Best sci-fi authors thread

[Erik]

I'll share some of my favourites here and hope others will too ;-)

William Gibson
* Mona Lisa Overdrive
* Biochips
* Neuromancer

Jack Vance
* Tschai

Philip K. Dick
* Do androids dream of electric sheep

Isaac Asimov
* Foundation trilogy

Larry Niven
* Ringworld

Frank Herbert
* Dune (ONLY the first two novels, Dune and Dune Messiah!)

[oglzogl]

Dan Simmons - Hyperion series

Ursula Leguin - (In General.. Left Hand of Darkness in particular)

Orson Scott Card - Enders Game (and the first Enders Trilogy), and also his book Treason.

Stephen Baxter - Manifold Time

C J Cherryh - (too many good things to list)

Gene Wolfe - Book of the New Sun

John Varley - Titan, Wizard and Demon (it's a series)

J Gregory Keyes - Age of Unreason (more of an alternate history, with magic, than sci-fi.. maybe?)

Harlon Ellison - (probably my favorite.. too many good things to list. Mostly short stories. Nice collections out though)

Phillip Pullman - His Dark Materials (not sure if this is sci-fi either).

... and I am liking your list too, although I've never read Asimov.

[KayCustomz]

i can't read

[Erik]

You'll have to wait until the movie version then kay...

Couple of extra classics:

Ray Bradbury and Heinlein

who i forgot (how could i?)



Maybe we should make the thread more of a : what sci-fi book should be made into a movie next? thread so it ties in with CA more ;-)

[Nimrod]

My favorite Gibson books are Count Zero, All Tomorrow's Parties and Pattern Recognition.

Also; Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon.

[oglzogl]

Well, I've read that Enders Game is being made into a movie at least. Looking forward to that...

Some of Harlon Ellisons stories would work very well as movies. Things like I Have No Mouth and Must Scream would translate very well although I am not to sure he would be excited to let Hollywood get their mits on it.

Oh, another nice movie that is in the works.. H P Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness (hopefully it wont suck like every other Lovecraft movie Ive seen).

[Fipse]

Just a few I like (I´m reading this stuff for over 25 years now ;))

Some of them I don´t know the english original titles so please excuse my crude translations.

Nearly Everything of Ray Bradbury (esp. the Mars Chronicles)
Jack Vance (esp. Dying Sun)
Phillip K. Dick (esp. Ubik)
Stanislaw Lem
Carl Amery
Fritz Leiber
Some stuff from Alan Dean Foster (he can be quite trivial but also really good)
Robert Silverberg
A.E. van Vogt
Joe Haldemann
Christopher Priest
Wilson (I always wanted to make a comic of "Healer" - perfect comic stuff).
Doc E.E.Smith (The godfather of space opera with whom I began to dig in the depth of SF)
etc. etc. just to name a few ...

As you may see I´m quite a fan of the classic SF. I´ve got quite a collection of many of the classic authors and I´m more a fan of the short story or short novel, Herbert or Farmer aren´t really my cup of tea.

Fipse

[R_M]

PETER F. HAMILTON!
"THE NIGHT DAWN TRILOGY"

read most of the mentioned authors above, but PFH is my top pick.

[ceenda]

Erik: Good list. :chug:

I'd probably add Jules Verne, but only cause it's the first sci-fi author I read and has kinda remainded a big influence.

I'd perhaps add John Christopher, who wrote "The Tripods" trilogy.

Has anyone read "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson? I've heard mixed reviews.

[Nimrod]

ceenda: It's by William Gibson and Bruce Stirling. I never finished because its far too dry for me in some places, which I expect is Stirling's fault: everything I've ever read of his is far too plodding I think (sorry to his fans :)). It has really interesting ideas though - some of the best steampunk elements. I suppose what I'm saying is if you can trudge through it theres some good stuff there.

[Erik]

I love short stories. I love short story collection albums.

Kudos for naming Doc Smith! The first time i read that i couldn't believe it was written in the thirties (!) I have Galactic Patrol over here.

And let's not forget the uber-classics by Wells (although i don't like to read those) and Rice-Burroughs... If we go classic, let's go all the way ;-)

Silverberg is also great, Poul Anderson should be mentioned.

But i really like that i get some new author names in here thorugh this thread... I read a lot of classics but i'd like to get some fresh blood and then the kind not stained by copycat virus.

[Erik]

I seem to be a thread killer... when i post, the thread dies :-(

[arkanos]

Hi everyone, I have read two books that enjoy completely.
1984 (George Orwell), Chillhood´s end (Arthur C. Clarke)

[donkeyslayer]

Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451 was a great book. it was so great, i stole a copy from my english teacher... :o :D

[Lono]

im all about the Frank Herbert.

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