Anyone here read Red Mars? Excellent book.

 

i started it and then i stopped for about a year, then i started where i'd left off and i stopped again. It doesn't catch me. It's just kinda...weird. I think i stopped at part three, whatever chapter was after the psychiatrist? went to the greenhouse or w/e and that little ceromy thing happened....stra

I'm in Grade 9.

 

Any good sci-fi books you can mention for me?

 

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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Snowcrash or The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

The Mote in God's Eye by Niven and Pournelle

 

Anything on this list:

http://listsofbests.com/list/29/

Eon by Greg Bear is very good. It will blow your mind.

 

--Omnipotent

Anyone here read Red Mars? Excellent book.

 

I have read all three. I'm sorry, but they are possibly the most boring and pretentious SF books I have ever read.

here`s a couple more of my old favorites: Space, Time and Nathaniel, by Brian Aldiss.

 

and, Time Travelers Strictly Cash, by Spider Robinson.

I have read all three. I'm sorry, but they are possibly the most boring and pretentious SF books I have ever read.

 

Each to his own. I have to say I quite like them, although they can get a bit bogged down at points.

Thanks for the suggestions!

 

I got Eons from the school library today.

 

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I liked Ender's Game, in fact my screen name is one of the characters in the book, kind of.

I wondered if it might be. The other one was Locke wasn't it?

 

I read the "shadow" series not long ago, about Bean, which was interesting. A rather odd approach to a SF series, to re-do the entire first novel from the perspective of a different character going through the same events. Strange, but it seemed to work really well.

 

I'm not a big fan of the latter books in either series, but I do think Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead are classics.

James P. Hogan: "The Giants" Trilogy. A good solid story, it opens in 2027 with a body found on the moon. The body is Homo Sapiens but carbon dating puts his age at 50,000 years ago. Who was he and how did he get there?

 

Alternative Histories by Harry Turtledove. His Invasion and Colonization series. An alien race invades at the height of WW 2. The interaction and characterizations are interesting. As there are a number of "central" characters, the writing style may seem too disjointed for some though.

 

"The Anchient Future" Series from Australian Author Traci Harding. Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Historical/Philosophical. The only fiction series I've ever seen with a two page bibliography.

 

Anything by Spider Robinson, but I'd open with "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon".

 

For a political science type, Heinlein's original "Starship Troopers". No, not the bloody movie.

 

I would also suggest H. Beam Piper, "Federation" Series.

 

"Way Station" by Clifford D. Simak.

 

Cheers.

A fun thing to do with Heinlein is to read three books in succession (which he wrote in succession, as I dimly recall, but don't quote me on that): Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Some of favorite scifi books

 

Player of Games-Iain M. Banks

 

Dune-Frank Herbert

 

Earth -David Brin

 

The Gods themselves-Isaac Asimov

 

Riverworld series(To your scattered bodies go-1st book)-Phillip Jose Farmer

 

Ender's Game was awesome, I just started Speaker of the Dead!

I suggest you read multiple authors as one (aka, Asimov) may be a little biased in his perspectives.