[AmitTheInfinity]

Hey, there are many sci-fi movies coming up these days. That made me think of, when was the last time I read a sci-fi book. And which of them were the best.

Well I was able to come up with few of them which I loved the most.



Adams' "Hithikers Guide to the Galaxy"... actually all 5 were the best.
Zaphod Beeblebrox rules!

War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.



Tell me, which are your best picks.

[RodgerB]

Without a doubt the Resident Evil series for me. Second to that would have to be The Final Cut.

[Amadeus]

Asimov's The Foundation series - including prequels, sequels to the original trilogy.

[baavgai]

Scifi or fantasy? I wouldn't really consider HGTG scifi, though it's certainly on the top of my list for amusement. If you liked it, anything by Terry Pratchett will probably make you happy.

Scifi, the short list.
The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A Heinlein

Ok, Snow Crash isn't true scifi either, but it's a good read and should be read. You can't really consider yourself into scifi unless you read something by Alfred Bester; he only wrote a handful of books, half of which are brilliant. In spite of being a bit of a crackpot, particularly toward the end, Heinlein is still a must read.

For the fantasy side, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman is hard to beat. And pretty much anything from Charles de Lint, try Someplace to Be Flying.

[Nova Dragoon]

Flatland
Enders Game
Earth Abides

Thats about all the sci-fi I ever read, but its the best.

[GWatt]

Ender's Game
Raymond E. Feist's books <- He has several different series, all interwoven
I don't know if this is technically scifi but King's Dark Tower series

[Amadeus]

It's not - it is in the fantasy genre, but still an excellent series.

[ferrari12508]

Resident evil for sure. Ender's game was god, but it was a lot better than ender's shadow. it wasnt bad, it just wasnt nearly as exciting.

[1lacca]

Asimov, Lem (simply too many), Gibson (Neuromancer, Burning Chrome, etc.), Frank Herbert (Dune, I prefer the first ones), Boris and Arkady Strugatsky(The Wish Machine - The Stalker movie and game are based on this one) and probably a lot more that I can't remember right now.

[supersloth]

Enders Game.

Enders Game so hard

[Footsie]

I loved the Red Dwarf series by Rob Grant... also hilarious.

[Jayman]

Ender's Game
Stranger in a Strange Land

[baavgai]

1lacca. I read your list and thought, "This guy isn't from the States." The only Lem I know is Solaris, recently made into a horrid movie; someday I'll check out the Tarkovsky version. Curiously, Tarkovsky also directed Stalker. I'd never heard of the Strugatsky brothers. Thanks for the picks!

Of course, most Americans aren't even aware of the bulk of the excellent English writers in other countries. Along those lines, I'd add the following: John Wyndham, Charles Stross, J. G. Ballard. Again, just what comes to mind immediately.

On the fantasy side, Robert Holdstock should also be read.

[1lacca]

Living between the big ones is good because you hear from both of them. We were flooded with Russian sci-fi for a while, and they were usually miserable, except for some really good ones (reading things written during the cold war you can actually laugh yourself to death on some phrases pressed onto the writers by the communist propaganda like: "the highest level of technology could be only achieved in pure communism" ).
And yes, this new Solaris was really terrible.

[WolfCoder]

These two are good ones:

Flat Land
Neuromancer

And there's a book that's science fact I think (it was either a true story or based on a true story I forgot):
The Cuckoo's Egg