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Good Sci-Fi books
mberan42:
I direct you to this link.
(Seriously, read the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. My favourite Sci-Fi series ever.)
Napoleon the Clown:
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGune. It's short but very interesting.
ielerol:
Ursula K. Le Guin is my hero. I am in love with her.
Other great books by Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Telling, I love basically everything she's written but the first two are classics and the third is one of my personal favorites. A Fisherman of the Inland Sea is my favorite short story collection of hers. She's also written some wonderful essays/nonfiction on feminism, storytelling, writing, whatever else she feels like being brilliant about...
The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler are excellent.
Basically if you like novels about people and ideas you will like novels by those two.
I also really enjoy David Brid. Kiln People is, I think, a good place to start. Then the Uplift trilogy: Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War. More fast-paced and straightfoward than Le Guin and more hard sciency than either, his books tend to be both thought-provoking and fun.
City of Truth by James Morrow. Satire done right.
Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick. If you enjoy ridiculously ambiguous ethical dilemmas, Resnick is the man for you.
Archangel_Lucifer:
Hey thanks everyone. Sadly I have final exams coming up so gotta bury my head in my textbooks. I read a short story set in the uplift universe once and wasnt impressed. Ill try it again thoufh. As to Ursula le Guin she did the Earthsea books right? I loved the first one but found the others rather dull.
Maedros:
--- Quote from: JimmytheSquid on 09 Oct 2006, 06:31 ---Stranger in a Strange Land is a really good one but I can't remember who the author is...
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Robert Heinlein. And I second this recommendation. It took me a little while to get into it, but after a bit, I was completely enthralled.
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