name your top 5 sci-fi book

[Doggiedog]

Foundation series
A Brave New World
Childhood's End

 

[farscape]

I much prefer the older classics. Most modern scifi writings don't capture my imagination anywhere nearas well as the stuff I read when I was growing up.



When Worlds Collide/After Worlds Collide- Dosteyevsky(?)
The Time Machine - Wells
War of the Worlds- Wells
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Verne
2001 - Space Oddessey series - Clarke

few others:

The Locke - Anderson
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Verne

 

[ATLien247]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin = A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, and A Storm of Swords
Some sword series by Fred Saberhagen *spelling* I forgot the name of the series

All I can think of right now.

<== monkey dance

I don't think those are considered to be Sci-Fi...

 

[Armitage]

No particular order...

Gibson: Neuromance, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive
Danvers: Circuit of Heaven
Stephenson: Cryptonomicon
Asimov: Foundation Series
Clarke: Against the Fall of Night/The City and the Stars
Adams: Hitchiker's Guide "Trilogy"
Herbert: Dune
Bradbury: Short stories, in particular, The Toynbee Convector collection

 

[weezergirl]

1. ender's game & ender's shadow
2. any of asimov's robot books
3. season of passage by christopher pike
4. the sirens of titan by kurt vonnegut
5. ummmm can't think of another one off the top of my head

 

[Woodie]

I'd have to add: (by author, because 5 books is too hard)

Anne McCaffrey: Dragons (etc.) of Pern, The Ship Who Sang, etc...
Larry Niven: many
Harrison: Stainless Steel Rat
Saberhagen: Berzerker Wars
Bradbury: A number of older stories are short-stories, rather than novels. Some very interesting ideas.
Heinlein: Many. The Door Into Summer
L. Ron Hubbard: Battlefield Earth, Footfall

Oops. Did I go over 5???

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Woodie

L. Ron Hubbard: Battlefield Earth, Footfall

Footfall is by Niven/Pournelle. Good book though.
I like alot of Niven's stuff, but somehow it did't rise to my "Best Of" list. It doesn't seem to have aged well for me. For example, I just re-read Ring World, and was disapointed that it didn't live up to my memory of it.

Anybody else notice that their high school favorites have faded with time?

Oops. Did I go over 5???

Yep. I don't think I could narrow it down to just 5 best books.