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Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book
#7393170 - 09/10/07 06:42 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: Lion]
#7393173 - 09/10/07 06:43 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Dune Ender's Game Nine Princes in Amber
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: Gastronomicus]
#7393176 - 09/10/07 06:44 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Gastronomicus said: Ender's Game
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: jewunit]
#7393190 - 09/10/07 06:46 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ender's Game is an awesome book, but I've already read it. As well as the two sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide) that were worth reading...
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: Lion]
#7393195 - 09/10/07 06:47 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Read Ender's Shadow? It's about Bean.
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: Lion]
#7393196 - 09/10/07 06:47 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I wouldn't really call it fantasy, definitely not sci fi, but its a helluva good read if you haven't picked it up already.
american gods by neil gaiman. If you like clive barkers works you should like gaiman's
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: Lion]
#7393259 - 09/10/07 07:01 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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hard to do better than the chronicles of amber (the amber series) I do hope you've read The Lord of the Rings, or the Hobbit\ The original Dragonlance books were pretty good too. elric is on the dark side
oh yes..The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson READ IT
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: Taco Chef]
#7393263 - 09/10/07 07:02 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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You're like the only other person I know who's read the Amber series, which is odd because they're so so good
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: Lion]
#7393301 - 09/10/07 07:10 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Journey to the center of the earth
By Jules Verne who is effectively the creator of the Science Fiction Genre
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: Gastronomicus]
#7393307 - 09/10/07 07:12 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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really? as soon as I read them, I passed them around to all my friends...
but yeah, i do think of them as the classics of the genre...not tolkien or such, but highly original, solid plotting, and really incredible characters.
Corwin or Random? Oberon or the Lords of Chaos
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: Taco Chef]
#7393325 - 09/10/07 07:17 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Startide Rising
Dune was mentioned upthread, it's worth re-reading every few years.
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: Taco Chef]
#7393350 - 09/10/07 07:22 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Corwin all the way
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: Gastronomicus]
#7393355 - 09/10/07 07:23 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: jewunit]
#7393399 - 09/10/07 07:30 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Different Corwin. Instead of playing with snakes, he stabs people in the face
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: Lion]
#7393403 - 09/10/07 07:31 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Rendezvous With Rama The City and the Stars
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: Chubba]
#7393491 - 09/10/07 07:51 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein. Its Sci-fi by far, but you may remember parts of it from your history classes.
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: coda]
#7393509 - 09/10/07 07:54 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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coda said: I wouldn't really call it fantasy, definitely not sci fi, but its a helluva good read if you haven't picked it up already.
American gods by neil gaiman. If you like clive barkers works you should like gaiman's
Great book, have you read the Anansi Boys? I picked it up the other day. yet to read it though.
A good Sci-Fi author Is Raymond E Feist pre 95 circa, and then his Serpent War series is a good series.
It gets pretty cerebral at times, when you the characters go to Navigate the Hall Of Worlds. This largely uncharted Hall in the cosmos with doors adorning both side leading to different worlds, realities and time signatures.
i really enjoy them
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: Lion]
#7393621 - 09/10/07 08:22 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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The Mote in God's Eye
Pretty damn scary
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Re: Quickquickquick recommend a good sci-fi or fantasy book [Re: Lion]
#7393683 - 09/10/07 08:35 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Dune.
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