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09-25-2011, 06:33 PM | #16 |
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I'd try Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.
And there is another one by her called The Year of the Flood, but I haven't read it. |
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Okay, wow. A lot to follow up on. I'll have to come back to this list in a year or two.
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. New Suggestions
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unless i'm thinking of another book isn't patriots the one with the baby-eating liberals? (i only made it through like 5%). The Plague Years by Jeff Carlson is pretty cool. nano-machines have swarmed the earth and the remnants of humanity scrape survival from cold mountaintops. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess is an absolute classic. The World Inside by Robert Silverberg-"Welcome to Urban Monad 116. Reaching nearly two miles into the sky, the one thousand stories of this building are home to over eight hundred thousand people living in peace and harmony. In the year 2381 with a world population of over seventy-five billion souls, the massive Urbmon system is humanity’s salvation. Life in Urbmon 116 is highly regulated, life is cherished, and the culture of procreation is seen as the highest pinnacle of god’s plan. Conflict is abhorred, and any who disturb the peace face harsh punishment—even being sent “down the chute” to be recycled as fertilizer." |
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10-01-2011, 10:07 AM | #21 |
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You might like the Pelbar Cycle series by Paul O. Williams. "The Breaking of Northwall" is the first novel. It is about a post-atomic war North America which has recovered very slowly. Northwall is a Pelbar city on the Heart (Mississippi) River. Pelbar society is matriarchial; however, the central character is a male guardsman who is exiled from Northwall. The book is primarily about his interactions with the societies outside the Pelbar cities.
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I'd second the Forever War, the sequel was good too, but for the love of Dog, don't read the third one. Baaad. And from an author I like too.
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10-04-2011, 10:28 AM | #23 |
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nice. the list continues to extend.
I finished up Xenocide and Lone Survivor on Saturday. Definitely done withe Ender saga (ya da ya da ya da) man that just keeps going and I'm not convinced it's headed anywhere. Lone Survivor on the other hand was excellent to the end. I particularly enjoyed the disdain the author had for US media. It was really funny. |
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Can't think of the author, but try Metro 2033
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10-18-2011, 12:33 AM | #25 |
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I loved One Second After. Also liked Cronin's Passage - not your typical vampire novel in the least, and definitely dystopian.
The original Dune books by Frank Herbert were all good - but I'd skip the ones written by his son. I never read anything by Heinlein that I wasn't glad afterwards that I'd read. If you haven't read Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End, I'd put that at the top of any list. It's the book that got me hooked on science fiction many, many years ago. Davy by Edgar Pangborn is another 'oldie but goodie'. The Handmaid's Tale is also a favorite, as is MK Wren's A Gift Upon the Shore (although that one isn't available for Kindle). A couple of 'doorstop' sized books - The Stand by Stephen King, if you've not read it - and The Rift by Walter Jon Williams, a fictionalized account of the catastrophe that happened the last time the New Madrid fault slipped in the early 1800s. It's not science fiction, but reads like it might be - and since the fault could slip again any time, in my mind it's a glimpse of things that might yet be. |
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