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Book suggestion thread, /sci/ styre Anonymous Sun Jun 27 23:51:23 2010 No.1284544 [Reply] [Original]

Itt: We suggest books for other /sci/entists to read.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 23:52:23 2010 No.1284557 File: 41 KB, 304x500, bluemars.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I bet you didn't see this one coming.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 23:52:23 2010 No.1284552 File: 43 KB, 420x690, green-mars.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Unnecessary bump.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 23:53:23 2010 No.1284570 File: 16 KB, 275x399, contact.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] obvious i know

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 23:54:23 2010 No.1284576 >>1284570 Is it much like the movie?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 23:54:23 2010 No.1284579 In before the bible

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 23:56:23 2010 No.1284589 >>1284576 much better than the movie. this book gave me hope for the future of mankind.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 23:58:23 2010 No.1284605 these are shitty book selections thus far sagan is junk science

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 23:58:23 2010 No.1284609 File: 62 KB, 336x500, diamond-age1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 27 23:59:23 2010 No.1284614 >>1284605 Find me harder /sci/ence fiction then the Mars Trilogy and I will eat a shoe.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:00:23 2010 No.1284628 File: 39 KB, 231x341, MaroonedInRealtime(1stEd).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:11:23 2010 No.1284721 File: 23 KB, 420x626, Last_and_First_Men.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A short, classic read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:12:23 2010 No.1284741 Does /sci/ like anything by Joe Haldeman?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:13:23 2010 No.1284754 Even though it's not heavy on the sci-fi elements, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Ringworld novels, Larry Niven.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:14:23 2010 No.1284758 Don't ever read "the hunt for zero point" The book's full of falsehood and bullshit

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:16:23 2010 No.1284780 The Xeelee Sequence

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:18:23 2010 No.1284795 Foundation Series

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:28:23 2010 No.1284869 >>1284754 Card is a Mormon. Insta-blacklist.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:34:23 2010 No.1284908 >>1284869 I just read Ender's Shadow. Would have been a great book if it weren't for the constant christ-fagging.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:34:23 2010 No.1284911 >>1284869 Your loss.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:36:23 2010 No.1284922 File: 71 KB, 504x652, 2863293042.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Must read for anyone interested in anthropology. Seriously.

>>	Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q Mon Jun 28 00:37:23 2010 No.1284927 >>1284614 The Killing Star no book will ever be harder (when it comes to sci-accuracy)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:37:23 2010 No.1284924 Are Red Mars and the other two truly good? I read The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. It started off fairly interestingly, then began to grind, and dried up completely. The last 200 pages were a chore.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:40:23 2010 No.1284947 >>1284908 And the whole physical explanation of a soul thing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:45:23 2010 No.1284977 >>1284927 How do they go relativistic speeds?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:50:23 2010 No.1285007 File: 6 KB, 330x370, bible3.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Obligatory.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:51:23 2010 No.1285011 >>1284544 Most of Stephen Baxter's novels are good. It's all hard science fiction type stuff. Evolution was pretty good but, depressing as fuck in the end. I'm reading Green Mars right now actually. I skipped Red Mars though. lol

Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:53:23 2010 No.1285025

>>1284927
Killing Star's whole premise falls apart though, if you build a giant relativistic planet killer gun and use it, it will expose you as an aggressive species and everyone will attack you.

Also the guy who wrote it designed the spaceships in Avatar. Designed them, as in they'd work in the real world.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:54:23 2010 No.1285031 File: 32 KB, 393x648, heinlein-stranger.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] So good

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:56:23 2010 No.1285045 >>1285011 Red Mars was amazing. You've got to stop reading Green and go back to Red.

Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:57:23 2010 No.1285049

>>1284589

I got bored when it started dropping into the love story.. plus I understand his apprehension of idiots and big stupid Government interfering with Science but you don't have to spend 80% of the book talking about it.. That's boring..

tl;dr "Contact" - 20% Science 60% Politics 20% Love

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:57:23 2010 No.1285050 File: 32 KB, 287x475, flatland.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Obvious

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 00:59:23 2010 No.1285059 >>1285049 Oh, In addition that that post I'd like to add "The Mote in God's Eye" VERY interesting as a look at first contact.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 01:01:23 2010 No.1285068 File: 41 KB, 316x470, vacuum_diagrams.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Definitely the most diverse representation of life in the universe.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 01:01:23 2010 No.1285069 Stephen Baxter's "Time Ships" had a stupid ending. Basically the protagionist chose to commit suicide when it entirely could've been avoided.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 01:05:23 2010 No.1285082 File: 44 KB, 186x287, androids and sheep.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 01:05:23 2010 No.1285083 >>1285069 Was he an intentionally flawed character? There might have been a theme you missed.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 01:09:23 2010 No.1285107 File: 47 KB, 267x400, cover-palebluedot.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Excellent book is excellent.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 01:11:23 2010 No.1285113 >>1285083 I think one of themes is atonement, but it's still stupid. There were so many alternatives for that guy, yet he chose the dumbest route.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 28 01:12:23 2010 No.1285120 >>1285113 Like I said, you may have missed some key aspect of his character that would have told you he would have taken that route. Who know?

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