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i need a good sci-fi book

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Originally posted by znsho
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson - a mixture of fantasy and science fiction.
It's a very strange book. I read it in the Chimanimani mountains. Good for budding astral travellers ...

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
Scientology is truth! Just ask Tom Cruise. 😕
The whole truth and nothing but the truth

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
It's a very strange book. I read it in the Chimanimani mountains. Good for budding astral travellers ...
It is indeed a weird book - a mixture of outer space experience and what's going on deep inside of the Earth. I wish someone would make a film of it. I reckon John Carpenter could do a good job.

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Try Greg Bears " The Forge of God".

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I also enjoyed J. Craig. wheeler's The Krone Experiment. 🙂

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Right now I am into Neal Asher's Gridlinked, a high tech shoot 'em up.

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Joe Haldeman's " The Forever War". Good war/hard science story spanning centuries. 😀

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Herbert's "Dune" is also well worth the read. Just my completely biased opinion.

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Originally posted by stellspalfie
anybody got any ideas, last few i read were disappointing which were - consider phlebas and rendevouz with rama.
i fancy something epic, needs to be better than the Nights dawn trilogy with its dodgy, super space god type thing comes along and sorts everything out in the last five pages.
Try any of these:

1984, by George Orwell
Anthem, by Ayn Rand
We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
This Perfect Day, by Ira Levin
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
Rollerball, by William Harrison
Logan's Run, by William F. Nolan

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Try any of these:

1984, by George Orwell
Anthem, by Ayn Rand
We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
This Perfect Day, by Ira Levin
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
Rollerball, by William Harrison
Logan's Run, by William F. Nolan
'Anthem' sounds horribly preachy.

'We', 1984, 'Brave New World', 'A Clockwork Orange' are great.

'Fahrenheit 451' -- sure -- but Bradbury's written better.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
'Anthem' sounds horribly preachy.

'We', 1984, 'Brave New World', 'A Clockwork Orange' are great.

'Fahrenheit 451' -- sure -- but Bradbury's written better.
If you like those, I think you might be pleasantly surprised by Ira Levin's only sci-fi book: This Perfect Day.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
'Anthem' sounds horribly preachy.

'We', 1984, 'Brave New World', 'A Clockwork Orange' are great.

'Fahrenheit 451' -- sure -- but Bradbury's written better.
By the way, Logan's Run author, William F. Nolan was a close, personal friend of bad boy actor Steve McQueen. He wrote several magazine pieces on McQueen's motorcycle and auto racing career and later wrote a biography on the actor.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
'Anthem' sounds horribly preachy.
It is terrible, but mercifully short. My son and I both read it on a flight half way across the US. It should interest anyone interested in the early development of Rand's philosophy, but does not belong in the list in which it was presented here.

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
It is terrible, but mercifully short. My son and I both read it on a flight half way across the US. It should interest anyone interested in the early development of Rand's philosophy, but does not belong in the list in which it was presented here.
I reviewed my list and noticed every single entry was about a Dystopian future. That got me to thinking about the concept and structure of narrative fiction and forced me to ask the question: Can there be a novel about a Utopian future? If everything is perfect, then there can be no conflict. Therefore, a SF novel about a Utopian future would violate one of the main rules of fiction: character = conflict. I suspect that if there is a novel about a Utopian future, it must be really bad.

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
I reviewed my list and noticed every single entry was about a Dystopian future. That got me to thinking about the concept and structure of narrative fiction and forced me to ask the question: Can there be a novel about a Utopian future? If everything is perfect, then there can be no conflict. Therefore, a SF novel about a Utopian future would vio ...[text shortened]... er = conflict. I suspect that if there is a novel about a Utopian future, it must be really bad.
Try Huxley's Island.

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