What is your absolute favourite sci-fi book?

KarenMarie

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Any Discworld novel by Prachett. (more comedic fantasy than SciFi)

But when I was young, I read the Steven R Donaldson trilogies "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" and they really stuck with me for ages.
 

waggy

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HHGTTG was great.

also enjoy the star wars: rouge squardron series. oh and Robert Asprin's series Phule's company
 

MrPickins

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Not entirely sure it counts as sci-fi but:

Brave New World by Adolous Huxley
 

DaveSimmons

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I can't pick one, here's 5.

E.E. "Doc" Smith - Lensman series
David Drake & S.M. Stirling - The General series
David Drake - Hammer's Slammers stories
Keith Laumer - Retief stories
L.E. Modesitt, Jr. - Adiamante

Honorable mention:
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Brian Daley, James Schmitz, H. Beam Piper, C.J. Cherryh, David Webber, Julian May, A.E. Van Vogt, Doris Piserchia, Alan Dean Foster, Robert Heinlien, .... a dozen more but I'm supposed to be working :)
 

Aikouka

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Originally posted by: jdoggg12
enders game

Good book, I read it a long time ago. Then I tried to read Children of the Mind after skipping Xenocide and ummm I can't remember the 2nd book, but anyway... it didn't make much sense :p.
 

slurmsmackenzie

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Originally posted by: Aikouka
Originally posted by: jdoggg12
enders game

Good book, I read it a long time ago. Then I tried to read Children of the Mind after skipping Xenocide and ummm I can't remember the 2nd book, but anyway... it didn't make much sense :p.

ender's shadow.... excellent book.
i loved how it brought bean from the mean streets to the academy. i think his struggle with the gang leader kid (i forget his name) was better than ender's with bonzo madrid.
 

pontifex

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Strictly sci-fi, not sure.
If we're talking fantasy too, then the whole Discworld series is my favorite. I've read all the books at least twice so far.
 

Uppsala9496

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Originally posted by: KarenMarie
But when I was young, I read the Steven R Donaldson trilogies "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" and they really stuck with me for ages.

I read the first one and thought it was horrible. I got about halfway through the second and couldn't handle it. That is the only book I have not finished. Ever. I actually threw the books in the trash because they were so bad. Something about them just bored me to tears.
 

Sqube

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It'd probably have to be Ender's Game, just because I read it when I was 11-12 and it stuck with me so completely.
 

DanTMWTMP

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Originally posted by: slurmsmackenzie
Originally posted by: Aikouka
Originally posted by: jdoggg12
enders game

Good book, I read it a long time ago. Then I tried to read Children of the Mind after skipping Xenocide and ummm I can't remember the 2nd book, but anyway... it didn't make much sense :p.

ender's shadow.... excellent book.
i loved how it brought bean from the mean streets to the academy. i think his struggle with the gang leader kid (i forget his name) was better than ender's with bonzo madrid.

Achilles. (Ah-Shilz)

but ya, i loved the entire series. I can't wait until Shadows in Flight.