Posted on 08/13/2022 11:42:57 AM PDT by MNDude
2001? A wrinkle in time? I, Robot?
What are the best science for books in your opinion?
Speaking of Wyndham, the Midwich Cookoos was great!
I would definitely include Dan Simmons’ Hyperion.
But I also think almost anything by L. Neil Smith is good. His science fiction world is essentially a libertarian view of the Universe.
https://lneilsmith.org/lns_books.html
I knew had had been in bad health, but until looking for his book list just now, I had not realized he passed away a year ago.
You are so blessed NOT to have read The Foundation series - it means you can read it now... and it’ll all be fresh to you.
Theme is a revised history where Charles Babbage's invention changed the world many decades before the advent of flight and of course the atomic age.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf
Free copy of the story, you can read before supper it’s really just a short story.
Have never found The Dragon Masters online in a full copy version.
“20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” by Jules Verne.
“And pretty much anything by Larry Nivan, like Ringworld.”
^^^ this. How his works havent been put to film yet I have no idea. CGI is good enough to do anything imaginable at this point.
Also, The Stars My Destination; I, Robot (not to be confused with the movie “adaptation”).
“I am not sure if we will be happy with the next actor playing 007
Heard that.
Some people are afraid it’s gonna be a black female homosexual.
One thing for sure.....according to this Barbara Broccoli makes the call on it...and nobody but her:
The Mote in God’s Eye may be the best first contact novel ever written. And any of the Niven & Pournelle collaborations are worth reading.
I completely agree.
It’s hard to compare them to more modern authors, but Jules Verne and H.G. Wells started my love of science fiction. Summers in junior high - my best friend and I would go to the library every week and I’d bring home a pile of books to read. I think 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea really reeled me in. Verne, Wells, then Arthur C. Clarke and then on and on.
Felipe Jose Farmer’s works are good!
The TV adaptations were so bad as to make them unrecognizable to the novels.
Best Written Science Fiction is Gene Wolfe’s “Book of the New Sun”, “Book of the Long Sun”, Book of the Short Sun” and the sequel “Urth of the New Sun” - 12 volumes;
Best Hard Science Fiction is Stephen Baxter’s “Xeelee”;
Most Creative Science Fiction is Iain M Banks’ Culture series - 10 books;
Best Mystery Science Fiction is Iain M Banks’ “The Algebraist”.
Best Chinese Science Fiction is Cixin Li’s “The Three Body Problem” trilogy and sequel fan book “The Redemption of Time”.
The End of the Dream By Phillip Wylie
I’ll see your “Demon Seed” and raise you the “Forbin Project” trilogy. I’ll also throw in “Dune”.
Speaking of John Brunner, the Atlantic Abomination was awesome!
Almost all books written by Glen Cook are top-of-the-line, and “Passage At Arms” is fantastic ... but I felt that I was limited to three books (or at least two series and one book) ...
R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury
see my post above for a free download of Time Traders
The Demon Breed is a 1968 science fiction novel by James H. Schmitz, originally serialized in Analog in a shorter form as “The Tuvela”.
Oops - that should be Jon C. Wright, not Williams
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