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Starman · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 7:57 pm

Can anyone suggest to me some good books and authors for quality sci fi reading ?

thanks in advance

oh and also tell me abit about the book, if possible

PandaX52 · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 8:52 pm

ender's game....good book,typical sci-fi, big suprise ending, won't tell you.

dune, of course.

and anything by Heinlein!

Carl Sagan is good too...it's got the "sci" minus the "fi" part.

faustgfx · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 8:59 pm

Peter F. Hamilton's Reality Dysfunction. HALLELUJAH!

MoleculeMan · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 9:07 pm

The Hyperion/Endymion Series by Dan Simmons. Its really good.

faustgfx · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 9:12 pm

yeah, i forgot that. i really enjoyed hyperion. but the fall of hyperion was fucking horrible bullshit. i couldn't force myself to read past 100 or so pages. but then again, the 100 or so pages had nothing going on in them, so i really don't know. but hyperion is definitely, and i mean definitely worth reading.

i just wish the story would just end where the first book stops, where they're walking down to [beep].

molecule, spoil me some beans on endymion, is it anything like hyperion?

faustgfx · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 9:14 pm

err wait. i'm a fucking retard.

first comes hyperion, then the fall of hyperion, right?

wtf.

fuck it i need to sleep. it's 8 am and i need to be at work around midday. fucking vacation is over. fucking fuck a shit.

Jezebel · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 9:23 pm

Panda... telling someone there is a surprise ending is almost as bad as telling someone the ending anyway. Either way there is no surprise now :P

My mom always does that. She said, "Somebody told me <insert movie here> has a really good surprise ending!" Then I end up sitting through the whole flick thinking about what crazy thing they are going to throw at me towards the end. Bah, drives me crazy, hehe.

PandaX52 · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2001 3:19 pm

true.......

scratch that.....there is a moderatly insignifigant infinitesimal hardly noticeable suprise ending at the end of the book, Ender's Game.

Pat · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2001 12:23 am

Go read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It's fun.

-Pat

MoleculeMan · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2001 12:29 am

The Series goes Hyperion - Fall of Hyperion - Endymion - Rise of Endymion (or what ever the next book was heh). The Endymions were really good i liked them a whole lot. Definately worth the read. !

Briareos · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2001 4:34 am

Masamune Shirow

Ghost in the Shell

Its about a person that is inside a android body and she is a cop. Its in the future and there is a nural network and it gets really deep and technical and there is good fights and the girls are sexy and ITS JUST IS HELLA COOL... hehe.. but its not a novel, its a graphic novel.

faustgfx · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2001 4:47 am

like there was someone on this planet who didn't know what ghost in the shell is.

Starman · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2001 4:53 am

thanks people
shall go get all the books tomorrow or saturday : )

starfish · member Member # Joined: 07 Feb 2000 Posts: 126

Yo Starman!

if you want some really good written sci-fi
reading that makes you go 'wtf?!' try
'The Empire of Isher' by A. E. van Vogt.
it's a compilation of 'The Weapon Shops of Isher'
and 'The Weapon Makers'.
those stories were written in 1949 and 1951.

for more info check out www.mmedia.is/vanvogt/

=)