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19 Oct 2007, 3:46 am

Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (about cloning and the soul at many points, as well as a conspiracy to deal with an invading force)


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19 Oct 2007, 4:14 am

The Dune novels, now there was a master storyteller at work. That moment when, during tense negotiations, a conference participant leans over and spits on the table, and this is revealed to be a gesture of generosity and goodwill: beautifully handled.

Okay, messiah. Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein's classic take on how a Second Coming might unfold.



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19 Oct 2007, 4:26 am

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The Dune novels, now there was a master storyteller at work. That moment when, during tense negotiations, a conference participant leans over and spits on the table, and this is revealed to be a gesture of generosity and goodwill: beautifully handled.

Okay, messiah. Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein's classic take on how a Second Coming might unfold.


Starship Troopers by Heinlein. And you're right. I haven't come across a book so rich in cultural and historical background since Lord of the Rings, and LOTR was pretty stuffy by comparison....


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19 Oct 2007, 4:37 am

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick, because it was made into the movie Total Recall, which was directed by Paul Verhoeven, who also directed Starship Troopers.



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19 Oct 2007, 4:49 am

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K Dick (as well as being turned into a movie with a well known actor in the role, and which deals with metaphysics).


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19 Oct 2007, 5:16 am

The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner (1972), a warning of impending ecological disaster. The title is taken from Lycidas, an elegy by John Milton:

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The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed,
But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,
Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread....



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19 Oct 2007, 5:22 am

Watership Down by Richard Adams (1972)


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19 Oct 2007, 5:26 am

A right of endless light, Has water in the book, a lot, matching up with the last title.



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19 Oct 2007, 5:35 am

A Wrinkle in Time, also by Madeleine L'Engle.

I'm assuming that was A Ring of Endless Light!

Edit: Woo hoo! I'm a phoenix!



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19 Oct 2007, 5:37 am

You mean A Ring of Endless Light.

The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum (published in 1980, same as AROEL)

edit: SleepyDragon! I was doing A Ring Of Endless Light....


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19 Oct 2007, 5:42 am

The Manchurian Candidate, Richard Condon. (spy thriller)



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19 Oct 2007, 5:50 am

SleepyDragon wrote:
The Manchurian Candidate, Richard Condon. (spy thriller)


Psycho by Robert Bloch (same year, 1959)


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19 Oct 2007, 6:03 am

Dead Calm by Charles Williams, made into movie with Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman.

C'mon, Shadesey, go for it! :D



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19 Oct 2007, 6:24 am

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1963)


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19 Oct 2007, 6:33 am

Definitely one of his better efforts. Player Piano was enjoyable as well.



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19 Oct 2007, 6:37 am

Metropolis by Thea von Harbou (similar themes, and released before the movie was)


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