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― ddb (ddb), Monday, 23 May 2005 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Gene Wolfe Book of the New Sun Tor

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 23 May 2005 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Science Fiction and Teh Gays

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan Simmons: Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/sela_towanda/pictures.htm

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

dhalgren- samuel r delany

― noizem duke (noize duke), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

School Me On Some Sci-Fi My Astral Brothers And Sisters!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

LESS FANTASY, MORE FUTURISTIC.

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

THX FOR THE LINK SCOTT...INTERESTING STUFF

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

have you read philip k dick? ubik, 3 stigmata of palmer eldritch, flow my tears the policeman said, a scanner darkly, radio free albemuth, now wait for last year, the man in the high castle, the world jones made, do androids dream of electric sheep - all good.

and though i might get mocked, the first two books of the his dark materials series by philip pullman are grate.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

that fact that YOU have read all those PKD books makes me swoon.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

and i've read more besides - like time out of joint, which i forgot to mention but belongs on the good list.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure if Neal Stephenson falls squarely into the Sci-Fi category -- he's certainly more grounded in 'real' technology than PKD, f'rinstance -- but I really enjoyed The Diamond Age.

Snow Crash is good, but everyone knows that already.

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

lauren, any thoughts on valis and those?

i need to read some more of those on your list. i've read a few.

i'm lame on the whatever watussi... i like bruce sterling "schizmatrix plus"... cory doctorow "down and out in the magic kingdom" (free online btw)... vonnegutt stuff... dune... heinlein and bradbury...

bloodhag to thread.
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

def. have to read a scanner darkly, broski.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

the valis trilogy and later bits & pieces aren't very interesting to me. dick wasn't consistently strong as a writer (even within single books), and in trying to do something as lengthy and serious as the valis project he was in over his head on a purely technical level. plus i've never been to into that kind of cosmic speedy grand universal theory of everything trip, so i prefer the mid-phase when he was struggling within more traditional genre boundaries.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I READ ALL OR MOST OF THOSE DICK BOOKS.

FWIW SCANNER DARKLY KINDA SUCKED.

― SAD FACE x 1,000,000,000 (ddb), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

what about vonnegut?

re-reading vonnegut is going to be my summer project.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I read Battlefield Earth when I was 13! It was horrible! I'd recommend The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess, if that counts.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah... valis was a really hard read for me. i enjoyed it, but it kept me from wanting to go further on some levels. all that gnostic imagery was hard to swallow.

vonnegut ... slaughterhouse five and cat's cradle are my favorites on a fictional level. i like his essays or just rambling stuff... fates worse than death and god bless you dr. kevorkian and like shaking hands with god. i saw him speak in '93 and it sorta struck me. i think he's been one of my personal heroes ever since.
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

There are plenty of classic recommendations here: Gibson, Dick, Heinlein, Stephenson.

I'd recommend Vurt and Jeff Noon in general. It's not the best sci-fi writing, but wins points for being incredibly batshit insane.

Walter Mosley's Futureland was interesting because of it's African-American sci-fi slant.

Doctorow's Down and Out... was good, but Eastern Standard Tribe fell flat in my opinion. His short stories really shine though and I think a collection of them came out recently.

msp OTM re: Sterling's Schizmatrix. A lot of his cyberpunk work is overshadowed by Gibson and Stephenson, but it's equally strong if not stronger.

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Get one of those Harlan Ellison anthologies.

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"A Scanner Darkly" is fucking great!! wtf?

2nded recs for "The Diamond Age", "New Sun" books, "Stars My Destination" (Bester's "The Demolished man" is also good, though not as good as "SMD").

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

IT WASN'T MY FAV.

JUST AN OPINION.

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'M SURE YOU WILL LIKE THE MOVIE WITH KEANU REAVES BETTER, DDB.

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Ted "Theodore" Logan: Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

keanu has been perpetually/consistently "whoa'd" throughout his whole career.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

MY FAVORITE PKD BOOKS:
CONFESSIONS OF A CRAP ARTIST (not really sf, tho.)
THE COSMIC PUPPETS
VALI
UBIK
A SCANNER DARKLY
I CAN REMEMBER IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE
RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH

a quick read: cosmos by carl sagan

and where is JW mentioning THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY by Asimov?

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

cosmos rocks.
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I LIKED CONFESSIONS OF A CRAP ARTIST TOO!

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I took a tour of PKD's house about 7 years ago... pretty awesome stuff... sorta a mid-brow paranoiac small-scale Hearst Castle feel.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Dune, btiches

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

DUNE GOES WITHOUT SAYING BILL

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Stanislaw Lem "Return to the Stars"
and the short story collection "Cyberiada."
I've never read "Solaris," though i've seen the movie.
Probably worth reading too.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Cyberiad = awesome future fables

The Star Diaries / Futurological Congress is the other best Lem.

Iain (M) Banks is pretty good, Consider Phlebas & Player of Games

Pohl/Kornbluth - the Space Merchants

Sturgeon - The Cosmic Rape a.k.a. To Marry Medusa

Dick - short stories, 3 Stigmata (!), Clans of the Alphane Moon

Octavia E. Butler - Clay's Ark series is disturbing & pulpy, Parable series a little more sedate

Rudy Rucker - Software series

― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw a rudy rucker collection ("gnarl") used at a bookstore the other day but i didn't have any money.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd recommend The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess, if that counts.

yes, i second this book

― Amon (eman), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bones of the Earth" by Michael Swanwick. best dinosaur/time travel SF novel evah.

― latebloomer: B Minus Time Traveler (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://cache.tias.com/stores/hyh/pictures/3394a.jpg

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Side-question for PKD fans:

Should I name my new kitten VALIS?

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

no, name it horselover fat.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"fatty" for short.

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the first 3 books of asimov's foundation series

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i got "gnarl!" yesterday.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

MARTIAN TIME SLIP

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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