Been meaning to get round to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (wasn't it the inspiration for Blade Runner?). Wasn't aware that Phillip K. Dick also wrote Man in the High Castle.I'm going to plug Philip K. Dick nice and early.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Man in the High Castle
Forever War sounds like a really interesting concept. Added it to my list.Been reading The Forever War, and while Im not normally a fan of books told from a first person perspective, so far this one has been an awesome exception to my rule.
Hardwired is also fantastic, if a bit more cyberpunk than straight sci fi.
So that thread about the best sci-fi concepts has got me itching to read a sci-fi novel and I realised I haven't ever read one. I keep coming across Dune being the ultimate sci-fi novel, but I was interested in what my fellow Gaffers thought.
Fire away!
Been meaning to get round to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (wasn't it the inspiration for Blade Runner?). Wasn't aware that Phillip K. Dick also wrote Man in the High Castle.
Just re-read this recently. Really a fantastic book.Hyperion, but the first book is better than the other 2
I'm an Arthur C. Clarke fan. In particular Childhood's End, Randevouz with Rama and 2001 Space Odyssey are spectacular.
Vernor Vinge's A fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky.
Been meaning to read these two, is the third book any good?
More Badass correctly called out Book of the New Son. Super unusual protagonist too.
I really liked The Three-Body Problem trilogy.
I considered it, but for a first time science fiction reader it might be a tough row to hoe.
Is he really tho?More Badass correctly called out Book of the New Son. Super unusual protagonist too.
Is he really tho?He's basically lictor-Jesus by the end of Citadel.
I know Orson Scott Card gets shit for his views these days, and rightfully so, but I loved Enders Game and, after not getting hooked then trying it again, I really liked Speaker for the Dead.
I also like various EU Star Wars books, which I guess are space fantasy and not sci fi, so never mind.
Does Jules Verne count? so much science jargon, so good
i got a big book containing his best, id recommend that
I think The Hunger Games trilogy are the only scifi books that I've read.
Let me bookmark this thread!!
Standalone books by Alistair Reynolds are also short but great reads - Pushing Ice, House of Suns, Terminal World and Revenger.