Classic SF Lit Fans?
POSTED BY: Zisker
UPDATED: Monday, May 29, 2006 02:39
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"This Perfect Day"- Ira Levin
"The Forever War"- Joe Haldeman
Anything (and I do mean anything) by Richard Matheson.
Chrisisall, who needs to read more
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The Green Odessey. I forget who wrote it, but it is one of the most amazing SciFi Books ever imo. Newer stuff would be the Dune series ((Not the new ones mind)) and Starship Troopers. The Latter Blows the movie away in all things.
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Originally posted by BrowncoatSandinista:
The Green Odessey. I forget who wrote it, but it is one of the most amazing SciFi Books ever imo.
Philip Jose Farmer wrote it, and you can find it online for free at: http://www.litrix.com/godyssey/godys001.htm
Apparently the copyright expired - I'll have to give it a go-over once finals are done
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More recent, but still a hard sci-fi classic is Niven's "Ringworld" (heck, all of Known Space is fantastic).
I am, of course, going to have to agree with that.
I like his Gil the ARM stories, too. And I bought a copy of The Mote in God's Eye, which I need to start reading.Right now, I'm about 70 pages away from the end of Time Enough for Love, which is my first attempt at reading Heinlein, and I love it. And I've read some other of the classic SF writers, like 2001 and Tales From the White Hart from Clarke and The Gods Themselves from Asimov.
I also like some of Philip K. Dick's works, but I have a slight thing for ontology, so that's understandable. My favorite short story of his is The Chromium Fence but I also like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Blade Runner, since the movie is based off of the book. It's not the truest following (they didn't have my faovrite part with the opera singer!), but it's still a well done film.
I like the "Phule's Company" series, which for the life I can't remember who wrote that.
And well-done time travel. Love it to death.
But, the best SF of all time for me is Douglas Adams. I've been reading (again) the Hitchhiker's Guide series, and my friend lent me the original radio program recordings. So, Douglas Adams all the friggin' way. I live on his writings. Don't know if he's considered classic, but it's definetly gold (or platinum) to me.
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I've read and enjoyed lots of the books mentioned here over the years.
My sci-fi addiction began with E.E. Doc Smiths books. The Lensman series, The Family D'Alembert Series and the Skylark series truly captured my imagination.
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With a handle like yours, Teela, I would expect no less. You don't have that luck gene, do you?
If you really like Niven's work, try and find "Inferno". It's a modernized (well, from the late 70s, I think) version of Dante's Inferno, and it is excellent.
Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?
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Originally posted by SpacemanSpiff:
With a handle like yours, Teela, I would expect no less. You don't have that luck gene, do you?
Unfortunately, no. But it's a dream...
I think there's a copy at the library, I'll go look it up!
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To answer Teela - Phule books - Robert Asprin, except the last one co-written with a bloke called Heck.
New stuff - Richard Morgan (the Takeshi Kovacs stuff) or Neal Asher (The Skinner - mental)
Dune - the first, best and trippiest, though 'the Dosadi Experiment' is excellent. Without it, there would be no early Pratchett - read 'Dark Side of the Sun'
Heinlein and Haldeman for sure.
SpaceAnJL
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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
To answer Teela - Phule books - Robert Asprin, except the last one co-written with a bloke called Heck.
Thanks! I just couldn't remember it...
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Good stuff in here. Got most of my sci-fi reading from my Dad's old collection. He went in for the military-sf stuff, so I've read tons of Poul Anderson, David Drake, and the like. Robert Asprin always cracks me up, too :)
Obviously, have to love Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke...
Harry Harrison was always good. (Was a big fan of the Stainless Steel Rat books growing up.)
Went through a huge Harlan Ellison phase awhile back.
Philp K. Dick's still my one of my top ones though.
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