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spectral

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Posted: May 25 2005 at 09:38

Walden/Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Genius.

"...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine."

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Posted: May 31 2005 at 22:58

last.fm

NetsNJFan

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Posted: May 31 2005 at 23:39

Litl wrote:

Trotsky wrote:

Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish series does the trick for me ... most of the early ones are good (Rocannon's World, Planet Of Exile, City Of Illusions etc), but the 4th and 5th books The Left Hand Of Darkness and The Dispossessed are the best to get started on (they both won Hugo and Nebula awards I believe) ... The Word For World Is Forest is also another good one ...

Agreed. Ursula is the best. She's a thinking person's sci-fi and fantasy writer.

For hard sci-fi try Greg Bear and David Brin. They have wild, unhindered, and boundless imaginations.

Yes Ursula K. LeGuin is amazing, I recommend her novel "Lathe of Heaven"
mindblowing!

Left Hand of Darkness as mentioned above is also fantastic.

But my favorite science fiction novel (and I am a huge sci-fi buff) is "Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge. Great Book, hard to describe, it deals with evil in humanity basically, great book.

AND STAR WARS IS CRAPPY SCIENCE FICTION. FLUFF I TELL YOU.

(nice choice in Dune by the way, I read that in 3rd grade, been hooked on Science Fiction ever since --- "He who can destroy a thing controls it") love it!!!

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BaldJean

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Posted: June 01 2005 at 05:34

Matt Ruff, "Sewer, Gas and Electric". Also the "Illuminatus" trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea or the "Schrödinger's Cat" trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson alone (although the 2nd book in the trilogy has been censored, there was a very freaky scene in the original -thankfully I have the original at home - which is missing in today's editon. It was a pretty raunchy scene, and it would be bad language to expound on it here. (Anyone who is really curious about what happens there and wants a good laugh can send me a private message).

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Posted: June 01 2005 at 05:36

radiognome3 wrote:

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

An excellent call, but very difficult to read. And I'm not quite sure it fits under SF. But it's nice to know others read Pynchon too.

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BaldJean

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Posted: June 01 2005 at 05:40

TBWART wrote:

blade runner from Phillip K Dick, he's one of the best sci-fi writers of all times...

I don't like the title "Blade Runner" and think it should not be used; it's just for commercial reasons that the book was given that name, because the movie based on it was named that way. The original title was "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?", which is a much better and more fitting one.

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