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Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2

Isaac Asimov - I, Robot

14% (5)

Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama

5% (2)

Larry Niven - Ringworld

14% (5)

Robert Heinlein - Starship Troopers

14% (5)

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

25% (9)

Phillip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

5% (2)

Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon

5% (2)

Dan Simmons - Hyperion

0% (0)

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five

8% (3)

Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man

5% (2)

Total Votes : 35

(last vote on : 2/4/2008 1:34:35 AM)
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Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 9:24:20 AM

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 9:40:31 AM

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Was I Robot the one about the wooden boy with the long nose that wanted to be real?

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 10:31:49 AM

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Was I Robot the one about the wooden boy with the long nose that wanted to be real?

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 10:40:42 AM

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Tough choice but had to go with I, Robot.

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 10:42:27 AM

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Was I Robot the one about the wooden boy with the long nose that wanted to be real?

Kind of. There are not that many variations on the story.

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 10:43:45 AM

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High Crusade ~ Poul Anderson

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 1:08:00 PM

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my answer is the same on this thread as the last
american gods....neil gaiman

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 1:22:22 PM

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Sorry, but for the second best, I would have to go with Earth Abides by George Stewart

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 1:31:07 PM

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I'm surprised Dick doesn't have any votes at all.

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 1:39:30 PM

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Sorry my favorite Heinlein novel is either the moon is a harsh mistress (all BDSM people should love the title)
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stranger in a strange land.

Starship troopers comes off as kinda childish after those two.

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 1:52:08 PM

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I picked "I, Robot" but I think there are other even better novels.

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 2:10:43 PM

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Had to give this one to Brave New World. Lucifer's Hammer also deserves a mention in here somewhere.

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 2:27:48 PM

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Rich, I've never read LH; but it's on The List lol. Hell, I'm going to make it a point to read it, and soon.

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 2:47:54 PM

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A few of the hundreds you left out:

The Foundation Trilogy by Asimov
High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
Frankenstien by Mary Shelly
Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift
Somnieum by Kepler
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Childhood's End by Clarke
Daybreak 2250 a.d. by Norton
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
City by Clifford D. Simak
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlien
Metropolis by Thea Von Harbrow.
Logans Run by Willian F. Nolan
Songs of a Distant Earth by A.C. Clarke

Among many, many, many others....

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 6:10:06 PM

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I vote for Ringworld, but the series, not just book I.

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 6:13:08 PM

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i had to go with my hero of Vonnegut. Kilgore Trout is the best imaginary sci fi writer. Second is Huxley.

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 6:34:49 PM

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Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card...
sci fi, intelligent, and applicable to today.

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 6:58:25 PM

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Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card...
sci fi, intelligent, and applicable to today.

Yep. That one.

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 7:09:26 PM

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I have to admit, I loved Asimov when I was a kid but not as an adult.

I wound up voting for Stranger in a Strange Land- it's a beautiful allegory. I might actually prefer Friday as a novel though. Also agree that the Martian Chronicles by Bradbury along with some of his other stories are wonderfully written. Clarke's Childhood's End is damn fine and is certainly one of the top ten sci fi novels.

Nobody's mentioned Philip Jose Farmer- I really enjoyed his Riverworld series. And for this crowd- Image of the Beast is one of the best vagina dentata fantasies going. But I liked his Daybreak series too, but I have to admit, he's not consistent.

Some other favorites-

The Space Merchants- Kornbluth and Pohl- one of the best examples of a collaboration ever. Written 60 years ago- it pegs the consumer culture of today wonderfully. Still a wonderful, thought provoking novel.

Pattern Recognition by Gibson- I hesitate to include this- Neuromancer is wonderful, and I like most of Gibson's stuff, even if it doesn't translate into a movie well- he's such a superb writer- probably the best on this list. Pattern Recognition isn't really sci-fi, it's more contemporary fiction and is one of the best novels I've ever read.

Nobody's mentioned John Varley either- I always liked his collection of stories in Picnic on Nearside.

Sci fi has done some wonderful barroom short stories- collections such as Tales from the White Hart by Clarke (oh boy, were these crafted.) Spider Robinson's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is often hilarious, and some of Larry Niven's barroom stuff isn't bad- I like a lot of his tales of known space- but his best probably is Ringworld.

Other authors worthy of mentioning- Harlan Ellison, Stanley Weinbaum (I still love a Martian Odyssey) Cordwainer Smith (too much religion for my taste, but well written nonetheless) Ted Cogswell often fun and relatively unknown.

I find Orson Scott Card rather prudish, and hence uninteresting. Was never fond of Philip K. Dick's writing either, but his stuff often translates well into movies. Can't stand U.K. Leguin.

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RE: Greatest Science Fiction novel part 2 - 1/26/2008 7:18:31 PM

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Ah, someone mentioned Mr Ellison.

I thought about doing a short story poll, just to be able to include his work. Jeffty Is Five, A Boy and His Dog, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Tick-Tock Man, Count the Clock That Tells the Time, The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore, etc etc...... not all science fiction, but wow. Just a great writer.

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