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Offline Dune

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« on: December 09, 2001, 01:16:00 AM »
TLoR thread gave me this idea.  My favorites would have to be:

Uller Uprising, Space Pirates, Lord Kalvan, and Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper

West of Honor by Jerry Pournelle

Retief and Bolo novels by Keith Lamaur

Soldier Ask Not, Dorsai, and Wolfling by Gordon R. Dickson

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, Glory Road, Job: A Comedy of Justice, and all the Lazarus Long books by Robert A. Heinlein

Star Rangers by Andre Norton

The Hammer's Slammers and General series by David Drake

Footfall by Pournelle and Larry Niven

The Chtorr series by David Gerrold

The Beserker series by Fred Saberhagen

Passage at Arms by Glen Cook

Starhammer by Christopher Rowley (a real sleeper hit)

The Dune series by Frank Herbert.  The prequels by his son are good too.

...well, as you can see, I haven't met many sci-fi books I didn't like   :)

So, what are yours?
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Offline funkedup

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« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2001, 01:34:00 AM »
Neal Stephenson
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Offline Raubvogel

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« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2001, 01:35:00 AM »
Anything by Robert Heinlein.
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Offline Horn

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« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2001, 02:09:00 AM »
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Originally posted by Dune:
So, what are yours?

Isaac Asimov?
Theodore Sturgeon?
Robert Silverberg?
Ray Bradbury?

Wish I could remember the lady that wrote "Lathe of Heaven".....

dh
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Offline Horn

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« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2001, 02:15:00 AM »
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Originally posted by Dune:
Lord Kalvan, and Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper


Which segues nicely--Lord Kalvan (cpid #3046)was the handle of the designer of Air Warrior <RIP> IIRC.  :cool:

dh
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« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2001, 03:14:00 AM »
Ringworld - Larry Niven
Red Mars, Blue Mars, and Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
The Ender's Game set of books - Orson Scott Card
Battlefield Earth, and the 10 volume "Invasion Earth" series - L Ron Hubbard
Philip K Dick
Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy et al - Douglas Adams

just to name a few that have yet to be mentioned...
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Offline Red Ant

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« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2001, 04:16:00 AM »
Philip K Dick
Stanislaw Lem
A.E. Van Vogt
Samuel R Delaney
Frank Herbert ( particularly The Dosadi Experiment and Whipping Star)
Larry Niven (but not with pournelle - Pournelle makes my skin crawl)
Greg Bear
Gregory Benford
David Brin
K.W.Jeter
Neal Stephenson

The further I get from adolescence, the less i like Heinlein
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Offline Gunthr

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« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2001, 05:13:00 AM »
Harlan Ellison- "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream", et al

Isaac Asimov "I, Robot", et al
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Offline leonid

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« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2001, 06:29:00 AM »
C.J.Cherryh
Phillip K.Dick
Niven
Orson Scott Card
Dan Simmons
Robert Charles Wilson
James P.Hogan
William Gibson
Frank Herbert
David Brin
Greg Bear

Thanks for joggling my memory, Anton  :)

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Offline Leslie

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« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2001, 06:31:00 AM »
"The Giants" omnibus novel series by James P. Hogan is very good reading.  Also read "Journeys to Otherwhere", which is good, by Hogan.  I'm not too keen on Sci-Fi literature, but I thought these were good reads.

Les
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SCLeslie   :)

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Offline Nashwan

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« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2001, 06:37:00 AM »
Gene Wolfe
Iain M Banks
Larry Niven
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Offline Leslie

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« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2001, 06:41:00 AM »
There was another one titled "Guns of the Confederacy", which was interesting, but it's been years since I read it, and can't remember the author.  It dealt with a time machine and AK-47s which were supplied to Robert E. Lee during the War Between the States.  Hehe, in this one, the South wins the war.  Good reading for you Civil War buffs.

Les
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Offline Karnak

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« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2001, 06:43:00 AM »
David Brin (Uplift Series, particularly Startide Rising and The Uplift War)
Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)
Arthur C. Clarke (Randevous with Rama)
Frank Herbert (Dune, but only the fist Dune book)
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« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2001, 06:52:00 AM »
Frank Herbert with the complete Dune series
Peter Hamilton with Night's Dawn Trilogy
Heinlein with A Door into Summer
Douglas Adams with The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Broes

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Offline Daff

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« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2001, 07:12:00 AM »
Philip K. Dick
Iain M. Banks
Neal Stephenson
Neil Hamilton
Bruce Sterling

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