson
Canticle for Leibowitz- Walter Miller Jr.
Hyperion- Dan Simmons
Blade Runner- Phillip K. Dick
Nice Cyberpunk list. Although I thought "Count Zero" was actually better than Neuromancer!
I agree with the William Gibson "Sprawl" novels and the Dan Simmons "Hyperion" novels.
Have to add Roger Zelazny's "Amber" novels which are both scifi and fantasy (a reviewer once said "Zelazny writes about magic like it was science, and he writes about science like it was magic..."
I read Canticle for Leibowitz in my literature of sci fi class in college. Cool book...
Post by: GE-Raven on January 13, 2004, 03:55:34 pm
Quote:
I read Canticle for Leibowitz in my literature of sci fi class in college. Cool book...
How on earth did I forget that one... Read it back in 8th grade. I need to get it again, I am sure I would appreciate it MUCH more now.
GE-Raven
Post by: grimbeard on January 14, 2004, 05:21:45 am
Count Zero
Burning Chrome
Neuromancer
The Fleet series- a collection of shorts by authors such as Heinlein, Clark, Sagan, Anne McCaffery (Dragon riders of Pern) and many other sci-fi authors. A wonderful collaboration by this eras finest sci fi and fantasy writers. I believe some of them continued in the series Armada.
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (forget author, excellent read)
N-Space, a collection of shorts by Larry Niven.
Most Niven books are excellent.
I read so many back when I was in the army, I forget many of the really good reads. I gave all my paperbacks to a local reading foundation (about 80 paperbacks) back in 93.
Post by: Reptor7 on January 14, 2004, 06:07:27 am
Post by: vsfedwards on January 14, 2004, 06:53:23 am
Post by: Capt. Mike on January 17, 2004, 08:06:38 am
Jack of Shadows
Heinlein: Most everything
Asimov: See above
L. Neil Smith: Paratime series
EE Doc Smith: Everything
A. Bester: Most everything
And all the cover art from Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo (When men were men, women were women, and monsters were Monsters!!)
Mike
Post by: Acidrain on January 02, 2004, 06:40:20 pm
Post by: EE on January 02, 2004, 07:59:14 pm
Post by: Kmelew on January 02, 2004, 08:14:52 pm
Quote:
Starship Troopers. Not the stupid movie version, the REAL book.. you know, the GOOD version.
Agreed!! "I am a 30-second bomb. I am a 29-second bomb. I am a 28-second bomb..."
I enjoy the alternate history sub-genre, particularly Turtledove's "The Great War" and "American Empire" trilogies.
The Proteus Operation by James P. Hogan is also outstanding.
Alan Dean Foster's Nor Crystal Tears is probably my favorite novel of first contact.
Post by: Death_Merchant on January 02, 2004, 08:19:55 pm
The Left Hand Of Darkness
Lathe Of Heaven
1984
The Foundation series (Asimov)
Rendezvous With Rama
A Call To Arms (The Damned series, Alan Dean Foster)
Post by: Toasty0 on January 02, 2004, 09:28:01 pm
The Mote in God's Eye
Bio of a Space Tyrant
Stranger in a Strange Land
Post by: TB613 on January 02, 2004, 09:34:59 pm
Post by: Green on January 02, 2004, 10:35:45 pm
Others include:
Lucifer's Hammer (okay, only kinda SciFi)
Forever War and Forever Peace
Man-Kzin Wars series (just to tie-in the Taldren SFC game if nothing else)
Foundation Trilogy (already mentioned above)
Post by: Dizzy on January 02, 2004, 11:43:31 pm
Post by: Rondo_GE on January 03, 2004, 12:15:32 am
Post by: 762 on January 03, 2004, 01:06:15 am
P.S. I, Robot is being made into a movie!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/
Post by: Rondo_GE on January 03, 2004, 01:41:54 am
Dune - Frank Herbet - classic SciFi..just darn good
Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
The Lensman Series EE"DOC" Smith - classic space opera decades before Star Wars...good vs Evil and the story of a family chosen to well, you know, save the universe. Dated but still good.
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury (collection of Short Stories)
Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany - a curious and interesting work
Humanity Prime - Bruce McAllister - a little known work...but very well written and influential on me
Odd John and Sirius - Olaf Stapledon - well if you havn't rerad it then your odd...or maybe I am...hehe
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (and the other two)
Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells...still pretty good
The Time Machine - H.G.Wells - read the actual work and see how every hollywood director missed the point...a modern alleghory
The Last Castle - Jack Vance (a novella) Vance influenced fantasy and fantasy gaming ...he is a giant...but he also wrote some pretty good SciFi
The Dragon Masters - Jack Vance
Evolution - Stephen Baxter ( a very good read)
Snow Queen - Joan D. Vinge
2001; A Space Oddessey - Arthur C. CLark
Childhood's End - Arthur C. CLark
Imperial Earth - Arthur C. CLark
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov (a great short story and anthology)
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip José Farmer I never liked Farmer until i read this one and its sequels...the highlight of the series came when Sir Richard F. Burton dueled Cyrano de Bergerac (both considered the greatest swordsmen of their age) in a titanic sword duel...incredible
Ringworld - Larry Niven
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein ...I did not like Starship Troopers actually...
Post by: Rondo_GE on January 03, 2004, 02:00:26 am
Post by: Iceman on January 03, 2004, 08:54:22 am
Post by: Yabrodan on January 03, 2004, 09:39:54 am
Nueromancer- William Gibson
Snow Crash- Neal Stephenson
Canticle for Leibowitz- Walter Miller Jr.
Hyperion- Dan Simmons
Blade Runner- Phillip K. Dick
Post by: Toten on January 03, 2004, 02:32:53 pm
Beserker
Time Wars
Videssos Legion
The Vang
The World War : XXX The Balance
Hitch Hikers Guide (the four part trilogy)
Post by: Green on January 03, 2004, 02:56:37 pm
Quote:
Most of the above are novels...but many SciFi writers have done their best work writing short stories.
If you get a chance, grab "The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Centurey" edited by Turtledove and Greenberg. 544 pages of scifi shorts (or excerpts).
Yes, not a very concise title, but it contains works by Clarke, Martin, McCaffrey and many others. Check out a short by Orson Card called "Ender's Game" ... fantastic.
Post by: Lepton1 on January 03, 2004, 03:37:33 pm
Post by: Falaris on January 03, 2004, 04:13:19 pm
Funny, but I think very highly of short stories; they often carry a powerful punch without all the waffling about you have in novellas.
Post by: Rondo_GE on January 03, 2004, 09:45:44 pm
This is one book I'd like to read...
Post by: Rondo_GE on January 03, 2004, 09:51:08 pm
Post by: S'Raek on January 04, 2004, 07:56:00 am
Dune - Frank Herbert (and the rest of the series is good too)
Star Trek - some of them at least
BattleTech - not something that troubles your brain
Martian Chronicles - Bradbury (I really wish he had written something new in the last 30 years.)
Too many others to really list.
Post by: E_Look on January 05, 2004, 11:07:41 pm
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
City on the Edge of Forever- Harlan Ellison
Orphans of the Sky- Robert Heinlein (or whatever the newer title is)
The Foundation trilogy- Isaac Asimov
Startide Rising- (David?) Brin
Spock Must Die- (man oh man, I forgot who and I'm going to amazon to figure it out, either)
and a few of Fritz Leiber's Fafherd and Gray Mouser stories
Post by: Speaker to Aliens on January 07, 2004, 12:58:08 am
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Time Enough for Love, Friday - Heinlein
Against a Dark Background, Excession! - Banks
The City and the Stars/Against the Fall of Night, Childhoods End - Clarke
The Cities in Flight series - Blish
The Chrysalids, The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckcoos - Wyndham
The End of Eternity, The Foundation series (just the first 3) - Asimov
Dune - Herbert
Dragons Egg - Forward
The Skylark Series - EE "Doc" Smith
Dragon Flight - McCaffery
Footfall, Lucifers Hammer, The Moat in Gods Eye, The Burning City - Niven & Pournelle
The Long Habit of Living, The Worlds series - Joe Haldeman
Strata - Pratchett
Tiger Tiger - Bester
Now, if I were to turn around and look at the bookshelves behind me... But no. We'd be here all day.
Post by: KATChuutRitt on January 07, 2004, 06:36:14 am
Dorsai by Gordan R Dickson
The Hammer's Slammers series by David Drake
Stainless Steel Rat series of Harry Harrison
Sandkings (a short story) by George R. R, Martin
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
Chung Kuo series by David Wingrove
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke
Gateway by Fredrick Pohl
Post by: FPF_TraceyG on January 08, 2004, 09:11:12 am
Quote:
Dune- Frank Herbert (the first one really, then the first trilogy only)
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
City on the Edge of Forever- Harlan Ellison
Orphans of the Sky- Robert Heinlein (or whatever the newer title is)
The Foundation trilogy- Isaac Asimov
Startide Rising- (David?) Brin
Spock Must Die- (man oh man, I forgot who and I'm going to amazon to figure it out, either)
and a few of Fritz Leiber's Fafherd and Gray Mouser stories
James Blish, author of the novelisation of TOS, wrote Spock Must Die. It was the only original Star Trek novel he wrote, aside from the original short story about Harry Mudd, which he included in the book Mudd's Angels (later renamed Mudd's Enterprise) which contained the novelisation of the two Harry Mudd TOS episodes.
Post by: SL-Punisher on January 08, 2004, 11:40:52 am
The best decision Lucas made was to link events in one novel to the next....and create an ongoing story told by a variety of authors.
Post by: E_Look on January 08, 2004, 06:21:36 pm
Post by: IKV Nemesis D7L on January 09, 2004, 06:42:41 pm
H. Beam Piper
Post by: ferretlxix on January 09, 2004, 07:56:44 pm
A day for damnation
A rage for revenge
A season for slaughter.
I know the titles sound like a bunch of bad Steven Segall movies but
the titles above belong to the 'War angainst the C'Thorr series'
David gerrold is a sick visionary. heh
Post by: Dogmatix! on January 10, 2004, 12:42:40 am
Faves include:
The Gor series
The Horseclans series
The Sword of Shannara
Lord of the Rings
Battlefield Earth
Mission Earth dekology
Mars
Timothy Zahn's Star Wars novels
Dune series
...anything by Miachael Moorcock
Post by: Barabbas on January 10, 2004, 10:49:36 pm
I was a bit of an Andre' Norton fan back in my school daze.... Anybody else remember him? (actually, I think it was a pseudonym for a her, but that's not important now)
And if we can include short stories, has anyone ever heard of:
For a Breath I Tarry by Roger Zelazny?
Thor Meets Captain America by David Brin?
...Two of my favorites _EVER_!
Post by: Scott Allen Abfalter on January 12, 2004, 09:26:41 am
Quote:
A few of my favorites I haven't seen listed yet:
Nueromancer- William Gibson
Snow Crash- Neal Stephenson
Canticle for Leibowitz- Walter Miller Jr.
Hyperion- Dan Simmons
Blade Runner- Phillip K. Dick
Nice Cyberpunk list. Although I thought "Count Zero" was actually better than Neuromancer!
I agree with the William Gibson "Sprawl" novels and the Dan Simmons "Hyperion" novels.
Have to add Roger Zelazny's "Amber" novels which are both scifi and fantasy (a reviewer once said "Zelazny writes about magic like it was science, and he writes about science like it was magic..."
Post by: GE-Raven on January 12, 2004, 09:41:34 am
I will admit that in Fantasy... I would have to go with Harry Potter... (J.K. Rowling)
Anyone who can write a book that can be read an understood on so many levels is a genius.
GE-Raven
Post by: KOTH-Steel Claw on January 13, 2004, 09:00:35 am
Stranger In A Strange Land
The Number Of The Beast
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
Anything else from Heinlein (GRHS)
The Foundation Series
Robot Series (Caves Of Steel, etc.)
The Currents Of Space
Anything else form Asimov
The Dosadi Experiment
The Whipping Star
Dune Series
Post by: Dogmatix! on January 13, 2004, 03:53:21 pm
Quote:Quote:
A few of my favorites I haven't seen listed yet:
Nueromancer- William Gibson
Snow Crash- Neal Stephenson
Canticle for Leibowitz- Walter Miller Jr.
Hyperion- Dan Simmons
Blade Runner- Phillip K. Dick
Nice Cyberpunk list. Although I thought "Count Zero" was actually better than Neuromancer!
I agree with the William Gibson "Sprawl" novels and the Dan Simmons "Hyperion" novels.
Have to add Roger Zelazny's "Amber" novels which are both scifi and fantasy (a reviewer once said "Zelazny writes about magic like it was science, and he writes about science like it was magic..."
I read Canticle for Leibowitz in my literature of sci fi class in college. Cool book...
Post by: GE-Raven on January 13, 2004, 03:55:34 pm
Quote:
I read Canticle for Leibowitz in my literature of sci fi class in college. Cool book...
How on earth did I forget that one... Read it back in 8th grade. I need to get it again, I am sure I would appreciate it MUCH more now.
GE-Raven
Post by: grimbeard on January 14, 2004, 05:21:45 am
Count Zero
Burning Chrome
Neuromancer
The Fleet series- a collection of shorts by authors such as Heinlein, Clark, Sagan, Anne McCaffery (Dragon riders of Pern) and many other sci-fi authors. A wonderful collaboration by this eras finest sci fi and fantasy writers. I believe some of them continued in the series Armada.
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (forget author, excellent read)
N-Space, a collection of shorts by Larry Niven.
Most Niven books are excellent.
I read so many back when I was in the army, I forget many of the really good reads. I gave all my paperbacks to a local reading foundation (about 80 paperbacks) back in 93.
Post by: Reptor7 on January 14, 2004, 06:07:27 am
Post by: vsfedwards on January 14, 2004, 06:53:23 am
Post by: Capt. Mike on January 17, 2004, 08:06:38 am
Jack of Shadows
Heinlein: Most everything
Asimov: See above
L. Neil Smith: Paratime series
EE Doc Smith: Everything
A. Bester: Most everything
And all the cover art from Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo (When men were men, women were women, and monsters were Monsters!!)
Mike
Post by: Acidrain on January 02, 2004, 06:40:20 pm
Post by: EE on January 02, 2004, 07:59:14 pm
Post by: Kmelew on January 02, 2004, 08:14:52 pm
Quote:
Starship Troopers. Not the stupid movie version, the REAL book.. you know, the GOOD version.
Agreed!! "I am a 30-second bomb. I am a 29-second bomb. I am a 28-second bomb..."
I enjoy the alternate history sub-genre, particularly Turtledove's "The Great War" and "American Empire" trilogies.
The Proteus Operation by James P. Hogan is also outstanding.
Alan Dean Foster's Nor Crystal Tears is probably my favorite novel of first contact.
Post by: Death_Merchant on January 02, 2004, 08:19:55 pm
The Left Hand Of Darkness
Lathe Of Heaven
1984
The Foundation series (Asimov)
Rendezvous With Rama
A Call To Arms (The Damned series, Alan Dean Foster)
Post by: Toasty0 on January 02, 2004, 09:28:01 pm
The Mote in God's Eye
Bio of a Space Tyrant
Stranger in a Strange Land
Post by: TB613 on January 02, 2004, 09:34:59 pm
Post by: Green on January 02, 2004, 10:35:45 pm
Others include:
Lucifer's Hammer (okay, only kinda SciFi)
Forever War and Forever Peace
Man-Kzin Wars series (just to tie-in the Taldren SFC game if nothing else)
Foundation Trilogy (already mentioned above)
Post by: Dizzy on January 02, 2004, 11:43:31 pm
Post by: Rondo_GE on January 03, 2004, 12:15:32 am
Post by: 762 on January 03, 2004, 01:06:15 am
P.S. I, Robot is being made into a movie!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/
Post by: Rondo_GE on January 03, 2004, 01:41:54 am
Dune - Frank Herbet - classic SciFi..just darn good
Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
The Lensman Series EE"DOC" Smith - classic space opera decades before Star Wars...good vs Evil and the story of a family chosen to well, you know, save the universe. Dated but still good.
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury (collection of Short Stories)
Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany - a curious and interesting work
Humanity Prime - Bruce McAllister - a little known work...but very well written and influential on me
Odd John and Sirius - Olaf Stapledon - well if you havn't rerad it then your odd...or maybe I am...hehe
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (and the other two)
Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells...still pretty good
The Time Machine - H.G.Wells - read the actual work and see how every hollywood director missed the point...a modern alleghory
The Last Castle - Jack Vance (a novella) Vance influenced fantasy and fantasy gaming ...he is a giant...but he also wrote some pretty good SciFi
The Dragon Masters - Jack Vance
Evolution - Stephen Baxter ( a very good read)
Snow Queen - Joan D. Vinge
2001; A Space Oddessey - Arthur C. CLark
Childhood's End - Arthur C. CLark
Imperial Earth - Arthur C. CLark
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov (a great short story and anthology)
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip José Farmer I never liked Farmer until i read this one and its sequels...the highlight of the series came when Sir Richard F. Burton dueled Cyrano de Bergerac (both considered the greatest swordsmen of their age) in a titanic sword duel...incredible
Ringworld - Larry Niven
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein ...I did not like Starship Troopers actually...
Post by: Rondo_GE on January 03, 2004, 02:00:26 am
Post by: Iceman on January 03, 2004, 08:54:22 am
Post by: Yabrodan on January 03, 2004, 09:39:54 am
Nueromancer- William Gibson
Snow Crash- Neal Stephenson
Canticle for Leibowitz- Walter Miller Jr.
Hyperion- Dan Simmons
Blade Runner- Phillip K. Dick
Post by: Toten on January 03, 2004, 02:32:53 pm
Beserker
Time Wars
Videssos Legion
The Vang
The World War : XXX The Balance
Hitch Hikers Guide (the four part trilogy)
Post by: Green on January 03, 2004, 02:56:37 pm
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Most of the above are novels...but many SciFi writers have done their best work writing short stories.
If you get a chance, grab "The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Centurey" edited by Turtledove and Greenberg. 544 pages of scifi shorts (or excerpts).
Yes, not a very concise title, but it contains works by Clarke, Martin, McCaffrey and many others. Check out a short by Orson Card called "Ender's Game" ... fantastic.
Post by: Lepton1 on January 03, 2004, 03:37:33 pm
Post by: Falaris on January 03, 2004, 04:13:19 pm
Funny, but I think very highly of short stories; they often carry a powerful punch without all the waffling about you have in novellas.
Post by: Rondo_GE on January 03, 2004, 09:45:44 pm
This is one book I'd like to read...
Post by: Rondo_GE on January 03, 2004, 09:51:08 pm
Post by: S'Raek on January 04, 2004, 07:56:00 am
Dune - Frank Herbert (and the rest of the series is good too)
Star Trek - some of them at least
BattleTech - not something that troubles your brain
Martian Chronicles - Bradbury (I really wish he had written something new in the last 30 years.)
Too many others to really list.
Post by: E_Look on January 05, 2004, 11:07:41 pm
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
City on the Edge of Forever- Harlan Ellison
Orphans of the Sky- Robert Heinlein (or whatever the newer title is)
The Foundation trilogy- Isaac Asimov
Startide Rising- (David?) Brin
Spock Must Die- (man oh man, I forgot who and I'm going to amazon to figure it out, either)
and a few of Fritz Leiber's Fafherd and Gray Mouser stories
Post by: Speaker to Aliens on January 07, 2004, 12:58:08 am
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Time Enough for Love, Friday - Heinlein
Against a Dark Background, Excession! - Banks
The City and the Stars/Against the Fall of Night, Childhoods End - Clarke
The Cities in Flight series - Blish
The Chrysalids, The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckcoos - Wyndham
The End of Eternity, The Foundation series (just the first 3) - Asimov
Dune - Herbert
Dragons Egg - Forward
The Skylark Series - EE "Doc" Smith
Dragon Flight - McCaffery
Footfall, Lucifers Hammer, The Moat in Gods Eye, The Burning City - Niven & Pournelle
The Long Habit of Living, The Worlds series - Joe Haldeman
Strata - Pratchett
Tiger Tiger - Bester
Now, if I were to turn around and look at the bookshelves behind me... But no. We'd be here all day.
Post by: KATChuutRitt on January 07, 2004, 06:36:14 am
Dorsai by Gordan R Dickson
The Hammer's Slammers series by David Drake
Stainless Steel Rat series of Harry Harrison
Sandkings (a short story) by George R. R, Martin
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
Chung Kuo series by David Wingrove
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke
Gateway by Fredrick Pohl
Post by: FPF_TraceyG on January 08, 2004, 09:11:12 am
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Dune- Frank Herbert (the first one really, then the first trilogy only)
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
City on the Edge of Forever- Harlan Ellison
Orphans of the Sky- Robert Heinlein (or whatever the newer title is)
The Foundation trilogy- Isaac Asimov
Startide Rising- (David?) Brin
Spock Must Die- (man oh man, I forgot who and I'm going to amazon to figure it out, either)
and a few of Fritz Leiber's Fafherd and Gray Mouser stories
James Blish, author of the novelisation of TOS, wrote Spock Must Die. It was the only original Star Trek novel he wrote, aside from the original short story about Harry Mudd, which he included in the book Mudd's Angels (later renamed Mudd's Enterprise) which contained the novelisation of the two Harry Mudd TOS episodes.
Post by: SL-Punisher on January 08, 2004, 11:40:52 am
The best decision Lucas made was to link events in one novel to the next....and create an ongoing story told by a variety of authors.
Post by: E_Look on January 08, 2004, 06:21:36 pm
Post by: IKV Nemesis D7L on January 09, 2004, 06:42:41 pm
H. Beam Piper
Post by: ferretlxix on January 09, 2004, 07:56:44 pm
A day for damnation
A rage for revenge
A season for slaughter.
I know the titles sound like a bunch of bad Steven Segall movies but
the titles above belong to the 'War angainst the C'Thorr series'
David gerrold is a sick visionary. heh
Post by: Dogmatix! on January 10, 2004, 12:42:40 am
Faves include:
The Gor series
The Horseclans series
The Sword of Shannara
Lord of the Rings
Battlefield Earth
Mission Earth dekology
Mars
Timothy Zahn's Star Wars novels
Dune series
...anything by Miachael Moorcock
Post by: Barabbas on January 10, 2004, 10:49:36 pm
I was a bit of an Andre' Norton fan back in my school daze.... Anybody else remember him? (actually, I think it was a pseudonym for a her, but that's not important now)
And if we can include short stories, has anyone ever heard of:
For a Breath I Tarry by Roger Zelazny?
Thor Meets Captain America by David Brin?
...Two of my favorites _EVER_!
Post by: Scott Allen Abfalter on January 12, 2004, 09:26:41 am
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A few of my favorites I haven't seen listed yet:
Nueromancer- William Gibson
Snow Crash- Neal Stephenson
Canticle for Leibowitz- Walter Miller Jr.
Hyperion- Dan Simmons
Blade Runner- Phillip K. Dick
Nice Cyberpunk list. Although I thought "Count Zero" was actually better than Neuromancer!
I agree with the William Gibson "Sprawl" novels and the Dan Simmons "Hyperion" novels.
Have to add Roger Zelazny's "Amber" novels which are both scifi and fantasy (a reviewer once said "Zelazny writes about magic like it was science, and he writes about science like it was magic..."
Post by: GE-Raven on January 12, 2004, 09:41:34 am
I will admit that in Fantasy... I would have to go with Harry Potter... (J.K. Rowling)
Anyone who can write a book that can be read an understood on so many levels is a genius.
GE-Raven
Post by: KOTH-Steel Claw on January 13, 2004, 09:00:35 am
Stranger In A Strange Land
The Number Of The Beast
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
Anything else from Heinlein (GRHS)
The Foundation Series
Robot Series (Caves Of Steel, etc.)
The Currents Of Space
Anything else form Asimov
The Dosadi Experiment
The Whipping Star
Dune Series
Post by: Dogmatix! on January 13, 2004, 03:53:21 pm
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A few of my favorites I haven't seen listed yet:
Nueromancer- William Gibson
Snow Crash- Neal Stephenson
Canticle for Leibowitz- Walter Miller Jr.
Hyperion- Dan Simmons
Blade Runner- Phillip K. Dick
Nice Cyberpunk list. Although I thought "Count Zero" was actually better than Neuromancer!
I agree with the William Gibson "Sprawl" novels and the Dan Simmons "Hyperion" novels.
Have to add Roger Zelazny's "Amber" novels which are both scifi and fantasy (a reviewer once said "Zelazny writes about magic like it was science, and he writes about science like it was magic..."
I read Canticle for Leibowitz in my literature of sci fi class in college. Cool book...
Post by: GE-Raven on January 13, 2004, 03:55:34 pm
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I read Canticle for Leibowitz in my literature of sci fi class in college. Cool book...
How on earth did I forget that one... Read it back in 8th grade. I need to get it again, I am sure I would appreciate it MUCH more now.
GE-Raven
Post by: grimbeard on January 14, 2004, 05:21:45 am
Count Zero
Burning Chrome
Neuromancer
The Fleet series- a collection of shorts by authors such as Heinlein, Clark, Sagan, Anne McCaffery (Dragon riders of Pern) and many other sci-fi authors. A wonderful collaboration by this eras finest sci fi and fantasy writers. I believe some of them continued in the series Armada.
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (forget author, excellent read)
N-Space, a collection of shorts by Larry Niven.
Most Niven books are excellent.
I read so many back when I was in the army, I forget many of the really good reads. I gave all my paperbacks to a local reading foundation (about 80 paperbacks) back in 93.
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Post by: Capt. Mike on January 17, 2004, 08:06:38 am
Jack of Shadows
Heinlein: Most everything
Asimov: See above
L. Neil Smith: Paratime series
EE Doc Smith: Everything
A. Bester: Most everything
And all the cover art from Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo (When men were men, women were women, and monsters were Monsters!!)
Mike
Post by: Commander La'ra on March 05, 2005, 06:48:06 pm
Suppose there's always Amazon.com.
Let's see other sci-fi...
On Basillisk Station by David Weber. The later books in the series became rapidly more cartoonish and dryly political, but the first one was pretty cool. I tend to like the 'Honorverse' short story collections, though.
The Final Reflection by John M. Ford. Best Star Trek novel ever written.
The Last Hot Time by John M. Ford. Probably more fantasy than sci-fi with the elves and magic, but the semi-30's/semi-modern setting makes it feel like sci-fi to me.
The Venus Prime series by Paul Preuss and Arthur C. Clarke. Can't speak for anything beyond the first and second books, but I really enjoyed both of those.
Post by: Mentat Jon on March 07, 2005, 05:29:13 pm
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Post by: GDA-S'Cipio on March 07, 2005, 10:41:46 pm
Gene Wolfe's New Sun series:
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Claw of the Conciliator
The Sword of the Lictor
The Citadel of the Autarch
Gene Wolfe writes more than just good science fiction. (If, indeed, Science Fiction is a broad enough term to describe what he's doing.) He delivers the best literature written in the English language today.
There is a standalone sequel:
The Urth of the New Sun
And two follow-on series (so distantly related to the first series that you might not even catch the connections) called the Long Sun series.
Other real winners:
The Mote in God's Eye
by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Dune by Frank Herbert
A true classic. None of the sequels rate here. The prequels by his son I do love, but they don't rate as great literature.
The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven
The best of the series. (So far at least)
Foundation By Isaac Asimov
-S'Cipio
Post by: Laflin on March 08, 2005, 12:48:19 am
Hammer's Slammers - David Drake
Dune - Frank Herbert
Dorsai! - Gordon R. Dickson
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
Armor - John Steakley
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Berserker - Fred Saberhagen
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Adversary - Julian May
Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head - there are many, many others. In addition, most of the above books are just the initial offerings in a series - just those ten I listed probably have another twenty to thirty sequels, most of them just as good a read.
Post by: Commander La'ra on March 08, 2005, 10:00:28 am
I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned Weber's Honorverse series. Military sci-fi at its best, imo. That's probably my favorite book series of any genre to date, and I wish he'd quit branching off to explore other parts of the Honorverse and get to the second Havenite War already!!! :banghead:
Honor turns into way too much of a superhero in the books beyond the first one, at least for my taste. And he almost writes to a formula: Honor gets assignment no one expects her to succeed in, she then does very well, various political machinations to kill time, final battle where her ship gets torn to pieces and half her crew dies.
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Post by: NJAntman on March 08, 2005, 04:24:02 pm
I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned Weber's Honorverse series. Military sci-fi at its best, imo. That's probably my favorite book series of any genre to date, and I wish he'd quit branching off to explore other parts of the Honorverse and get to the second Havenite War already!!! :banghead:
Honor turns into way too much of a superhero in the books beyond the first one, at least for my taste. And he almost writes to a formula: Honor gets assignment no one expects her to succeed in, she then does very well, various political machinations to kill time, final battle where her ship gets torn to pieces and half her crew dies.
Got the War of Honor book out of local library, still had the Honorverse CD in the back leaf. Got the whole series now plus some of Weber's other stuff. :thumbsup:
Post by: Capt. Mike on March 08, 2005, 05:07:32 pm
Actually, I just sent Stephan a load of books 'cause my wife is Spring cleaning, and I'd rather keep them in the community than let others paw through them and only offer me a nickle for a classic
Mike
Post by: Commander Maxillius on March 08, 2005, 11:40:33 pm
The movie with John Travolta as Terl was a joke, but good enough to get me to check out the book. I'd love to see a Battlefield Earth miniseries.
Post by: IAF Lyrkiller on March 09, 2005, 08:30:15 pm
anything StarTrek
anything Starwars
Starwolf
BattleTech
Robotech
I may add more ;D
Post by: Green on March 10, 2005, 08:06:45 pm
I'd add, if it hasn't been mentioned already, the Forever War and Forever Peace. Also, the Man Kzin Wars series. Niven started the series, then let other writers take over his universe and it made for an enjoyable series since you got to read very different writting styles based off of a common theme.
Post by: KAT Chuut-Ritt on March 14, 2005, 01:06:56 am
http://classics.jameswallaceharris.com/Lists/ByRank.php
Interesting to see the Domolished man at the top, as it is basically revolving around the same story as Doestoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment", only with telepaths. In my opinion Doestoyevsky was the greatest writer ever, so not really surprised that the SCIFI readers would also enjoy his ideas so well.
Post by: S'Raek on March 14, 2005, 01:37:35 am