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Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke | 13 | 27.08% | |
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs | 8 | 16.67% | |
Lost Horizon by James Hilton | 11 | 22.92% | |
Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks | 15 | 31.25% | |
Roadside Picnic by the Strugatskys brothers | 15 | 31.25% | |
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury | 12 | 25.00% | |
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card | 18 | 37.50% | |
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds | 13 | 27.08% | |
Solaris by Lem Stanislaw | 11 | 22.92% | |
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis | 19 | 39.58% | |
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07-23-2013, 01:24 PM | #16 |
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Wow! When you put it like that sci-fi foesn't seem quite so far-fetched! The trouble is that I associate sci-fi with Star Trek and Star Wars etc, and I can't think of a worse film to watch, let alone book to read!
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07-23-2013, 02:15 PM | #17 |
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And Surface Detail is making its move. C'mon, Banks!
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07-23-2013, 02:51 PM | #18 |
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Hear hear! It would be a fitting tribute to a wonderful author who died so unexpectedly this year. I have never been as much of a fan of his sci-fi as I have of his mainstream novels, but I'd be more than happy to give this a go.
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07-23-2013, 03:24 PM | #19 |
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I've read Ender's Game, so I voted for Revelation Space. I've not read anything from Reynolds, but it looks like that will lose as well.
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07-23-2013, 05:56 PM | #20 |
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Some good choices. If Ender's Game wins, it will be a waste because it is already so well-known and read.
There's a free html text of Roadside Picnic on the internet. It's a on Russian server, so I suppose it's legal in Russia, but I won't post the link just in case. The surviving brother died last November. RIP, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. |
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A final note about this remarkable writer: "In recent months, the astronomer José Luis Galache at the Minor Planet Center put forth a request that an asteroid be named after Iain M. Banks. Sadly, it was too late for Iain to hear of it, but on the 23rd of June this was approved by the International Astronomical Union." |
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07-23-2013, 07:21 PM | #22 |
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I didn't vote for the Banks book since it's part of a series and not the first book. Now I've been told the Culture books don't need to be read in order, but I've been told that with other series' and found it to be wrong so I'm not sure I have the same criteria as some others on that. I've also been told that the books can be read in any order with the exception that you should read Consider Phlebas first as other books contain spoilers for that one. I do want to read this author, but am very leery of any order but the order they were published most of the time. I have Consider Phlebas, but haven't gotten to it yet.
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07-23-2013, 09:39 PM | #23 |
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I'd like to see Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds get some traction. It sounds very interesting.
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07-23-2013, 10:55 PM | #24 |
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Go on vacation a week and miss the nominations. As blissful as disconectedness is, that sucks.
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07-24-2013, 01:27 AM | #25 |
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Get on that one. As I'm sure many have told you, it's an amazing novel. It is true however that the Culture novels don't really need to read in order. You should think of them as all being set in the same universe, rather than being a series that progresses from one book to another.
I voted for Rendevous with Rama since I read this many, many years ago and would love to revisit it. I remember it being an amazing story. |
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Two version of Roadside Picnic can be found at the bottom of its wikipedia page. I posted them here, but it's been edited. Sorry about that. It is a great read and, unfortunately, Eastern European SF is not that well known in the Western world so we could give it a chance. |
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I too prefer to read in order - as arbitrary as that is in the case of culture novels. That's why I didn't vote for Surface Detail as much as I want to eventually read it. |
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They had radios in WW2 and telephones too. You'd think she could have stretched her imagination that far. I read the reviews. I think I'll give it a miss...
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Probably Consider Phlebas would have been a better introduction to Banks and the Culture, but Surface Detail is a good book, long, convoluted, involved, but very good. |
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