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What are the three best science fiction books ever written?

Posted on 08/13/2022 11:42:57 AM PDT by MNDude

2001? A wrinkle in time? I, Robot?

What are the best science for books in your opinion?


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To: V_TWIN
Will Smith is like Keanu reeves......not entertaining......to me anyway.

I think Will Smith may have lost a little bit mojo due to his toxic relationship. Matrix was good but I can see why some people are not fans of Kneau Reeves. His best role was in Bill & Ted.

121 posted on 08/13/2022 12:41:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: corkoman

I had an internal debate re: Snowcrash vs Diamind Age.

I remember reading Lucifers Hammer when was first published, and it struck me as less science fiction, and more of a SHTF thought experiment. And still a good one.


122 posted on 08/13/2022 12:42:08 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I love Crichton’s books.


123 posted on 08/13/2022 12:42:24 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: MNDude

Dreams From My Father

-Barrack Obama


124 posted on 08/13/2022 12:43:18 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: MNDude

A Canticle for Leibovitz

TheFoundation series

Ring World Engineers


125 posted on 08/13/2022 12:43:50 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: MNDude

Impossible to say.

one that sticks out in my mind is The Boat of a Million Years.—1989 by Poul Anderson. Past sci fi golden age and I could probably think of a few better ones if I studied it for a while.

still, it was good.


126 posted on 08/13/2022 12:44:06 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: MinorityRepublican

He just couldn’t pull off the tough guy persona that 007 requires IMO.

That’s why after Connery I really didn’t even watch a bond film until Craig.

But yes I think Craig has run his course also. I have yet to see the last 007.


127 posted on 08/13/2022 12:44:16 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Noumenon

ping


128 posted on 08/13/2022 12:44:32 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: plain talk

More of a short story if I remember.
Good and utterly terrifying ending.


129 posted on 08/13/2022 12:44:46 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: MNDude

Actual books are expensive. You can buy the “printed on demand” versions and the like.

I have a pretty decent-sized collection of sci-fi paperbacks & hardcovers from the 70s and 80s. Turns out some of them are worth way more than I would have thought. (Same with vinyl).

The cover art is why, IMHO.


130 posted on 08/13/2022 12:45:13 PM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: BlueLancer

It is superb!
Has a hero from Kanawha County WV!

It would make a fantastic movie.
Nobody today could do it justice.


131 posted on 08/13/2022 12:45:51 PM PDT by Reily
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To: MNDude
I read this one back in the day.

4745728

Raiders from the Rings by Alan E. Nourse; 3.87

A young adult novel in which the human race is divided into the Spacers and
those who still remain on earth. There is a constant low-level war between
the two groups, with the Spacers raiding earth for supplies and for women.
The war turns hot in the book and three teenagers, one Spacer and two
from Earth, must find a way to bring peace.

Another good read by John Scalzi.


132 posted on 08/13/2022 12:45:55 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti-Socialist Derelict at Large)
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To: MNDude

Frankenstein – Mary W Shelley
The Time Machine – HG Wells
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

wy69


133 posted on 08/13/2022 12:46:27 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: MNDude

Neuromancer

Snow Crash

Brave New World
oh - sorry. Not fiction

1984
whoops - also documentary

Fahrenheit 451 - oh also not fiction

OK, Dune then


134 posted on 08/13/2022 12:46:35 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: nomorelurker

Thanks for the suggestions...


135 posted on 08/13/2022 12:46:47 PM PDT by GOPJ (DC Elites think 71 million Trump Supporters are stupid, wear camo, and listen to banjo music.)
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To: MV=PY

Stranger in a Strange Land
I wish I could get the time spent reading that piece of dreck back. It was horrible.


136 posted on 08/13/2022 12:46:51 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” – Aristotl)
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To: MNDude

Prey - Michael Chrichton

Actually all of Chrichton’s books.


137 posted on 08/13/2022 12:46:54 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Lazamataz

I’ve started on Foundation Series in the past, but it was too slow so I gave it up after a chapter or two. It picks up?


138 posted on 08/13/2022 12:47:31 PM PDT by MNDude (Once you remove "they would never" from your vocabulary, it all begins to make sense)
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To: Hammerhead

Nicely played...but the preferred spelling is Baraq....


139 posted on 08/13/2022 12:47:45 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: MNDude

Burroughs
A princess of Mars


140 posted on 08/13/2022 12:48:47 PM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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