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27th February 2008, 11:25am
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#16 | | ShakingTheDisease SuperMod
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| Re: Science Fiction
If you haven't already, try all the Asimov Robot stuff - I Robot (and The Rest of the Robots)and the Elijah Baley novels (The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire).
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27th February 2008, 11:41am
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#17 | | Fattly Drawn Boy Editor
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| Re: Science Fiction
Italian Spiderman - The Book of the Film
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27th February 2008, 6:38pm
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#18 | | ...playground tactics...
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I have this... Quote:
Originally Posted by Prof  Neuromancer by William Gibson. | and this... Quote:
Originally Posted by Largest of Als although I'd start with Snow Crash. | in the flat somewhere. *hunts. Quote:
Originally Posted by djtoast If you haven't already, try all the Asimov Robot stuff - I Robot (and The Rest of the Robots)and the Elijah Baley novels (The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire). | I started the Foundation stuff but kinda trailed off...
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27th February 2008, 6:43pm
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#19 | | Sith Triumvirate Moderator
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| Re: Science Fiction
I highly recommend Alastair Reynolds, A.C. Clark, Issac Asimov and Philip K Dick.
The thing I've found with Dick is that you just have to push on and eventually you'll manage to work out what the hell is going on. Avoid 'Valis' though - it's not bad, just very very strange.
Some more specific recommendations:
Poul Anderson - Tau Zero
Larry Niven - Ringworld
Philip K. Dick - 'Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said' and 'The Penultimate Truth'
Richard Matheson - I Am Legend (Far, far better then the crap film)
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
The Forever War, I Am Legend and Tau Zero are possibly the three best sci-fi books I have ever read. | |
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27th February 2008, 6:51pm
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#20 | | Sith Triumvirate Moderator
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Oh, and there is always Neil Gaimen. | |
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27th February 2008, 6:54pm
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#21 | | Pos-Reprehensible
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And Dianetics.
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27th February 2008, 6:59pm
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#22 | | Sith Triumvirate Moderator
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27th February 2008, 7:08pm
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#23 | | Pos-Reprehensible
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27th February 2008, 7:22pm
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#24 | | Fattly Drawn Boy Editor
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Originally Posted by Dario I don't care enough to find out. | I bought one off ebay because it sounds fucking hilarious.
"Have You Lived Before This Life", it's about past lives of scientologists and consists of interviews with scientologists about their past lives.
Some of them sound pant-wettingly entertaining in a "YOU BELIEVE THIS SHIT?" kind of way.
Seemingly one guy thought he used to be a "space walrus" and another tells us a tale of past life when he was some sort of Martian ladies-man Fonzie-type character, cutting about Mars picking up all the Martian gals.
Sounds ace, I can't wait to get it.
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27th February 2008, 7:22pm
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#25 | | ...playground tactics...
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Originally Posted by Dario And Dianetics. | I vaguely considered this but decided it'd be like the time I tried to get through Mein Kampf and watched 'The Secret Life Of...' episode instead.
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27th February 2008, 7:29pm
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#26 | | Pos-Reprehensible
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Originally Posted by LesMTS I bought one off ebay because it sounds fucking hilarious.
"Have You Lived Before This Life", it's about past lives of scientologists and consists of interviews with scientologists about their past lives.
Some of them sound pant-wettingly entertaining in a "YOU BELIEVE THIS SHIT?" kind of way.
Seemingly one guy thought he used to be a "space walrus" and another tells us a tale of past life when he was some sort of Martian ladies-man Fonzie-type character, cutting about Mars picking up all the Martian gals.
Sounds ace, I can't wait to get it. |
That reminds me, I've got a Raelian e-book saved on my computer that I'd meant to have a look through. "Intelligent Design: A Message from the Designers", I believe it's called. Quote:
Years ago, everybody knew that the earth was flat. Everybody knew that the sun revolved around the earth.
Today, everybody knows that life on earth is the result of random evolution and/or a supernatural God. Or is it?
In "Message from the Designers" Rael presents us with a third option: that all life on earth was created by advanced scientists from another world. During a UFO encounter in 1973 he was dictated a series of messages, face to face, by one of these designers. The result is what lies within these pages - an astonishing revelation for mankind.
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27th February 2008, 7:42pm
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#27 | | Goned
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Larry Niven - Ringworld | any of the ringworld series will do though the first is the better read | |
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27th February 2008, 7:45pm
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#28 | | FOR YOUR PLEASURE
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27th February 2008, 11:28pm
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#29 | | Kurwa
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Dick's short stories are the fucking bomb by the way. Some of the novels are hard going but I could read his short stories all day every day.
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27th February 2008, 11:59pm
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#30 | | Oh the humanity!
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I love HG Wells, especially War of the Worlds and The Island of Dr Moreau.
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