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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite sci-fi book?

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Post by perseusprime11 » Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 12:02 PM UTC

c0sm0naut wrote: post #7

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick I, Robot - Isaac Asimov The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke

Great books. I've read all except the first one.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite sci-fi book?

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Post by perseusprime11 » Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 1:48 PM UTC

Anybody read Blindsight? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite sci-fi book?

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Post by FiatLuxDave » Fri, Jun 30, 2017, 6:05 PM UTC

Blood Music - Greg Bear

Accelerando - Charlie Stross

Psychohistorical Crisis - Donald Kingsbury (assuming you have already read Asimov's Foundation series)

A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge

Chung Kuo, the Middle Kingdom - David Wingrove

Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie

Neutron Star - Larry Niven

Existence - David Brin

The Dosadi Experiment - Frank Herbert

The Space Merchants - Pohl and Kornbluth

Sun of Suns - Karl Schroeder

All the Traps of Earth - Clifford Simak

Test of Fire - Ben Bova

The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson