What are some of your favorite Science Fiction books, all-time?

[bluzman61]

This would include either novels or short fiction collections. My favorites include - The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury, The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut, Deathbird Stories, by Harlan Ellison, and Strange Wine, by Harlan Ellison.

 

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[fncceo]

Maybe not my favorite, but one I've spent a long time thinking about over the years ... "Dragon's Egg", by Robert Forward.

An exploding supernova becomes a Neutron Star. Only 50 light years from earth, the resulting radiation reaches Earth and triggers mutations in mammal life, leading to man.

The as the rogue neutron star approaches Earth, life develops on its surface. With a gravity man millions of times greater than ours, that life evolves quickly by our reckoning, A day to them is only .2 seconds to us. People on Earth detect the neutron star passing close to us and send a probe to it. But the time it arrives, intelligent life on the neutron star see that ship that appears to stand still over their world and worship it as a god. Eventually, they send light messages to it which the spaceship detects as life. The creatures of the star develop space travel and meet the astronauts on the space ship.

I read this novel shortly after it came out in 1980.

 

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[Harry Dresden]

Star Trek and Doctor Who novels.....

 

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[Rye Catcher]

This would include either novels or short fiction collections. My favorites include - The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury, The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut, Deathbird Stories, by Harlan Ellison, and Strange Wine, by Harlan Ellison.

Stranger in a Strange Land.

Do you know Stranger in a Strange Land was banned from school reading lists based on its controversial themes. The description of The Church of All Worlds' communal living situation and belief in free love were deemed inappropriate. ... The novel remained banned in Texas schools until 2003.

 

[Montrovant]

This would include either novels or short fiction collections. My favorites include - The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury, The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut, Deathbird Stories, by Harlan Ellison, and Strange Wine, by Harlan Ellison.

The Honor Harrington books by David Weber. One of my favorite series in any genre.

Eon by Greg Bear.

The Empire of Man series by Weber and John Ringo.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

This would include either novels or short fiction collections. My favorites include - The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury, The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut, Deathbird Stories, by Harlan Ellison, and Strange Wine, by Harlan Ellison.

Stranger in a Strange Land.

Do you know Stranger in a Strange Land was banned from school reading lists based on its controversial themes. The description of The Church of All Worlds' communal living situation and belief in free love were deemed inappropriate. ... The novel remained banned in Texas schools until 2003.

And now schools ban things like Gone With The Wind, Huckleberry Finn, and the like. I'll even bet Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs are on the hit list for progressive banning due to content.

Matthew 7:3
"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
American Standard Version

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Eon and bob verse

 

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