Your Science Fiction Classic Novels

[Jim_Campbell]

Baroque Cycle Baroque Cycle Baroque Cycle!

About to go buy Quicksilver as a birthday present for my dad. Unquestionably good stuff. Not really sci-fi, not really fantasy, definitely brilliant.

It's fiction about science. How can that not be Science Fiction?

Except, of course, that we're not supposed to call it Science Fiction. SF is Speculative Fiction, don't'cha know?

But, yeah, The Baroque Cycle is fantastic ... although Cryptonomicon was published first, I read it last and it seemed to make sense to do it that way. All four books are, by turns, very funny, fiercely intelligent and full of rousing action scenes.

Unreservedly recommended.

Cheers!

Jim

[TordelBack]

...although Cryptonomicon was published first, I read it last and it seemed to make sense to do it that way.

Ditto.  A whiskey chaser of the finest type.

[TheEdge]

Not classics at the moment but i'd look out for EE Knights Vampire Earth series they are extremly good, concentrating on postapocaliptic guerilla warfare and tactics its very good

[Proudhuff]

Anything by P.K Dick or William Gibson, also anything  by Richard Morgan: (except the one about yuppies).

Wyham's Triffids and Kraken Awake are also well worth a visit, but for visions of a future from past as it were.

[jonvonbekmek]

as a starter try Damnation alley by roger zelazny, or Friday by robert heinlein. And dont forget Deathworld trilogy
 and Stainless steel Rat books by harry harrison