Dayvo
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chap said:
I prefered Michael Palin's version!
It was more believable!
What's your favourite science fiction book?
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I prefered Michael Palin's version!
It was more believable!
rh100
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Flying_Monkey said:Yeah. Enough to know they are awful. Do we have a scientologist in the house? They seem to be the only people who think the awful old fraudster had much in the way of literary talent...
No not me!!!!
I read them as a youth, think I even managed to finish the 10 books, but can't remember the detail (obviously made an impression!). There's some interesting reading on Wikipedia about the books, seems they were not genuine best sellers. It was only later I realised what the author was about. There was a great documentary on TV a year or so back with that guy from the One Show. I also read that the basis of that church was the result of a bet with another SF author.
Dayvo
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rich p said:
Time limits, Rich!
Although I'll be taking the same road he took from Melbourne to Brisbane!
I've got his book and will read it before I leave and hopefully get some tips.
Twenty Inch
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Ponedel'nik nachinaetsia v Subbotu or Stalker by Boris and Arkadii Strugatskii, or The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks.
WeeE
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rh100 said:
Ugh!!! I don't know anyone over the age of ten who likes SF who can stand to read Hubbard - it's excruciating. It's so-bad-it's-funny for a bit, but after a bit it's just painful.
BTW, if you know anyone who's thinking of dabbling with Scientology, give them a bit of Hubbard pulp to read, with all the really, really bad writing, the raving misogyny and too, too revealing* creepy-sex - and you'll inoculate them for life (unless they're too stupid to live).
(Creepily revealing of Hubbard, that is; far from being in yer face, it's the repressed quality...and maybe what's being repressed, that's creepiest.)
I'm currently reading a rather interesting book by Nick Harkaway called 'The Gone-away world' which is part sci-fi, part speculative fiction and very good so far. Much more balletic action prose than Iain M Banks, a little in the style of Neal Stephenson (who I highly rate).
In fact, Neal Stephenson's 'Anathem' has to rate as one of the most involving, deeply thought and genuinely thought-provoking sci-fi books I've read for a long time. It takes a long while to get into but once you're in it is literally a wholly imagined world, not just a wee offshoot of ours with new technology bolted on.
In fact, Neal Stephenson's 'Anathem' has to rate as one of the most involving, deeply thought and genuinely thought-provoking sci-fi books I've read for a long time. It takes a long while to get into but once you're in it is literally a wholly imagined world, not just a wee offshoot of ours with new technology bolted on.
wafflycat
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Carwash said:
Ahem...
my very first post on this thread includes the author as one of my favourites, hence by clear inference, the novel.
Do wake up at the back.
Archie_tect
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'Dolphin Island' by Arthur C Clarke- inspirational book for me when I was little...
rh100
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OK then - what about 'Fantasy' books (not too off topic is it?)
started with the usual The Hobbit I think, reading LOTR later as a teenager, needs to be read a couple of times. Tried some of Tolkiens other stuff, but a bit heavy for me. (thought the films did it fair justice - all things considered).
Others I read were Eddings (went off him after the first series - predictable) and Gemmel. And obviously Pratchett.
I think my favourite was probably Magician by Raymond E Feist, and the subsequent books.
started with the usual The Hobbit I think, reading LOTR later as a teenager, needs to be read a couple of times. Tried some of Tolkiens other stuff, but a bit heavy for me. (thought the films did it fair justice - all things considered).
Others I read were Eddings (went off him after the first series - predictable) and Gemmel. And obviously Pratchett.
I think my favourite was probably Magician by Raymond E Feist, and the subsequent books.
wafflycat
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I could not get into Tolkein, no matter how often I picked up a Tolkein book to have a go.
I adore the Earthsea Trilogy.
I adore the Earthsea Trilogy.
cisamcgu
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"The Gods Themselves" by Asimov was the first Sci-Fi book that made a big impression on me
cisamcgu
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rh100 said:
I loved Magician, but slowly got more and more exhausted with the never ending sequels (excepting the Empire series - the Tsuranuanni (sp?) were excellent )
