What do you think is the best scifi book or books ever?

From what I've read, Dune had the biggest impact.

I don't read too many scifi books, but I liked Contact a lot, and Andromada Strain was good also.

Douglas Adams-Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy!!

and the rest of the series.

Iain M Banks' Culture novels. My favourite is a kick up between Player of Games and Use of Weapons.

HHGTTG is good (although as a comedy rather than as science fiction), but the other four volumes start off dire and just get steadily worse.

Heinlein's Stranger in a strange land. And some of Asimov's books.

Andromeda Strain is one of my favourites.

HHGTTG is good (although as a comedy rather than as science fiction), but the other four volumes start off dire and just get steadily worse.

 

3 copies of 'Mostly Harmless'. Why would people keep buying me it? WHY?

 

Asimov, Arthur C Clarke and Philip K Dick are the staple. Ray Bradbury, for his general ‘I thought of that first, you hackned si fi whores’ and his kick-starting the genre (Star Trek to Twilight Zone).

 

 

I vote John Wyndham, Day of the Triffids. I still can't read it without wondering if it's set in the future or past (as in present day when it was written).

I`m with Crash, the Guide Roolz!

and anything by Rudy Rucker.

quite like "the lost world" by Sir. A.C Doyle. there was another book written by the same guy which did Andromeda Strain. which i liked really. cant remember the name. The i went looking for andromeda strain in the library. couldnt find it. I read so much sci fi and fantasy i cant remember any of them names

quite like "the lost world" by Sir. A.C Doyle. there was another book written by the same guy which did Andromeda Strain. which i liked really. cant remember the name.

Micheal Crichton's "The Lost World" (Jurassic Park II).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0099240629/qid=1082458496/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_10_2/202-4504076-4957428

does anyone know if "Darkstar" was ever a book? the film was great! and using past experience, it maybe safe to say that book would be even better

3 copies of 'Mostly Harmless'. Why would people keep buying me it? WHY?

 

Yes, that book does suck tremendously

does anyone know if "Darkstar" was ever a book? the film was great! and using past experience, it maybe safe to say that book would be even better

No, the original screenplay was written by John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon.

 

There was a novelisation by Alan Dean Foster but judging by his butchery of other sci-fi greats I wouldn't bother:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345288718/qid=1082460830/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-5940781-7647057?v=glance&s=books

 

Iirc it just came out on DVD

Cheerz !

I`ll have a look out for that, I highly reccomend it as a "must see" to anyone else that gets the chance to as well.