Favourite sci-fi books?

[Mads]

My favourite sci-fi novel of all time is Ker-plop by Ted Reynolds.

The best series I have read is The Foundation by Asimov (and others, in the extended version). Although the first book was a bit of a hard read, the rest is superb.

I also like Iain M. Banks' culture series, like The player of games and Excession.

Another good one is the Old Man's War series.

[Blokk]

Yes, the Foundation series is a great classic. I remember back I started to read the books when I was in primary school, after my dad's recommendation. The first couple of books were a bit "dry" at that age, but later I really enjoyed the final one, Foundation and Earth.

edit: i will try to get that Ker-Plop book for my kindle. The book and me have the same age (1979) 🙂

[Blokk]

Right now I started the "Sleeping giant": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Neuvel

Lets see...

[Blokk]

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@Blokk wrote:

Right now I started the "Sleeping giant": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Neuvel

Lets see...

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I am not totally satisfied with this Sleeping Giant, so I started to continue in parallel the Bas-Lag series from China Mieville. This guy writes very strange books, kind of scifi-fantasy-steampunk crossovers. Well, the writer has a PhD on Marxism, I guess it explains all 😄

Actually after getting used to the slow flowing story telling, I like his stories! The Perdido Street Station was an excellent read, now I started the next book of the series, "The Scar"...lets see...

[jwscs]

no book, but something good to read (and think about)

http://ansible.uk/writing/c-b-faq.html

after that i recommend this http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/12/what-can-possibly-go-wrong.html

:cheers:

[Blokk]

I watched the new movie "The Dark Tower". They really raped the original story, short diluted something. I liked the main actor, but the movie was just **bleep**, i am sorry... Now I need to re-read the Stephen King books to take away this bad experience 😄

By the way, they also mentioned why science fiction is important in this nice round table talk (that Kip Thorne guy is cool):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3ct3s23

[Blokk]

I really like this move anyway (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWdZVtXT7E ) . Actually the main character of the movie is the physicist girl. We have still painfully low level of women in science and engineering. They try to change this ratio recently by positive discrimination at some countries, but the game is decided at the primary school level (and before). We have to stop socializing girls as they are not capable to be scientists and engineers.

[jwscs]

so i found the "Altered Carbon" Series and am 5 episodes in, and i must say its quite good.

i have the book on the shelf, but somehow .. other books always queued themselves in front.

judging from the series, i guess the book (by Richard K. Morgan) is a very good read (also it got a Philip K. Dick award).

:cheers:

[Blokk]

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@jwscs wrote:

so i found the "Altered Carbon" Series and am 5 episodes in, and i must say its quite good.

i have the book on the shelf, but somehow .. other books always queued themselves in front.

judging from the series, i guess the book (by Richard K. Morgan) is a very good read (also it got a Philip K. Dick award).

:cheers:

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I just finished Altered Carbon series on Netflix. When I started to watch it, through the first 2 episodes, I was not sure whether I would like it, but it became enjoyable later. Some of the special effects could have been better, but in overall, it was good. Specially because it becomes a kind of "Sherlock Holmes" crime investigation by the end...

[jwscs]

i really loved the possessive AI hotel 😉