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Night Rocker:
The Vampire Earth Books
in order, Way of the Wolf, Choice of the cat, and Tale of the Thunderbolt byE.E. Knight

sunniegreen:

--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---... 'Valis' (God is a computer, and the universe is mad), ...
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I love VALIS with a passion.  I actually found it because our 7th grade music appreciation book fleetingly mentioned a weird opera called VALIS that sounded strange and neat and I remembered it until high school until I found that it was a book and that my dad had a copy.  I spent a day of school ignoring pretty much all my classes and finished it quickly.

I might be one of the only people in the world who really liked Idoru.  It was my first Gibson book so maybe I get some slack? No one else seems to like it.

I like the LeGuin Earthsea series, but the first one is the best.
Dune goes without saying- the whole series. Even though it wasn't as charming after awhile, it had its moments.  And I've liked the McCaffery that I have read (not much) but I would call it more fantasy than Sci Fi.

And I love Ray Bradbury.  He is just as awesome in person as you would imagine, if you haven't met him.  My father is into Sci-fi literature and so I grew up going to book signings and such.  My favourite memory (not that long ago, either. four years maybe? five?) is watching Bradbury sitting on the edge of the stage ranting and cursing about the people who bought the rights to Fahrenheit 451 (because they havent done crap about it except show him a few pitiful screenplays, accdn to him) and how much he hates Michael Moore.  Then they served booze backstage even though it was a school function and there were student volunteers (like me) all over the place.  It was the best thing our sad little school ever did.

chupones:
I'm not the biggest sci-fi reader (have read my share of Stephenson, Bradbury and Gibson) but I really dig Stanislaw Lem's books.

LiterSize:
I heard good things about this book; childhood's end by Clarke, can anyone corroborate?  I have yet to pick it up.  Hmmmm...... I <3 Gibson, and dammit there's something else!

elcapitan:
For some reason, Childhood's End reminds me of a Judge Dredd spin-off graphic novel featuring Judge Anderson (you know, the hot lass with issues from Psi Division).

Now I generally can't stand Judge Dredd, the neo-fascist thing just makes me ill plus the storylines can be more than a bit trite; but this was an awesome comic. Has anyone else read it? It featured the exploration of long-lost tombs on Mars, the Cydonia Face, and was remarkably philosophical for a Judge Dredd universe story. (It might not be as good as I remember it - I was only, what, seven when I read it).

But, ah, yeah, I've also heard good things about the Clarke book. I haven't read it - but I'll back up est on Rendezvous at Rama, which is one of the seminal sci-fi classics IMHO.

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