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chaosmachine Grand Master

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I just put together a list of supposedly the best science fiction books of all time.. anything missing? Personally, my top five would look something like this:

 

Neuromancer

Dune

Anathem

Snow Crash

(Fall of) Hyperion

 

And I suspect Iain M. Banks will creep in there soon.

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lumpenprol Grand Master

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Nice list, glad to see "the stars my destination" is on there. I guess it depends on how wide one's definition of sci fi is...should it include any fantasy? Does Vonnegut count?

 

I haven't read any sci fi in a while, but my list would include ~

- A Voyage to Arcturus (probably my all-time favorite)

- Cat's Cradle

- Riddley Walker

- probably some Bradbury, I liked his short stories a lot when I was younger

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Often the problem with sci fi books in my experience is that they bombard you with amazing ideas and don't flesh out the characters enough. This is probably still true of the ones I really love though. I haven't read a lot but I just finished The Stars My Destination and it was shit hot. I've read all the Arthur C Clarke 2001 and sequels and I recall 2010 being the best book. Philip K Dick's Ubik was great too but the only one of his I've read. Somehow never read Neuromancer, something makes me think I won't like his style but I don't know why I think that. I don't think I've read any Vonnegut that is really sci-fi.

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solaris - stanislaw lem

brave new world - aldous huxley

the time machine - h. g. wells

 

all good! There are some kids books I remember fondly too, like "A Wrinkle in Time", though they usually veer more towards fantasy (and if we go to fantasy, we'd have to include Neverending Story and the Dark Is Rising series)

 

Atop has encyclopedic SF knowledge, he needs to get in here...

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My favorite book ever. Though it's probably not a 'real' science fiction.

my favourite too!

seriously overlooked book.

 

i just read "babel-17" by sam delany and thought it was fantastic, though it ended a BIT too abruptly. still would put it in my top 10 just for the concepts.

 

No PKD? Travesty.

 

A Scanner Darkly is my favourite book of all time.

+"Flow My Tears", the Policeman Said

+Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (obviously)

+1

also valis and ubik

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Ubik. Ubik. Ubik.

I like pretty much everything I've read from P. K. Dick, but this one is my all time favourite.

Also the whole the two main Asimov cycles : the Robots and Foundation...The way he managed to unite both into one gigantic piece of work is simply amazing.

 

Also mention speciale to Dune !

 

 

The Colour Out of Space by HPL

 

not a book but I dunno, it's one of my favorites.

 

I just loooooove Lovecraft as well, especially this one - but I don't think at it as being SciFi...

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Ubik. Ubik. Ubik.

I like pretty much everything I've read from P. K. Dick, but this one is my all time favourite.

Also the whole the two main Asimov cycles : the Robots and Foundation...The way he managed to unite both into one gigantic piece of work is simply amazing.

 

Also mention speciale to Dune !

 

 

The Colour Out of Space by HPL

 

not a book but I dunno, it's one of my favorites.

 

I just loooooove Lovecraft as well, especially this one - but I don't think at it as being SciFi...

Eh, HPL helped set the stage for modern sci-fi so I consider some of his stories sci-fi. Especially when you consider that his old god mythos is based on them being from other worlds/planets/universes whatever/somewhere not from earth.

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