2007-06-10 07:57:13 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Addams
(but I'm sure you knew that one)
The Keeper of the Isis Light, Monica Hughes
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
Through Violet Eyes, Stephen Woodworth
2007-06-10 08:06:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote some excellent science fiction in addition to being the author of "Tarzan of the Apes". Try "The Moon Maid", or "The Moon Man". There is also a series on Mars (called "Barzoom" by the human-like inhabitants). Finally, he wrote something wherein Earth is hollow, like a tennis ball, with a sun in the center, above the heads of the inhabitants living on the inside surface of the ball! The adventurers (among whom is Tarzan) get inside there via a hole at the pole. They use a lighter than air ship called the O-220, lifted by air pressure because its lifting bag is filled with something lighter than any light gas - - a vacuum! Can a vacuum be said to "fill" something?
As you may know, his writing about Tarzan was so good they named a city in California for the character (take that, Batman, Superman, Hulk, etc.). When Hollywood discovered Jules Verne, I thought Burroughs wouldn't be far behind, what with the Tarzan series and all. No such luck, and these stories are gems still in the ground, waiting to be discovered.
2007-06-10 08:32:44 · answer #2 · answered by gkutzgar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just about everything Philip K. Dick ever wrote, and I have read almost all of his stuff, there of course are other writers I am a big fan of but the late Philip K. Dick 1928-1982 was my favorite science fiction writer. Whoever your favorite science fiction writer is or was, if he or she is deceased I would like to hear about it. I even have a yahoo group for science fiction fans in New Jersey called NEWJERSEY_SCIENCE_FICTION_FANS
which I hope you will join if you are in New Jersey we often go to events that another science fiction club, founded in 1984 called SFABC the science fiction association of bergen country new jersey http://www.sfabc.org sfabc dot org
hosts with speakers including editors, writers, movie makers, and other fantastic people they had a NASA buff at their May meeting as the featured speaker and a fantasy writer at their June meeting as the featured speaker
2007-06-11 09:51:46 · answer #3 · answered by crazyhistorian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dune by Frank Herbert
and
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
2007-06-10 08:36:52 · answer #4 · answered by Jill T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Clockwork Orange, War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, amongst various others
2007-06-10 08:07:20 · answer #5 · answered by SC 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honor Harrington Series---David Weber
2007-06-10 08:06:40 · answer #6 · answered by arenee1999 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Planet Heavenland
2016-05-21 09:37:30 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Almost any Philip K. Dick book... but Ubik or Flow My Tears The Policeman Said or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? were three good ones...
2007-06-10 08:16:04 · answer #8 · answered by aspicco 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dune, with Hitchhikers Guide in a close second. Now when I read Dune, the effect isn't as extreme. Hitchhikers Guide, on the other hand, holds up brilliantly.
2007-06-10 14:10:16 · answer #9 · answered by Mike A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut. It deals with the Dresden bombing, which was a bombing by American forces that killed a lot of German civilians. It's not too science-fiction, but it shows the Dresden bombing and the future and stuff through time travel. It's a great and emotional book.
2007-06-10 08:20:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋