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?
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Andromeda Strain by Micheal Crichton
Oh, my goodness! The last one that I bought cost me $5 on eBay ... and I just checked the prices there as well, and they're the same ($35-$95).
In the second season of The Mandalorian on Disney+, he travels to a ringworld. Yup, the CGI is definitely there.
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I second The Foundation trilogy
Adam Strange, DC Comics.
I e read 2 of your 3. Haven’t read Mansions of Space. Really like Canticle for Leibowitz. Read it 3 or 4 times. Its one of books that I recommend regularly
I did too when I read many years ago. Recently in my 70’s and I don’t think they held up
My teacher read it to us in 6th grade in the mid-seventies. I haven’t really thought about it too much since, but I knew loved our reading sessions for those two months or so. I’ll have to look into this again soon. Thank you!
These were fun but not GOAT material
Ray Bradbury wrote tge Martian Chronicles. Pretty much everything the guy wrote is good
Bradbury’ book, “I Sing the Body Electric”, one of the stories in it-
“The Electric Grandmother” is unforgettable.
It mixes fantasy and science fiction.
When you have some time…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZsnpgtYvHs
Bookmarked
The BBC Raidiophonic version is the superior version of this and was source material for the book. The later audio books are also a pale immatation ofbtge original. The movie was awful
The Frank Frazetta covers were the best!
http://frankfrazetta.org/
Agreed!
Foundation and Niven
The first sci-fi novel I ever read was Dick's "Our Friends from Frolix 8", which probably wrecked me for life, btw (I was 12 or 13). That was from the local library, and the prior week I'd read the Lewis Carroll novels. Around that same time I read "The Hobbit" (having never heard of it before, it was recommended by a friend who'd found it in the school library) then borrowed LOTR from my sister. From that point until my college years, I probably read it about six times, but got to the point that I skipped parts, like the Old Forest/Barrow Downs. The parts I used to skip I skipped again when I re-read it for the first time in decades, just before the first movie came out. They skip the same parts.
I wound up buying a number of the Conan paperback when Lancer was publishing the revived, adapted, or whole-cloth new ones. A bunch of those fell out of copyright (author R.E. Howard killed himself so long ago, intestate I think) and can be found online. Some of those could make good TV series episodes, IMHO, but they aren't much to read at this point. In high school I was off novels for the most part, read some Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut.
I gave up on the sci-fi genre in my early 20s after Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy and a bunch of collections of short stories (Theodore Sturgeon, some of the Thieves' World stuff, the World of Tiers, and from my sister's collection some A.E. Van Vogt after the Asimov). Another novel I'd group in there was the utterly tasteless "Aton", author I don't remember. In college I borrowed some other stuff from fellow students, the only one I remember offhand was "Hadon of Ancient Opar".
Then in my mid-20s I borrowed some paperbacks from my sister (again), Larry Niven's "Ringworld", and "Ringworld Engineers", and somewhere in that general time frame his collab with Jerry Pournelle, "Lucifer's Hammer". I wound up buying "Venus on the Half Shell" at a big paperback exchange in SF, read the whole thing, swapped it back for some other crap, didn't finish the other crap, sold it back before I went home.
Thanks to Tolkien, I got sidetracked into the sword and sorcery stuff, including Conan, but also tried the Gormenghast Trilogy (Tolkien's popularity meant that trilogy marketing was everywhere), and E.R. Eddison's fake trilogy. The paperback of his "A Fish Dinner in Memison" is my favorite cover art for any book, ever, btw.
The only sci-fi I've read since my 20s has been some short stories (more Dick) and by recommendation of a FReeper, Hogan's "Inherit the Stars". By the end of his life, Hogan was deep off into Holocaust denial, which may explain why his Giants series (I the S being the first of those) never got made into movies AFAIK.
Anyway, top three, first one the only one I'd read again, the others odd, obscure maybe, nostalgic:Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip K. Dick
The Last Astronaut -- Pel Torro
Daybreak 2250 AD -- Andre Norton (originally published as "Star Man's Son", and republications have often alternated the titles)
I agree with you on Hyperion. When I recommend it to others I always tell them if they start reading it and like it immediately go out and buy Fall of Hyperion those 2 books are really 1 book and they will be ticked of waiting to get second volume. Endymion and Rise of Endymion are also really 1 book. They can be read later
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