DanielTC
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I stopped reading Science-Fiction after I finished all of Asimov's books in his Robot, Empire, and Foundation series; I have been reading fantasy lately but I prefer Science-Fiction over-all, even though Fantasy is really good at times, like the Harry Potter, or Drizzt Do'Urden, books.
I guess to give you an idea of Science-Fiction books I like, these are my favorites:
----Isaac Asimov
Pebble In The Sky
Caves of Steel
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation (these are the best of his writing, I think)
There are also a ton of short-story collections I read, I think I read almost every single one; I love all of them.
----Arthur C. Clarke
Prelude to Space
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey Two
From The Ocean, From The Stars (omnibus)
Rendezvous With Rama
The Hammer of God
----Carl Sagan
Contact (I love this book)
----Michael Crichton
Sphere
Jurassic Park (Ian Malcomb owns)
The Lost World
The Andromeda Strain
Some might not count those as Science-Fiction, but I do.
----George Alec Effinger
Irrational Numbers (short-story collection. And Us, Too, I guess is awesome)
Anyway, I tried reading other Science-Fiction such as Neuromancer by William Gibson, and Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, but I did not like how they wrote; especially Snow Crash, he described how a car moved or something like this: "It moved quickly, like butter on teflon", some crap like that.
I do not like Stephen Baxter; I really liked some parts of Manifold: Time, but most of the time I was bored.
( Edit: )
Oh, yeah: I tried Ben Bova but I did not like his writing either, same with Lester del Rey, John Campbell, Phillip K. Dick (though he wrote some really good short-stories, such as Minority Report), and Robert A. Heinlein (but I only tried one book of his, Stranger in a Strange Land).
I also liked C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy until That Hideous Strength; I just lost interest, it got a bit too weird, I think.
The main problem I have book writers such as Ben Bova, Heinlein, Albert Huxley, George Orwell, and Arthur C. Clarke (at least his recent writing), is that they have too much sex and the like. It is annoying and, to me, it seems very primitive.
I guess to give you an idea of Science-Fiction books I like, these are my favorites:
----Isaac Asimov
Pebble In The Sky
Caves of Steel
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation (these are the best of his writing, I think)
There are also a ton of short-story collections I read, I think I read almost every single one; I love all of them.
----Arthur C. Clarke
Prelude to Space
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey Two
From The Ocean, From The Stars (omnibus)
Rendezvous With Rama
The Hammer of God
----Carl Sagan
Contact (I love this book)
----Michael Crichton
Sphere
Jurassic Park (Ian Malcomb owns)
The Lost World
The Andromeda Strain
Some might not count those as Science-Fiction, but I do.
----George Alec Effinger
Irrational Numbers (short-story collection. And Us, Too, I guess is awesome)
Anyway, I tried reading other Science-Fiction such as Neuromancer by William Gibson, and Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, but I did not like how they wrote; especially Snow Crash, he described how a car moved or something like this: "It moved quickly, like butter on teflon", some crap like that.
I do not like Stephen Baxter; I really liked some parts of Manifold: Time, but most of the time I was bored.
( Edit: )
Oh, yeah: I tried Ben Bova but I did not like his writing either, same with Lester del Rey, John Campbell, Phillip K. Dick (though he wrote some really good short-stories, such as Minority Report), and Robert A. Heinlein (but I only tried one book of his, Stranger in a Strange Land).
I also liked C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy until That Hideous Strength; I just lost interest, it got a bit too weird, I think.
The main problem I have book writers such as Ben Bova, Heinlein, Albert Huxley, George Orwell, and Arthur C. Clarke (at least his recent writing), is that they have too much sex and the like. It is annoying and, to me, it seems very primitive.
