All time classic SF novels

paulvonscott · 13 July, 2005, 04:26:51 AM

Okay, just wondered if anyone has any must read all-time classic SF novels they can reccomend?

For starters I'd reccomend:

Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
I, Legend by Richard Matheson

Quirkafleeg · 13 July, 2005, 04:34:06 AM

Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Neuromancer - William Gibson

philt · 13 July, 2005, 05:00:54 AM

The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham. Uncomfortable and relentless.
The War Of The Worlds - HG Wells. Nuff said

maryanddavid · 13 July, 2005, 05:09:33 AM

dune - herbert
foundation - asimov

cant get more classic than those two

The Amstor Computer · 13 July, 2005, 05:11:06 AM

The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick
Dune - Frank Herbert
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Drowned World - JG Ballard
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem

There are many more, but that's a few off the top of my head.

paulvonscott · 13 July, 2005, 05:13:52 AM

Might give Dune, and Brave new world a go. Definately want to read Stars My Destination.

Read quite a few of the others. Santislav Lem fucking rocks.

Wils · 13 July, 2005, 05:18:46 AM

I, Robot - Isaac Asimov

I would probably change that to The Complete Robot (I, Robot and The Rest of the Robots in one book) as it gives a fuller picture of Susan Calvin and contains all of the Powell and Donovan stories, which are great.

The Amstor Computer · 13 July, 2005, 05:24:55 AM

Yeah, I'd go for that. I'd also add a rider to my recommendation for "Ender's Game":

Don't read any of Card's other novels, or his shitty opinion pieces.

Quirkafleeg · 13 July, 2005, 06:39:12 AM

I Robot is a short story collection he nit-picks not a novel

Should have remembered Stars My Destination... stone cold classic and I'll add he same author's Demolished Man.

Quirkafleeg · 13 July, 2005, 06:49:09 AM

And I'd also recommend:

The Space Merchants - Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
A Canticle for Liebowitz - Walter M. Miller
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

feridian · 13 July, 2005, 03:59:57 PM

I second Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, but think you can do better with Philip Dick than The Man in the High Castle - I'd go for A Scanner Darkly or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, which are much more imaginative.

LARF · 13 July, 2005, 04:04:48 PM

Lord Valentine's Castle - Robert Silverberg
Anne MacCaffery's Dragon Books...

Lobo Baggins · 13 July, 2005, 04:05:05 PM

There are many more, but that's a few off the top of my head.

I say, that's a strange place to keep them. Can't be doing your back any good.

You should try shelves. I hear they're all the rage these days...

The Enigmatic Dr X · 13 July, 2005, 04:09:22 PM

City, Clifford D Simak

The Enigmatic Dr X · 13 July, 2005, 04:14:12 PM

The Forge of God and Eon by Greg Bear are pretty damn good, too. Especially the Forge of God.