Author Topic: Favorite Sci-Fi Novel/Author? (Read 2639 times)

-lynx- · « **Reply #45 on:** December 10, 2001, 10:55:00 AM »

Leonid got it first - CJ Cherryh without a doubt. Dancer (from WB) recommended her and now I'm totally hooked - got everything she's ever written, can't wait for more. Can't read many others now - they simply don't measure up.

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Anne MaCafrey, queen of them all IMO.

But of course she is - sending gypsies as part of a contingent to colonise a planet 6000 light years away complete with ponies and wagons... Oh please.

Next thing you know someone will come up with a statement that Arthur C Clark could add two & two together in his later years

Sorry Ghosht - I just can't stand the woman although I did honestly try to read some of her books - nothing personal, OK?

Krusher · « **Reply #46 on:** December 10, 2001, 03:54:00 PM »

Harry Harrison !

Krush (Stainless Steel Rat)

qts · « **Reply #47 on:** December 10, 2001, 04:30:00 PM »

I wouldn't know where to begin. I have read widely and enjoyed many, too many to recall. There are many good books in this category and I'll leave it at that.

lemur · « **Reply #48 on:** December 10, 2001, 04:44:00 PM »

Geeze, not one mention of Gene Wolfe?

The best of this stuff are the 2 'sun' series.

The book of the new sun series: Originally 4 books, reprinted into a 2 volume set.

The book of the long sun series:

Both of these series are SF, but they read a bit like fantasy. Sort of a Medaeval high tech world.

The first series won the Hugo, the Nebula, the yadda yadda. I think it pretty much won every award you can win.

If you haven't, run out and read it NOW.

~Lemur

midnight Target · « **Reply #49 on:** December 10, 2001, 04:45:00 PM »

The Foundation Series by Azimov...wow! And no big flashy crap either, just good writing.

My alltime favorite book as a science and history buff is also by Azimov...The Biographical Encyclopedia of Science. It is out of print now, but very well done.

Jack55 · « **Reply #50 on:** December 10, 2001, 06:12:00 PM »

Larry Niven's known space series are excellent. Although, I didn't care for the ring world books in the series.

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The Man-Kzin Wars series of novellas are also good. They are set in Niven's known space, but are mostly written by authors other than Niven.

Sundog · « **Reply #51 on:** December 10, 2001, 06:18:00 PM »

William Gibson's - Neuromancer, CountZero, Mona Lisa Overdrive Series

Bruce Sterling - everything

Neal Stephenson - Everything, but most definitely 'Cryptonomicon'

Phillip K. Dick - Everything (Too bad hollywood ruined the original script for 'Total Recall' - Blade Runner ended up being one of my all time favorites though.)

Robert Anton Wilson/Robert Shea - The Illuminatus Trilogy (Not sure where this belongs (Ontological Anarchy?) but it sort of fits here.) Fnord!!

William Shakespeare - The Tempest (Besides, Forbidden Planet was based on this

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Tolkien's LOTR - Where I learned to enjoy the gift of reading.

Frank Herbert's Dune

I have read many of the others you guys listed, but those above are my favorites

(Did anyone mention Roger Zelazny?)