General / Off-Topic Classic Sci-Fi time!

ak-73

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Okay, I just wanted to start a thread here on us sharing our favorite sci-fi stories, so I broke out a book from childhood because I wanted to look up the name of the short story and its author - as it has been my favorite ever since. I hadn't read it in a long time and didn't remember.

MFW when:
George R. R. Martin, "A Beast For Norn"

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Anyway, for anyone who digs Game of Thrones or A Song Of Ice And Fire, it's a must-read. Just a short story and you'll get to see where Martin has his idea of warring clans coming from.

Anyway, yeah... buddies, laveans, fellow tradesmen! I'm looking for more good classic sci-fi. Please share what you got!


Alex
 

Brian

Brian
I'm listening to the Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks. I spend hours walking round empty buildings at night....

....walking around Westeros ....

Its a great experience :)

Brian :)
 

ak-73

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BTW, Haviland Tuf, the protagonist space trader of the short story, would also have been an awesome name for a commander...

Alex
 

Bloocheez

Bloocheez
I have a few. . .
  • Time Machine; it was my first SF read at around 8yrs old, fell in love with the genre then and there.
  • Foundation; my first Asimov.
  • Z for Zaccariah; my first post apocalyptic SF (had to read it for English, but no complaints from me!) - still my favourite sub-genre to this day.
  • 200AD; my first dip in to 'grown up comics' around the same time as I read Z.

I'm sure that I'll remember more as other people make their lists (my mind always gibbers a little for these things!)
 

Cmdr M.G.Dangerous

Cmdr M.G.Dangerous
In adulthood I barely read books at all. But of those I read. I liked The Hammer of God(Arthur C Clarke), The Price of Glory(William H Keith Jr), Do androids dream of electric sheep?(Philip K ) & The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy(Douglas Adams)
 

Geraldine

Geraldine
There are many for me including some of those already mentioned in the thread.
However, three spring to mind though,

Firstly Iain M Banks, love his style of writing. If you have not read any of his books I humbly recommend Use Of Weapons to start you off: a deeply interwoven and at times disturbing story.

Secondly The Dread Empires Fall series by Walter Jon Williams. Great depictions of space combat.

Thirdly, a real classic, The Red, Green and Blue Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. A wonderfully in-depth story exploring the details and consequences of terraforming of the planet Mars.
 

deMangler

deMangler
Geraldine said:
Thirdly, a real classic, The Red, Green and Blue Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. A wonderfully in-depth story exploring the details and consequences of terraforming of the planet Mars.
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I recommend Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson. A very different book but well worth reading to the end. I mention it here mainly because it is one of those rare books that seems to be bad to start with but then turns out to be brilliant for lots of the reasons you thought it was bad.
A very Clever book indeed.
 

kaserei

kaserei
I am currently reading "Edge of Infinity", a collection of short stories edited by Jonathan Strahan. One story in particular made me quite sad but was a good narrative relating an issue we have in ED sub-light flight dynamics: "Drive" by James SA Corey.

My last book was the Hydrogen Sonata, and my favourite? My next book is going to be Clarke's Fountains of paradise as I have been meaning to read it for years, but never got around to looking for it.

My first book I remember reading was Call of the Wild. It took me ages as I was quite young. School English language was excruciatingly boring and mundane (To kill a mocking bird and Shakespeare? why? I was so interested I can't even tell you what Shakespeare we studied, and yes I failed).
 

deMangler

deMangler
kaserei said:
I My next book is going to be Clarke's Fountains of paradise as I have been meaning to read it for years, but never got around to looking for it.
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A Brilliant book. I can remember the names of the characters and a lot of the events and I haven't read it for well over 25 years. Not many books I can say that about.
Glad you mentioned it I will give it another read I think.
 

kaserei

kaserei
deMangler said:
A Brilliant book. I can remember the names of the characters and a lot of the events and I haven't read it for well over 25 years. Not many books I can say that about.
Glad you mentioned it I will give it another read I think.
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Heh, like me it sounds like you can't part with the old dusty sci fi paperbacks.

I just bought the kindle edition. Looks like the wife is getting the kids up in the morning!

I am slightly deflated that it was that easy to get, though. I have read most of my Clarke and Asimov when I was much younger. It was far more satisfying, in my student days, to have to find a wanted book in a second hand shop.

Maybe Amazon should publish a number of games where you can win discounts on purchases by gaining respectable achievements in the games. I would suggest a FPS where you have to find books in a supersized bookshop, with an 8 ball and a flak cannon to fight off the antagonists in the books your are searching for of course :D
 

Giskard

Giskard
A great little book: 'Seahorse in the Sky' by Edmund Cooper. Read it when I was a young boy. Fairly short and easy to read.
12 people wake up in coffins in the middle of a street...
 
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