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Triceratopsoil 
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 Topic: A few favourite novels of a largely sci-fi bentPosted: March 17 2017 at 11:48 |
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Voted for PKD and Miller since I couldn't choose between them
edit: added a vote for Zamyatin Edited by Triceratopsoil - March 17 2017 at 11:48 |
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omphaloskepsis
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Posted: March 12 2017 at 04:19 |
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Long list. Excellent choices.
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dr wu23
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Posted: March 08 2017 at 12:09 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series
The best 'space opera' I have ever read is by Ian Banks and is called the Culture Series. Quality sci-fi and thought provoking stuff. Edited by dr wu23 - March 08 2017 at 12:11 |
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Dopeydoc
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Posted: March 05 2017 at 05:59 |
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1984. it looks less and less a fiction...
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BaldJean
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Posted: February 19 2017 at 02:10 |
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nice to see a Nobel laureate (Saramago) on the list. "City of the Blind" is a great novel indeed.
Čapek's "War with the Newts" is also great. actually Čapek is the one who invented the word "robot" (though not in this novel). Friede and I know most of the books from the list. I would like to add a very good one, but it was written in German and to my knowledge not translated into English: "Scintilla. Der Seelenfunke" ("Scintilla. The Soul Spark") by Hubert Mania |
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ALotOfBottle
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Posted: February 19 2017 at 00:49 |
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Haven't read every single one of these books, but I will go with Vonnegut (my favorite author of all time) and Burgess. I have not read The Futurological Congress yet, but I'm discovering Lem's works right now, currently on Return from the Stars.
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TeleStrat
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Posted: February 18 2017 at 13:30 |
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I only chose one, Vonnegut.
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Vompatti
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Posted: February 18 2017 at 12:31 |
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Lem!
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lazland
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Posted: February 18 2017 at 11:56 |
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I first read Stranger in a Strange Land as a young man, but did not really appreciate it until quite a few years later. It remains, to me, a seminal novel.
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micky
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Posted: February 18 2017 at 11:47 |
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while not to the level of the Foundation series.. which was a formative discovery (through my parents of course) to me as a young reader. Directly influencing my life and my studies of numbers and society more than any literary work ever did.. still giving it to The Gods Themselves. I do love me some Assi...
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dr wu23
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Posted: February 18 2017 at 11:40 |
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I also love sci-fi and spent many years reading all the sci-fi greats and some obscure ones also.
I've read about half of those. I even have a personal letter from PKDick....I was looking for a copy of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.....it was released as Blade Runner and he sent me a nice letter saying he didn't even have a copy of his own book but it would be rereleased soon in conjunction with the film. Thanks for the list....I'll be cking out the ones I haven't read.
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Logan
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Posted: February 18 2017 at 10:31 |
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People might have expected the dystopian Brave New World, which is more sci-fi than Utopia from Huxley, but I like the Utopian Island a lot. I see a lot of dystopian speculative fiction in my list, and could have focused on that. I didn't think about my list much, just listed novels as they came to my head.
Other than 1984 is probably the novel that had the biggest influence on me, the list is in no preferential order and are just the first to spring to mind. Multiple choice allowed for any you know and like and mention your faves. Edited by Logan - February 18 2017 at 10:32 |
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