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I want to read some sci fi

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Kayano · 16/08/2012 10:07

I read a lot and generally all genres... I have however not read much sci fi (apart from the odd short story)

So please MN recommend me a good sci fi with starships and a rip roaring adventure please x

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Noren · 16/08/2012 11:35

Yeah, get yourself into Asimov - read the Foundation Trilogy, everyone should.

Snorbs · 16/08/2012 11:26

You might like C.J. Cherryh's work. Try "Downbelow Station" or "Rimrunners".

Or try Larry Niven for classic, old-school spaceships'n'aliens stuff - "Footfall" really should be made into a movie some day, as should "Ringworld" and "The Mote in God's Eye".

If you want something a bit harder-science and epic of scale, Greg Bear's "Eon" is mind-blowing as is "Blood Music", and his "Forge of God"/"Anvil of Stars" series was extraordinary.

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Kayano · 16/08/2012 10:53

I've wanted to try Asimov as it sounded what I was looking for Grin

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Eggrules · 16/08/2012 10:52

I love the Iain M Banks sci-fi better than Iain Banks novels. Give Consider Phlebas a go (first Culture book)

Isaac Asimov is fantastic and you can get free/really cheap sci-fi classic in collections for kindle.

HesterBurnitall · 16/08/2012 10:42

Yes, Iain M Banks, any of the Culture series. Against A Dark Background is probably the most rollicking of them, they're conceptual and very thought provoking as a series, but most ofte books are also strongly plot driven. They're also not sequential so can be read in any order.

Elsqueak · 16/08/2012 10:39

I second Philip K. Dick. Very readable, no spaceships. Quite a few of his have been made into movies: Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall, A scanner Darkly...with varying faithfulness to the original books. 'Do androids dream of electric sheep' was quite different to the Bladerunner movie but loved them both equally. George Orwell's '1984' is a classic, and ' War of the worlds' H. G. Wells is worth reading...I know it's spaceships but is short and really interesting.

puds11 · 16/08/2012 10:39

My Ex loves Ian M Banks, says his books are mind blowing.

lljkk · 16/08/2012 10:36

Old School: Asimov, Heinlein (especially Heinlein), Huxley.

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Kayano · 16/08/2012 10:19

I know but I just fancy something old school. I've read hitchhikers and just want something with a good plot too that isn't 'all about spaceships' lol

I've got Ian M Banks the culture novels to read in a bit but I don't know why I'm putting it off lol

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lljkk · 16/08/2012 10:13

See, most SciFi isn't about spaceships.

I just reread The Martian Chronicles :). Set in 1999-2026. It is of its time, though, funny to see the merge of 1950s American culture & what they thought life would be like & the contrast with what life IS like now.

I think I preferred The Illustrated Man, if you get a choice.

Alien? Philip K Dick.