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"Must-Read" Sci Fi books
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anything by Ray Bradbury. seriously. the two mentioned, Farenheight 451 and The Veldt (short story), are very good. my favorite book by him is Something Wicked This Way Comes, though that's more horror/fantasy than sci-fi. but it's still very good.
yes on Dune, Brave New World, and H.G. Wells books...but i'm surprised no one mentioned Kurt Vonnegut yet.
Houdinimachine:
It's hard to consider Vonnegut sci fi, even though his work is about as trippy as it comes.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: onewheelwizzard --- Philip Dick and Robert Heinlein are pretty much unfuckwithable. From what little Azimov I've read I'd say the same is true for his work too.
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I dunno, Dicks quality did vary a bit. Yeah, some of his fluffier stuff is pretty good, but I'm not sure I'd ever recommend anyone read, say, The Zap Gun or The Solar Lottery.
It doesn't really detract from Dicks incredible abilities though. He must have written about 50 books.
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Consider Phlebas, that's it. Good read.
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Ah yeah, the first Culture novel. It gets better from there, though I must say, for all I love the culture, I think the non-culture books 'Feersum Endjinn' and 'Against a Dark Background' are his best sci-fi. I also rate very highly 'The Bridge': it's published under plain Iain Banks, the name he uses for non-sci-fi, but it definitely has huge sci-fi elements.
Given how much I've been hawking it lately, I'm surprised I didn't mention Illuminatus! Maybe because I don't really consider it sci-fi, despite the aliens, undersea laser battles, Atlantis, talking dolphins and goodness knows what else.
mberan42:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---Given how much I've been hawking it lately, I'm surprised I didn't mention SeaQuest DSV! Maybe because I don't really consider it sci-fi, despite the aliens, undersea laser battles, Atlantis, talking dolphins and goodness knows what else.
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Fixed.
Kai:
--- Quote from: Houdinimachine ---It's hard to consider Vonnegut sci fi, even though his work is about as trippy as it comes.
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Vonnegut wrote an article about how he wants to be completely out and seperated from the Sci-Fi market, and it is hella hilarious.
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