anyone know of any good Sci-fi books?

Question

anyone know of any good Sci-fi books?

Answer 1

James White

Beginning Operations: A Sector General Omnibus includes: Hospital Station, Star Surgeon, and Major Operation.

Alien Emergencies: A Sector General Omnibus includes: Ambulance Ship, Sector General, and Star Healer.

Double Contact (about the Cinrusskin, Dr. Prilicla)

General Practice (includes Code Blue - Emergency and The Genocidal Healer)

Mind Changer

The Watch Below

The Silent Stars Go By



Madeleine L'Engle:

A Wrinkle in Time *

A Wind in the Door *

A Swiftly Tilting Planet *

Many Waters *

An Acceptable Time *



E. E. "Doc" Smith:

Triplanetary *

First Lensman *

Galactic Patrol *

Gray Lensman *

Second Stage Lensman *

Children of the Lens *

The Vortex Blaster (a.k.a. Masters of the Vortex) *

The Skylark of Space series *



Andre Norton:

Starman's Son *

Galactic Derelict *

The Time Traders *

Solar Queen



Ursula K. LeGuin:

The Telling *

The Word for World is Forest *

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia *

The Left Hand of Darkness *

City of Illusions *

Planet of Exile *

Rocannon's World *

The Lathe of Heaven *



Lois Lowry:

The Giver -

Gathering Blue

Messenger



Scott Westerfeld:

Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and Extras.



Jules Verne:

Journey to the Center of the Earth *



Isaac Asimov:

Prelude to Foundation

Foundation

Foundation and Empire

Second Foundation

Foundation's Edge

Foundation and Earth

Forward the Foundation

I, Robot (Nothing like the movie!)

The Caves of Steel (Robot Series)

The Naked Sun (Robot Series)

The Robots of Dawn (Robot Series)

Robots and Empire (Robot Series)

The Currents of Space (Empire Series)

The Stars, Like Dust (Empire Series)

Pebble in the Sky (Empire Series)

The Gods Themselves

Nightfall

Nemesis

Fantastic Voyage

Gold

The End of Eternity



Ray Bradbury:

The Martian Chronicles *

Farenheit 451 (First published in 1953. A future totalitarian regime has banned books and they are burned.)

Dandelion Wine

The Illustrated Man



H. G. Wells:

The Time Machine *

The War of the Worlds *

The Island of Dr. Moreau

The Invisible Man



C. S. Lewis:

Space Trilogy - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength



Larry Niven: Ringworld

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle:

The Mote in God's Eye

Lucifer's Hammer



Edwin A. Abbott:

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dionys Burger wrote a sequel called Sphereland. The two can be purchased in one volume.)



Arthur C. Clarke:

Against the Fall of Midnight *

Childhood's End

Rendevous with Rama

The City and the Stars

The Fountains of Paradise

2001: A Space Odyssey

2010: Odyssey Two

2061: Odyssey Three

3001: The Final Odyssey



Robert A. Heinlein:

Rocket Ship Galileo *

Space Cadet *

Red Planet *

Farmer in the Sky *

Between Planets *

The Rolling Stones (Space Family Stone) *

Starman Jones *

The Star Beast *

Tunnel in the Sky *

Time for the Stars *

Citizen of the Galaxy *

Have Space Suit-Will Travel *

Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon *

Tenderfoot in Space *

Green Hills of the Earth

The Past Through Tomorrow

Double Star

The Door Into Summer

Starship Troopers

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Friday

Glory Road

Time Enough for Love

The Puppet Masters

Podkayne of Mars *

Time for the Stars

Red Planet

Farnham's Freehold

Stranger in a Strange Land (a classic of science fiction)



Stanley Robinson:

Mars Trilogy - Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars



Orson Scott Card:

Ender's Game

Ender's Shadows

A War of Gifts: An Ender Story

Speaker for the Dead



Michael Crichton:

Sphere

The Terminal Man

The Andromeda Strain

Jurassic Park



Walter Tevis: The Man Who Fell to Earth

Frederik Pohl: Gateway



David Brin:

Earth

Sundiver

Startide Rising

The Uplift War

Brightness Reef

Infinity's Shore

Heaven's Reach

Glory Season

The Postman

Kiln People



Joe Haldeman: The Forever War

James Blish: Cities in Flight

Gene Wolfe: Book of the New Sun



Stanislaw Lem:

Solaris

Cyberiad

Eden

The Star Diaries



Philip K. Dick:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The Policeman Said

Flow My Tears

The Man in the High Castle

Ubik



George Orwell: 1984

Frank Herbert:

Dune

Dune Messiah

Children of Dune

God Emperor of Dune

Heretics of Dune

Chapter House of Dune



Kurt Vonnegut:

Slaughterhouse Five

Cat's Cradle



Aldous Huxley: Brave New World

Douglas Adams:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy



Nancy Farmer:

The House of the Scorpion (Humans despise clones, but young Matt is the clone of El Patron and that gives him special status.

Answer 2

Dust by Elizabeth Bear

A Posse of Princesses by Sherwood Smith

Sunrise Alley by Catherine Asaro

Performed by Hillary Huber

Indigara by Tanith Lee

Grimspace by Ann Aguirre





1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov

3. Dune, Frank Herbert

4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein

5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin

6. Neuromancer, William Gibson

7. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke

8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick

9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley

10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe

12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.

13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov

14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras

15. Cities in Flight, James Blish

16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett *

17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison

18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison

19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester

20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany

21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey

22. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card

23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson

24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl

26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling

27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

28. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson

29. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice

30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin

31. Little, Big, John Crowley

32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny

33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick

34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement

35. More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon

36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith

37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute

38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke

39. Ringworld, Larry Niven

40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys

41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien

42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut *

43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson *

44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner

45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester

46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein

47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock

48. The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks

49. Timescape, Gregory Benford

50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer

Answer 3

ee doc smith (Yes it is lowercase letters). The Lensman Series. Starts with 'Triplanetary, and First Lensman, there's 7 or 8 in the series.



Larry Niven, the Neutron Star, and lots more. Ireally miss Niven's science (real science) Fiction. He went fantasy in the last one I read, but it was still a good story.



And how can I forget Ray Bradbury's Illustrated Man. Anything by Bradbury.



Theodor Sturgeon wrote some really good short stories.



For good SciFi look for the old Analog Magazine. They printed yearly anthologies of the best stuff.



Greg Bear, Moving Mars.

Answer 4

Robert Heinlein's Past Through Tomorrow, Time Enough For Love, The Cat Who Walked Through Walls, and others.





Oh Yeah, don't forget Anne McCaffrey Ship Who Sang series

Answer 5

Time out of Joint--Philip K Dick

Eye in the Sky--Philip K Dick

A Scanner Darkly--Philip K Dick

Far Out--Damon Knight

Quest for the Future--A E Van Vogt

Persistence of Vision--John Varley

Fear--L Ron Hubbard (actually horror, but...)

The Door into Summer--Robert Heinlein

A Martian Odyssey & Other Stories--Stanley G Weinbaum

What Mad Universe--Fredric Brown

From These Ashes--Fredric Brown (the collected short SF of one of the greats)

Answer 6

The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey.

She has other books and series that link into the series.

Moreta's Ride. - Narilka's Story.

All the Weyrs of Pern.

Dragonsong - Dragondrums - Dragonsinger

The Masterharper of Pern.

The Dolphins of Pern.

Dragonseye.

The Girl Who Heard Dragons.

The Chronicles of Pern:First Fall

Answer 7

Books by Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury.

"The Great Divorce" and "The Space Trilogy," C. S. Lewis.

Answer 8

anything by Charles DeLint, Philip K. Dick, Neil Gaiman, or Heinlein. Also, Fahrenheit 451 (a classic) and Stranger in a Strange Land (also a classic) and Pattern Recognition - can't remember the author but it is very different and cool.

Answer 9

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

Answer 10

Anything by Isaak Azimov, Arther C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. LeGuin, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny. I could give you dozens of others, but start with those.

Answer 11

I agree



Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Answer 12

No but I know of many good Science Fiction and Fantasy Books!



If you check out Locus Online



http://www.locusmag.com/ForthcomingBooks.html



you will find a list of upcoming SF and F releases!

Answer 13

The time machine the book and Starship troopers the book.

Answer 14

Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is my FAVORITE book of all time. It's amazing, Douglas Adams is a brilliant writer with a unique writing style and sense of humor. =)

Answer 15

hitchikins guide to galaxy

the quantum theory cant hurt anyone

(the spellings can be wrong.. please ignore minor mistakes in the names)

Answer 16

the bible