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Sci Fi or Fantasy Favourites

My favourites would agree with a number of yours. I'd also add, Brian Aldiss's 'Barefoot in the Head'. Also most of HG Wells's classics! I read The Time Machine [ and others] in my teens and understood then, that you can escape into an imaginative world when the 'world is too much with us.'
I re-read Heinlein's 'Stranger' - the long, uncut version recently - and although I enjoyed it, I found some of the writing banal and padded out.
Ray Bradbury's 'The Illustrated Man'. as well as 'Fahrenheit.'
A must is Olaf Stapeldon's 'Last And First Men.'
I would also have to put Colin Wilson's 'Spider World' near the top of my list! [ This latter shows that CW's imaginative vision is on a par with 'the greats'!]
 
Friday & Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein;
1984 - Orwell;
First 3 Dune books - Herbert;
Ender's Game series - Card;
Foundation trilogy - Asimov;
Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury;
Brave New World - Huxley;
The Illustrated Man - Bradbury;
Various short stories - Asimov.

Long time since I read all these--I'm sure I'm forgetting some :)

Mike.
 
Dune - FH, even though its more of a fantasy book set in the future. I just finished it in 6 days :p
Ender's Game - OSC
Speaker of the Dead - OSC
Children of the mind - OSC
Indestructable - Stanislaw Lem
Robot - Adam Wisniewski-Snerg
 
My favorites (in no particular order) :

C.S Lewis
David Eddings
Terry Goodkind
Robin Hobb
Jonathan Wylie
 
So many authors and titles amoung your favorites! Some I have never read and many are well loved. I made a new list of "To Read" from this thread.
 
Oh gosh I read so much sometimes I found myself forgetting what I read but here are my favorites that I have read.

Space Trilorgy (Out of the Silent Planet, Palandria (sp?) and The Hidieus Strength) by C.S. Lewis

Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Harry Potter books by J.K. Rollen (I may have misspelled her name)

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien

I have read plenty more then that however I can not think of them all.
 
mine will be
1- the foundation series by Asimov
2- Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
3- The Uplift series by David Brin
4- The Galactic Center by Gregory Benford
5- Otherland series by Tad Williams
6- Dune by Frank Herbert
7- Rama series by Arthur c.Clarke
 
I have now added a new favorite to my long list of Sci/fi favorites. Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard.
I will not even attempt to watch the movie adaptation. I heard it was horrible. And, anyway how can a movie do justice to a book of over a 1000 pages?
 
My favourities are:
- The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion - J.R.R.Tolkien
- 1984 - Orwell
- Dragonlance Chronicles - Weis, Hickman
- a first part of "Xanth" by Piers Anthony, but unfortunately I don't know English title. In my own translation from Polish it would be something like: A spell for Cameleon. I hope it is similar to the original version.
 
Hi Morry,
No, I haven't. Should I? Could you tell me who he is?
 
reading pictures....

hiyah,
real life yanna

apologies for misleading: no one writing actually ...
i was just asking as he is Polish and is being hired in France for the painting of covers of the main SF series published, and these covers have a lot to do with my interest in SF.

here a few sites....
http://members.fortunecity.com/camarila/siudmak.html
http://www.uponart.com/en/artist/siud10artist.php3
http://www.geocities.com/sautille/
http://www.noosfere.org/icarus/livres/auteur.asp?NumAuteur=847
http://www.ergeal.ru/pix/siudmak/
http://manta.univ.gda.pl/~demonek/siudmak.html
http://www.fantasya.net/galerie_wojtek-siudmak_fantasy-art_1_177.htm

ok i stop here.... and will try not to order all his books in the future ...
how i love reading his pictures....



morry ;) :)
 
Thanks for the sites adresses.

I had a look at some of Siudmak's pictures and I was really impressed. To my mind, many of them resemble Salvadore Dali's works. Those ones which look as if they were taken from a nightmare. The abstract shapes, the combination of different objects, which don't match each other, and even the colours. I felt a bit anxiously while looking at them.

However, I liked the most a picture with a woman and a puma, in warm, orange colours. It was much calmer and realistic - and I must say that I generally prefer classic to modern art
 
This is a hard one.

1. Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy (Weis and hickman)
2. Dragonlance Legends Trilogy (Weis and hickman)
3. Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice)
4. LOTR (Tolkien)
5. Dark Elf Trilogy (Salvatore)
6. Heralds of Valdemar Trilogy (Mercedes Lackey)
 
Welcome, kasstorr. Good to see another Anne Rice fan. Although, I must say that she's become a bit tiresome lately.
 
Yeah, Anne Rice can get monatonous after awhile. But I did like Pandora of the New Vampire Chronicles and I loved the Witching Hour (in the Mayfair Witches trilogy although I thought Witching Hour was the best). I bought Merrik and its on my list of books to read. I'm dying to know about the mystery of Claudia's ghost.
 
Let's see...I'd have to say:(in no particular order)

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
 
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