I haven't read anything lately that blew me away, but you can't go wrong with some classics: |
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I really got into Sci-Fi this summer and read 6 Sci-fi books in the span of 1 1/2 months. |
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I haven't read anything lately that blew me away, but you can't go wrong with some classics: |
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If you have a sense of caring for others, you will manifest a kind of inner strength in spite of your own difficulties and problems. With this strength, your own problems will seem less significant and bothersome to you. By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama
which one of those was your favorite. I have heard of Asimov though i read the slightly newer books, although starship troopers was written in 1952 and neuromancer and I will fear no evil in the 70s. Snow crash was 1992 (it was written when the basic internet was prevelant thus is the most accurate depicition....as the metaverse actually does pretty much exist. Second life is a pretty faithful depiction of it and Uru online is more faithful but second life is a much more popular game. |
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It's hard to play favorites. Cats Cradle (1963) was my favorite book, period, through my late teens and early twenties. For just a fun adventure story, probably Time's Eye (2003), the first book of Clarke & Baxter's Time Odyssey. For a philosophical mind bender, Blood Music (1983). For more social commentary, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) or Pastwatch (1997). |
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If you have a sense of caring for others, you will manifest a kind of inner strength in spite of your own difficulties and problems. With this strength, your own problems will seem less significant and bothersome to you. By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama
My dad used to have a whole attic full of old scifi pulp from the 50's to the 90's, literally boxes and boxes full... i only managed to save a few... mostly asimovs and heinleins, some other assorted stuff. I loved the Foundation series by asimov, and there's this one book that blew my mind... I forgot what its called, my friend has it now... Some random author, but about discovering an orb so large it had a star in the middle, so you could live inside... ther was so much space, each species that discovered it eventually devolved from advanced spacefaring species to simple pacifistic agrarian societies because of the enormous amount of resources living space and energy inside the orb. Well i kinda spoiled it now but I really loved discovering that concept. |
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A Dyson Sphere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere |
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If you have a sense of caring for others, you will manifest a kind of inner strength in spite of your own difficulties and problems. With this strength, your own problems will seem less significant and bothersome to you. By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama
Hmm...I don't read a lot but my favorite sci-fi book would have to be Storm Theif. |
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I'm currently loving the Takeshi Kovacs series by Richard K. Morgan, but in reality I don't do nearly enough reading. I also have Ringworld by Larry Niven but it'll probably take a while to get to it. Anyways I highly recommend it. |
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There is only one: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy |
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I liked Frank Herbert's Dune. |
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My dad read that book, said it was amazing. |
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I just read snow crash, the god father, tuesday's with murrey, the last colony |
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The Foundation books are pretty good. |
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isnt that asimov? |
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Yep. |
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Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut |
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I read a book by the name of "The Duplicate" in like 8th grade, about a teenage kid who cloned himself, was pretty interesting, I hear the auther has some other pretty interesting books. |
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My favourite short story is by Isaac Asimov: The Last Question |
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I just finished that book stranger in a strange land in a strange land and it is by far the best book i have ever read. It was really long book but the sheer depth of his psychology, philophy, and analysis of government and religion. |
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Ok, whoever thinks Hitchhiker's Guide is good is officially a hipster doofus and a twat. |
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so u are saying that Starship Troopers isn't original? its one of the first book's heinlien wrote. And unlike most space novels it didn't focus on the fighting. It was about philosophy (which i love). |
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No doubt the Jump 325 trilogy, starting with Infoquake (sorry, its late no links at this time) |
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oh the movie...now the movie I will agree....SUCKED. you see hienlien has never been one for that kind of stuff. He is big into philosophy and the plot of the book is just a way to tie in a certain philosophy that he is trying to show u. |
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