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Originally Posted by wayspooled
We've pretty much covered the list. The good thing about sci-fi is that you can go back as far as the early 70's and the novels are still not really dated. You can read the best sci-fi novels for 1970 and they could for the most part have been written last year. That's not quite so true for post-apocalyptic and definitely not true for mysteries.
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One of the books I did away with when we cleaned all of the pbooks off the shelves a month or so ago was an anthology, something like "The Best of the Locus Awards" or something like that. Huge book, and I got it in large print so it was even bigger. It was broken up into decades from when Locus first began the awards, best 2 or 3 stories from each decade. It was great! Like you said, the really good stuff holds up well over time. But there were some very psychedelic stories from the 70's!
[quote=Tinwolf;430918]My personal favourite sci-fi books are the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons.
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Have you read his Ilium and Olympos books yet? I LOVED them, but I loved the Iliad and Odyssey also. Don't read them if you are unfamiliar with the originals, or at least read the Cliffs notes first.