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Good Sci-Fi books
IrvingRPointystick:
Bff beat me to Snowcrash, that one's probably my favorite sci-fi book ever. The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling is pretty good too, if you're in the mood for something different. We, by Evgeny Zamiyatin, is also good if you liked 1984 or other books of that ilk.
Anna Banana:
um, just sci-fi, or can i branch into general fantasy? =P
well, the bifrost guardians by mickey zucker reichert are good, they're about a guy who gets killed in the vietnam war being transported into the body of an elf. the books are all about norse mythology and such.
jane lindskold, she writes books about politics and a girl who was raised by wolves, erm,
abarat, by clive barker,
mercedes lackey books in general,
oh, and if you enjoy vampire books, amelia atwater-rhodes. they're really short, but they're good.
and like the guy above said, asimov too =PP
namangwari:
I'd recommend a few short stories?Cory Doctorow's 0wnz0red,
John Varley's Press Enter, and
The Dechronization of Sam Magruder by George Gaylord Simpson.
Also, The Trigger by Arthur Clarke and Michael Kube McDowell,
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus: by Orson Scott Card,
Old Man's War by John Scalzi (if you ever read Starship Troopers, this'll have you in stitches), and
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
A real oldie, just for its own sake, is Karel Capek's War with the Newts. This one is by the guy who, with his brother, came up with the word Robot. Now if only the world can get behind AnthroPC?
links!
http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/index.html?pn=1
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/newts/
elcapitan:
Stanislaw Lem - Solaris
That is all.
The extra letter:
A canticle for Liebowitz - Walter M Miller (A damn awesome post-apocalyptic novel about humanity trying to rebuild itself after a nuclear war)
The Postman - David Brin (Another awesome post-apocalyptic novel, although the end part of the novel is a bit of a let-down)
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