Not 'The Hitch Hikers Guide...' please, nor 'A Brave New World'. Please include your own short bit of 'blurb'. Please include authors name.
2007-02-13 08:21:57 · 16 answers · asked by ? 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
there is no best, but some great one:
Stanislaw Lem: Eden (1959) - after crashing their spaceship on the planet Eden, the crew discovers it is populated with an unusual society.
C. Clarke:Rendezvous with Rama - You are going to be in the XXIIth century on a strange planet. Actually it's not a planet and it's going to be alive, but no more spoiling....
And if you are looking for not especially stories, but theories You are going to love Asimov's The Tragedy of the Moon. The writing with the same title had changed my whole way of thinking about environmental pollution... And it IS interesting :)
2007-02-13 09:43:15 · answer #1 · answered by niihka 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
1984, by George Orwell
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Fahrenheit 451, by Rad Bradbury
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J.K. Rowling
I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
Personal favs:
-Peeps by Scott Westerfeld: Vampirism plagues the earth
-The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld: a totalitarian government forces people to under go the knife so that they all look relatively the same, what the people don't know is that the surgeons are also putting implants into their brains...
-Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice: pretty self-explanatory
-Twilight series by Stephanie Meyers: another vampire story, but its more of a romance (the vampires are good)... also this writer is coming out with a new sci-fi novel soon where parasitic aliens take over our bodies...
2007-02-13 14:43:11 · answer #2 · answered by rachaeluv<3 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here Comes The Sun by Tom Holt, he's a brilliant, comedic writer. Here comes The Sun revolves around a girl who is taken to be the Emperor of the Universe but she doesn't want the job and so she's taken round all the various departments to see what she does want to do.
Metamorphosis - a Star Trek novel where Data becomes human.
Pawns and Symbols - another Star Trek novel about a human woman living in Klingon society.
2007-02-13 23:31:01 · answer #3 · answered by elflaeda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love the book SABRIEL by Garth nix.
This book is about magic and touches on the science. It's a great traveling one set back in what seems like a fantasy but is halfly believable. It's about a girl with a powerful necromancer father that is trapped in "death" she needs to save him to save basically the world. Quite action packed the sequels are Lirael and Abhorsen. I hope that was a little interesting. Maybe? I loved it though. I would read it a million times over if I could.
2007-02-13 08:55:56 · answer #4 · answered by LadyDragonRider 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nobody listed the Fathers of Science fiction? H.G. Wells and Jules Verne?
Well, mine are,
The Time Machine
The First Men in the Moon
The Island of Dr. Moreau- about vivisection
2007-02-13 13:19:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The 'Ender' series by Orson Scott Card.
The Stars are My Destination can't remember author, but a very good read.
Any of the 'Honor Harrington' books by David Weber.
The 'Sten' books by Chris Bunch and partner.
The Mars or Venus books by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
And too many others to list here.
Go to Baen's Books online and check out authors by alphabet and see for yourself.
2007-02-13 10:06:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Asimov Foundation series. Second Foundation.
I like the vast scheme of universe history. Ideas like the psycho-history one where the decline of the old empire was predicted and the path to the new one was set is intriguing.
He links it all into his Robot books as well.
Its all fundamentally optimistic as well, a lot of modern SciFi is so pessimistic I can't be bothered with it.
2007-02-13 08:37:02 · answer #7 · answered by Cader and Glyder scrambler 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Thomas Covenant Trilogy by Stephen R. Donaldson.
The first one that is - complex characters and plot lines.
Characters who do a good thing for bad reason and vice versa.
Fully developed 'Land" and it's inhabitants.
Read at your own risk, there's a second trilogy and he's writing a 4 book sequel now.
(I want to name a dog after Bannor!)
2007-02-13 09:21:14 · answer #8 · answered by txkathidy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
2007-02-13 13:01:34 · answer #9 · answered by Beau Brummell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg.
Valentine is a simple wanderer with almost no past and no plans for the future. Aided by his new friends, he tries to find himself as they juggle their way across the beautiful planet of Majipoor. Haunted by bits of memory and troubling dreams, Valentine seeks his destiny.
2007-02-13 14:29:28 · answer #10 · answered by awanderingelf 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋