2006-09-12 14:47:27 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Thank you but is Stranger... really science fiction?? I have read it and it is more philosophy, isn't it?
2006-09-12 14:50:07 · update #1
I have read and like Do Andoids... but I find the film to be better!!
2006-09-12 14:52:04 · update #2
The best is anything by Asimov, the originator of contemporary Sci-Fi but I personally like the Genesis Wave Series of Star Trek Novels.
2006-09-12 18:28:29 · answer #1 · answered by theauthor445 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anthony Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange.
One good answer is More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon.
Some would suggest Wells' The Time Machine.
But for real kick-*** great science fiction, it's hard to beat The Stars my Destination by Alfred Bester.
There's a lot of great science fiction people just don't read.
2006-09-12 14:55:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
and for a Series
The Ringworld series - Larry Niven
2006-09-12 14:49:08 · answer #3 · answered by holden 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jule's Verne's Journey to the centre of the earth; HG Wells The Time Machine; or even Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.
2006-09-12 14:49:55 · answer #4 · answered by jgirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
2006-09-12 14:50:54 · answer #5 · answered by travis_a_duncan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the term best is a bit subejctive . So i'll tell you my favourite instead
" The Kraken Wakes" by John Wyndham
He also wrote "The Day of the Triffids" and The Midwich Cuckoos"
2006-09-12 18:01:29 · answer #6 · answered by pejon60 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle for sheer allegoric imagination.
I think one of the most interesting Sci-Fi books is Dune. The movie, in my opinion, sucked. But the book is awesome.
2006-09-12 14:51:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always felt that "Dune", by Frank Herbert, was the greatest single SCIFI Book. It was so full of original thought on religion, history, sociology, politics, and ecology, that reading the book was like getting a good Liberal Arts education...
Vandevere
2006-09-12 14:51:30 · answer #8 · answered by Ven D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stranger is definitely sci-fi--I mean, come on Heinlen is classic! :) Lots of sci-fi is a bit philosophical, or somehow makes you think about the nature of man/the world--I think that's why I love sci-fi.
The best though....I'm going to say Dune is probably the actual BEST, but my favorite is the Honor Harrington series by David Weber. I just can't get enough!
2006-09-13 04:06:21 · answer #9 · answered by OneSongGlory 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really enjoyed Paths Not Taken by Simon Green from the Nightside Series.
2006-09-12 14:52:01 · answer #10 · answered by chris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋