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What's your favorite scifi book (novel or series)?

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Originally posted by: Arkitech
Originally posted by: crystal



Do not miss the "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series by Steven Erikson. 8th book just got release from uk. I am going to wait until it releases in the US before getting it since I currently reading something else.
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How many books are planned in that series? I've been holding off on getting started so I don't have to wait forever while the series is completed.
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10 are planned in this series, but he releases pretty fast. Not like Jordan. May he RIP.
 
Phillip K Dick
Hitchhikers for giggles. Computer geeks love this.
Nightfall
Ender's Game (don't care much for the other books)
 
Originally posted by: Arkitech
I usually tend to read fantasy so I've been wanting to get back into scifi. Anyway I started reading the Gap series by Stephen Donaldson last week and I'm really impressed. So far I'm on the third book of the series and it just keeps getting better and better.

If anyone here is a fan of Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, I would highly recommend the Gap series as there are some similar themes. There are a lot of twists and subtle developments that build into really interesting reading.

So what's your favorite scifi book?
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Heh, that IS my favorite scifi series. Donaldson is great!
 
Alan Dean Foster's series The Damned. A call to arms, The false mirror and The spoils of war. Also Piers Anthony's Incarnations Of Immortality series, both are very good. But most of the ones already mentioned are excellent.
 
Originally posted by: Arkitech
If anyone here is a fan of Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire...
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Minor update on the adaptation, still no word on Dance with Dragons. Bastard.

Jun. 13th, 2008 at 5:25 PM
The latest news on HBO front is that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have turned in the second draft of the pilot script for A GAME OF THRONES, and their rewrite is presently being read and evaluated by the powers-that-be at HBO. In other words, it's the normal process, which is long and often slow. So far, the reports are good, and HBO seems to like what they're seeing... but no, there's no greenlight yet, A GAME OF THRONES remains a script in development, not a series in production.

The one hard bit of news is that HBO has reached agreement with the BBC for them to come in as a partner on the series... IF it goes ahead. That's very cool news, and I'm excited and pleased to have the BBC involved... but even so, we're still in the crossed fingers stage here, not the shooting-off-fireworks stage.

I get emails about the HBO adaptation of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE almost daily, by the way, so let me say a few words about that.

Look, guys and girls, I appreciate all the enthusiasm and interest, but please stop sending me your resumes, your head shots, your audition tapes. We're not hiring anyone as yet. We won't be hiring anyone for some time, most likely. And should that day arrive when the show gets the greenlight and we start looking for a cast and crew, it won't be me doing the hiring and casting. I'll visit the set from time to time, I'm sure (how often may depend on whether we're shooting in Ireland, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, Rumania, or wherever), but the final decisions on these matters will be made by HBO, the BBC, the showrunners, and the director. I can't help you. Especially if you're not actually professionally involved in film and television, but are still "desperate to be involved in the show in any capacity, even just standing around in the background." I get a lot of those emails too. Those people who stand around in the background are called "extras," for what it's worth, and I'm not in charge of hiring them either. Again, we thank you for the love, but that's not how television works.

I also get a constant stream of emails asking me for news about the HBO project. Guys, that's why I have a News page on my website, and that's why I post here. When there's some news to share, I share it. Honest. No news is no news. Sometimes long periods pass when nothing is happening, or things are happening behind the scenes that even I am not aware of. Whenever there is a significant development -- like the BBC coming aboard -- I will post it here. I'm not going to try to disseminate it in individual emails to whoever happens to write that day to ask what's new with HBO.

Thanks for your patience. Thanks for your understanding. Keep your fingers crossed.
 
Here is a list of Sci-Fi masterworks

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

Masterworks series.

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


Books I've read from that list:

Earth Abides George R. Stewart

The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds,
The Invisible Man, and The First Men in the Moon H.G. Wells

Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes

The Shrinking Man Richard Matheson

Rendezvous With Rama Arthur C. Clarke

Dune Frank Herbert

Others I've read:


Arthur C Clarke - Rendezvous With Rama, 2001: A Space Odyssey

Heinlein - Many

C.S. Lewis - Space Trilogy

H. G. Wells - All

Isaac Asimov - Some

Edgar Rice Burroughs - All

Ray Bradbury - "The Martian Chronicles"

Michael Crichton - "The Andromeda Strain"

Jules Verne - "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" and "From the Earth to the Moon"

Kurt Vonnegut - "Slaughterhouse-Five"
 
Originally posted by: jonks
Originally posted by: Arkitech
If anyone here is a fan of Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire...
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Minor update on the adaptation, still no word on Dance with Dragons. Bastard.

Jun. 13th, 2008 at 5:25 PM
The latest news on HBO front is that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have turned in the second draft of the pilot script for A GAME OF THRONES, and their rewrite is presently being read and evaluated by the powers-that-be at HBO. In other words, it's the normal process, which is long and often slow. So far, the reports are good, and HBO seems to like what they're seeing... but no, there's no greenlight yet, A GAME OF THRONES remains a script in development, not a series in production.

The one hard bit of news is that HBO has reached agreement with the BBC for them to come in as a partner on the series... IF it goes ahead. That's very cool news, and I'm excited and pleased to have the BBC involved... but even so, we're still in the crossed fingers stage here, not the shooting-off-fireworks stage.

I get emails about the HBO adaptation of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE almost daily, by the way, so let me say a few words about that.

Look, guys and girls, I appreciate all the enthusiasm and interest, but please stop sending me your resumes, your head shots, your audition tapes. We're not hiring anyone as yet. We won't be hiring anyone for some time, most likely. And should that day arrive when the show gets the greenlight and we start looking for a cast and crew, it won't be me doing the hiring and casting. I'll visit the set from time to time, I'm sure (how often may depend on whether we're shooting in Ireland, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, Rumania, or wherever), but the final decisions on these matters will be made by HBO, the BBC, the showrunners, and the director. I can't help you. Especially if you're not actually professionally involved in film and television, but are still "desperate to be involved in the show in any capacity, even just standing around in the background." I get a lot of those emails too. Those people who stand around in the background are called "extras," for what it's worth, and I'm not in charge of hiring them either. Again, we thank you for the love, but that's not how television works.

I also get a constant stream of emails asking me for news about the HBO project. Guys, that's why I have a News page on my website, and that's why I post here. When there's some news to share, I share it. Honest. No news is no news. Sometimes long periods pass when nothing is happening, or things are happening behind the scenes that even I am not aware of. Whenever there is a significant development -- like the BBC coming aboard -- I will post it here. I'm not going to try to disseminate it in individual emails to whoever happens to write that day to ask what's new with HBO.

Thanks for your patience. Thanks for your understanding. Keep your fingers crossed.
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I've just about given up on Song of Ice and Fire. He takes way way too long to release books. Great series tho.

 
I always found it tough to get into long Sci-Fi novels or series; Loved the short stories though. Robert Scheckley was one of the masters.
 
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