Favourite Science Fiction Book [Archive]

fallensaviour

Dec 16, '07, 10:56 PM

The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

:grin:

Ditto on this one.
It was a toss up between the time machine and I am legend and then I remembered when I was a kid legend scared the crap out of me.I would have nightmares about being all alone on the planet with crazies chasing me.

JDeRouen

Dec 16, '07, 10:57 PM

Replay by Ken Grimwood

txteach

Dec 16, '07, 11:05 PM

Inherit the stars by James Hogan. The whole giants series of books by hogan I loved but the first was the best for me.

thunderbolt

Dec 17, '07, 4:08 AM

Starship Troopers- Heinlein. Read it about ten years before the movie.

samurainoir

Dec 19, '07, 6:25 PM

I've always had a soft spot for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

kingdom warrior

Dec 19, '07, 7:29 PM

Not so much a Book but a short story.....Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream......is my all time fave. It blows my mind how good this is.

highquality

Dec 19, '07, 10:03 PM

Enders Game - Orson Scott Card

Mine too, Paul. "Speaker for the Dead" was fantastic too.

This was optioned for a movie a few years back, but nothing ever came of it.

txteach

Dec 19, '07, 10:54 PM

I think enders game is still in development. It would make a great series of movies.

Hector

Dec 19, '07, 11:09 PM

Frank Herbert's Dune...I have read it about a dozen times.

Hector

Dec 19, '07, 11:11 PM

I am Legend- Richard Matheson

And I'm not bandwagon jumping either, it's always been my fave.

I'd love to read that...I think I'll buy a copy.

bobbait

Dec 19, '07, 11:35 PM

Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon

also anything written (horrorwise) from William W. Johnstone
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EMCE Hammer

Dec 20, '07, 7:14 AM

Replay by Ken Grimwood

That's one of my faves too Joe. One of the first books I purchased through the SFBC when my mom let me join in th early 80s.

I gotta go with Asimov's Foundation series.

theantiquetiger

Dec 20, '07, 8:22 AM

Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon

Great book, I read it a couple times, but I didn't consider it a sci-fi, but I guess it maybe could be considered sci-fi. I always figured it was a war or horror novel.

I am not a big sci-fi reader. I like high tech novels and black ops or under ground society novels, i.e. "Angels & Demons" by Dan Brown. It was a much better book than "De Vinci Code".

Now that I think about it, I guess "The Stand" by S. King would be considered sci-fi and that is most likely my favorite book, read it several times. I am a big Stephen King fan. "The Long Walk" is a great book (or actually short story). Stephen King invented reality TV with "The Long Walk" and "Running Man".

raider5gt

Dec 20, '07, 9:56 AM

Any of the Lensmen series by EE DOC Smith

bonkers head

Dec 20, '07, 1:39 PM

I've always had a soft spot for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Got to agree with you Hitchhikers Guide is my favourite :yes:

apes3978

Dec 20, '07, 7:58 PM

My favorite novel is "Monkey Planet" ("Planet of the Apes") by Pierre Boulle... While the book itself really isn't all that hot, what it inspired for the big screen was excellent.

DocDrako

Dec 20, '07, 9:12 PM

I am Legend- Richard Matheson

And I'm not bandwagon jumping either, it's always been my fave.

I almost said "I Am Legend" but I thought it might be considered horror. As soon as I found out (last year...I know, I'm slow) that "The Omega Man" was based on it, I read the book. As soon as I heard the movie was coming out, I read it again. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I hope to soon. Or else I'll read the book again. One of my top 5 books ever.

:grin:

Steeler80

Dec 20, '07, 11:25 PM

It's a tossup between I Am Legend or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

megoat

Dec 21, '07, 1:40 AM

"Valis" by Philip K Dick. Schizo gnostic sci fi mind bender.

UOBob

Dec 21, '07, 2:58 AM

Since the "pick only one" rule is in effect, that rules out my real favorite sci-fi book(s), which would be the Timothy Zahn Thrawn trilogy.

If I only get one, it's gotta be William Gibson's, Count Zero.

johnmiic

Dec 21, '07, 9:54 AM

One book!?!?!?!?!

2010 - Odessey Two. Some differences from the film, ( good ones tho). I have re-read this several times. I enjoy re-reading it for some reason.

jds1911a1

Dec 21, '07, 12:53 PM

It's a tossup between I Am Legend or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

I think androids is Dick's least entertaining book have you read A SCanner Darlky or 3 Stygmata of Palmer Eldridge?

Bo8a_Fett

Jan 5, '08, 3:31 AM

Looks we have the makings of a damn fine library here guys...Good suggestions all...shall make a point of reading the ones I havn't already.

ctc

Jan 5, '08, 4:22 AM

Hmmmm....

I don't read too much fiction; the only stuff I read regularly (or DID read) is the "Perry Rhodan" series. (I've read the first 150 or so... the ones they did in English.)

But if I gotta pick ONE it'd be "Mostly Harmless" by Douglas Adams.

Don C.

Captain

Jan 5, '08, 11:32 PM

Carson of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

WannabeMego

Jan 5, '08, 11:52 PM

Contact - Carl Sagan

Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov

...never get tired of reading either...

Brue

Jan 6, '08, 12:00 AM

this is a rehash thread so i will rehash the same answer - Ender's Game!!!!

Bo8a_Fett

Feb 11, '08, 6:00 AM

Now the film has been out they've rereleased the steve niles graphic novel of "I Am Legend"....well worth getting if you are a fan of the book.

The Bat

Feb 12, '08, 7:49 AM

HALO:The Flood

Bizarro Amy

Feb 12, '08, 7:55 AM

I'm deciding between "Ender's Game" and "Repent Harlequin Said the Tick Tock Man" by Harlan Ellison.

Airdave817

Feb 12, '08, 1:59 PM

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - if only for the chapter on Vogon poetry.
:smiley1:

Bizarro Amy

Feb 12, '08, 3:11 PM

As of this afternoon, I've decided that my favorite is "Repent Harlequin." It won over "Ender's Game" because I can't manage to be anywhere on time, so I feel connected to the Harlequin character. (My husband is reading over my shoulder and told me this is not something to brag about :no: ) If I ever meet Harlan Ellison, I'm going to give him a bag of jelly beans.

Dr. Phibes

Feb 12, '08, 3:20 PM

Watchers by Dean Koontz... I love dawgs and it's main character is a dawg. Good story too- feel bad for the nemesis.

censy

Feb 13, '08, 8:27 AM

Replay by Ken Grimwood

I just finished this book and really enjoyed it. This is a great thread, there are some books on here I really need to check out.

Chris

knight errant00

Feb 13, '08, 11:21 AM

"A Princess of Mars"

Read it several times ove rhte years, to myself and out loud to my kids. Romance, adventure, strangeness, loyalty, friendhsip . . . old fashioned, perhaps, but a great read.

monkey tennis

Feb 15, '08, 8:59 PM

I think it would have to be War of the Worlds
or one of the two books that i'm reading at the moment
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
or
The Hobbit.

Another favorite book that I've read this year (not Sci-Fi) is
Things fall apart - Chinua Achebe

The Phantom

Feb 15, '08, 10:46 PM

I don't know if you would consider it sci-fi, I really don't read alot of it . But Jurrasic Park was awesome. MUCH better than the movie.