Sci-Fi Book Recommendations
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Paolini is a filthy no talent thief, which anyone who reads enough fantasy knows. Possibly why no one has mentioned him.
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what's your basis for that?
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php
-try it out, I dare you
98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature
I'm so into Firefly, my butt glows in the dark.
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My basis for that is Dragonriders, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars to name only a few. It would be very difficult to list every book I've ever read and every classic story I've seen in a movie, but most of them were very well written and nearly all of them have been cobbled between the covers of Paolini's work. Reading Eragon pained me, not just because of the bad writing, lack of research into things like farming, and plotholes but also the obvious, blatant plagerism. I find it so hard to believe that no one has gone after him for theft, and if I had known that a writer could get the kind of promotion he got for being nineteen, I would have submitted my unpolished and actually original story four years ago when my age might have been a selling point.
You want more? Check the reviews of anyone who actually reads a lot on Amazon. It's only people who are clueless about the classics (which sadly includes most editors in the cost-cutting publishing world) who think he actually wrote this book rather than just compiling it.
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Since its publication, Inheritance has been criticised by many for its formulaic approach and its close imitation of several other well-known fantasy works, among them Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern (although McCaffrey actually approved of the books)
-from Wikipedia
that's one, got to work on the rest
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There's alot that spring to mind when it comes to good sci-fi books. I don't think anyone mentioned Alan Dean Foster's Flinx series (Mid-Flinx, For Love of Mother-Not, etc...) Or Larry Niven's Ringworld series. Isaac Asimov was mentioned already, but try reading Caves of Steel or The Naked Sun, sort of sci-fi/murder mystery. I have to mention of course my favorite author, Robert Heinlein, even though he has already been mentioned. Read Farmer in the Sky, The Star Beast, Have Space Suit WIll Travel, or Between Planets, or Citizen of the Galaxy, I could go on but I won't. Start reading!
Okay, one more. It's not sci-fi but if you're in to fantasy and cute furry animals (like me) read the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. Cute stories if you like that type of story.
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I've seen some good things said by Anne McCaffrey, yeah. Can't understand why, unless she doesn't see how similar it is. Or maybe she does and feels that plagerism is the sincerest form of flattery. I just hope she's getting some well-deserved sales from some of his readers.
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The Honor Harrington series by David Weber. And my personal favorite, The Dragonrider series by Anne McCaffrey.
"I love my captain."
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I cannot bring myself to read anything that has the word DRAGON in it....Do I need help?
Agreed with the dragon thing.. but David Weber's Honor Harrington Series is some of the best damn sci fi i've read in a long time.
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I personaly can't read the dragonriders of pern, it just doesn't draw me in the way all my other books do
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php
-try it out, I dare you
98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature
I'm so into Firefly, my butt glows in the dark.
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NEUROMANCER Teaser Trailer Brings William Gibson's Cyberpunk Classic to Life and It Looks Awesome
https://geektyrant.com/news/neuromancer-teaser-trailer-brings-william-
gibsons-cyberpunk-classic-to-life-and-it-looks-awesome
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Imperial Sunset (2018)
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/t/eric-thomson/imperial-sunset.htm
(The first book in the Ashes of Empire series)
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