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Post by wingedwishes on Sept 6, 2011 15:39:38 GMT -8
So who are your favorites and why? I really liked Isaac Asimov. He wrote so many great things.
Ray Bradbury - Martian Chronicles -
Victor Appleton - Tom Swift series
OK so I'm old school...
Fredrick Pohl -
Piers Anthony
Larry Niven - Ringworld
Paul O. Williams - The Dome in the Forest
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Post by what on Sept 6, 2011 17:42:38 GMT -8
Ray Bradbury - Martian Chronicles Larry Niven - Ringworld I am a bigger fan of Fahrenheit 451 than Martian Chronicles, but both have been read more than a couple times by me, amazing works. Im also right there with you on Niven, his short stories are wonderful as well. Im also a fan of P. K. Dick: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, UBIK, A Scanner Darkly, etc. An oddball I picked up in a used book store that was cowritten by Roger Zelazny, Deus Irae, was a very interesting read - had a feeling that could best be equated to the Fallout video games or movie Book of Eli... And finally, to complete my admission of being a scifi nerd... William Gibson for Neuromancer(along with the rest of that trilogy, and the other). Neal Stephenson for Snow Crash, as it is another epic work in scifi. And Douglas Adams for Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Couple other good books: Hyperion - Dan Simmons Sphere - Michael Crichton I Am Legend - Robert Matheson Stranger In A Strange Land - Robert Heinlein |
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Post by entoman on Sept 6, 2011 17:54:46 GMT -8
Asimov is certainly a very good author, and one of the few science fiction writers that wrote optimistically about the future. I also enjoyed Frank Hebert's Dune and Douglass Adam's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Of course one cannot forget the comic genius of Gary Larson's The Far Side. Michael Crichton is excellent as well, I've read Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Next, Eaters of the Dead, and Timeline. And then of course there is Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I was surprised by the attention to detail of the lists of marine organisms encountered on the voyage. Science Fiction is certainly my favorite form of literature.
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Post by prillbug2 on Sept 6, 2011 20:06:56 GMT -8
Allen Dean Foster. Arthur Conan Doyle. Any number of authors that have published the Star Trek novels over the years and there were many. Anne Caffrey--dragon chronicles. Kurt Vonegut. The list of authors could go on for forty pages.
Jeff Prill
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Post by africaone on Sept 6, 2011 23:31:43 GMT -8
I know some entomological publications (and descriptions) that have to be put in fiction works  ... ;D |
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Post by wollastoni on Sept 7, 2011 1:30:04 GMT -8
My favorite "fiction" author : Bernard d'Abrera !
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2011 1:54:53 GMT -8
"My favorite "fiction" author : Bernard d'Abrera "
LOL mine too, and one of the best comedy authors as well.
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Post by wingedwishes on Sept 7, 2011 2:47:59 GMT -8
I dislike Anne Mcaffrey. Just did not like her dragon stories. I like the style of Hubbard. Battlefield Earth was a good book but a lousy movie. I don't know why I forgot Douglas Adams. I wrote a story inspired by him in college. It was a sentance fragment/stream of consciousness that went on for 40 pages.
Anyone read Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree?"
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Post by wingedwishes on Sept 7, 2011 2:52:56 GMT -8
There was a book where a human got stranded on a planet where the life was silica based rather than carbon. Most creatures were solar powered. When he gave his watch to a group of nice natives, they copied the battery and were able to move at night. This little thing changed the ecology of the planet. That really made em aware of our little actions and consequenses.
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Post by starlightcriminal on Sept 7, 2011 4:59:16 GMT -8
I'm a bit more stodgy I'm afraid- Garcia Marquez, Allende. I like Latin American magical realism a lot, actually. Eduardo Galeano, fantastic author. A very quick read is his "Book of Embraces"- then if you like move onto the Memory of Fire trilogy.
House of Leaves- M.Z. Danielewski is pretty fun.
No one likes Brave New World?
Vonnegut, Faulkner (especially As I Lay Dying).
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Post by wingedwishes on Sept 7, 2011 9:31:17 GMT -8
I admit I am looking for some authors to look into so I am stealing from you all. Good suggestions.
Anyone read 2001 or 2010? The books were WAY better than the movies.
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Post by arrowhead on Sept 8, 2011 22:06:19 GMT -8
No one mentioned Harlan Ellison and some of the stories in his Dangerous Visions series. I like horror/science fiction but I believe 1984 is the most frightening novel I've yet read--Arrowhead
i've yey read
harlan
ellison and his
dangerous Visions
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