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Science-Fiction Novels?
kel11
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Can anyone recommend some good ones.
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Depends on how sci-fi you want to go really...
One of my all time favorite books is Jennifer Government. Its not really sci-fi as in space exploration and the likes, but rather it takes place in the near future-ish in a dystopia run by corporations. Everything is private, nothing is public. Its written by Max Barry.
A good sci-fi book i'd say is Only Human. Don't remember the author, but it was a really good read, imo. Space exploration, war, it has all the classic symptoms of a good scifi novel.
Hope this helps.
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Basically everyone's last name represents the company they work for. If you work for someone like I donno, Mcdonalds, you're last name will be Mcdonalds. Jennifer works for the Government, hence the title of the book.
I have have the Darwin series. Darwins Children is my favorite. It's about this children that are being born and and more and they are actualty slowly killing off the human race by killing their family ( by accident..disease )
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I always thought that politics game was an attempt to sell a notsogood book, the book being jennifer Government. Now that it actually sounds good, I'm going to have to read it.
Edit: On topic, admittedly I don't read many books, but can't think of any good sci-fi books apart from perhaps War of the Worlds and the invisible man by HG Wells.
I also like the Dragonriders of Pern, but that's leaning more toward Sci-fi fantasy.
Expendable by James Alan Gardner was assigned to me for school, and it was a pretty good book.
Just a few that I've read, I prefer fantasy to be honest.
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Dread Empires Fall
Darwins Children
Metropolitan
Snow
And the new Star Wars legacy books are pretty good
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I consider Dune SciFi at least (Some people might not, because its got a few fantasy elements, but it seems mostly SciFi). Anything by Michael Crichton is good. And Heinlein isn't bad, but they're a bit short.
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By Robert Jordan. But before that I would read David Eddings Belgariad series
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You see, every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You spread to an area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.-Mr.Smith
I'd have to disagree with the Wheel of Time recommendation. It's the same old shit that's been re-hashed in every fantasy book since LOTR. Good vs Evil, fighting half beasts, stereotypical characters, etc. I made it to book 7 before quitting the series.
My favorite book/series of all time is The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. It's the first series I've read in years that creates a truly unique world. It was voted best Fantasy of all time behind LOTR and The Hobbit, that's a pretty big statement. It has plenty of Science Fiction elements, though. It's a tough read, so if you like people to hold your hand like the likes of Jordan, you won't get it here.
A synopsis of the first 2 books:
This is the first-person narrative of Severian, a lowly apprentice torturer blessed and cursed with a photographic memory, whose travels lead him through the marvels of far-future Urth, and who--as revealed near the beginning--eventually becomes his land's sole ruler or Autarch. On the surface it's a colorful story with all the classic ingredients: growing up, adventure, sex, betrayal, murder, exile, battle, monsters, and mysteries to be solved. (Only well into book 2 do we realize what saved Severian's life in chapter 1.) For lovers of literary allusions, they are plenty here: a Dickensian cemetery scene, a torture-engine from Kafka, a wonderful library out of Borges, and familiar fables changed by eons of retelling. Wolfe evokes a chilly sense of time's vastness, with an age-old, much-restored painting of a golden-visored "knight," really an astronaut standing on the moon, and an ancient citadel of metal towers, actually grounded spacecraft. Even the sun is senile and dying, and so Urth needs a new sun.
Other than that, anything written by HG Wells is superb SF. His stories are usually short, too. I'd recommend picking up a "Best Of" from him.
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Authors I would reccomend...
Greg Bear
Larry Niven
Isaac Asimov
Julian May
and if I can only choose one book...
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
But what do I and hundereds of thousands of others that have read the series know.....
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You see, every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You spread to an area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.-Mr.Smith
But what do I and hundereds of thousands of others that have read the series know.....
Is it an easy, entertaining read? Yes.
Is it the same old shit that's been done since LOTR? Yes.
It's popularity could be equated to that of Eragon. Both the Wheel of Time and Eragon are very accessible to a very large group of readers. This doesn't mean the books are better than those that are less popular, it just means they are easier to read. Educated literary folk don't praise WoT as the fanboys do. Just go read some reviews on it from reputable people. I wasn't intending to bash the series, but even you must admit that the books present nothing new to the genre. Checklist shall we?
Possible spoilers ahead. Hilight to read.
Average farmboy realizes his destiny and becomes a powerful leader? Check.
Mysitcal magic wielding group? Check.
Half-baked love relationships? Check.
Cliche characters? Check.
Unrealistically formal dialogue? Check.
MMust I go on?
Oh, and I can call any book I'd like the "Best SF/Fantasy of all time." That doesn't make it true.
Let's base that on concrete evidence, shall we?
Book of the New Sun (4 books): Winner of 1981 World Fantasy Award, Winner of 1981 Nebula Award, Winner of 1982 Nebula Award, Winner of 1983 Nebula Award.
Wheel of Time (12 books is it?): Winner of jack shit.
Continue digging your own grave if you'd like to debate this matter further.
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You do realize that Chris wrote Eragon when he was only 15, correct? When he graduated from high school. He's 20 now as far as I know.
He also happens to really like the cliche, "lets save the world!!! Good vs evil" thing as well. Hence, he wrote a book series within that cliche. Nothing wrong with that at all.
And people ( like myself ) happen to like that cliche as well. Just some fun facts for you.
Don't like that sort of cliche? Don't read it. That simple. ;D
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Let me rephrase. To the OP: If you like overused plotlines and stereotypical characters, you will absolutely love Eragon and the Wheel of Time.
Then again, the OP is asking for SF novels, so your point is moot. I recommended a very original and acclaimed SF novel to him. Oh, and OP, anything by Ursula LeGuin or Orson Scott Card will be good SF. The one I recommended is a bit of a hybrid.
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My favoriite Sci-Fi author has to be William Gibson here's some of his books.
Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, All Tomorrow's Parties, Count Zero, Burning Chrome, Idoru, Pattern Recognition, The Difference Engine (w/ Bruce Sterling) etc.. Cyberpunk at it's finest! 2 movies were made from his short stories, Johnny Mnemonic and New Rose Hotel.
Currently, I just finished the first three books in the Horus Heresey series (Warhammer 40,000). I have been addicted to the 40k series of books for a while now.
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Try any of Fred Saberhangens BERSERKER series. Full novels and short story collections.
Storyline: Humans in (futuristic) space exploration come into contact with intelligent machines that were created with the sole purpose to destroy ALL forms of life. The machines were created by a now extinct race of beings with the intent of destroying some enemy they were at war with.
These machines are adaptable and creative in the way they go about their task. From making huge planet destroying dreadnoughts, to making craft the size of small insects for exterminating some plant and animal lifeforms. The machines strategizing that destroying certain flora/fauna would cause all lifeforms on that particular planet to die out in short time; which to them is a more efficient process than destroying the whole planet.
I read most of the series a long time ago. One particular story that sticks with me is a tale where some humans willingly work with the machines as sort of slaves, or specimen to be studied to improve the machines destructive effeciency. Was kind of sickening to see humans willing to work at the annihalation of their own species. But then again, humans seem quite versatile a species. Heh.
This series (1967 and up) seems to me like a precursor to the Terminator series. -- Much more concept here though.
The time travel is interesting also. For instance in one storyline there is a region of space were time travel is possible. The machines attempt to get rid of the not-so-easy-to-exterminate humans by time traveling to Jurassic ear to wipe out the progenitors of the human race. The humans monitoring travel, send bots controlled by humans in a virtual control pod kept in current time following the machine units back to twart them changing past events.
If you are interested in fantasy as well as sci-fi Id highly recommend Stephen R Donaldsons Series Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. The original series is two sets of 3 books each The first being Lord Fouls Bane.
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The Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson. Neuromancer is the first in the series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer
It is the first cyberpunk media and heavily influenced all sorts of sci-fi, most famously Bladerunner and The Matrix (in the series the internet system is referred to both as the matrix and the world wide web; coining those terms).
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