Calling all bookworms/Top Five Sci-Fi or Fantasy Novels
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UPDATED: Friday, April 14, 2006 23:54
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Hi! Just wondering (since we all know that firefly fans have good taste) which sci-fi or fantasy books are your top five favorite novels (or series) of all time? Mine are:
1. Kushiels Dart (obvious)
2. The Wheel of Time series
3. Chronicles of the Cheysuli
4. The Sword Dancer Saga
5. The Banned and the Banished
What's yours?
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1. The Black Jewels trilogy
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And all accompanying books that followed.
3. Ender's Game
4. The Sword of Truth series
5. The Abhorsen trilogy
At least, these are the ones I read most often or have read more than once.
You know, I read the first Sword Dancer book but totally lost track of the series after that. I should look back into it.
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Bible's broken. Doesn't make sense.
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I'm not a huge reader, so this list is pretty select
1. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (incredible, simple fantasy story)
2. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (classic, didn't much like the other robot book I read, Robots of Dawn)
3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Better than 1984 I thought)
4. Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien (for exactly the opposite reasons I liked Neverwhere)
5. I can't really think of any in either genre right now, so how about a historical fiction? Gates of Fire, by Steven Pressfield (fabulous account of Thermopylae)
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1. Lord of the Rings (that's a given)
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
3. 1984
4. The Myth series
5. 2001 (the book was *so* much better than the movie)
An honorable mention here, because the books are so good, Wild Cards.
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So it can be a series, not just one book? Kewl.
Top five, not in any particular order:
Heinlein's Starship Troopers
Tolkein's Middle Earth saga
Herbert & Ransom's Pandora trilogy
Doug Adam's Hitchhikers trilogy (all 5 volumes 
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Rowling's You-Know-Who Series
And if I can sneak in a 6th, it'd be Herbert's Dune series, but honestly, I like the Pandora stories better, maybe because nobody made a bad movie out of them.
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I have to admit to reading the You-Know-Who series several times myself It's certainly in my top 10
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Bible's broken. Doesn't make sense.
Zhu fu ni, mei-mei
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Tough one...
1) Enders Game/Speaker for the Dead/Xenocide
2) Tolkien's LotR trilogy (plus the Hobbit)
3) David Eddings Belgariad/Mallorian series
4) Guy Kay - Sarentium Series
5) Tad Williams - Memory Thorn and Sorrow
That was hard...there are definitely more favorites that need to go on the list (like the Blue Sword by Robin McKinley).
Ivy
I've been sane a long while now, and change is good...
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The New Jedi Order, By many authors, Michael Stackpole being the best. #1
Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis (all 7) #2
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Arg, some of my favorites are already listed - let's see if I can put in some different ones in no order:
1. Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
2. Forever War by Joe Haldeman
3. A Brave New World by Aldolus Huxley
4. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein
5. Dune by Frank Herbert
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1. 1984, G. Orwell
2. A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller
3. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
4. The Lovers, Philip Jose Farmer
5.1 Hyperion, D. Simmons
5.2 Dune, F. Herbert
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Oh yes:
5.3 Bored of the Rings. Forgot that one. Has nothing to to with SF, but noone in this thread really cares,do you?! Here we go:
"Oh Dragonbreth! Gilthorpial!" he yodeled, waving his cleaver around like a madman. He lunged at the nearest wraith with his unwieldly sword. "Banzai!" he screamed. "No quarter asked or given! Dam* the torpedoes" Taking a vicious swipe, Stomper missed his mark by a good yard and tripped on his scabbard.
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