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Best Science Fiction novel of all time Round 1 of 2

Jules Verne - Journey to the Center of the Earth

2% (1)

Frank Hebert - Dune

28% (11)

Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game

2% (1)

Isaac Asimov - Foundation

0% (0)

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

5% (2)

George Orwell - 1984

13% (5)

Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger In A Strange Land

34% (13)

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

7% (3)

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle - The Mote In God's Eye

2% (1)

William Gibson - Neuromancer

2% (1)

Total Votes : 38

(last vote on : 4/5/2008 10:10:37 AM)
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Level -> RE: Best Science Fiction novel of all time Round 1 of 2 (1/26/2008 2:24:24 PM)
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tigerstyle -> RE: Best Science Fiction novel of all time Round 1 of 2 (1/26/2008 2:25:41 PM)
I just re-read Stranger and @#$% hated it. As a kid I hadn't been aware of what a pompous, sententious cunt Heinlein was. Of the given books, I'd go with Dune, 1984, maybe Neuromancer-which is probably the most influential of all of them on the current crop of sci-fi.

bipolarber -> RE: Best Science Fiction novel of all time Round 1 of 2 (1/26/2008 2:28:24 PM)
I think you have the right author, Jules Verne, but the wrong book: "From the Earth to the Moon" was his best work. (Although you could make a case for 20,000 Leauges.) FTETTM, is probably the first of the hard science fiction novels, with Verne working out the details of what velocity the shell had to attain, the orbit needed to get to the moon, where they would have to launch, three man crew, splashing down in the ocean, etc, etc... To this day, there are amazing parallels between the trip that Verne imagined, and the Apollo program. Sure, it's dated today, but it's still errie in how it honestly perdicted how we might actually end up travelling to the moon.

Level -> RE: Best Science Fiction novel of all time Round 1 of 2 (1/26/2008 6:15:56 PM)
Dune is in the lead.

Level -> RE: Best Science Fiction novel of all time Round 1 of 2 (1/27/2008 4:08:59 PM)
Dune and Stranger knotted up.

sweetwenchie -> RE: Best Science Fiction novel of all time Round 1 of 2 (1/27/2008 5:25:40 PM)
~~ fast reply~~ i went with Heinlein, though damn, again that was a difficult choice. i could have picked any number of those titles for various reasons.

scifi1133 -> RE: Best Science Fiction novel of all time Round 1 of 2 (1/27/2008 5:30:08 PM)
i agree with wenchie in that all of these titles have things going for them....i did end up having to pick gibson though.....his cyber punk charactors just match up with my attitude better....though i must say heinlei has done a tremendous body of work.......the sixth column was one of my favorites

sjskuared -> RE: Best Science Fiction novel of all time Round 1 of 2 (1/27/2008 5:56:09 PM)
I see, missed this one when I answered the part 2 but I still say Man in the High Castle is missing but they are all the great ones maybe missing one or two. The first few chapters of the projected sequel to Man in the High Castle are very chilling as well and add to the first novel. The second three of the Dune books were not as good as the first three so I think that is why I had to go with Stranger plus he invented the word "grok." It is hard to decide between Dune and Stranger in a Strange Land. I voted for Heinlein in the end. Asimov I will give his due for the idea of psychohistory. I thought the Time Machine and the other one, Journey to the Moon? were better than Journey to the Center of the Earth. Now before I get booed out, the award for Sex in SF I would give to John Norman. 1984 not sure if it is SF. Mote in God's Eye, haven't read, Farenheight 451, like Bill Murray said, I saw the movie didn't read the book so based on what I have read...To wrap it up, Think upon these thoughts: In Davy the first page had a quote something like "good science fiction tells us about our world" and Hugo Gernsback when he talked about SF held out his hands and said fiction is like this (a few feet wide) and held his arms wide out when he said and Science Fiction is like this.

MasterDoc1 -> RE: Best Science Fiction novel of all time Round 1 of 2 (3/29/2008 11:16:00 AM)
Mote happens to be the best of the novels listed (though I didn't vote). Dune is cosmic but not quite as good a story. Picking "Stranger" to represent Heinlein's corpus is the real shame; it is one of his POORER novels IMO. Interestingly Heinlein himself is on public record as describing "The Mote in God's Eye" as "The Greatest Science Fiction Novel I Have Ever Read". Presumably he felt constrained from anointing one of his own with that title.

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