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Any one else read any of the battle tech books ??
Fraid not no, i kinda wanted the Nights Dawn universe to carry on, just felt wrong to read any thing else by him just incase i didnt like it, lol silly i no but true.
Any one else read any of the battle tech books ??
Yes
Im a huge battletech / mechwarrior fan
Cities in Flight - yes great trilogy read it for the first time last year.
Rendezvous With Rama - I wish someone could turn it into a film and do it justice!
Do Androids Dream etc. have you read any of the other Philip K Dick novels and short stories - 'cos a lot of them are better.
Dune is science fiction - in fact it is traditional science fiction in that it takes a major dicovery - spice - and sees where that could lead to, over thousands of years.
Altered Carbon - I saw that in Smiths a while ago - it really is that good?
Stephen Donaldson - the Gap series
Just reading Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars" trilogy, very good, on the last book but not really got into it yet.
Dune of course, excellent book. Had Dune Messiah for years but not got round to reading it yet.
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsdawn - prequel to the whole Pern series, and my favourite book in the series..probably.
The Gap books are amazing though. To anyone who loves Stephen Donaldson - the third Thomas Covenant series is on its way!!
Well Hello!
Guys if your into this sorta thing, I would really recommened you 2 writers,
Michael Marshall Smith,
Christopher Brookmyre.
Both Scottish writers, and both are very science fiction crime based, very intriguing ideas, search these 2 writers up on Amazon for more information on their books and what not!
Sorry that it's late, and I'm not being pedantic, BUT, the Saga of the Exiles is actually a quadrilogy!!! comprising - The Many Coloured Land ; The Golden Torc ; The Nonborn King; The Adversary. I got the first three from a 2nd hand book shop and only after starting to read book 2 did I realise that I was missing a book from a series out of print. Took me almost a year to track down book 4 in local book shops.
Oh, and add a big vote from me for Julian May's books!!
Also, Pratchett, Iain M. Banks and Greg Bear are the toppest.
Richard Matheson - I am Legend.
Fantastic vampire novel with a sci-fi twist.
Agreed with most of the listed ones: (MYTH, Pratchett, Assimov & Clarke..)
but my own? the Necroscope series - Brian Lumley - and the very hard-to-obtain "Chtorr" series from David Gerrold (The one behind "The Trouble With Tribbles")
"Fantastic!"
Heavy going - but excellent series
I really enjoyed reading Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan, its a sci-fi cyberpunkesque thriller set 500 in the future and it was the guys debuts novel, very good read.
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Anyone else like the Amtrak Wars? I enjoyed them.
I liked the Early Asimov short story compilations.
Also if you want to count graphic novels the 2001 Nights trilogy are very good IMHO.
Need some recommendations, although I would say I didn't enjoy 'Flow my Tears the Policeman Said' by Philip K Dick.
Mainly books by Philip K Dick, books of his you might want to check out are:
Do androids dream of electric sheep (what became bladerunner)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich
The man in the high castle (basically how the world would be if Germany won the world wars)
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (short story of his used to base the film total recall on)
I won't list the majority of his books as he has nearly 30 of them, most of his books appearing in the 1950's - 1970's with a few appearing shortly after, but when you consider these were wrote nearly 30 - 50 years ago, he has visions and stories of sci-fi that writers of today would never of come close to. One of his books was also adapted to the movie Minority Report.
Iain M Banks has a good collection of books you should check out, also another fav of mine is Neuromancer by William Gibson, now that is up there in the ranks of Sci-Fi greats
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Not forgetting one of the best writers ever... Edgar A. Poe
My current read is really good, Dan Brown Angels and Demons. That has quite a clever science feel. However you can't beat hitch hikers series.
Ed
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein is the best science fiction book I've read, not that I've read a lot of them.
I wonder what I should put in my signiture...
Greg Egan's collection of short stories in AXIOMATIC.
Be careful when you read it though, it might make your brain explode.
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