::----> Best Science Fiction Books You'd Recommend???

Question

... to me????

I loooooove the Science Fiction books sooooo much!! So from what you've read / known, what would you recommend for a good SciFi lecture for me IN ENGLISH??

Please notice: Science Fiction books written in English, since we're on the worldwide Y/A network here ;)



[Danke!]

Answer 1

Be still my heart! A sci-fi lover?! Well, an apology to begin in case I get long winded... For me the classics like Isaac Asimov and his Foundation Trilogy series and his Robot series (I, Robot) The Caves of Steel.The Naked Sun, and The Robots of Dawn. Heck most ALL of Asimovs works are classics. Others would be Rendezvous With Ramaby Arthur C. Clarke,...Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein,...Dune by Frank Herbert,...The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin,.A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr... Oh! the Incarnations set by Piers Anthony the first one is Death Rides a Pale Horse.... Oh to be able to go on and on....

Answer 2

I've been a sci fi reader for many years, and though I could go on for days, here's a few that stand out in my mind...



Arthur C. Clarke: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Songs of Distant Earth

(too many others to count)

Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land

Job: A Comedy of Justice

(and many others)

Gregory Benford and David Brin: Heart of the Comet

(anything by David Brin is worth checking out)

Larry Niven: Ringworld

Lucifer's Hammer

Philip Jose Farmer: The Riverworld trilogy

George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four

Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card--lots of other writers and books out there. Enjoy, and remember--some of today's fiction may be tomorrow's fact.

Answer 3

All of the following are excellent scifi (author, followed by books).



Jules Verne - free online

Journey to the Center of the Earth (my favorite scifi)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Mysterious Island



H G Wells - free online, and roughly half-length novels

War of the Worlds

The Time Machine (downer ending)

The Invisible Man (unlike many IM stories, he's a villain. This is the original)



Isaac Asimov

I, Robot (you *must* read this - the only "must read" scifi)

Elijah Baley books - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Baley excellent both as scifi *and* as murder mysteries - the best of both worlds (warning: adult content in the 3rd book)

Foundation Series - *the* classic scifi trilogy



Andre Norton - *the* classic female scifi author, most of her books involve "coming of age" and pure scifi adventure

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_Andre_Norton

her best: Star Man's Son (also titled 2250 A.D.)

other excellent:

Judgment on Janus

Forerunner series

Central Control series

Solar Queen series

The Time Traders (Atlantis, magic - very cool!)

The Zero Stone



You may also like Andre Norton's "Moon Called", a woman with psychic and magical powers comes of age in a post-nuclear holocaust world with - well, wait until you meet the *real* villains!



Another excellent: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Though written for younger readers, I read this recently and it is great! Better than the movie (which was also pretty good).



Jim, http://www.life-after-harry-potter.com

Answer 4

The Amityville Horror

Answer 5

Any of Robert A. Heinlen's later books for his views on society but my all time favorite would be his "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag". This collection of short stories was published in 1959 and is dark, foreboding and yet still as good a read today as it was back then.

Answer 6

The good science fiction was written in the 1950s and '60s. Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Van Vogt, and too many others to name. But if you start with those, you won't go wrong.

Answer 7

Brave New World



Fahrenheit 451

Answer 8

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. One of the best books ever written, science-fiction or no.

Answer 9

I read mostly classics, so I would say:



1984 - Orwell (My favorite)

Brave New World - Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury





You might want like to read some Kurt Vonnegut. His books aren’t completely sci-fi, but it is used in creative ways throughout. One of his characters is Kilgore Trout - a failed sci-fi writer of hundreds of books. He keeps making references to all of them and some of them are hilarious. My favorite book of his is Slaughterhouse Five.

Answer 10

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams - very good, interesting, probably would be great for a lecture.

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy/dp/0345453743/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207883437&sr=8-4

Answer 11

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown...It is the sequel for The Da Vinci Code....It is very good...I hope they make it into a movie

Answer 12

1984

Ringworld

Brave New World

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I, Robot

Answer 13

have you discovered robert heinlein yet?



smart, funny and thought provoking



start with "stranger in a strange land"

Answer 14

1984

thats all i know i cant think of anymore.