07-09-2017 11:47 AM
I wonder if there are sci-fi literature lovers here? If so, favourite books? Can be old or either contemporary.
For me, the all time best of is the Hyperion Cantos. It is just the most amazing story I ever read (well, I think I read the books like 4 times? 🙂 ).
“The universe is indifferent to our fates. This was the crushing burden that the character took with him as he struggled through the surf toward survival or extinction. The universe just does not give a **bleep**.”
Hmm, when I was a kid, beside the big classics, like C. Clark, Asimov, Stanislaw Lem, and so on, I really enjoyed the book Ender's Game (the movie is real bad). Ah, and a very special one from Alfred Bester, very unique story from 1957 (!): The Stars My Destination, or Tiger!Tiger! Very powerful book, starts with the famous poem from Blake! 🙂
"Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
🙂
07-09-2017 11:50 AM
Evil forum engine, censored out the great quote! 😂
07-09-2017 01:42 PM - edited 07-09-2017 01:45 PM
07-09-2017 08:14 PM
I don't read very much sci-fi but The Forever War by Joe Haldeman is one of my favorite books.
07-10-2017 08:28 AM
I am a fan of the ABC of Sci-Fi (Asimov-Bradbury-Clarke) but I must admit that I was very impressed reading The Martian from Andy Weir, especially after I discovered that the Sci part has very solid foundations
07-10-2017 08:46 AM
I was always more of a Fantasy reader but Frank Herbert's Dune was my favorite.
At least the first trilogy ... I think he may have done more...
Ben
07-10-2017 09:25 AM - edited 07-10-2017 09:37 AM
@RobertoBozzolo wrote:
I am a fan of the ABC of Sci-Fi (Asimov-Bradbury-Clarke) but I must admit that I was very impressed reading The Martian from Andy Weir, especially after I discovered that the Sci part has very solid foundations
That is the reason I really like the books from Corey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(novel_series)
Actually I also like the TV show version, but since the story somewhat alters between the TV show and the book versions, my brain got totally confused about the story line :)) Maybe I should have avoid parallel reading/watching...ok, the story of the books is much more advanced, I think the first 2 seasons of the show just covers the 1st book.
07-10-2017 09:35 AM
@Ben wrote:
I was always more of a Fantasy reader but Frank Herbert's Dune was my favorite.
At least the first trilogy ... I think he may have done more...
Ben
Yes. My first book was the Lord of The Rings from Tolkien when I was a kid (the first book which I have read alone at least 🙂 ). I remember I spent hours staring at the map of Middle Earth, imagining extra stories connected to some strange names of locations in the map 🙂
By the way, a few years ago when I had a training in Oxford, UK, I just missed to visit the grave of J. R. R. Tolkien to pay my respect...shame on me! Hmm, maybe another time I visit...
07-10-2017 11:00 AM - edited 07-10-2017 11:08 AM
other personal fav not noted until now :
Daniel Suarez Deamon ff
Ann Leckie Imperial Radch trilogy
more to follow 😄
(just finished the expanse ... fan since 2012 .. every year a new one and '18??
EDIT : Dmitri Alexejewitsch Gluchowski: Metro 2033 ff
07-10-2017 01:14 PM
Here are some sci-fi books I've enjoyed over the past few years that haven't been mentioned:
And a few to stay away from: