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I'll check this one out. I just read one of his more recent novels, Millenium People. Its not sf, btw. The premiss was intriguing: the middle-class revolts. But I felt he didn't carry it out very well.Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – Lessing -
Nostromo - I could not have described Phillip K. Dick better.
I read the original "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep." It was awful, the movie is much better. Did you know that E.T. beat out Blade Runner for special effects in the Academy Awards that year? That always grated on me.
The worst form of insubordination is being right - Keith D., marine veteran. A dictator will starve to the last civilian - self-quoted
And on the eigth day, God realized it was Monday, and created caffeine. And behold, it was very good. - self-quoted
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You gotta be kidding me. That talking and walking piece of crap beat out Blade Runner's visual splendor?Did you know that E.T. beat out Blade Runner for special effects in the Academy Awards that year? That always grated on me.
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Re: What is the best science fiction book, ever?
ha ha ha haOriginally posted by Zkribbler
Two pop to mind immediately:
(1) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
(2) The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
hopefully you aren't serious (although Ender's Game is pretty decent)
Dune is better
as is Cyteen
as are scores of others (Vinge wrote some that I would say were better, as did Gene Wolfe)
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noOriginally posted by Kuciwalker
Can I nominate the Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars trilogy?
I don't like them at all
(couldn't read one.. so won't say that they are terrible.. but..)
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both goodOriginally posted by DerSchwarzfalke
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin.
2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
but I would say that everything I have read by Clarke were worse then Ender's Game..
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goodOriginally posted by Donegeal
Ooooo!
Possibly Mote in God's Eye. Suprized it wasn't mentioned yet...
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hmm
I also like Lords of Light by zelazny..
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Re: Re: What is the best science fiction book, ever?
let me change this to:Originally posted by Jon Miller
ha ha ha ha
hopefully you aren't serious (although Ender's Game is pretty decent)
Dune is better
as is Cyteen
as are scores of others (Vinge wrote some that I would say were better, as did Gene Wolfe)
Jon Miller
Those are both good ideas.. but I disagree with them.
My two nominations:
Cyteen
Lords of Light
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.Originally posted by LDiCesare
I'd say Solaris or His Master's Voice by Lem.
I second that
Is it better than The Left Hand of Darkness? I read The Left Hand of Darkness a while ago. Its very well written. The premiss is very interesting. I enjoyed it, but I was disapointed. I can't say why.Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin is also extraordinary.Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
Slaughterhouse 5
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
War of the Worlds
Dune"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
—Orson Welles as Harry LimeComment
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Obviously a traditionalist - the most modern book there from 1972 is Slaughterhouse 5.The worst form of insubordination is being right - Keith D., marine veteran. A dictator will starve to the last civilian - self-quoted
And on the eigth day, God realized it was Monday, and created caffeine. And behold, it was very good. - self-quoted
Klaatu: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.
Mr. Harley: I'm afraid my people haven't. I'm very sorry… I wish it were otherwise.Comment
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20,000 Leagues would have been my nomination, although it is hard for me to select one my "the best".Comment
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Traditionalist, schmaditionalist.
I can't think of any contemporary sci-fi writers that interest me. Hence, me poking around in this thread. Maybe I'll find a good one.
On a side note, is Gravity's Rainbow sci-fi? If so, I nominate that one too."In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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