Wanted - Earth Based Sci Fi or Post Apocalyptic - Page 2

DiapDealer · 12-14-2010, 07:16 PM

Earth-based SciFi:
Earth by David Brin
Timescape by Gregory Benson
Darwin's Radio (and Darwin's Children) by Greg Bear

I'd also like to second IrishBob's (who obviously has impeccable taste) suggestion of McCammon's Swan Song.

bill_mchale · 12-15-2010, 01:31 AM

I can't believe no one has yet mentioned a Canticle for Liebowitz.

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Bill

jethro10 · 12-15-2010, 04:07 AM

Bloody Hell!, this is going to keep me going over Christmas ;-)

And a lot of you will find it strange, but I've read the book and seen the film, "the Road" by Cormac McCarthy and I didn't like it at all one bit in any form !!

jeff

jkeene · 12-15-2010, 07:55 AM

Lot's of good recommendations, I'll add Lucifer's Hammer, by Pournelle.

I had a hard time with The Road. Never finished it, way too depressing, and I've avoided the movie. But I did like the book and movie of No Country For Old Men.

Peadar Ó Guilín · 12-15-2010, 08:59 AM

Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl is definitely Earth-based and sort of post apocalyptic...

tyche · 12-15-2010, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by bill_mchale

I can't believe no one has yet mentioned a Canticle for Liebowitz.

I was going to! Hard to believe that book is 50 years old. Recommended.

queentess · 12-15-2010, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by jethro10

Bloody Hell!, this is going to keep me going over Christmas ;-)

And a lot of you will find it strange, but I've read the book and seen the film, "the Road" by Cormac McCarthy and I didn't like it at all one bit in any form !!

jeff

We must be the only two heretics in the world! I tried to read the book and just couldn't make it through. Avoided the movie.

bill_mchale · 12-15-2010, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by queentess

We must be the only two heretics in the world! I tried to read the book and just couldn't make it through. Avoided the movie.

You are not the only one. I think I read about 50-60 pages before I realized that while the road might be going somewhere, the story wasn't.

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Bill

RW2112 · 12-16-2010, 12:49 PM

Metro 2033 by Dmitri Glukhovsky

screwballl · 12-16-2010, 01:49 PM

There are a few Asimov books that take place in "near future" that vary from the introduction of robots but before we had much space travel capability, to the start of space travel all the way to some hundreds of thousands of years like with the foundation series.
Nemsis is a fairly recent one, set on the cusp of near light speed travel.
Another one that is "earthlike" in a sense is Nightfall, a planet with multiple suns that is always in eternal light, except that once every thousand years when things go wrong...
then there is the popular "I, Robot" and others in the robot series.

BlackVoid · 12-22-2010, 05:57 AM

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl

Deserved Hugo and Nebula winner, one of the best sci-fi novels that I have ever read.

Mitch G · 12-23-2010, 07:28 PM

Great thread.
I just downloaded the Peter Watts series - looking forward to digging into it.

FWIW, although there's some overlap, here is a bookmark I had lying around related to this subject:
http://brainz.org/10-greatest-apocal...vels-all-time/

Mitch

Udri · 12-23-2010, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by dwig

I would suggest you also consider books by William Gibson. They are generally near future cyperpunk.

About Cyberpunk novels (which are near future): Neil Stephenson is also very interesting, specially Snow Crash and Diamond Age.

dwig · 12-23-2010, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by tyche

I was going to! Hard to believe that book is 50 years old. Recommended.

Agreed. Both the original short story and the later novel are excellent.

The novel is actually extension of the short story with the original short story intact as its beginning segment with very little alteration. There was also an excellent BBC radio drama version of the novel.

Fbone · 12-24-2010, 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Mitch G

Great thread.
I just downloaded the Peter Watts series - looking forward to digging into it.

FWIW, although there's some overlap, here is a bookmark I had lying around related to this subject:
http://brainz.org/10-greatest-apocal...vels-all-time/

Mitch

Thanks for the link.

12-15-2010, 04:07 AM	#18
jethro10 Enthusiast Posts: 44 Karma: 187144 Join Date: Dec 2008 Device: cybook	Bloody Hell!, this is going to keep me going over Christmas ;-) And a lot of you will find it strange, but I've read the book and seen the film, "the Road" by Cormac McCarthy and I didn't like it at all one bit in any form !! jeff Last edited by jethro10; 12-15-2010 at 04:20 AM.

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Peadar Ó Guilín Author of The Inferior Posts: 121 Karma: 200001 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Ireland Device: Sony PRS-505, Kindle 3 (soon...)	Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl is definitely Earth-based and sort of post apocalyptic... __________________ "Read this, and remember why science fiction lit your fire in the first place." * * * * * Guy Haley in DeathRay Sample chapters are here (pdf). Kindle ----- Sony ----- Mobi/Microsoft

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12-14-2010, 07:16 PM	#16
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,839 Karma: 23400772 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Kindle Fire HD, Kindle 2	Earth-based SciFi: Earth by David Brin Timescape by Gregory Benson Darwin's Radio (and Darwin's Children) by Greg Bear I'd also like to second IrishBob's (who obviously has impeccable taste) suggestion of McCammon's Swan Song.

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bill_mchale Wizard Posts: 1,399 Karma: 1087654 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Maryland, USA Device: Nook Simple Touch, HPC Evo 4G LTE	I can't believe no one has yet mentioned a Canticle for Liebowitz. -- Bill

12-15-2010, 07:55 AM	#19
jkeene Connoisseur Posts: 82 Karma: 85586 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Kindle 3	Lot's of good recommendations, I'll add Lucifer's Hammer, by Pournelle. I had a hard time with The Road. Never finished it, way too depressing, and I've avoided the movie. But I did like the book and movie of No Country For Old Men.

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RW2112 Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 32172 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Central Louisiana Device: iPad 2	Metro 2033 by Dmitri Glukhovsky

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screwballl NewKindler Posts: 504 Karma: 1865773 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: NWFL Device: Kindle3 Wifi	There are a few Asimov books that take place in "near future" that vary from the introduction of robots but before we had much space travel capability, to the start of space travel all the way to some hundreds of thousands of years like with the foundation series. Nemsis is a fairly recent one, set on the cusp of near light speed travel. Another one that is "earthlike" in a sense is Nightfall, a planet with multiple suns that is always in eternal light, except that once every thousand years when things go wrong... then there is the popular "I, Robot" and others in the robot series.

12-22-2010, 05:57 AM	#26
BlackVoid Evangelist Posts: 415 Karma: 510423 Join Date: Nov 2006 Device: Sony PRS-505	The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl Deserved Hugo and Nebula winner, one of the best sci-fi novels that I have ever read.

12-23-2010, 07:28 PM	#27
Mitch G Connoisseur Posts: 54 Karma: 742 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Naperville, IL USA Device: kindle	Great thread. I just downloaded the Peter Watts series - looking forward to digging into it. FWIW, although there's some overlap, here is a bookmark I had lying around related to this subject: http://brainz.org/10-greatest-apocal...vels-all-time/ Mitch


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