joe mcclaine said:Gigahurtz said:joe mcclaine said:Hitch-Hikers' Guide To The Galaxy is the only one I've read.
Any others would need to be pretty special to come close.
Read "the stars my destination" it was written in 1950s and beat the matrix and all other sci-fi films to the punch. It's fantastic.
Just checked and it looks like I have this on my PC.
Girl at work had one of those DVDs with 10,000 books on it.
It's now on my Kindle and ready to go.
Dr Rick said:The great classic nobody read: David Zindell, Neverness.
And one everyone did: A Canticle For Leibowitz.
Dr Rick said:Against A Dark Background is a favorite, though I didn't like it the first time through.
Dr Rick said:My last favorite of the M books is probably Inversions. Though I have to be in the right mental space to be able to even try to read Feersum Endjinn, for obvious reasons!
ChopperHarris said:Oh, I also have a soft spot for Otherland by Tad Williams, but I met the author once and he was a genuinely nice chap, so I may be biased!
Dr Rick said:Excession is my favorite of his (though not his best art imo). I'm not remembering the virtual hells etc though, or there being much virtual about the battles? Infinite Fun Space, certainly. And I love Gravious (the bird). What have I forgotten?
Edit: suspect you mean Surface Detail.
Dr Rick said:It was very useful, because it pointed out to me that I hadn't noticed there was a new Banks out! It's on my reading list.
Stan said:Hitchhiker's of course. Harry Harrison, Stainless Steel Rat series, anything by Arthur C Clarke. Best of all, Starship Trooper by Robert A Heinlein. I can reread it time and again
ChopperHarris said:I also forgot my two favourite dystopian novels - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell. Not exactly a barrel of laughs, but good reads nonetheless!
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