To: MNDude
Foundation Trilogy.
And pretty much anything by Larry Nivan, like Ringworld.
4 posted on
08/13/2022 11:47:08 AM PDT by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: Lazamataz
I agree, the Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov.
I would also put Enders Game by Orson Scott Card up near the top. Not the movie, the book.
To: Lazamataz
Didn’t see yer post before I posted mine.
Great minds think alike. 😉
44 posted on
08/13/2022 12:03:12 PM PDT by
sauropod
(Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
To: Lazamataz
"Foundation Trilogy. And pretty much anything by Larry Nivan, like Ringworld"
Best answer. I am partial to the Crazy Eddie stories however.
107 posted on
08/13/2022 12:28:07 PM PDT by
buckalfa
(Kilroy was here, but who was he?)
To: Lazamataz
I’ve started on Foundation Series in the past, but it was too slow so I gave it up after a chapter or two. It picks up?
138 posted on
08/13/2022 12:47:31 PM PDT by
MNDude
(Once you remove "they would never" from your vocabulary, it all begins to make sense)
To: Lazamataz
I have not read the Foundation Trilogy. I have read Ringworld and loved it.
I would love to see it made into a movie, or a series of movies.
My contribution to the list is Dune.
149 posted on
08/13/2022 12:57:37 PM PDT by
telescope115
(Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
To: Lazamataz
“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”).
167 posted on
08/13/2022 1:09:23 PM PDT by
The Antiyuppie
(When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
To: Lazamataz
I second The Foundation trilogy
226 posted on
08/13/2022 3:04:40 PM PDT by
ConservativeInPA
(Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
To: Lazamataz
Agreed!
Foundation and Niven
238 posted on
08/13/2022 3:18:46 PM PDT by
Zathras
To: Lazamataz
Definitely the Trilogy by Isacc Asimov
242 posted on
08/13/2022 3:23:46 PM PDT by
cpdiii
(CANE CUTTER-DECKHAND-ROUGHNECK-OILFIELD CONSULTANT-GEOLOGIST-PILOT-PHARMACIST)
To: Lazamataz
"Dreams of My Father", where a Kenyan boy raised in Indonesia is magically born in Hawaii. He goes on to graduate from a prestigious university where no one can remember him while befriending real domestic terrorists. He then rises to a country's highest office and eventual multi-millionaire without ever performing honest work. Similar to "Being There" but without the profound insights of that book's protagonist.
Seriously though, while it's probably best labeled as Fantasy "Elric of Melnibone" by Michael Moorcock is a near-poetic masterpiece yet to be spoiled by bad translation to film. His "Behold the Man" is also excellent. Most of the works by Kurt Vonnegut, Phillip K. Dick, Nivens & Pournelle, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg...so many others. Some think Michael Crichton was a hack but I always found his stories well written and entertaining. Good reading to you all!
317 posted on
08/14/2022 4:00:29 PM PDT by
MikelTackNailer
(Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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