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Kada
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For thos who like to read sci-fi
#4417331 - 07/17/05 11:54 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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I have read alot of books by alot of authors, but i just finished reading Kelly Armstrong's books and i gotta say, she is a good author i thought. If you like books about werewolfs, witches, sorcerers, demons, vampires, and other things like that, she has 5 books out there now, that are really good. Other authors i suggest you look at; Robert Jordan Terry Goodkind Robert Heinlein Anyone else have a Author i can check out? Im running out of books to read, i read way to fast and am always on the lookout for something good i havn't came across before. Sci-fi of course.
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THE KRAT BARON
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: Kada]
#4417342 - 07/17/05 11:57 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thanks for all of the good suggestions. Wish I had some to add on.. Only can come up with one at the moment.
Anne Rice
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: THE KRAT BARON]
#4417353 - 07/18/05 12:01 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Robert Jordan Robert Heinlein Ray Bradbury
those are my favorites
especially heinliens "job comedy of justice" & "stranger in a strange land"
and Jordans wheel of time (though his Conan chronicles are absolutly AWESOME).
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: Kada]
#4417375 - 07/18/05 12:06 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Bruce Sterling William Gibson Isaac Asimov Arthur C Clark Robert Aspirin Margret Weiss and Tracy Hickman Neil Stephenson Carl Sagan Douglas Adams Harlan Ellison
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THE KRAT BARON
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: Kada]
#4417385 - 07/18/05 12:09 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Stephen King; I think that just goes unsaid.
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: THE KRAT BARON]
#4417395 - 07/18/05 12:11 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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i dont like stephen king, excpet for his fictoinal short stories and the two books pet cemetary adn kujo.
everything else dissapointed me
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THE KRAT BARON
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: Todcasil]
#4417414 - 07/18/05 12:16 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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You didn't enjoy 'It' ??
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: THE KRAT BARON]
#4417435 - 07/18/05 12:22 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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well, it was good for most of the book actually, but i was kind of let down at the end... its all a matter of perspetive i suppose
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: Kada]
#4417525 - 07/18/05 12:48 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Check out Tad Williams. And of course the Hitchhiker series by Douglas Adams- one of the best books ever written IMO.
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: muistrue]
#4417571 - 07/18/05 01:03 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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e.e 'doc' smith is amazing. The Lensman series is extremely good, also inspired the very first video game.
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: TheCow]
#4421408 - 07/18/05 10:42 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Stephen King's Dark Tower seiries is really good. I also Like Wiese and Hickman. There's an austrailian author that I enjoyed a a lot too, I think her name is Sara Douglass. She wrote The Wayfarer Redemption and Starman and something else.
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: DoctorJ]
#4421448 - 07/18/05 10:51 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
DoctorJ said: Bruce Sterling William Gibson Isaac Asimov Arthur C Clark Robert Aspirin Margret Weiss and Tracy Hickman Neil Stephenson Carl Sagan Douglas Adams Harlan Ellison
! This is an essential reading list for those new to Science-Fiction!
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: Kada]
#4421568 - 07/18/05 11:24 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Larry Niven David Brin Frank Herbert Alfred Bester
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: Phred]
#4421584 - 07/18/05 11:31 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Probably the very best science fiction book of all time -- the original "cyber-punk" novel written almost half a century ago -- has to be Alfred Bester's The Stars my Destination (in England it is published as Tiger, Tiger).
It is on every reviewer's top ten list. Short, punchy, gripping, superbly written, just packed with new concepts. An absolute must read.
Here's the first sentence:
"He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead."
Get it. Read it. Keep it to read again every five years or so. This one has it all.
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: Phred]
#4571944 - 08/23/05 06:18 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Robert J. Sawyer ..canadian author.. his newest book is called mindscan .(androids with nanogel brains -what is the definition of consciousness?)
Factoring humanity (a computer/machine accessed gateway into the collective consciousness)
Calculating god (three different extra terrestrials including humans talk about the existance of a god and the difference in their perceptions.. -they're thankfully not all humanoids.
Flash forward, partical acdcelerator jumps everyones consciousness on the planet earth forward 20 yrs.. some people imagine themselves being dead?!
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: Kada]
#4571989 - 08/23/05 06:32 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Jules Verne and Arthur Conan Doyle
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: ivi]
#4572007 - 08/23/05 06:39 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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i enjoyed tad williams otherland series and by the way ivi I dig your avatar i love the Slayers series
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: lowdominion]
#4572078 - 08/23/05 06:54 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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For a heartwarming tale of a brave Christian girl, check out Justine by the Marquis De Sade.
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: Kada]
#4573258 - 08/23/05 11:06 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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DAN FUCKING SIMMONS
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Re: For thos who like to read sci-fi [Re: Todcasil]
#4574180 - 08/24/05 08:56 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Todcasil said: i dont like stephen king, excpet for his fictoinal short stories and the two books pet cemetary adn kujo.
everything else dissapointed me
You didn't like "The Stand"? Did you read "From A Buik 8"? try that
Childhood's end by Arthur C Clack Foundation series by Asimov Frank Herbert Philip K Dick
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