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Need suggestions Anonymous Fri Mar 12 16:44:47 2010 No.418791 [Reply] [Original]

Best/Fav Sci-Fi Authors?

I've recently exhausted Herbert, Haldeman, Varley, R.R. Martin.

Need some new shite.

Tanks!

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 16:44:47 2010 No.418795 Philip K. Dick

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 16:46:47 2010 No.418805 Jack Womack

>>	ForcedMeme !IsAMEmE6C2 Fri Mar 12 16:46:47 2010 No.418806 >>418795 This >>418795 This >>418795 This

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 16:47:47 2010 No.418810 Heinlein. Starship troopers, stranger in a strange land. Also, the Wizard of Earthsea books.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 16:48:47 2010 No.418812 Aldiss Bruner

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 16:50:47 2010 No.418826 File: 31 KB, 250x379, TheShockwaveRider(1stEd).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>418812 BrunNer

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 16:51:47 2010 No.418832 You've probably already been around the Big 3 block before. But if you haven't: Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke.

Anonymous Fri Mar 12 16:53:47 2010 No.418842

My personal favourite is Kim Stanley Robinson. His books are only good if you really like the science part of SF; they tend to have a lot of infodumping, which I know turns some people off. However, if you're into hard SF, the Mars series is really excellent.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 17:05:47 2010 No.418922 OP here. Thank you anon. Paycheck will once again forego food fer books.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 17:12:47 2010 No.418959 umm definitely the classic ABCs Isaac Asimov Ray Bradbury Arthur C. Clarke

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 17:15:47 2010 No.418967 JG Ballard Iain M Banks Greg Egan M John Harrison Paul J McAuley Peter Watts

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 17:31:47 2010 No.419024 EE Doc Smith EC Tubbs Cordwainer Smith Theodore Sturgeon Strugatsky Brothers Gene Wolfe Edgar Rice Burroughs

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 17:31:47 2010 No.419027 >>419024 Oh, and Frederik Pohl.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 17:33:47 2010 No.419036 vonnegut

Anonymous Fri Mar 12 17:36:47 2010 No.419048

Philip K. Dick
For reasons that are probably obvious to everyone. He's funny, vicious, depressing and makes you think.

Charles Stross
I discovered this guy about half a year ago, and he writes about the most diverse subjects. The first I read from him is about robots travelling the solar system after humanity has died out, and the one I just finished is about a nerdy civil servant/secret agent in our world, except mathematics make magic possible. Some of it is thought-provoking, some of it a little less, but the man is one of the sharpest people writing today.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 17:43:47 2010 No.419071 stanislaw lem

Anonymous Fri Mar 12 17:48:47 2010 No.419090

OP here again

Ursala K LeGuin put me to sleep.

My favs so far have been:
Starship Troopers:Heinlein
Dune (1-4, the rest is a complete mess):Herbert
Titan-Wizard-Demon:Varley
Forever War/Peace: Haldeman

All these suggestions'll keep me busy.

Thanks anon!

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 18:06:47 2010 No.419148 File: 35 KB, 400x300, FMJ_massgrave.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>419090 Starship Troopers AND Forever War? What is that, some kind of sick joke?

Anonymous Fri Mar 12 18:10:18 2010 No.419174 [DELETED]

Here you go.

David Brin's Uplift Saga (Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War, Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, Heaven's Reach)
Kiln People by David Brin
William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive)
Frank Herbert's Dune Chronicles (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, Chapterhouse Dune)
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch, The Urth of the New Sun)
Takeshi Kovacs Series by Richard Morgan (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies)
Noir by K.W. Jeter
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons
William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy (Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties)
The Postman by David Brin
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Fallen Angels by Larry Niven
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Forever series (Forever War and Forever Peace) by Joe Haldeman

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 18:10:47 2010 No.419173 Meyer

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 18:12:47 2010 No.419184 File: 129 KB, 500x375, giantshit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>419148 Me not jungian, so I might need you to take a giant shit on me.

Anonymous Fri Mar 12 18:13:47 2010 No.419191

>>418791

Here you go, OP, Authors and suggested reads.

David Brin's Uplift Saga (Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War, Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, Heaven's Reach)
Kiln People by David Brin
William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive)
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch, The Urth of the New Sun)
Takeshi Kovacs Series by Richard Morgan (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies)
Noir by K.W. Jeter
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons
William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy (Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties)
The Postman by David Brin
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Fallen Angels by Larry Niven
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 18:17:47 2010 No.419206 File: 186 KB, 500x668, isaac-asimov.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Everything by this man

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 18:18:47 2010 No.419212 File: 224 KB, 640x476, mauryballstein.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>419191 That's what I'm talking about!

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 18:19:47 2010 No.419214 Robert Asprin? Phule's series is funny...

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 18:20:47 2010 No.419216 File: 62 KB, 597x801, CRAZYALICE.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>419206 Who Dat?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 18:20:47 2010 No.419217 >>419024 Fuck YES Ted Sturgeon and fuck YES Fred Pohl.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 18:27:47 2010 No.419238 >>419216 >isaac-asimov.jpg

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 18:33:47 2010 No.419263 File: 34 KB, 500x500, 41NKEBD32ML._SS500_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 18:40:47 2010 No.419286 File: 26 KB, 400x447, dumbass.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>419238 oh, right.

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