NEED Sci-Fi titles

[wegotchickens]

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Cool title!!

 

[swampducks]

Hyperion and Endymion (and their sequels) by Dan Simmons. If someone hasn't mentioned him yet. Hefty but fascinating reading.

Got to go watch some more Stargate Atlantis now. I'll check out the rest of this thread later!

 

[bluey]

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hey mom... wanted to tell you that I started this series and am on book 2. My daughter is reading book one right now and she is hooked too!


Thanks for the heads up on this.

Hey Bluey.. did you read Final Warning?

Fisher, I finished the third book (Saving the World and Other Extreme sports) last week and I picked up "When the Wind Blows" but haven't started it yet.

I liked book 3 but it hardly wrapped things up. I didn't realize there was a 4th book. I thought Final Warning was a different spin off.

I'll pick Final warning up this weekend and let you know what I think. So far I really have been enjoying the books.

I'm currently in the middle of World War Z (An Oral History of the Zombie War). I'm not recommending it yet. The jury is still out on that one....

I'm pretty snobby when it comes to books I read. I probably only recommend one out of every 20 or so I read....

 

[bluey]

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Yeah, I mentioned these earlier in the thread as my all time favorite Sci-Fi books! Good call!

 

[swampducks]

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That's funny, I think the opposite. Brian Herbert did okay ending the original series, but when he wrote the prequels (with help I believe?) It was as though he wrote a huge outline, fleshed it out a little with narrative and said, "done". No heart in the books at all I think, I really didn't care what happened to any of the characters.

But I will say the original Dune by Frank Herbert was great.

And getting back to the question of "what is science fiction?" Essentially, anything that builds on science, technology, etc then takes it farther than we currently have today (or in the past for those pre-20th century types of stories). Fantasy is the off-shoot where magic becomes involved. Not to be confused with science fiction where technology is so advanced it "seems like magic."

I'm reading Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson now. DH is reading his latest, Anathem. These are more "cyber punk" and take a sort of "mind shift" to get into the rhythm.

BTW for the Simmons fans, Illium and Olympos are great, especially if you like Homer's original stories.!

 

[ninjapoodles]

It may have already been mentioned (I didn't read all 8 pages), and it's only "science fiction" in the loosest terms because everything in it is REAL, but that only makes it more terrifying--I just finished Little Brother by Cory Doctorow . If that name sounds familiar, it's probably because he's the co-founder of BoingBoing.net .

If you're at all concerned about the way private citizens are being surveilled and treated like criminals by default, I can't recommend this one highly enough.

 

[PunkerTechnoRoo?ter]

World War Z
Starship Troopers forget the movies
The Warhammer 40k novels might be to much if your not into into heavy combat.
THE DUNE SERIES !

 

[beak]

Childhoods End-Arthur C. Clarke

 

[beak]

Try joining paperback swap. You list books that you have and people order them from you. For every book you send out you get a point to order a book from someone else. cost about 2.25 to mail a book out. Good website list thousands of books. Check them out.

 

[Chicabee19]

I just finished a great book -- "From the Corner of His Eye" by Dean Koontz. I loved it.