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What are your favourite sci-fi books?
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#2The Three-body Problem. It raises the bar of sci-fi literature in China.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/07...
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#3Anything by Iain M. Banks. Start with "The Player of Games" and "Consider Phlebas".
Anything by Vernor S. Vinge especially "Zones of Thought" series.
"Daemon", "Freedom(tm)", "Kill Decision" and "Influx" by Daniel Suarez.
"The Martian" by Andy Weir.
Anything by Neal Stephenson, especially "Reamde: A Novel" and "Cryptonomicon".
Anything by Hannu Rajaniemi, especially "The Fractal Prince".
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#4http://akkartik.name/post/scifi
Recommendations here that I consider over-rated: Ramez Naam, Daniel Suarez, Reamde. I also couldn't get through Three-body Problem. I might try again, though.
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#5Stumbled across and started reading
A. E. van Vogt's "The World of Null-A" last night.
Super trippy.
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#6I have strong opinions about this. My criteria for a book being science fiction and not fantasy is that is must be based on scientific thinking. The author must have done some work to determine whether whats happening in his book is at least plausible according to real science, and then work out the details of how it would actually function. So I regard most "science fiction" books and almost all "science fiction" films as really being fantasy. Essentially they are works of fantasy or dramatic fiction re-skinned with lasers and aliens instead of magic and goblins (to a great or lesser extent).
So dune is a great book but it is 90% fantasy, there is only a little bit of research done by the author on desert ecosystems.
My favourite real science fiction author is Arthur C clarke. some good books by him...
earthlight
the fountains of paradise
islands in the sky
the sands of mars
rama
songs of distant earth
Also would recommend accelerando by Charles Stross and the mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson
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#7Most of Asimov's books, specially:
* Foundation Series / Robot Series / Empire Series
* The Gods Themselves
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#8I maintain a community created list of Sci-Fi novels worth reading:
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#9Philip K. Dick (Ubik, Man in the high castle, Flow my tears the police man said)
Frederik Pohl (Gateway, the Space Merchants)
Ursula K. Le Guin (The Dispossessed, Left Hand of Darkness)
Iain M. Banks (Culture novels)
You will find many Sci-Fi treasures by just going through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SF_Masterworks
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#10Isaac Asimov Foundation (beside mangas!)