Your Favourite SciFi Novel?

[Placebo]

Mine is:

D U N E

Plans within plans...

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. Starship Troopers

[Fenris]

2. The Foundation cycle.

[Mz Pip]

3. Childhood's End

an oldie but goodie by Arthur C. Clark.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert Heinlein

[alittlelark]

7. You have great taste.

[bloodyjack]

9. Oh, that's definitely up there.

[Placebo]

10. Great book.

Also one of my fav's.

[Az]

5. Foundation Trilogy for serious SciFi, HitchHikers Guide for humor SciFi

Though Dune does give Asimov a serious run for the money.

[Kali]

42. Was the Foundation Trilogy

the one with the Historians? can barely remember but it WAS good.
Dune, yeah Hitchhikers Guides heh heh

Also one I read and liked a lot at the time was the Riverworld series was that Phillip K Dick? Can't remember. Been a long time since my Sci Fi days.

[Billy Ruffian]

45. Philip K. Dick

Did not write Riverworld.

The Riverworld series was by Philip Jose Farmer

[Kali]

49. ah yes!

[alittlelark]

6. Hubby "Lucifers Hammer"

Me "Stranger in a Strange Land"

[Mz Pip]

11. I loved Lucifer's Hammer

"Mote in God's Eye" was another Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle collaberation that was really good.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[alittlelark]

20. Hubby and I still debate whether Lucifers Hammer is sci-fi

I say no. An asteroid hits earth, and it's aftermath is the tale. No Sci, no Fi. But still an awesome book!

[Mz Pip]

41. Hmmm

A discovery of a comet hitting the earth certainly has science in it. What happened afterwards certainly is within the realm of science. It hasn't happened yet so that would make it fiction, rather than an historical novel.

Just because there are no aliens or space craft doesn't eliminate it from the Sci-Fi genre. Perhaps speculative fiction would work better. Whatever it was, it was awesome and I couldn't put the damn thing down. :-)

Mz Pip
:dem:

[bloodyjack]

8. The Elementary Particles

[alittlelark]

21. Definately right up there... on another day I would also

place it in #1.

[bloodyjack]

23. I'm tanning my dick

(Hair on my prick)
Down by the pool
(Hair on my tool)

I swear I found God
In Body Space 8
He has a great bod
But his hair is a state

What is our job?
(Hair on my knob)
To praise Him in song
(Hair on my dong)

:D

[Placebo]

26. What's that from?

:)

[bloodyjack]

29. The Elementary Particles

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375727019/qid=1102401941/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-5614927-5593465?v=glance&s=books

It's a sample of the doggerel that one of the two main characters, Bruno, reads at a poetry workshop at a French hippie-equivalent holiday commune.

Sort of (and I stress "sort of) an updated Brave New World, only much better written.

Strongly recommended, as you may have already gathered. :)

[Placebo]

40. Sounds interesting...

;)

[LeftyMom]

12. Friday

or Ender's Game.

I can't decide.

[laheina]

13. Has anybody every read

Frank Herbert's The Dosadi Experiment?

[Az]

18. Yep, wouldn't want to be a lawyer on that planet

Was just refing Herbert in another thread.

[Chipper Chat]

14. "Tomorrow" by Philip Wylie

Perceptive novel about nuclear (oops, nuCUElar) war in the 50s. Chronicled civil defense preparation in two towns (fictional Kansas City Mo & Kansas I think). It's out-of-print, but a good read if you can find a copy.

[fryguy]

15. Fahrenheit 451

or the The Andromeda Strain

[Tom Kitten]

16. "Earth Abides"

by George R. Stewart, also the Starchild Trilogy by Frederick Pohl and Jack Williamson..."Dying Inside" by Robert Silverberg is especially poignant...The whole "Cities In Flight" space opera by James Blish was a lot of fun to read...

[petronius]

17. The Forever War,

Ender's Game, all of Iain M. Banks, Delaney's Nova and Triton, ...

[WindRavenX]

19. Contact

Best. Book. EVER!

[princehal]

22. Citizen of the galexy

When I was a kid.

[boi1946]

28. That's a hard one...

so many good ones. I can't choose between "Dune". "Time Enough for Love", and "I Will Fear No Evil".
You know, someone on here the other day said something about Heinlein being sexist. I grew up reading his boy's books--"Starship Troopers", etc. (Of course, my grandmother wanted me to read Nancy Drew). But Heinlein grew a lot over the years. His later books are wonderfully humanist and feminist. Kinda fun to evolve with an author....

[Knurled99]

24. The whole Ender's Series

That series made me read the rest of his books, which were all good.

[alittlelark]

25. Oh yeah... my 10 year old is starting on them now.

I have re-read each at least 3 times.

[jpgray]

27. As of right now, The Simulacra

Seriously, anything with baroque jug playing, Martians and time travel turns my crank.

[Indy_OK]

30. Have a problem with just one book

So I will mention any 'Miles' book by Lois McMaster Bujold. These books are extremely funny ones about politics and war. My second favorite is The Liaden Universe series by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. The best thing is that these authors are still alive and able to write more books.

[Gemini Cat]

31. All things Asimov

All of the robot series, the Galactic series and The Foundation series. Then, The Gods Themselves, End of Eternity, Buy Jupiter (a collection of short stories, Nightfall, Martian Way, and so on.

Asimov keeps me sane in a bushie world.

Then there are Arthur C Clarke's Childhood End, Against the Fall of Night, Nine Billion Names of God, 2001, and the Sands of Mars.

[NoodleBoy]

32. going with Placebo-- DUNE rules all

that whole series is such a mindfuck... it's seriously changed my life.

[ArmchairActivist]

33. Hard to stick to just one...

...but I'll play by the rules.

I'll go with Xenogenesis by Octavia Butler. Is it really and truly my favorite? Dunno. It's pretty damn good....

-AA

[Forkboy]

34. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

[China_cat]

35. Behold the Man

Michael Moorcock

[Forever Free]

36. THE THRAWN TRILOGY

By Timothy Zahn. By far the best Star Wars books out there on the market. It expanded on story of the classic saga while perserving that original Star Wars feel.

[RebelOne]

37. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury n/t

[Spider Jerusalem]

38. "A Scanner Darkly".

[EstimatedProphet]

39. A Maze of Death-Philip K. Dick

One of his best IMO, and he was one of the best.

[kedrys]

46. The VALIS trilogy from PKD was a trip and a half...

I swore never to read *anything* by Dick ever again after that...then the next week went out and stocked up on everything of his I could find. Radio Free Albemuth is particularly interesting to re-read these days.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

43. A Canticle for Leibowitz

[rug]

48. Excellent choice

What's scifi without a religious twist

[Runcible Spoon]

44. NEUROMANCER!!!!1

a MUST read!

[Hans Delbrook]

51. Me TOO!

Though Gibson never really matched that book w/ the follow-ups, did he?

[Runcible Spoon]

52. nope. and it was the first of his I read.

go figure! I remember Mona Lisa Overdrive being so disappointing!

[Hans Delbrook]

53. Same Here

On all counts.

But Mona Lisa was better than Count Zero, which was better than Virtual Light and I haven't been able to plow through Idoru. Hmmm, I think I detect a pattern.

[Runcible Spoon]

55. last one I read was Pattern Recognition

I think it's his latest. It was full of pop-culture uber-references that seemed stale even tho I got the book the day it was available, so I can only imagine how stale those references seem now!

[Threedifferentones]

47. I loved the first Dune and liked some of the others but

did anyone else think they got a little too strange?



3D0

[Blue_Tires]

50. 2001

[Rabrrrrrr]

54. DUNE for me as well

Though there are many excellent ones out there, obviously, Dune has had the greatest impact on my thinking and philosophy in terms of theology, society, economics, environmentalism, stewardship, war, politics . . . everything. I re-read it every couple years, and have for more than 20 - probably read it 15 times - and have ALWAYS found something new and stimulating and amazing in it.

And I also love the robot-->foundation series. Amazing stuff there, too!

but nothing compares to the entire interlocked perfectly developed universe that Herbert gave us in Dune. Sad he couldn't keep it up through the last two books, but what the hell.

[Nevernose]

56. Anything by PKD, Dan Simmons. As a kid I liked O.S. Card

Kind of grew out of Ender's Game, but i relaly loved it as a kid.

Dan Simmons is one of the more creative SF writers around, though it could be argued that his is more fantasy sci-fi than hard sci-fi.

Every word Phillip K. Dick set to paper was pure genius. I truly believe that in a few hundred years, when historians and English professors are talking about 20th century American literature, PKD will be mentioned along with Hemingway and Faulkner.