Favorite Science Fiction Book

[Abluegreen7]

Whats your favorite science fiction book?

Mine: The Bible.

[Vendetta]

Probably something by Heinlein. Can't think of one right now though.

[Hit The North]

Whats your favorite science fiction book?

Mine: The Bible.

So which is your favourite sci-fi scene in the Bible?

Mine is the transfiguration on the mount in the New Testament when Jesus takes the apostles up to the top of Mount Tabor and a "cloud" descends and Jesus is transformed into a pure white light and converses "in a language unknown to them" with Elijah and Moses who descend from the cloud.

http://www.thenazareneway.com/transfiguration_on_the_mount.htm

Elijah also features in another favourite scene when he ascends to heaven on a "flaming chariot".

Talking of science fiction and Jesus, one of my favourite sci-fi novels is Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock where a Christian scientist travels back 2000 years to visit Jesus and finds that he is a drooling idiot. In the end, the time traveller takes on the role of Jesus and carries out the mission as laid out in the synoptic gospels - creating a nice paradox.

[Holden Caulfield]

i have a girlfriend...:cool:

[Hit The North]

i have a girlfriend...:cool:
Holden, I think that statement only qualifies as fiction. ;)

[Holden Caulfield]

Holden, I think that statement only qualifies as fiction. ;)

when she is in the same city as you and has finished beating TAT up and stealing his cat, im gonna get her to come for you next

[Red Anarchist of Love]

the Giver

[The Author]

War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.

[apathy maybe]

Whats your favorite science fiction book?

Mine: The Bible.
The bible isn't science fiction, it is fantasy, and not very good fantasy at that.

i have a girlfriend...:cool:
You write that as if liking Science Fiction and having a partner are mutually exclusive. Well I would suggest that if you are attempting to make that point, that you are quite ignorant.

Writing good science fiction requires a much higher skill in writing then most other genres. Why? Because you can't assume that the reader knows anything about your universe. If you write a romance, you don't have to describe the political or economic system. You don't have to talk about how cars work etc.

But if you write science fiction, it is very often the case that it isn't set in the present, and that society is depicted quite differently. But you can't just write long pages describing the system, 'cause that's boring. You have to work it into the story.


Anyway, I don't have a favourite science fiction story, or even author. I like lots and lots of them. The two links in my sig are both good stories that are on line. Another excellent story, and very short is Quarantine (http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/learn/html/e.8.2.shtml) by AC Clarke.


By the way, just because something is sorta like science fiction, doesn't mean it is good. Star Wars is not "science fiction" as such, because it doesn't make any attempt to be scientific. You could call it "Sci-Fi" if you want to distinguish it from hard "SF".

[trivas7]

Dhalgren by Sam Delaney, Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land and Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossessed are among my favs.

[rocker935]

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, definitely has some socialist and class conflict themes.

[Red October]

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.

[which doctor]

I haven't read much sci-fi, but I thought The Simulacra by Phillip K. Dick was pretty good.

[shorelinetrance]

dune.

the spice must flow

[Plagueround]

Probably Cat's Cradle or Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, although I have so many other favorites it's hard to even pick those two out of many.

[Hyacinth]

The Culture series by Iain M. Banks (now that's what a post-scarcity communist society should look like)

And anything by Stanislaw Lem, though mostly what he wrote was short stores: a good start is the short story collection of his called 'The Cyberiad'.

[Bastable]

The Dancers at the end of Time by Michael Moorcock, extremely bizarre but very good.

[Djehuti]

Ken McLeod, Ian Banks, Ursula LeGuin etc.


Also check out:
http://www.changesurfer.com/Acad/Authors.html

[Mujer Libre]

The Dancers at the end of Time by Michael Moorcock, extremely bizarre but very good.

I really like Silverheart. Very beautifully written, although Moorcock seems to vacillate between beautiful literature and masses of mainstream sci-fi junk. Odd.

I also liked The Scar an Perdido Street Station by China Mieville very much, although sometimes his Trotness became smothering. :lol:

Oh, and of course Le Guin. I've loved her since I read Earthsea when I was 9 or 10.

[Bastable]

I really like Silverheart. Very beautifully written, although Moorcock seems to vacillate between beautiful literature and masses of mainstream sci-fi junk. Odd.


Yeah, what he writes tends to be either really good or really bad. perhaps he puts too much of his goodness in some books leaving none for others?

[Random Precision]

Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan. Most beautiful denouement of any novel I've ever read.

[MarxSchmarx]

Also Vonnegut, Player Piano.