Does anyone on here like science fiction? I've read everything by all my favourite writers and am looking for some new ones. Any recommendations?
Any science fiction freaks?
by myauntfanny 56 Replies latest jw friends
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Sunnygal41
I've been a science fiction fan since I was old enough to read and understand what I read! Can you give me a list of your "faves"? Do you like fantasy, also? Also, did you happen to catch Madeline L'Engle's "A Wrinkle In Time" on TV the other night?
Terri, of the crazy for reading class
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Elmer J. Fudd
Try "The Finished Mystery", it's on sale at Ebay.
Elmer
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Valis
Ever read Orson Scot Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker?
Sincerely,
District Overbeer
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Satanus
I used to be. Other than the ones everyone knows,
A Attanasio
Dean Ing
Martin Caidin
Iain Banks
John Brunner
Poul Anderson
AC Clark
William Gibson's first few were good
Gordon Dickson
Greg Bear wrote some powerful ones
Kurt Vonnegut
Larry Niven
Timmothy Zahn
Michael Chrichton
John Wyndham
were quite good.
SS
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blondie
Who have you read?
Do you like hard core science or fantasy?
I, Robot is coming out soon as a movie (Asimov)
Orson Scott Card gets another vote from me.
Robert Heinlein
Piers Anthony
Philip Jose Farmer (especially Riverboat series)
HG Wells
Ursula Leguin (Left and of Darkness)
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Greg Bear
Terry Pratchett
Blondie (reading sci fi for over 40 years)
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myauntfanny
Elmer, that's not HELPFUL, it was a SERIOUS question
(you know I'm kidding, right?). Valis, I haven't read it. I read Enders Game but it was too sad for me. Is The Tales of Alvin Maker just as sad?
Terri, I loved l'Engle when I was a kid, I read and reread them all. My list of faves is pretty long, I'll just give some. Ursula Leguin, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Octavia Butler, Joan Slonczewski, Maureen McHugh, Alison Sinclair, Tim Powers, Vonda McIntyre, Marian Zimmer Bradley (Darkover series), Geoff Ryman, Starhawk, Walter Tevis, the Strugatsky brothers, Connie Willis, Kate Wilhelm. (Some of those are more fantasy than science fiction, I can't always get writers into just one category). I loved Heinlein and Asimov and Laumer when I was young, but they all seem a bit dated now. How about your list?
Saint Satan, thanks, I haven't heard of some of them, that's what I'm looking for.
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Valis
Is The Tales of Alvin Maker just as sad?
I didn't think so..
From Publishers Weekly From the award-winning Ender's Game on, each of Card's last three novels has featured a secular saint, less a character than a catalyst to galvanize those around him into reexamining the thorny moral tangles in which they live. This first volume of the Tales of Alvin Maker introduces young Alvin Miller Jr., the seventh son of a seventh son, who lives on the frontier of an alternate early 19th century America, where folk magic such as faith healing and second sight really works. While Alvin embarks on his mythic struggle against the Unmaker of all things, he is watched over by a flesh and blood guardian angel; he is pursued by the rigid, zealous Reverend Thrower; and he is guided by the wandering Taleswapper, William Blake. This beguiling book recalls Robert Penn Warren in its robust but reflective blend of folktale, history, parable and personal testimony, pioneer narrative. The series promises to be (in Warren's phrase) a "story of deep delight."
Sincerely,
District Overbeer
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myauntfanny
Blondie
Do you like hard core science or fantasy?
I'm not sure how to tell the difference, except for the stuff at the extreme ends. I don't like magic kingdom type fantasy.
Edited to add:
Valis, sounds perfect, I'll get it.
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blondie
The difference is that hard core is science all the way, no dragons, no magic.
Blondie
(you know I'm kidding, right?).