Science Fiction Recommendations

[icarusfall]

Veniss Underground by Jeff Vandermeer.

[Cowutopia]

I just grabbed an AWESOME sci-fi short story collection for 5 bucks at a bookstore in NY. Contributors include:
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Philip K. Dick
Arthur C. Clarke
Gene Wolfe
John Updike
Stanislaw Lem
Robert A. Heinlein
Frederik Pohl
Isaac Asimov
Anthony Burgess
Fritz Leiber
Ray Bradbury
Brian Aldiss

...to name just a few. The book's from 1989. I'm excited.

Also, if you're into hard sci fi, this collection is great. IF YOU BUY IT please use the TNL store.

[haohmaru]

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.

http://www.stephenrdonaldson.com/

Among the best Sci-Fi series ever written and not widely known.

[icarusfall]

There's always the Gormenghast trilogy.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.

http://www.stephenrdonaldson.com/

Among the best Sci-Fi series ever written and not widely known.

I tried getting into his stuff back in high school. Premise seemed cool (leper transported to new world where he's cured. First thing he does? Rape a bitch) but he seemed too wordy. He's been around long enough that there must be something to him so maybe I'll try again.

[PKBMax]

I also recommend Foundation.

A couple others:

The Light of Other Days, Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
Quantum physics, wormholes and journalism ethics. Good stuff.

The Man in High Castle, Philip K. Dick
Slow moving but you won't read anything else like it.

[Saint of Killers]

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.

http://www.stephenrdonaldson.com/

Among the best Sci-Fi series ever written and not widely known.

Donaldson has a seriously unhealthy rape fixation.

[luek]

I'm onto 'Speaker of the Dead' in the Ender series, as it was highly recommended by Detour. I'm loving it so far, and would tell others to have a go.

Jane has just be introduced. I mentioned to Det the other day about how she reminds me of Cortana.

[Fe 26]

kind of obvious, but the book 2001 is pretty good. I liked it more than the movie. It establishes the start and end of the story much better than the film did.

[nocturne]

a great book i read a while ago that was very tohught porvoking was by Orson Scoot Card called the remdemption of christopher columbus about how people are trying to go back in time to stop columbus from coming to new world therefore stopping much of the future slaves deaths and rape.


i dont know if this is sci fi but brave new world by aldous huxley is a classic. very philisophical.