General / Off-Topic Favorite Novel?

SnowGhost

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I've got a long list of books I love to revisit every year or so

  • Dune 1,2 & 3 (I completed 4 but didn't finish 5)
  • Nights dawn trilogy
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Lensman Saga (definately my favourite)
  • Battlefield Earth
  • Just about everything Isaac Asimov wrote
  • Just about everything Arthur C Clarke wrote

All up, it's a long list.

But, it's the Lensman books for me. If you don't own them, well, thats sad for you.
 

MacArthur

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I can't pick a single favourite but I must plus one everyone who mentioned Excession. I love all the Banks scifi but this is probably my pick. Try to imagine, what would a centuries old super intelligent ship with god like powers do with itself. Well, mope about waiting for something interesting to happen. What counts as something interesting to such a being? You'll find out . . . or not.

First prize from my days of reading every Asimov and Clarke book I could find goes to Childhood's End and Fountains of Paradise. Asimov, I mostly preferred the short stories.

Honourable mention for The Spire by William Golding. Not even my favourite by this author but it has one particular scene with the most vivid visual description I ever experienced in a novel. Vivid to the point of hallucination, I literally saw it.
 

Elendil

Elendil
My most favourite books are (of course) Tolkien's "Lord Of The Rings", which I own in three languages, and I read them once a year or so...

Further I like the classic space-opera Kind of SF: Asimov's Robots and his Foundation series, Arthur C Clarke, Larry Nivens Known Space, Frank Herbert's Dune, but also Jack Vance was always a writer I liked.
And to top it of, I'd like to mention Douglas Adams :D
 

Geraldine

Geraldine
Cody's Books

I've just finished reading an Oolite trilogy of sorts by none other than Cody :cool:

Coyote - a ripping yarn set in the fifth octant.

Inside Straight - the unlikely sequel to Coyote.

Kaxgar - the tale of a lost planet in peril.

These 3 can be found here and are well worth a read.

Drew of course wrote the famous Oolite Saga, that is certainly worth checking out as is a whole load of other Oolite novels to be found here. :)
 
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