Sci-fi Book Meme

Dec 16, 2008 16:41

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deadro December 17 2008, 01:00:29 UTC
didn't love any of them?

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burgunder December 17 2008, 01:06:18 UTC
I liked a lot of these, but none of them are the ones I read and re-read and re-read.

Related ones that I did madly love and would happily re-read:
The Integral Trees by Larry Niven
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
All of Theodore Sturgeons short stories ever
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
The whole Discworld Nightwatch tract by Terry Pratchett
Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
Steel Beach by John Varley
Excession by Iain M. Banks
The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter Hamilton
... that's a few at any rate. :)

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gkr December 17 2008, 01:52:39 UTC
Neutronium Alchemist? That has to take at least 3 years to re-read. It's huge!

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kfrye December 17 2008, 05:35:28 UTC
I read that whole series in something like ten days. Total brain candy.

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bitterfun December 17 2008, 16:55:25 UTC
I'm surprised by how many people watched and loved Blade Runner yet never read 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'.

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pegax December 19 2008, 22:38:34 UTC
Hmmm, harry potter... swords of shannara.... huh

But no Stanislaw Lem's books: solaris, futurological congress... or Stalker from arkadi and boris strugatski or robert holdstock mythago wood or aldous huxley: brave new world (which is probably too old for list). I am sure that C.S. Lewis had some of the Narnia books written in 50s that should fit before potters and shannaras. One could even argue that there should be place for dragonlance series of weis and hickman.

Tons of good books in list though, just few weird ones and some I have never heard of, which I suppose should read.

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