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Any Sci Fi Fans here???

WyomingSwedeWyomingSwede Member Posts: 402 ✭✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
Thought I might start a thread on favorite sci fi/ fantasy books. Gotta love the Conan series by Robert E. Howard, and Dune by Frank Herbert. Another couple good ones are " The Mote in God's eye" and "Inferno" By Niven & Pournell.

My all time favorite is " Silverlock" by John Myers Myers. Hard to find and out of print...but an absolute best read. Clouder, Bullzeye you two might actually agree on something if you read this one. Take every story that you have read roll it together and you might come up with something half as good as this one.

Just some thoughts on a saturday morning at work. swede

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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was into it as a kid, as well as the movies. Among my favorites are Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson -- not hard sci-fi so much. I read Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Wells' War of the Worlds too. Once upon a time I belonged to the "Science Fiction Book Club" and got a number of novels and anthologies edited by Damon Knight. I used to pick up sci-fi every week in the library, from Bradbury's Dandelion Wine to John Mantley's The 27th Day. Whatever I could find. I read Asimov's Lucky Starr series and a bit of Andre Norton too as a kid. I finally met a number of writers, including Asimov, Bradbury, Bloch, Van Vogt, Ellison, and editor Forrest Ackerman while I lived in L.A. for many years. Coincidentally, I worked in Universal's Merchandising Division while the movie DUNE was being made and communicated with them down in Mexico City almost daily. Not much merchandising came out of DUNE though, because it was a bit too adult and gross for toys and such -- nor was it a big box office hit. Later, I corresponded with the guy who supervised the effects on the recent TV re-make of DUNE as well.

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    Edited by - offeror on 06/08/2002 12:27:39
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Anything by Pournelle/Niven in collaboration! My favorite is Satan's (or is it Lucifer's ?) Hammer about surviving a comet strike.

    The Stand

    Many, but not all, of Zelazny's and Harry Harrison's works. They write with a wry sense of humor that highly entertaining IMNSHO.

    offeror - I'm envious. And pleased to learn there is at least one advantage to living in KA.
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  • oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I love the same ones, also if you haven't done it, try Clifford Simak..Especially "Time is the Simplest Thing"
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Robert Heinlein was the Dean. He couldn't write a bad book if he tried, although he tried pretty hard toward the end. My favorite Heinlein is The Cat Who Walked through Walls with Time Enough for Love a close second, particularly "The Tale of the Adopted Daughter" novella-within-the-novel.

    Oh, yes, can't forget the Barsoom tales by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Those are really fantasy, not SF.

    Edited by - Gordian Blade on 06/08/2002 15:08:40
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  • rg666rg666 Member Posts: 395 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Jack Chalker is a great Sci-fi writer also Piers Anthony. Piers is so anti-liberal I read his books just for that reason but they happen to be good as well.
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Does Investor's Business Daily count as Sci-Fi or Fiction?

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  • TheguncounterkidTheguncounterkid Member Posts: 224 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lucifer Hammer was excellent and well as Free Flight. Great post war book..cant remember who wrote it, but ill update if i can find the book.
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  • LightningLightning Member Posts: 945 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sci-Fi is my favorite.
    But I just wait on the movie to come out.
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I dont have time to read much of anything other than reference books on guns, hunting, and shooting, and in my spare time, the Corps and news. Sci Fi television is cool, like Andromeda, the Star Trek series and their spin offs, Quantum Leap, and such as that type of stuff. My problem is I anyalyze everything I watch, and it is hard to enjoy it sometimes. I dont have the imagination to read sci fi, but wish I did.

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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sci Fi and Fantasy. Yup I am addicted. There are some great ones already listed here. For real easy reading, try Anne McCaffrey. I wonder if Jean Auel is ever going to add another book to her series. The Hobbit series is the only set I have read more than once. Stephen Donaldson.Science Fiction is only unproven Science.

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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    dune is my all-time favorite but i thought the movie sucked.
    barto

    the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hi barto, which Dune movie sucked, the first, the cable mini-series, or both? In your opinion, of course. I thought the first had a lot of sucky moments, but some fun stuff also. The cable mini-series had some slow parts.
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    gordian blade- i was talking about the full-length movie.
    i guess sucked is not a good choice of words as i really did enjoy the movie but it wasn't nowhere as gripping as the book.imo
    but i think most books are like that; everything is there with no editing.
    i probably read 3 times as many books compared to the movies i watch.
    barto

    the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    All these replies and not a single mention of David Drake!!!! He is about the best current SciFi writer out there and his (with S M Stirling) 'The General' series one of the very best (not to mention the great 'Hammer's Slammers' series. Great Military SciFi

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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You cannot discuss Sci-Fi without mentioning the god of Sci-Fi.
    My hero : Mr. Edgar Rice Burroughs


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  • chxbixchxbix Member Posts: 25 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    What about Harlan Ellison? Couldn't have had Babylon 5 without him.

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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes, I forgot that I read a whole raft of ER Burroughs at one stage of life. He was great at starting a love story adventure, then separating the two for the duration of the book, having the two lovers brush past each other several times along the way in "near misses." A great adventure writer.

    As for Harlan Ellison, I met him too; in fact, way back in '66 I got a postcard from him having to do with a brand new sci-fi series he had something to do with -- called "Star Trek." I still have that postcard around here someplace. It's probably worth money, as it was written on his old Royal or Smith-Corona, and he supposedly never gives actual autographs.

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  • oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think I've read some of all the authors mentioned, been doing SF and fantasy since I got big enough to read. I have never failed to be disappointed in the movie versions. They can't even begin to compare to the original books..Lightning..take the time, you will be surprised at how great some of the books are..

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  • ghost614ghost614 Member Posts: 129 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    anyone ever read the "hyperion/endymion" series by daniel simmons? it's freakin' amazing. "behold the man" by michael moorcock is also a solid book. not to mention "slaughterhouse five" by kurt vonnegut.
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ghost614, I thought the Hyperion/Endymion series was astounding except for the 4th novel, which I felt was a bit over the top.
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  • db3sdb3s Member Posts: 33 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A sci-fi thread on Gunbroker, and not a word about L. Neil Smith.

    WHERE HAVE YOU PEOPLE BEEN???
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