MY BEST SCIFI BOOK

Dingo · Post by **Dingo** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 6:50 pm

What is your favorite SF book, and why? I'm looking for new things to read.

SeeJay · Post by **SeeJay** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 6:59 pm

Piers Anthony "Bio of a Space Tyrant"

It's 6 books and it takes place in our Solar System.
Both SciFi and Politics, but not to exagerated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio_of_a_Space_Tyrant

Love it.

Post by **Marvin** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:25 pm

Terry Pratchett's Discworld. My favorites are those books about the Night Watch of Ankh-Morpork.

Busch · Post by **Busch** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 2:14 pm

L.E. Modesitt, Jr. and the continuing saga of "Recluse". David Weber's Honor-verse. John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" trilogy. John Ringo's "Ghost/Kildar" series.

BLEVE · Post by **BLEVE** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:49 am

Issac Asimov's Foundation and Earth series. Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a strange land.

Post by **DaveK** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:10 pm

First four of the Dune books by Frank Herbert

The Lensmen series by Doc "Doc" E Smith (the technology is awe inspiring - slide rules for calculations and if you need lots and lots and lots of power, wires metres thick! The genetic breeding programme of the Arisians is also something to comtemplate!)

Any advert from microsoft about improvements in their software

Flash · Post by **Flash** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:04 pm

Try going to Librivox.org. They have a bunch of old scifi books in the public domain you can listen to. I think I have listened to all of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. G. Wells. Tho they are not my favorites they are nice to pass the time while in the car going to work and back.

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:15 pm

From post: 111297, Topic: tid=7799, author=BLEVE wrote:Issac Asimov's Foundation and Earth series. Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a strange land.

Yup, those are some great ones. Did you mean Battlefield Earth?

[Edited on 7-28-2011 by thetiebers]

slamscape · Post by **slamscape** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:14 pm

I am currently reading Arthur C. Clarke, Venus Prime series, I've only read most of the first book but I am enjoying it so far.

Post by **Marvin** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:12 pm

From post: 111402, Topic: tid=7799, author=DaveK wrote:Any advert from microsoft about improvements in their software

Science fiction at its best.

Ravenfeeder · Post by **Ravenfeeder** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:21 pm

The C J Cheryh merchanter series is, imho, the best space based Si-Fi going.

Bossk · Post by **Bossk** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:36 pm

For me it is the Odyssey series (2001, 2010, 2061 & 3001) by Arthur C Clark. The story is so far ahead of its time and the science is real (in theory anyway). Foundation books by Asimov (in fact most by Asimov) are great as well.

Also read a lot of StarTrek and Aliens novels for the shear escapism and easy readability. No need to think hard about those books. Very good for a pick up/put down/pick up kind of read.

sundalo · Post by **sundalo** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:45 am

Any of the Ciaphas Cain warhammer 40k books, funny characters and great battle scenes.

PavelKaza · Post by **PavelKaza** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:29 am

My Favorite scify books:Foundation-Asimov
Alastair Reynolds:Chasm city, Redemption Ark, Revelation Space , Absolution Gap
Robert L. Forward Saturn Rukh, Dragons Egg, Starquake
David Brin : all
Neal Asher : all
Mike Resnick : Santiago
Dan Simons : Hyperion ,Endymion
Peter Hamilton : all
James P.Hogan :Giants
J. Pournelle:all
Neal Stephenson :Snow Crash, Diamt age
Frederic Pohl: all Gateway
David Weber: Harringtons all

SpeedFreek · Post by **SpeedFreek** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:00 am

One of my favourites is Stephen Baxter - Vacuum Diagrams.

sundalo · Post by **sundalo** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:42 am

Anyone like John Ringo's novels?

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:56 am

From post: 112571, Topic: tid=7799, author=sundalo wrote:Anyone like John Ringo's novels?

Easy reading but yes.

[Edited on 8-16-2011 by thetiebers]

max_load · Post by **max_load** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:10 am

Issac Asimov's Foundation and Earth series.
Orson Scott Card's Ender series.
Claudia O'Keefe's Black Snow Days
Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic (Which inspired the S.T.A.L.K.E.R Game)

Post by **Marvin** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:28 pm

Alfred Bester's Demolished Man and a big one back in the 70s: Stranger in a Strange Land.

shepard_3 · Post by **shepard_3** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:35 pm

Of course, this one had to come from me:

Drew Karpyshyn - Mass Effect Revelation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect:_Revelation)

Its the prequel to the first Mass Effect game.

Though its not very scientific, I love the technologies and the way humanity is part of the whole galaxy.

cougarinva · Post by **cougarinva** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:51 pm

The "Spinward Fringe" series by Randolph Lalonde is a great read, I highly recomend it!

Currently reading a series called "Star Crusades" by Michael G. Thomas... good story line, not extremely well edited...

Another great series is "Safehold" by David Weber, one I'd recomend highly...

Parrish · Post by **Parrish** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:27 pm

+1 on Spinward Fringe, at least the first several. Things get a little sloppy and could use some more editing on the later books in the series.

Non space-based, I recommend Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon or Anathem.

Itoliog · Post by **Itoliog** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:29 pm

An area yet untouched:

William Gibson - Neuromancer

Neuromancer started it all, a visionary book for something written in the 80's. all of his that have followed have been just as great.

sundalo · Post by **sundalo** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:32 am

Happy to know there are cyberpunk fans here, Neuromancer is an awesome read! Lol got me into playing the old shadowrun video games and soon to have a shadowrun online game.

Itoliog · Post by **Itoliog** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:25 pm

From post: 119236, Topic: tid=7799, author=sundalo wrote:Happy to know there are cyberpunk fans here, Neuromancer is an awesome read! Lol got me into playing the old shadowrun video games and soon to have a shadowrun online game.

I almost hate to admit it, but I still love a good pencil&paper CP2020 game. Nothing like the mean streets of Night City.

And Deus-Ex is still one of the best game series out there.