Any science fiction fans? what is yor fav book?

[cafe latte]

I enjoy science fiction movies, but still enjoy a good book when I have the time and still think if well written it is a better experience than a movie. What is your fav? On the book front I still have not found a series of books better than the foundation series by Asimov.
Regards
CL
Edit maybe I am old fashoned, but for me a book needs to be made of paper too
CL

[kelvinMunson]

Really enjoyed reading Peter F Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy and also various other SF novels by him.

[Dinohyus Hollandi]

Arthur C. Clarke - "Rama" and its sequels. Pretty amazing stuff right there.

[bauzace50]

Hi,
in the 1950's I loved the movie "Destination Moon". Went to each of the episodes of the Flash Gordon serials (with Buster Crabbe), as well as Rocket Man, Shazam (Captain Marvel), and Superman.

Books? Well, this one is not science fiction, but is a projection about the future based on present-day social/political realities: "1984" by George Orwell. It is a heavy emotional impact, that I read this novel years BEFORE 1984, and regarded that future year as a distant scene! Now, it is 27 years later, and some of those things are real, and some are new and worse. Amazing what damage humans do to each other .
Regards,
bauzace50

[Brick]

Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" Still rough fun after all these years. I just wish they had waited to make a movie until they could do it justice.

[Lazarus Short]

Once you realise that my alter-ego, Laz Short, is named after the Heinlein character Lazarus Long, you can guess what I like in sciene-fiction literature. I like Ray Bradbury too, and have read just about all but his most modern stuff. I went on a Frank Herbert kick for a while, and found that anything by him other than the "Dune" series was seriously lacking, but still better than L. Ron Hubbard.

[fscl]

Since I'm a slow reader, books put me to sleep, unless I get rapt up in the content......

However, love sci-fi short stories...... this is a link to one of my favs.....

From a "Segway" off topic post:

Check out this GREAT SHORT STORY.....:

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

Happy sci-fi while listening to the Police reading.....

Fred and have the original "9 Tomorrows" in analog / paperback as it's out of print...... and cueing up Woodstock... Joni's.....

Happy reading......

Fred

[backinblack]

Scifi is my preferred genre, although I'm not a huge reader by any stretch. Prefer the shorter novels. Recently I enjoyed the first Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Before that I read Slaughterhouse V which was also very good. Used to read a lot of Bradbury's stuff. Martian Chronicles and Farenheit 451 were fun. Still haven't read Orwell's 1984 but it's on the "to read" list.

[hoolio]

Robert Heinlein: Time Enough For Love.

(hi Lazarus Short )

[gofar99]

Hi, It is my preferred genre as well. I have about 1200 in my library. Anything by one of the early masters is top flight. Lots of creative thought went into the ones before we actually had space flight.

[ATHERMOS]

I like the classics better , Herbert George Wells never fails to astound me even now.How many years since we had planes? Well his Argonauts of the Air is still as just as thrilling as it was when it was first published.Of course , The Time Machine takes to you mentally to a different dimension altogether while The War of the Worlds is again different.The short stories are very intriguing.

If I cannot get HG Wells I would read Jules Verne.

I also like the classic Sci Fi literature of the late film maker Satyajit Ray, remember ET? It was his creation that was subsequently taken over by Stevens Spielberg causing a lot of controversy.The original story of Ray 'Bankubabur Bondhu' (Bankubabus friend), which was published in 1968 or so even had an illustration of the ET drawn by the master himself ,had remarkable likeness to the ET portrayed in films years later.

[jtore]

Anything Asimov.

[cafe latte]

Anything Asimov.

I have to agree there, the foundation series is amazing!

[cafe latte]

Arthur C. Clarke - "Rama" and its sequels. Pretty amazing stuff right there.

Rama is great I loved it and I have bought the sequels apart the one that follows Rama which I am having a bit of trouble finding. I have them ready to read but I want to read the sequels in the correct order. I may have to try online..
Regards
CL