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Can I get a recommendation for a good /sci/-fi book?
Assume I've read none.

>> No.2658533

The Bible

>> No.2658535

mass effect 2 and the related pornography

>> No.2658543

>>2658529
could someone explain pics like this, I know they are used to "prove" geocentricism but what is the real explanation for how concentric circles are achieved?

>> No.2658545

http://sifter.org/~simon/AfterLife/

>> No.2658558

>>2658543

You're american, yes?

>> No.2658592

>>2658558
no, English, but I don't think even Sweden has a education system were answering that question in the the curriculum

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>>2658592

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>>2658593
>ask a question, get patronised.
I actually just realised, the earth rotates and the stars are stationary.

>> No.2658622

Dune, fuck yeah.

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>>2658620
Combine with long shutter and you have your answer.
Congratulations, quite the achievement

>> No.2658629

>>2658620
I thought you Brits were supposed to be fluent in English, able to construct coherent sentences.

>> No.2658654

>>2658627
I took the long shutter for granted, I didn't think there where rings in the sky
>>2658629
U w0t m8?

>> No.2658659

>>2658629
>I thought you Brits were supposed to be fluent in English
I thought you science enthusiasts were supposed to avoid sweeping generalizations.

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>>2658654
>I didn't think there where rings in the sky
you sure about that?

>> No.2658691

>>2658620
>implying you didn't deserve to get patronised

Your question was akin to asking why the sun rotates around the earth, pillock.

>> No.2658721

dune
1984
starship troopers
a stranger in a strange land
enders game
foundation

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>>2658691
granted, sorry about that.

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>>2658721
>mfw no Hyperion
Also,
>1984
>sci-fi and not political science

>> No.2658857

Literary/sciencefag here
Best sf novels that I have read:
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester)
The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)
Start with those and see how you like them.
Also, if you just want a "book" and not a novel, I recommend "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 2 A":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_Fiction_Hall_of_Fame,_Volume_Two
Some classic novellas including some that have inspired movies.
Also, most sffags dislike "sci-fi" and prefer "sf" ("speculative fiction").

>> No.2658901

hyperion cantos for heavy weight awesomeness
starshield for lightweight and flowing fun

avoid enders game if you are over 12

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>> No.2658976

Science fiction... Hmm
Ok well I'll start with my favourite:
Peter F. Hamilton is an excellent hard sci-fi writer. His books are quite long and in depth, it'll keep you busy for a while. Be warned though, his books aren't exactly light reading. The plots of many of his trilogies are pretty complex, lots of things happening at once and all that.
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>> No.2658977

His 'lightest' trilogy is also his first. The'Greg Mandel trilogy' is about a retired soldier come-private dectective. However, Greg was part of the mindstar brigade, a project by the military to produce psyhic soldiers.
Greg lives in england, where the country is recovering from the tyrannical rule of the People's Socialist Party.
I won't give away the plot, but that's the background of the story. This trilogy combines classic detective novels and science fiction. So if you like mystery this is pretty good.
Mindstar Rising is the first book.

>> No.2658978

"cities in flight" it's a scifi classic.

>> No.2658980

His second trilogy is "The Night's Dawn Trilogy." This is an excellent series of books, the first Peter Hamilton book I read was 'The Reality Dysfunction,' the first book in the trilogy.
The thig i love about Night's dawn is that there are almost elements of fantasy in it, yet it is undisuptably hard science fiction. Everything is explained quite well and the plot thickens with each book to come to an amazing climax.
The background to this is that humanity is spread across the stars, but is split into two races. Adamist and Edenist. Adamist are what you expect, spacefaring humans. The crews of ships have implants and genetic traits that were implanted into them to help them cope with zero-G
Then there are Edenists. These humans have similar zero-G genetic traits, but what really sets them apart is "Affinity" and 'bitek.' this ability is like a limited telepathy that lets them communitcate with others who have the affinity genes and with the bio-technology that makes up almost all of the Edenist systems.

However, there is soemthing more in this world, something darker than human nature, yet born of it.
I highly reccomend this. I hope that finding out what the Reality dysfunction is will be as awesome for you as it was for me.

>> No.2658983

Next are the Commonweath Saga (2 huge books) and the following Void Trilogy. Set in the same universe. The Commonweath saga tells the story of a world where humans live for centuries by a regeneration technology that allows their body to be renwed to early 20s. Travel between worlds is facilitated by a vast wormhole network; travel is by train through the wormholes making it nearly instantaneous. Then a scientist discovers something very strange about a pair of stars...

The Void Trilogy takes place about 1200 years after the Commonwealth Saga. I highly reccomend reading the saga first though, since due to the lifespan of the characters, many events and even characters from the Commonwealth Saga are referenced by or are in the Void Trilogy. The focus of this is on the Void, a massive thing that threatens the entire galaxy, and humans are about to make it worse.

>> No.2658991

Olaf Stapledon

>> No.2659021

Darwin's Origin of Species.
Very imaginative.

>> No.2659062

TALES OF THE TROIKA BY THE STRUGATSKY BROTHERS

SHITS TIGHT YO

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Pretty awesome