I am just curious for answers. But also trying to remember the name of some famous one with the word "snow" or "ice" in the title. Thanks!
2006-10-26 16:42:37 · 12 answers · asked by gMrombowoz3ia 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
In 1965, the members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention decided to recognize the best ever sci-fi or fantasy series. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy was considered, but didn't win. It was topped by what I would call the best sci-fi book of all time: Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, which is published as a single book almost as often as three.
The three books that make up the classic series ("Foundation," "Foundation and Empire," and "Second Foundation") broach questions dealing with the way both leaders and cultural forces shape history told against the story of the fall of one Galactic Empire and the rising of a Second one. Asimov was influenced by Edward Gibbon's "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" in writing the trilogy (he once characterized it as "a little bit of cribbin' from the works of Edward Gibbon")
Check it out. I think once you read the first two sections of "Foundation" (they're called "The Psychohistorians" and "The Encyclopedists," respectively) you'll be hooked.
Other excellent sci-fi books, which other respondants have already given, would be: "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card, "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein, and "Planet of the Apes" by Pierre Boulle.
2006-10-26 17:33:50 · answer #1 · answered by Jacob1207 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Arthur C. Clark, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein - you are able to't flow incorrect with the large 3. i might upload a 4th - Ray Bradbury Harry Harrisson's Deathworld and stainless-metallic Rat sequence will shop you up. Frank Herbert's Dune sequence is likewise a could. L. Ron Hubbard's venture Earth dekalogy and his Battlefield Earth is in this record too (quite Battlefield Earth, it has each little thing that a sturdy sci-fi e book could have). Philip ok. Dick - his Bladerunner is a classic and shame on you in case you do no longer comprehend approximately it. Harlan Ellison's - attempt to locate his anthologies quite "each and all the Sounds of worry" it has "I have not have been given any Mouth and that i could Scream" and "Repent, Harlequin pronounced the Ticktockman" the two classics. Keith Laumer's Retief sequence. Larry Niven's guy-Kzin Wars Andre Norton, Frederik Pohl, Clifford D. Simak, Theodore Sturgeon, Timothy Zhan, Roger Zelazny, A.E. van Vogt. ...there's a important purchase greater obtainable.
2016-10-16 11:05:42 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tough call...
Ender's Game--Orson Scott Card
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?--Philip K. Dick
Starship Troopers--Robert Heinlein
The Forever War--Joe Haldeman
Screenplay for the movie Dark City
2006-10-26 16:46:16 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For genuine science fiction as opposed to fantasy I would say the recent series "Red Mars", Blue Mars", "Green Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson is as good as anything written in the past twenty or thirty years. It is solidly grounded in reality.
I recently re-read Foundation" and was disappointed. It is not nearly as good as I recalled. "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula le Guin is a far better book and has the advantage of being shorter!
"Rendezvous with Rama" by Arthur C Clarke is a contender too.
OTOH
2006-10-27 02:24:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy, AKA Lilith's Brood. Far reaching many generational tale of a triple sexed alien species that brings the Earth and humanity back from the brink of disaster. Butler was a unique voice in science fiction, and her contributions should not be missed.
2014-04-19 02:16:20 · answer #5 · answered by norman108zero2 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going back to kid stuff but for me that all-time is Wrinkle In Time by L'Engle.
Lucifer's Hammer was great, about a huge meteor striking the earth. And I loved Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. Both of these are about survival on earth after a huge tragedy.
2006-10-26 17:58:03 · answer #6 · answered by chris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
2006-10-27 16:45:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Dune collection is indeed an awesome read.
My favourite however would be:
Neverness, by David Zindell. he has amazing talent. there are 3 in the series. It has "Icefall" as the main planet.
2006-10-26 17:11:57 · answer #8 · answered by SAINT G 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I liked Little Fuzzy and the subsequent books that followed it up by H. Beam Piper.
2006-10-27 11:30:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Dragon's Dawn" by Anne McCaffrey. It combines science and fantasy seamlessly and her version of dragons and their purpose is just poetic.
All of the "Pern" books are wonderful, but you asked specifically about Sci/Fi so that's my pic.
2006-10-26 18:53:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋