Best Sci-Fi Book?

I want to read a good sci-fi book, know any good ones?

Edit: BESIDES STAR WARS

Originally posted by Dance Master MC
I want to read a good sci-fi book, know any good ones?

Edit: BESIDES STAR WARS

Good for you. Star Wars isn't real sci-fi. It's just the story of the young hero in white who saves the princess from the bad guy in the black hat. I would suggest short stories like Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison. If you don't like short stories, I would suggest you go back to books written in or around the 80's. I don't like much of the recent work. Most of it is Star Wars military type stuff although I could recommend Scott Westerfelds "The Risen Empire" and it's sequal "The Killing of Worlds". I think authors like Frederick Pohl and Robert Silverberg are better than their modern counterparts. I liked William Gibson a lot at first but he seems rather unfocused nowdays. Alastair Reynolds is OK sometimes.

Originally posted by Dance Master MC
I want to read a good sci-fi book, know any good ones?

Edit: BESIDES STAR WARS

Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear. It's actually part two of two, but is better than the first and holds up as a stand alone book.

Also, The Galactic Millieu Trilogy by Julian May, and The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton.

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

The Sirens of Titan---Vonnegut.

It has my favorite line in all of fiction: "I am the victim of a series of accidents, as are we all."

Originally posted by Dance Master MC
I want to read a good sci-fi book, know any good ones?

Edit: BESIDES STAR WARS

Don't do it.

There are many wonderful books to be read.

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Alas, Eternity, which is its sequel, is less favourable. Legacy, the third part, is a little better.

Originally posted by Dance Master MC
I want to read a good sci-fi book, know any good ones?

Edit: BESIDES STAR WARS

Neuromancer is among my all-time favourites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer

Originally posted by Dance Master MC
I want to read a good sci-fi book, know any good ones?

Edit: BESIDES STAR WARS

The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov.

Originally posted by Nemesio
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov.

Agreed, anything by Asimov is great. Robots and Empire was always a favourite of mine.

Originally posted by Starrman
Agreed, anything by Asimov is great. Robots and Empire was always a favourite of mine.

Jules Verne, in my opinion, is one of the best Sci-Fi writers out there, but he's not the same kind of sci-fi as most. He takes "current" science (current meaning early 20th century, I think, or even 19th century) and speculates on the possibilities. Electric submarines before there were submarines or much electricity. Going to the moon before anyone did that (he used a cannon instead of a rocket). Good stuff.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Jules Verne, in my opinion, is one of the best Sci-Fi writers out there, but he's not the same kind of sci-fi as most. He takes "current" science (current meaning early 20th century, I think, or even 19th century) and speculates on the possibilities. Electric submarines before there were submarines or much electricity. Going to the moon before anyone did that (he used a cannon instead of a rocket). Good stuff.

Actually, Poe wrote 'The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall' 30 years before Verne wrote 'From the Earth to the Moon'. But I agree he was fantastic.

Originally posted by Starrman
Actually, Poe wrote 'The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall' 30 years before Verne wrote 'From the Earth to the Moon'. But I agree he was fantastic.

Ah.
Poes work is good.

When you can get it.