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Originally posted by scifithinker View PostIf you like hard SF, Ben Bova's Mars (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars)series is a good read.
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I'm reading The Ancient Future: The Dark Age, by Traci Harding atm. Good fantasy bookScience Fiction is an existential metaphor; it allows us to tell stories about the human condition.
Isaac Asimov once said individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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Originally posted by scifithinker View PostIf you like hard SF, Ben Bova's Mars (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars)series is a good read.Spoiler:Disclaimer:
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I've always been drawn to fantasy, science fiction and horror, in books, films and tv shows. As a kid I read a lot of fantasy.....eg Narnia, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Watership Down, Shardik, The Plague Dogs, A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet etc.
Now, my reading is more varied(there are many writers I love who are not in the sci-fi, fantasy realm per se, but some like Tom Robbins stray over the lines somewhat).
I recently finished Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series and loved it. I think Ray Bradbury is a great writer. I picked up his Martian Chronicles and The October Country a few weeks ago. I also recently bought C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, a volume of Heinlein's fantasy stories, Solaris and A Canticle for Leibowitz, which I'm reading now.
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Originally posted by AvatarIII View Posti thought they were by Kim Stanley Robinson, i tried reading Red Mars years ago, i think i was about 15, but i couldn't get into it, it often crosses my mind to buy the trilogy and try againsigpic
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altered carbon, woken furies, and fallen angels by Richard K Morgan
consciousness can be stored digitally in a cortical 'stack' and put into any 'sleeve'(body)
genetic enhancements aplenty (concussion knuckles anybody?) sleeve death is traumatic but not final, if your 'stack' can be recovered its no prob to 're-sleeve'(finances permitting, if not you can be stored in VR) if your 'stack' is destroyed, its final death unless you have the huge amount of money needed to back yourself up(obviously done before the death)
space travel happens but its not like SG1, its really slow, so after initial colonization they set up 'needlecast'(based on alien tech found on mars) to transmit you to your destination(not cheap)
i'd describe them as 'film noir' in book form like future set 1950's detective stories, lots of double crosses etc
i will say they can be very graphically descriptive in their........... shall we say more "adult" parts for those easily offended.sigpicEMBRACE DEMOCRACY, OR YOU WILL BE ERADICATED-Liberty Prime
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Originally posted by wraithfound View PostMy favorite series of all time is the GUARDIANS OF TIME by Marianne Curley. They are classified as *teen* but I've never ever met anyone who's read them and hated them They have your SciFi, your Fantasy, your time travel, x-men, drama, action, and romance Seriously, read them they're great!
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