What is your absolute favourite sci-fi book?

[mundane]

Neuromancer, Altered Carbon, or A Fire Upon The Deep

 

[mrzed]

Too many to pick one:

Farenheit 451 and The Absolute at Large win my awards for most prescient - one for culture (scarily so) and the other for tech (more metaphorical, but no less amazing for that).

I like Iain Banks sci-fi (and novels too) - THe Algebraist was really cool

I really liked the Foundation series when I was younger, but I doubt I would like it as much today.

Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series was good

Most William Gibson is great

 

[SonnyDaze]

Originally posted by: AdamK47
World of Warcraft strategy guide

:laugh:


I did read Starship Troopers in paperback...back in 92 it was, IIRC.

 

[trmiv]

I'm unable to re-read any book and enjoy it, but books I loved were "Hyperion" and "Snow Crash"

 

[userman]

Sweet I didnt know that baen had an online libary.

March Upcountry

 

[Sinsear]

Originally posted by: Mucho
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

:thumbsup:

 

[yllus]

Originally posted by: AdamK47
World of Warcraft strategy guide

lol. Awesome.

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: userman
Sweet I didnt know that baen had an online libary.

March Upcountry

Yea, that's a good series, I enjoyed it as well.

 

[Braznor]

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

 

[tasmanian]

Originally posted by: Mucho
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Awsome series.

 

[Cabages]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP

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 .

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.

Shadows In Flight? He is writing another one?

Loved this series too. Took me about a year to read all the books, but I got through them. Enders game would have to be my favorite. Cant say I really enjoyed Beans little trilogy as much.

 

[AndeeG]

Either:
Ender's Game or
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

 

[FlashG]

The stars my destination
EE Doc Smith's Skylark and Lensmen series

 

[Fayd]

Dune

Dune Messiah

Children of Dune

but mostly just Dune.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: trmiv

Originally posted by: userman
Sweet I didnt know that baen had an online libary.

March Upcountry

Yea, that's a good series, I enjoyed it as well.

:thumbsup: just finished reading the series last month. Them's good readin'.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: Cabages

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP

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 .

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.

Shadows In Flight? He is writing another one?

Loved this series too. Took me about a year to read all the books, but I got through them. Enders game would have to be my favorite. Cant say I really enjoyed Beans little trilogy as much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_in_Flight

Ender's game and Ender's Shadow is probably the best back-to-back reads ever (if you choose to read it back to back that is..)

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Time Enough For Love.

Yeah, that and Stranger in a Strange Land are great. I can reread Heinlein and Asimov forever. Another author I like is Gregory Benford - he writes a lot of hard sci-fi.

 

[angminas]

Sorry, I can't pick just one, but I'll try to keep it short.

The Iron Dragon's Daughter - Michael Swanwick
Dune - Frank Herbert
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short (sic) Stories - Various
Rocannon's World - Ursula K. LeGuin

And the greatest by far: The Shadow Out Of Time - H.P. Lovecraft

 

[BUTCH1]

Do androids dream of electric sheep?- Phillip K Dick

 

[IronWing]

The Overlords of War - Gerard Klein

 

[thedarkwolf]

Originally posted by: Uppsala9496

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.

I hated the 1st as well but thought they got better although still not great later. The main character is such a whiny ass it makes them hard to read.

I'm reading through The Dragon Riders of Pern series ATM. They are more fantasy/sci-fi but they are pretty good.

 

[IronWing]

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 could not get past the rapist as hero thing.

 

[xeno2060]

I really enjoy most of David Brins stuff these in particularUplift Saga

 

[doze]

Battlefield Earth

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
The one you can read and re-read and always enjoy each time.

Here is mine.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Against-Rull-Van-Vogt/dp/0312852398

Bible