2006-08-02 08:38:04 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
steel beach by john varley
the silver metal lover by tanith lee
2006-08-02 08:42:53 · answer #1 · answered by kwanyin_mama 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm a big sci-fi junkie, I've read at least a hundred sci-fi novels, at least.
There are lots of classics and there are too many movies developed from them, so I'm not going to pick one of those. Therefore, the best would have to be the Neanderthal Trilogy by Robert Sawyer. He's a Canadian author, the first of the Trilogy called Hominids won the Nebula best Sci-Fi Novel award.
The other two are called Humans and Hybrids.
You should check it out.
2006-08-02 08:44:05 · answer #2 · answered by X 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love the Dragondawn books. They are kind of sci-fi because it all takes place on a planet the people of Earth colonize in the future. Once they set up on this new planet they realize that there is a kind of cycle in which they undergo a sort of acid rain but its referred to as "Thread" because its not really liquid but a sort of solid that can only be destroyed by fire. However, this planet is also home to dragon like lizards, which the colonists genetically enhance into rideable dragons to burn up the Thread before it can destroy crops, people, livestock, and homes. Its a whole series, there's a kids version too. I'm drawing a blank on the author right now... maybe Anne McCarthey??? I think that's right. Anyway, I love them because its a brilliant mix of fantasy and sci-fi, and I definitely recommend them!
2006-08-02 08:51:09 · answer #3 · answered by Legolas' Lover 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is right up there, and so is Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.
But I think the best sci-fi series has got to be the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold - these books just get better and better!
2006-08-02 10:57:39 · answer #4 · answered by JBTexas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know what was the weirdest was one short story by EM Forester, the guy who wrote the victorian novels: A room with a View, A Passege to India, and Howards End. Well he wrote this amazing short story called the machine stops in the 1920's it is this sociaty where people live in these hives where everything is done for them by this machine so all they do all do is sit in their hive and talk on this thing like the internet. It is too weird. Of course the plot is because this machine that serve them in breaking down and no one know how to fix it anymore. Very good.
I am currently reading the the Dark Tower Series by Stephan King and it is pretty good SF too.
2006-08-02 08:54:09 · answer #5 · answered by Constant_Traveler 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jack The Bodiless, Diamond Mask and Magnificat...
Galactic Milieu Trilogy by Julian May
The Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carey
2006-08-02 08:53:40 · answer #6 · answered by nimbleminx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dune..series By Frank Herbert
Crystal Singer Series by Anne McCaffery
2006-08-02 13:15:10 · answer #7 · answered by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I loved the foundation series by Asimov. I don't remember the name of the second book, but it was really good
And I liked the way AnneMcaffrey interweaved fantasy and scifi when she told about dragons and their riders fighting alien life forms on a planet called pern, where Dragons had been created through genetic engineering by human settlers on that planet to help burn up the alien organisms (Threads) in air, as they fell to ground from space.
And I liked Douglus Adams, though it is not scifi. Or is it?
2006-08-02 08:45:49 · answer #8 · answered by shrek 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mid-World by Alan Dean Foster
Nothing else has even come close! And I have read all of Robert Heinlein, Issac Assimov, Anne McCaffrey, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Piers Anthony, L. Ron Hubbard, and scores of others.
2006-08-02 16:47:19 · answer #9 · answered by Suzette A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the perfect sci-fi e book is probably "putting out position" by ability of Asimov, and its subsquent following books contained in the sequence. despite the indisputable fact that, i could placed "teens's end" and "daybreak" very severe up there besides. truly one of my favourite sci-fi video clips is The Empire strikes decrease back. even despite the indisputable fact that an outstanding style of of human beings shrink back from renowned man or woman Wars as pop-subculture, it turned right into a risky funding on the time and sci-fi incredibly did not develop into mainstream till after that. "The Day the Earth Stood nonetheless" is probably my favourite classic sci-fi movie despite the indisputable fact that.
2016-11-27 21:22:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd have to say "Wild Seed" by Octavia Butler, and "The Left-Hand of Darkness" by Ursula Le Guin....haven't read very much sci-fi, but I took a class in college called "Women in Science Fiction", and thanks to my professor, I gained an interest and a respect for women science fiction writers.....
2006-08-02 08:48:25 · answer #11 · answered by Genea_80 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋