12-14-2010, 07:16 PM | #16 |
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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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12-15-2010, 04:07 AM | #18 |
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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. |
12-15-2010, 07:55 AM | #19 |
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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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Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl is definitely Earth-based and sort of post apocalyptic...
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12-15-2010, 09:09 AM | #21 |
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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.
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12-16-2010, 01:49 PM | #25 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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