07-07-2011, 06:32 PM | #1 |
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Best All-Time Sci-fi Novel?
Just wondering what you think the very best of the best would be. My favorites in correct order are:
1) The City and the Stars by Arthur C Clarke 2) 2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke 3) A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter Miller |
07-07-2011, 06:50 PM | #2 |
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Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
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07-07-2011, 08:10 PM | #3 |
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Quite possibly A Canticle for Leibowitz. I do rank Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed among the very best.
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I don't know that I've read enough Sci-Fi (especially "classic" Sci-Fi) to have an educated opinion on what the best all time is, but below are some I really liked...
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Dune - Frank Herbert Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert C. Heinlein |
07-07-2011, 09:00 PM | #6 |
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+1 for Stranger in a Strange Land. Loved that.
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I vote for 1984
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Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany
Foundation Trilogy - Asimov |
07-07-2011, 11:17 PM | #10 |
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This is like reverse Highlander, there can't be just one!
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If i had to pick one, it would be
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card Next to it I would have Dune - Frank Herbert |
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Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank
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Brave New World - Huxley
1984 - Orwell Hyperion - Simmons Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein Dune [original cycle] - Herbert 2001: A Space Odyssey - Clarke Man, waaaaay too many to list Should a distinction be made between say, "hard" sci-fi and classical, speculative sci-fi? |
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Hyperion - Dan Simmons
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