Originally posted by SuzianneWell, it sounds like you half agree.
Are you kidding?
While the Riverworld series was a good read while reading it, I got to the end and said That's it?
I thought the ending was the worst lame-ass ending ever of all the sci-fi I've ever read, especially for having to wade through what, 5 or 6 books to get there.
Originally posted by dfm65PKD is brilliant - Man in H C my absolute favourite.
and how about Time out of Joint?
has anybody read Charles Harness "The Rose"? Good story. It was in a paperback from the 60s (I think) with a quirky story about a chess playing rat who took on the the NY Chess Club in a simul.
Originally posted by abaloneYeah that's a good one! Read it back when I was chasing up Michael Moorcock leads...problem with him is he recommends everything.
PKD is brilliant - Man in H C my absolute favourite.
has anybody read Charles Harness "The Rose"? Good story. It was in a paperback from the 60s (I think) with a quirky story about a chess playing rat who took on the the NY Chess Club in a simul.
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Originally posted by Bosse de NageOnce knew a girl called Morna Cornell. Copied her the Moorcock piece on the Cornells being the worst sort of scum in the universe. I thought it was funny - but our liaison ended.
Yeah that's a good one! Read it back when I was chasing up Michael Moorcock leads...problem with him is he recommends everything.
Does Zelazny count as SF? and 2 further thoughts
Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M Miller jnr.
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Originally posted by bvb...Fahreinheit 451 is the best...i will give a reason...it ends with hope..Pride and Predudice did not die..they lived as twins in the forest...a woman chose to die in the fire of her library rather than to give in to the firemen who belived in nothing ( you see the books represented belief in something eternal and greater than a paycheck
My votes are as follows:
Dune - Frank Herbert
Lathe of Heaven - Ursula LeGuin
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Foundation - Issac Asimov
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
The Final Reflection - John Ford (Unusual book for Star Trek fans)
and pension of a fireman and his weekly barbacue or drink hours at the pub )...the Order that ran the government realized that to control
the human one had to control his mind and his expectations rather than his mere physical form ( gulag and prison ) so it was books that
had to be burned rather than the person reading the books...so i have
a reason why 451 is the best book...( hollywood has 451 in the can but
they have never set it out for distribuition...so it is said...a modern redo ( with bradbury himself again on the set ) over the 1960 black and white verision ( still a powerful film rarely ever shown on television )...so 451 is my vote..
