Your favorite sci-fi novel

Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:43 pm by neuromancer

Seeing as how Freelancer is a sci-fi type of game, I wanted to start a thread on what everyone's favorite sci-fi novel is.

I was going to entitle it "Greatest Sci-Fi Novel of All Time," but since that would throw us intothe realm of personal opinion and eventual all-out flame war, I chose this route instead.

My personal favorite sci-fi novel is Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. (He's also my fave sci-fi author). I re-read this one very six months or so and never get sick of it.

I would recommend staying away from the three "sequels" to this book. They're nowhere near as good (possibly because Clarke used a co-writer, which cheapened it greatly in my humble opinion.)

So...what's your favorite?

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Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:45 pm by richard s

hyperion i forgot who wrote it. also the necroscope series by brian lumbly great author.

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Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:50 pm by house atreides

Dune. the series is good for the first four books but lost me at five and six.
another is Dragonriders of Pern by Anne Mcaffrey. Great for excapeistism ( is that even a word?)
then there is also 1984. Oh man I could go on and on and on and on.........

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Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:48 pm by H.Q. Victor

Black FIre by Sonni Cooper

Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:09 pm by Bejaymac

Elizabeth Moon - Serrano legacy series
David Weber - Honor Harrington series
Diane Duane - Harbinger Trilogy

If I like a book and find its part of a series I tend to read the whole series

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Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:18 pm by Fred the Dead

John DeChancie- Starrigger trilogy
Lois McMaster-Bujold- Miles Vorkosigan series
Jack Chalker- The Quintara Marathon

There're more, but that's about the top three- well, with the exception of two or three from L.E.Modesitt- then there's Asimov, Heinlien, Dickson,....

Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:59 pm by Orillion.

Dune by Frank Herbert. Simple enough

Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:23 am by topher

the "Ender's" series by Orson Scott Card

Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:13 pm by Killa

Well, this isn't Si-Fi like what you all may be thinking, with space ships and FTL travel. (Faster Than Light.) When this book was written in 1978, it was considered a si-fi because it took place twelve years in the future, in 1990. If you look it up in most places it's still considered Si-Fi even though sixteen years have passed since the book was supposed to take place. The book I'm talking about of course is The Stand by Stephen King.

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Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:48 pm by meezookeewee

I'm still a big fan of Robert A Heinlein's Starship Troopers. It's a hell of a good book.

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Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:02 pm by parabolix

My vote would probably have to go to Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman. A great read for anyone

Oh wait...favorite...sci-fi...novel...I only met one of those criteria!

Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:34 pm by Doc

Here's another vote for Ender's game by Scott Orsen Card. I haven't read the others yet - but am strongly tempted. Ender's game reads fast and is well written.

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Wed Jan 18, 2006 1:00 pm by [steel]

most of anne mccaffrey`s work "restoree"as a book "the tower and the have as a series"

Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:16 pm by house atreides

Doc I also liked ender's game but found the rest of the series lacking, almost like they were rushed.

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Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:38 pm by NukeIt

Dune, hands down. Great Sci-Fi that is carried by character development and a rich universe...and not by half-arsed technobabble or cheap gimmicks.

On a side note, I've memorized the Baron Harkonnen's nervous finger-tapping and use it to annoy people I don't like.

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