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Good Sci-Fi books
TimA:
Lemme point you guys to some slightly less mainstream choices. If I may.
The Etched City - K.J. Bishop. If you like Mieville, this will destroy your mind and rebuild it into a beautiful, eternal structure of joy. Maybe. Or you may just enjoy it a lot.
Counting Heads - David Marusek. Science fiction is an ongoing conversation. Asimov and Pohl started the modern genre, The New Wave responded to that, Gibson and Stephenson and Sterling responded to that. Marusek is the next step. Fucking genius, in the way Stross can sometimes be.
Vellum - Hal Duncan. It's hard to describe this. Good. Very, very good. Occassionally impenetrable, but Hal is one of the smartest guys I know, and this novel is testament to that.
Not books specifically, but a great source of vibrant science fiction and fantasy is the current small press and zine scene. Seriously, the best fiction is coming out of people's basements, not the big house presses. Check out Nightshade Books, MonkeyBrain, Electric Velocipede, Flytrap, Say..., Strange Horizons, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet and Pyr Press. Fookin' great.
TheFuriousWombat:
while it's not really sci-fi, the epic baroque cycle by neil stephenson definetly has some fantasy-ish elements to it. even if it's not sci-fi (i don't think it is, although that's often where it's placed in book stores) it's an extremely worthwhile, albiet very long, read.
Slick:
--- Quote from: The extra letter on 26 Oct 2006, 19:03 ---The Postman - David Brin
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That's not been adapted into the movie of same name has it? I got a really big feeling that that was waterworld except kevin kostner no longer had mutant powers and he got kind of old. Interesting premise, but I didn't like the movie. I'd pick up the book if you say it's worth it. I'm kind of in love with post-apoc.
Scytale:
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I reccomend The Mote In God's Eye, a collaborative work by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Also Ringworld, if you haven't already. Two classics.
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Yes both of those are very good.
I also have to reccomend the Dune series by Frank Herbert if you haven't read it.
Ray Bradbury is a favorite author of mine
Fahrenheit 451 is really good, as is The Martian Chronicles
elcapitan:
--- Quote from: Slick on 15 Nov 2006, 08:22 ---That's not been adapted into the movie of same name has it? I got a really big feeling that that was waterworld except kevin kostner no longer had mutant powers and he got kind of old. Interesting premise, but I didn't like the movie. I'd pick up the book if you say it's worth it. I'm kind of in love with post-apoc.
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Yeah, same book. I haven't seen the movie actually, but the book is pretty good. Enjoyable at the least. I'd recommend it.
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