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blooflame:
--- Quote from: bff on 17 Oct 2006, 21:18 ---Stranger in a Strange Land becomes an almost completley different book when you read the uncut version that came out a few years ago.
I am surprised no one has mentioned the "Sprawl" trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive) by William Gibson or "Snowcrash" by Neal Stephenson.
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"The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" by Heinlein is also very good and besides that educational (discusses how to set up a revolution using a pyramidal "cell" structure to mimimize the risk of exposing revolution members).
Gibson's other "series" (Virtual Light, Idoru, Patten Recognition, et al) is also very good.
Stephenson's set (Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of The World) is also great - you might think it's "historical" but it's definitely fiction about science, just 17th century science. Don't worry about that though, I guarantee you will enjoy reading them.
For a not-often-mentioned one, try "The City, Not Long After" by Pat Murphy
dennis:
--- Quote from: Mayeye on 19 Oct 2006, 14:41 ---I'm a bookaholic (seriously, I've got a problem), but here are some of my recent faves.
Stephen Baxter--Coalescent/Exultant/Transcendent
Greg Bear--Darwin's Children/Darwin's Radio
Anything by Sheri Tepper (The Fresco is probably my favorite)
Oh lord--I forgot China Mieville... awesome books.
Weirdest thing I've read in recent memory is House of Leaves. Very strange and interesting book.
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I'm reading Scar by Mieville right now. It's very good.
Don't forget Baxter's Manifold trilogy, Manifold: Time, ...Space, and ...Origin. The hugest scope of any sci fi series.
The Diamond Age is even better than Snow Crash.
elcapitan:
--- Quote from: blooflame on 20 Nov 2006, 07:37 ---Gibson's other "series" (Virtual Light, Idoru, Patten Recognition, et al) is also very good.
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Hardly a series.
It may have already been mentioned here, but Tad Williams' Otherland quartet is fucking phenomenal.
mberan42:
Yeah, I second the Otherland series mention. (I think I talked about it earlier in another sci-fi thread, but I'm not sure.)
It's a long read, 'cause each of the books are 700+ pages with size 8 type, but it's a great series. Unlike any other sci-fi I've ever read - elements of cyberpunk, near-future technology (20 or so years), major shift of governmental powers, capitalism and corporations rule the world, etc...
I also somewhat recommend Stranger in a Strange Land, again by Heinlein. Not very sci-fi in terms of science and technology and all that; rather it's a piece about man and who he is, how one man can change the world, etc. It's interesting, to say the least. Don't read it if you want a good futuristic epic science fiction book, 'cause it's not that.
Dimmukane:
I liked a lot of Robert Heinlein's stuff, and Orson Scott Card's, too. My mom bought this book from Goodwill for me for some reason, Heart of the Comet by Gregory Benford and David Brin. Turns out it was awesome. I'm not gonna give a blurb, go read it.
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