I like reading Lem.

HP is fiction rigth?
no, i don't quite like reading that anymore.. crap nowadays..
i havne't been able to get me hands on any science fiction books in quite a while.. tom clancy was waayy too long.

I read Terry Pratachett, David Gemmel, HP, and I used to read David Eddings and Terry Brooks. And Gemmel is by far the best IMO.

If it wasn't for the inky blackness of the night you wouldn't appreciate the brilliance of the stars...

I've got some Star Trek Books, and the Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy Trilogy(Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising and The Last Command). I also have the Lord of The Rings

"A TopGun through and through"

The last novel that I have read was called Shogun by James Clavell. It is very good at explaining Japanese culture during the 16th century. The writer was a prisoner of war during World War 2 in Asia and this must of enabled him to understand Eastern cultures.
He also wrote a series of books about Hong Kong, which are supposed to be very good.

I just love SciFi. I mostly concentrate on the classics - Anderson, Foster, Dietz, Cook, etc. I was disappointed by Harrison, but his "West to Eden" was real good. I'm lucky because there's a SF publishing house that has 3 books published every 2 weeks, so I have 3 nights of reading. In addition to that, they have different contests every month (I already won two books - you can pick any books you like). Presently I'm on King's "Gunslinger" series now. Good stuff.

Depends what you define as sci-fi I only read sci-fi and odinary fiction, Matthew Reilly is the best I've ever read

The more I learn , the more I get to know, the more I get to know, the more I forget, so why should I learn?

Ender's Game, sure.
As well as Speaker of the Dead, Xenocide, Ender's Children, Ender's Shadow and the Shadow of the Hegemon. There's a new one out I haven't read yet. Supposedly it is the sequel to Shadow of the Hegemon.
Last one I read was "Pastwatch". Great book.
Oh well, Heinlein (all but two, one I haven't found yet, one I haven't finished and never will), Foster (german, though), Pratchett (Discworld and Good Omens, unforgetable), Asimov, Turtledove (alternate histories), Shadowrun (not just one author), Neville, Pournelle (Footfall, Mote in Gods Eye), Dick (hard to miss out on Dick, with so many films going back to his short stories...Total Recall, Minority Report, Blade Runner), Bradley (still trying to get all the Darkover books), Kerr (Nemesis, Dark Sun), LeGuin (Earthsea? read it in german), Robinson (Calahans Saloon), Asprin (Demon and Chaoskompanie - also in german), Adams (HHGTTG, Dick Gently), Willams (just Otherland, but will find some others soon), Bradbury (Who could ever forget Fahrenheit 451?), Crichton (Timeline was not his best, but the others are great), Banks, Herbert (Dune), Nadolny (thats actually an italian author)...... (and so on and so on...)
Those are just the ones that come to mind...

I bought a new shelf a few months back.... "ah well, they all will fit in here nicely"... forget it. All in two rows and stuffed in every place imaginable...

Oh bog. I forgot Tolkien!
Read it six times....


Sterling

most of the sci-fi books I have read are comics
but of the actual books I have read was the corellian trilogy the only sci-fi

@Locutus: Do you mean star wars comics? If so, u (or anyone else) know which ones the Lusankya and the Soverign class SSD's appear in?

Signature? What Signature?

lusankya, appears in the first few X-Wing books by Michael Stackpole. It also appears as a cameo in the comic book Crimson Empire (but only briefly).

@Locutus: are you saying youve only read 3 books?

i dont read alot of sci-fi, or anything for that matter, i TRY, but i am so busy using my pc that i dont really have the time, but i DO plan to read the classics and discover some really good books but at the moment i cant really face.
HOWEVER i am reading "nineteen eigthy-four" at the moment and then i am gonna read "neuromancer" and THEN i'm gonna read "hacking exposed, fourth edition" so i have a few books on the cards. I read star wars of course, i have about 12 novels that i slowly trudge through and about a shelf full of star wars comics. I always wanted to get into comics as well, but like vinyl, its an expensive hobby and the life of a student living off the foolishness of a bank and its overdraft isnt very acommidating when your buying essentials as well...like food, and broadband

-arcon
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Ah, of course. Forgot Gibson.
"Neuromancer" the others ("Cyperspace" and "Mona Lisa Overdrive" and a few more)

The guy that gave us cyperpunk!

Sterling

@ arcon

i have read a lot of books (most of them compulsory for my school exam (MAVO))
a wee quantity were ones with a story (those compulsory and the trilogy)

about 80 % were about physics, chemistry and other scientifical things

note that I'm talking about the books that are at least 95 % letters and the rest pictures or otherwise illustrations.

when you were a kid, were you shocked to find adult books DIDNT have pictures..i was absolutely outraged

-arcon
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