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32 Sci-Fi novels that you should add to your reading list

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Re: 32 Sci-Fi novels that you should add to your reading list

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Here is a real list, shorter and MUCH higher quality: 1. The Cyberiad 2. Babel-17 3. The Stars My Destination 4. The Sheep Look Up 5. More Than Human 6. Lord of Light 7. To Your Scattered Bodies Go 8. Earth Abides 9. Dying Inside 10. City 11. Last and First Men 12. Slan 13. The World of Null-A

The Sheep Look Up++ - a book that makes it possible to imagine how bad things could get, a faculty that helps keep you alert, and out of thinking "How bad could it be? Everything will go on as normal". Funny, we have a lite version of it - we have risen+rising cancer rates, and chemicals being 'innocent til proven guilty' here in the States. Something that still awes me, though perhaps it shouldn't, is the way organic food fits the role of Puritan so exactly.

Re: 32 Sci-Fi novels that you should add to your reading list

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The Orion SF Masterworks collection is much better, exhaustive, and actually published as a series (not in the US unfortunately). Take a look lots of awesome books you may or may not have read... http://www.sfsite.com/lists/orion01.htm

it's been awhile since I've seen a sci-fi list with books i haven't read. thanks for the link.

Re: 32 Sci-Fi novels that you should add to your reading list

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After The Algebraist and Matter I never want to read another word of Iaiaain M Banks. Consider Phlebas was genius, but he's lost it.

try "use of weapons" and "excession". imho they are much much nicer than "consider phlebas".

I've read everything he's written to date. Which is why the last two were such crushing disappointments.

Re: 32 Sci-Fi novels that you should add to your reading list

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I recall, in the end he also turns out to be a great swordfighter in real life though. Something about single-handedly assaulting an aircraft carrier using only his katana? That was pretty much where the book lost me.

He also had the help of a railgun called Reason.

"They won't listen to us, but they'll listen to R.E.A.S.O.N.!"
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