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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1. Pern Series by Anne McCaffrey
2. Camulod series by Jack Whyte
3. Book of Swords by Fred Saberhagen
4. Hitchhikers series by Douglas Adams
5. Discworld series by Terry Prachett
I know these are all series, but once I read one, I have to read them all...and they become one big book in my mind.
Holding until you get back, Captain.
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Oh I just love to read grown up books !
1.The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer-Bradley
2. The Dark Tower series ( although the last 3 suck )
3..The Elric/Eternal Champion series
4.The Wizard os Earthsea -Ursula K. Leguin
5.Harry Potter
I could go on & on...
Bryce
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Here is my Top 5 novels (which is just individual books, not series).
1. Wizard's First Rule - Terry Goodkind
2. The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. Magician - Raymond Feist
4. For Love of Evil - Piers Anthony
5. Blue Adept - Piers Anthony
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1. Honor Harrington Series
2. Dune Series
3. Battlefield Earth(not the movie)
4. Starquake & Dragons Egg
5. Asimovs Foundation Series
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I love these threads as they give me great ideas.. just like the movie ones...
I would have to say, in no particular order
Dune (only the first three for me)
Childhood's End
Dying of the Light
1984
H.G. Wells 20,000 Leagues and all that...
I have left out LOTR and all the Harry Potters as I do not think of them as SciFi.. but more fantasy but if the topic is broadened than they would be added as would Stroud's Bartimaeous Trilogy which is not BRILLIANT but very good.
Chindi
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Star Maker - Olaf Stapledon
The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
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Kinda disappointed that most of my selections have been voiced already, but I guess it shows we Browncoats have shared good taste;)
Non-Series
1. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke - have read it more then once and still love how he deals with realistic effects of mankind encountering extrateresstrials
2. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein - way different than the movie, but still a damn fine read. Especially if you look carefully enough at Heinlein's ideas on citizenship and politics espoused here. People have called if fascist, but I think he was making an interesing point on how only those who have lain their lives on the line for their country can truly serve it well.
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - creepy but oh so prescient about mankind's drive to create "better" humans through genetics and hynopedic teaching (very Academy-like
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4. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown - wanted to say "The Da Vinci Code" but I am one of the few people on Earth that hasn't read that book yet
But I thought this book was extremely well-written in that it's suspenseful, plausible if you wanna think that way and it's educational in a way history classes aren't (and for good reason, I suppose, since people like to rag on Brown's ideas of Catholic conspiracies)
5. The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling - fabulous alternative history story where all civilized life above the equator is reduced to either ash or barbarism after a massive meteor strike in the late 19th century, and the British Empire is based out of India instead of the United Kingdom. Especially good cuz it also has a realistic bent on how Western society would have adapted to restarting life in southern climates and rebuilding various academic and technological organizations.
Series
1. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien - not really a fan of fantasy stories but Tolkien pulls it off. Epic, detailed and riveting in how the Fellowship is formed, broken and reforged again in the fight against Sauron.
2. Hary Potter and... by J.K. Rowling - got addicted to these things through my little brother. Seemingly written for younger readers but oh so fun for adults to pour through at length
3. Worldwar:... by Harry Turtledove - amazing storyline asking what would have happened if a race of militaristic bipedal iguanas had arrived in orbit and attempted to conquer Earth during the early days of World War II. Turtledove is a master at writing highly plausible scenarios about how one change in events could lead to a domino effect that creates a totally alien world to the one we know.
4. The X-Wing & Wraith Squadron Series by Michael A. Stackpole - one of the best series in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, if you ask me! My copies are dog-earred from constant reading, as they take George Lucas' epic battle between the Alliance/New Republic and the Empire to realistic Cold War heights with Wedge and his merry bands of fighter aces and former washouts (X-Wing and Wraith Squadron respectively) showing who's boss in the pilot seat of a X-Wing starfighter
5. The Warrior Series by Michael A. Stackpole - the one of the reasons why I love the BattleTech/MechWarrior universe so much is this trilogy (En Garde, Riposte, and Coupe) that looks at the union of the Federated Suns and the Lyran Commonwealth together as the Federated Commonwealth. Great mix of 'Mech combat, interstellar politics and some romance mixed in too
BEB
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Originally posted by Lancer:
The New Jedi Order, By many authors, Michael Stackpole being the best. #1
The NJO was decent, but I think you have the best author wrong. Stackpole is my 3rd favorite SW author, Aaron Allston being #2. The best (and my favorite author period) is Matthew Woodring Stover...which leads me to:
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Originally posted by CaptainWaldo:
3. “Hero’s Die” – by Matthew Woodring Stover
Sci Fi and Fantasy in one, what more could you ask for.
Fantastic pick...Heroes Die (and the sequel, Blade of Tyshalle) are my two favorite books in existence. I can't wait for Stover to write something new (and non-SW).
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Originally posted by Tristan:
1. Pern Series by Anne McCaffrey
Also a favorite of mine in the top 5...not sure I could pick a specific book, though. If pressed I'd probably say All the Weyrs of Pern.
Also, have to agree with everyone picking The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...great stuff!
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Originally posted by BlueEyedBrigadier:
4. The X-Wing & Wraith Squadron Series by Michael A. Stackpole
I agree...I think The X-Wing series is probably the best in the whole EU SW literature. You forgot Aaron Allston, though...he wrote the Wraith Squadron books.
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I was beginning to think I was the only Goodkind fan. My top 5 authors because I can't
pick individual books is...
1.Anne McCaffrey
2.Tolkien
3.A E Van Vogt
4.A Bertram Chandler
5.Terry Goodkind
With an honorable mention to Larry Niven, Jack Chalker and Robert L Forward. Oh and .......
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1.Dune Series (F. Herbert)
2.Dune "House" Series (His Son and K. Anderson)
3.Dune "Butlerian Jihad" Series (Same)
4.20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
5.I Robot (Isaac Asimov (spelling))
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