Ok, here's my three pick I've been wanting to read for quite a long time, I've actually already started a bit on the first chapter of both "Time Enough for Love" and "Neuromancer" at some time, but happened to stop and never restarted.
I absolutely love everything from I've read so far from heinlein, most especially "Stranger in a Strange Land", and Radix I've recently discovered about and I've had quite an eager eye for it, a rare to find one though. Neuromancer is, well neuromancer, how many books can claim to have shaped a genre.
Having recently read only long series, namely, the entire Ender Saga by Orson Scott Card, followed by Larry Niven's The State Trilogy (also known by Integral Trees) and then topped by the utmost classic space opera E.E. Doc Smith's wonderful Lensman series (also I believe I re-read Dune before all this :P), I'm in need of a break with a couple os disparate titles, so I guess I'll go with the winners here, either mine or others, and my pick too, naturally, or all at once
, mmm,
books.
And the three contestants are...
Time Enough for Love, by Robert A. Heinlein
Radix, A.A. Attanasio
Neuromancer, by William Gibson
Time Enough for Love
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Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 [1] and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.
The book focuses on the adventures and musings of Lazarus Long (birth name Woodrow Wilson Smith), the oldest living human, who has grown weary and has decided that life is no longer worth living. It takes the form of several novellas tied together in the form of Lazarus's retrospective narrative. There is a reverse Arabian Nights theme to the novel, in that Lazarus will consent not to end his life as long as his companions will listen to his stories.
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Radix
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Radix is a science fiction novel by A. A. Attanasio, published in 1981. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981. It is the first of four books in Attanasio's Radix Tetrad, followed by In Other Worlds in 1984.
Radix is the story of a young man's odyssey of self-discovery, from dangerous adolescent to warrior, from outcast to near-godhood, in a far-future Earth dramatically changed from the one we know.
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Neuromancer
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Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, notable for being the most famous early cyberpunk novel and winner of the science-fiction "triple crown" — the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award.[1] It was Gibson's first novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy. The novel tells the story of a washed-up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to work on the ultimate hack. Gibson explores artificial intelligence, virtual reality, genetic engineering, and megacorporations long before these ideas entered popular culture.
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Descriptions courtesy of wikipedia
