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19 Oct 2007, 10:13 pm

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark

Robota by Doug Chiang and Orson Scott Card

Red Planet by Robert Heinlein



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23 Oct 2007, 11:36 am

I'm into alot of Science fiction, I like Star Wars and Doctor who, Here are my fave science fiction books

Star wars: The ultimate dictionary,

Doctor Who: Aliens and Enimies

Doctor Who: Monsters and Demons



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23 Oct 2007, 2:10 pm

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert Heinlein
The Minority Report & Short Stories Philip Dick
Red Mars Kim Robinson
Salem's Lot Stephen King
Neuromancer William Gibson
Intensity Dean Koontz
Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card
Caught Stealing Charlie Huston
Amber Series 1-5 Roger Zelazny
Dark Tower Series Stephen King
Bag of Bones Stephen King
Hearts in Atlantis Stephen King
Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card
The Word for the World is Forest Ursala LeGuin


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23 Oct 2007, 2:18 pm

I've allways thought I've been into science fiction but... the books you guys have posted I have never heard of... gotta go... my bro's phone is ringing



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25 Oct 2007, 6:05 am

My favorite book (or rather- series) is The Chronicles Of Solace by Roger MacBride Allen
And The Hitchhiker's Guide ;)


tv shows:
ST: TNG
Stargate SG-1
Stargate Atlantis
Doctor Who (New Series)

There's probaby more, but I can't remember it ll right now.



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30 Oct 2007, 9:09 pm

I love Star Trek books. Some of my favorites are:

The Rings of Tautee
The Vulcan Academy Murders
Demons


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30 Oct 2007, 9:24 pm

"Tommorrows Eve" Villier De Isle

"War of the worlds" H.G. Wells

"I robot" Issac Asimov
there are other but I can't remember thme rught now



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30 Oct 2007, 11:10 pm

Any story by Isaac Asimov, including the Lucky Starr series and the Norby series
The Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The MYTH series by Robert Asprin
Fahrenheit 451, I Sing the Body Electric and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Star Trek movie novels
Master of the World and Around the World In 80 Days by Jules Verne

The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Food of the Gods, In the Days of the Comet, The War of the Worlds, The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells

Pilgrimmage: The Book of The People, The People: No Different Flesh and the short stories in Holding Wonder and The Anything Box by Zenna Henderson


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31 Oct 2007, 10:45 am

Ursula K. Le Guin!
The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Word for World is Forest, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Orsinian Tales...



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06 Nov 2007, 2:37 pm

Everything by Philip K Dick ^^ obsessed with his works and life.

Some best of-books:
- "A Scanner Darkly"
- "Ubik"
- "VALIS"
- "Eye in the sky"

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06 Nov 2007, 3:12 pm

I like everything by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Jeff Noon... But that's more cyberpunk than SciFi, I guess. Oh, and I like Stanislav Lem.



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06 Nov 2007, 4:12 pm

Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss.


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11 Mar 2008, 1:12 pm

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and Contact by Carl Sagan.


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11 Mar 2008, 1:25 pm

Piers Anthony's sci fi books about Tyke Tyler the Space Tyrant were my favourite.



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11 Mar 2008, 2:21 pm

Robert Heinlein - Starship Troopers
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- Time Enough For Love

Spider Robinson - Telempath
- Mindkiller
- Callahan's Con
- Lady Slings the Booze
- Very Bad Deaths

William Gibson - Neuromancer (and, by extension, the rest of the Sprawl Trilogy)
- Virtual Light

Allan Steele - Orbital Decay
- Lunar Descent

Larry Niven - Ringworld
- The Magic Goes Away
(with Jerry Pournelle) - The Mote In God's Eye
- Oath of Fealty

Jerry Pournelle - King David's Spaceship
- Janissaries

David Brin - Startide Rising (and, by extension, the rest of the Uplift novels, but that's my favorite)
- Otherness
- The River of Time


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11 Mar 2008, 2:37 pm

The Cyberiad - Stanislaus Lem

A for Andromeda - Fred Hoyle

The Black Cloud - Fred Hoyle

October the First is Too Late - Fred Hoyle

The Fifth Planet - Fred Hoyle