SciFi Books

Jon Miller · August 14, 2002, 16:39

I am about to head to the library and would like some names to look up( because my usual authors the closest library seems to be lacking).

So hurry, and provide some names.

Jon Miller

finkian · August 14, 2002, 16:43

Orson Scott Card (duh)
Dan Simmons (Hyperion)

Immortal Wombat · August 14, 2002, 16:45

anyone named Greg B

walruskkkch · August 14, 2002, 16:49

David Weber, the Honor Harrington series.

Jon Miller · August 14, 2002, 16:52

Hmm, this will be hard (because I read a lot and have read all that is mentioned here, well not all there works, but enough that I am familiar with them (David Weber I have only read a couple of because the last Honor book sort of sucked))

Thanks for the suggestions though

Jon Miller

Lorizael · August 14, 2002, 16:55

Oh oh read my book! It's not published and it's not finished, but I just completed Part I of a three Part book so at least it's a whole story.

Sorry, I can't give real suggestions right now. I'm sorta stuck on Asimov and me right now.

Boris Godunov · August 14, 2002, 16:56

Anything by Rush Limbaugh.

Oh wait, that's Fantasy, sorry...

Ari Rahikkala · August 14, 2002, 17:06

David Brin - Startide Rising. That simple. I have a very faint hunch that you've already read it, though.

November Adam · August 14, 2002, 17:08

Anything by Greg Egan... very good hardcore sci-fi.

J. Sawyer is good also, he writes soft sci-fi. Good author, a Canadian to boot. A good book is "End of an Era", or "Frameshift".

Wraith · August 14, 2002, 17:09

Walter Jon Willaims (Aristoi, Voice of the Whirlwind, Hard Wired, Metropolis, etc)

Vernor Vinge (Fire on the Deep, etc)

David Brin (Uplift)

Heinlein (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, many others)

Bradbury (many, many, many books)

Asimov (ditto)

Should be a good start.

Wraith
If space is warped, time is all that's weft

Verto · August 14, 2002, 17:10

Icarus Hunt, Timothy Zahn

*Considers changing avatar*

Immortal Wombat · August 14, 2002, 17:13

Carl Sagan

finkian · August 14, 2002, 17:17

(seconds timothy zahn)
excellent choice, that

Jon Miller · August 14, 2002, 17:18

thanks all, heading to the library now

I think I have read all the author suggested, but maybe it is time to try them again (it has been over a year since I read Asmov)

(the only author listed above I do not think I read is Walter Jon Willaims)

peace out

Jon Miller

November Adam · August 14, 2002, 17:31

You've read J. Sawyer?

Zkribbler · August 14, 2002, 17:59

A few months ago, I re-read Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, the first sci-fi novel to win both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards.

It's still a darn good read.

But, there are now a few bumps in it, such as our interstellar war with the Taurians breaking out in 1997.

- Groucho - · August 14, 2002, 18:15

IAIN BANKS!!!! The Culture series is the best "space" series of stories ever. Check out "The player of games" or "Excession". My two favourites.

Only problem is that he is hard to get in the US.

Another great author is Ken MacLeod. Che would love him as he is an unrepentant communist and so are some of the characters in his books.

Hope you haven't left yet.

St Leo · August 14, 2002, 18:28

Douglas Adams

Larry Niven
Isaac Asimov
Greg Egan
Gregory Benford
Roger Zelazny

Ramo · August 14, 2002, 18:33

I recently read a book by George R.R. Martin (author of the amazing "A Game of Ice of Fire" series) called "Fevre Dreams."

It's a vampire book set in the years preceding and following the US Civil War. Good stuff (infinitely better than Anne Rice, of course that's not saying much

).

Vernor Vinge (Fire on the Deep, etc)

Excellent series.

Jon Miller · August 14, 2002, 19:14

Originally posted by November Adam
You've read J. Sawyer?

oops missed that one

I don't think so

(but I often pick up books and realise I have already read them)

Jon Miller

bogi · August 14, 2002, 19:14

Solaris-Stanislaw Lem

Best SciFi book of all time

Jon Miller · August 14, 2002, 19:16

Originally posted by Ramo
I recently read a book by George R.R. Martin (author of the amazing "A Game of Ice of Fire" series) called "Fevre Dreams."

It's a vampire book set in the years preceding and following the US Civil War. Good stuff (infinitely better than Anne Rice, of course that's not saying much

).

I have read a number of his books (and own all of the mentioned series), I shall try that one if I see it.

Jon Miller

Zoid · August 14, 2002, 19:18

I read a book by Peter F Hamilton (The Reality Dysfunction), I hated it intensly after 500 pages...

Jon Miller · August 14, 2002, 19:19

hmm, after reading all the posts I still have read almost all the authors mentioned (and some like Douglas Adams I have read almost all that they have written (And all I could find)).

thanks again all

Jon Miller

Buck Birdseed · August 14, 2002, 19:23

Originally posted by bogi
Solaris-Stanislaw Lem

Best SciFi book of all time

I so should read this. The film (The Tarkovsky version, not the forthcoming Soderbergh one) is the best Science Fiction film I've ever seen, but I believe this might have very little to do with the actual source. I ought to try to find out.

Zoid · August 14, 2002, 19:35

The book and the film are actually amazingly similar.

Lung · August 14, 2002, 19:43

Has no one suggested Arthur C. Clarke?

I hated 2001 the movie, but when i read the book years later, i loved it, so much so, that i want to see the movie again, just so i can finally appreciate it properly.

The Odyssey series is hard to beat as a sci-fi concept

Also, The Light of Other Days is fascinating - at least conceptually.

Zoid · August 14, 2002, 19:45

I´m pissed noone had made 2061 into a movie yet

Lung · August 14, 2002, 19:51

Originally posted by Kamrat X
I´m pissed noone had made 2061 into a movie yet

I await with baited breath

November Adam · August 14, 2002, 20:50

oops sorry its Robert J Sawyer, another good one of his, is "Illegal alien".

another good athor is Harry Turtledove.

also in the fantasy genre is Guy Gavariel Kay, not to sure how polpular he is in the States though.