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mberan42:
I looked back in the archives a few months and couldn't find this topic, so I decided to start it.

We've talked about favourite Sci Fi movies, Neuromancer, and even Orson Scott Card.

However, I'm wondering what Sci Fi books are on your "Must Read" list? (In no particular order, obviously.)

Mine include the following:
Dune - Frank Herbert
Ender's Game - OSC
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Mars Trilogy - (Red-, Green- and Blue-) - Kim Stanley Robinson
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
Privateers - Ben Bova
The Star Fraction - Ken McLeod
The Guns of the South - Harry Turtledove (Historical Military SciFi, if you want to get technical.)

Kid Modernist:
Ringworld books are nice.

Dune, for sho.

Martian Chronicles.

I, Robot. Foundation Series.

I like technology scifi, but not so much alien scifi, but am known to like the exception. All old Isaac Asimov stuff is really good, in my opinion.

When I was a kid, I read this book that i have been trying to remember my whole life. I remember Buck Rogers being involved but a search of that has never helped. It's this academy on Earth that kids go to become astronauts in the future and there are students who come from Jupitar, Mars, and so on. It was good, I wish I remembered the title.

Lise:
I just recently got into the sci-fi/fantasy genre, so I have nothing really to recommend, except most definetely:

Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass).

They're actually being made into movies (which will be released next year, if all goes well): I hear Paul Bettany and Nicole Kidman are getting roles, so that should be interesting. I just hope that New Line will do it justice and not censor out the religious aspect (there's a full-scale rebellion against "The Authority", or God).

Anyway, I do have a collection of Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, both well-known sci fi authors. I particularly like Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day" and "The Veldt."

PS: ORSON SCOTT CARD WENT TO MY BROTHER'S HIGH SCHOOL for a talk (about the upcoming movie-version of Enders Game) and a book signing. I'm so friggin jealous, my brother hasn't even read Ender's Game or have a care in the world for literature. Apparently, Orson went there because a niece or close relative attends the school. GAHH.

est:
I agree with Dune & Neuromancer, but I guess that they are a couple of the big names of the genre so they almost go without saying really :)

I recommend people check out Arthur C Clark's Rendezvous with Rama and Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow, as well as Dan Simmons' Hyperion series.

All fairly well-written books with interesting subjects that I hadn't really seen handled in the way they address them.

logosmonkey:
Well
I'll second these:
Enders Game
Dune
The Ringworld books

I don't read a whole lot of sci-fi but those first two books are must reads for everyone I think, rather or not you like sci-fi.
Oh and lest we forget
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy... its mostly sci-fi....

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