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F'nog
Amarr
Celestial Horizon Corp.
Celestial Industrial Alliance
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Posted - 2008.07.02 05:19:00 -
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 Originally by: Demiurgis
Ive got to say in order of favorites
1) Dune
2) The Diamond Age
3) Foundation
4) Neuromancer
Im in the middle of "The Peace War" by Vinge which is really good thus far. Ill probably read "A Fire in the Deep" or "Snowcrash" next Went to school with Greg Bear's son and have been meaning to read his books, he seemed like an interesting guy. He came and lectured at my mom's small book club about Forge of God. I dont think the dozen of middle aged women appreciated it as much as any of us would
Wait, you read The Diamond Age before Snow Crash?
I can't imagine how that made any sense.
Note I haven't read TDA, but I will, and it can't be easy, considering how he writes. Even Snow Crash can be difficult for those not adept at its fineries.
But I did read the Baroque Saga before reading Cryptonomicon, so you may just want to give me a boot to the head.
Originally by: Kazuma Saruwatari
F'nog for Amarr Emperor. Nuff said
Originally by: Chribba
Go F'nog! You're a hero! Not a Zero!  /me bows
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The WiCk3D
Perkone
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Posted - 2008.07.02 07:39:00 -
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Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos. Must read for any Sci-Fi fan.
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Myown Altchar
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Posted - 2008.07.02 08:34:00 -
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Edited by: Myown Altchar on 02/07/2008 08:35:37
Tad Williams, Otherland I, II, III and IV
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ramzahn
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.07.02 09:03:00 -
[34]
Edited by: ramzahn on 02/07/2008 09:04:28
Anything from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
'The Algebraist' - Iain M. Banks
'The Forever War' - Joe Haldeman
'Hyperion' Books - Dan Simmons
'Night Dawn Trilogy' - Peter F. Hamilton
'Cryptonomicon' - Neil Stephenson
and of course the 'Dune' Series - Frank Herbert (not the one's from his son)
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Richtor Mettle
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Posted - 2008.07.03 14:44:00 -
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Dune most definately.
Neuromancer and virtually everything by William Gibson or Bruce Sterling.
Fred Saberhagen's Beserker stories (makes Rogue Drones look tame. ).
Tad Williams Otherland.
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Julius Kalmaris
Ugunduzi Interstellar
Brotherhood of Nod.
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Posted - 2008.07.03 17:06:00 -
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Heinlen's Starship troopers comes to mind. So does H.P Lovecrafts books.
Also, the Halo books, The Fall of Reach, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx, and Contact Harvest. I know there not epic novels but there damn good reads, and you don't even need to have ever played the Halo games to get in to them.
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Tal Nok
Amarr
DEATH'S LEGION
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Posted - 2008.07.03 18:17:00 -
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william gibson at number 1 still to this day
been trying hard to find someone else to replace him but its been difficult
Originally by: CCP Mitnal
Forum gods ANGRY.
Need sacrifice.
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Karma
Eve University
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Posted - 2008.07.03 19:44:00 -
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the Psion trilogy, by Joan D. Vinge (Psion, Catspawn & Dreamfall)
This Perfect Day, By Ira Levin.
"Fate of the Universe", a quintology by a swedish author named George Johansson (original title: "Universums +de" (isbn: 91-48-52028-4)).
I don't know if this series of books have been translated to english or not.. but it's one of the best sci-fi series I've ever read. I'm not gonna whet your apetite since I don't know if it's been translated, and it would be sad if you wanted to read it, but couldn't ;)
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hedfunk
Caldari
Low Sec Liberators
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Posted - 2008.07.03 20:43:00 -
[39]
The Practice Effect - David Brin
Awesome.
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Master Rook
Amarr
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Posted - 2008.07.04 06:07:00 -
[40]
Edited by: Master Rook on 04/07/2008 06:08:01
Originally by: Helen Hunts
The Bolo books.... That there metallic mountain covered in the deadliest weapons known to the galaxy at large....is very much sentient and isn't programmed to lose gracefully (or at all).
Hear, hear! The Bolo Series is absolutely wonderful military science fiction! Also, David Drake's Hammer's Slammers series (sort of like The Dirty Dozen in space).
Also, Dan Abnett's 40K fiction, especially the Gaunt's Ghosts series.
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Malcanis
We are Legend
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Posted - 2008.07.04 06:11:00 -
[41]
Originally by: F'nog
Originally by: Demiurgis
Ive got to say in order of favorites
1) Dune
2) The Diamond Age
3) Foundation
4) Neuromancer
Im in the middle of "The Peace War" by Vinge which is really good thus far. Ill probably read "A Fire in the Deep" or "Snowcrash" next Went to school with Greg Bear's son and have been meaning to read his books, he seemed like an interesting guy. He came and lectured at my mom's small book club about Forge of God. I dont think the dozen of middle aged women appreciated it as much as any of us would
Wait, you read The Diamond Age before Snow Crash?
I can't imagine how that made any sense.
Note I haven't read TDA, but I will, and it can't be easy, considering how he writes. Even Snow Crash can be difficult for those not adept at its fineries.
But I did read the Baroque Saga before reading Cryptonomicon, so you may just want to give me a boot to the head.
Snow Crash isn't really related to Diamond Age. There is a single hint in one line that links the two books.
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Posted - 2008.07.04 14:24:00 -
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Edited by: jinkoti boslin2 on 04/07/2008 14:27:12
Well, again..... Dune is always top of the list, even the later books by his son brian are a good read (although not even close to the originals) baxters a genius, the destiny's children series and the time ships (amazing! a sequel to the time machine) i have to state too that the only negative comment i've read in this thread so far concerns orson scott cards 'ender's game' series... I gotta stick up for these books! As a teenager i loved em, and they're among the few series that uses sci fi as a crucible to examine human interaction at a family level in a future set world..... P.s. Forgive the block txt here, i'm currently on a train and my phone has no return key!
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jinkoti boslin2
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Posted - 2008.07.04 14:29:00 -
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Well, again..... Dune is always top of the list, even the later books by his son brian are a good read (although not even close to the originals) baxters destiny's children series and the time ships (amazingly a very good sequel to the time machine) i have to state too that the only negative comment i've read in this thread so far concerns orson scott cards 'ender's game' series... I gotta stick up for these books! As a teenager i loved em, and they're among the few series that uses sci fi as a crucible to examine human interaction at a family level in a future set world..... P.s. Forgive the block txt here, i'm currently on a train and my phone has no return key!
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Ruhige Schmerz
E.M.P. Industries
Malum Exuro
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Posted - 2008.07.04 14:46:00 -
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Neal Stephenson's books obviously. Snow Crash, Diamond Age, and Zodiac are all great. I still need to get the baroque cycle books.
Dune, as much a pillar as it is, I am not a huge fan of, in the same way I like modern rock but just can't get into elvis or the beatles no matter how influential they are.
Another scifi/fantasy book series that hasn't been mentioned is the Soul Rider series, it's pretty darn good.
Voice of the Whirlwind, Walter Jon Williams.
Any of the 70s or 80s compilations, especially Body Armor 2000. Some awesome stories in that one, such as In the Bone.
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Toshiro GreyHawk
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Posted - 2008.07.04 16:36:00 -
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Eh ... there's a lot of good stuff that isn't epic and a lot of epic stuff that isn't good. Some of the writers of really good non-epic stuff haven't really translated that into the epic stuff they wrote. I'm interpreting "epic" here to mean something that spans several, big novels and is a coherent whole rather than a collection of short stories and smaller novels.
I've read some of Clarke and a lot of Heinlein. Starship Troopers is a classic but I got burnt out on the rest of it. Both are over rated. Clarke was an ass.
Dune was a great accomplishment but I didn't care for it's milieu. Read a lot of them but don't remember how far I got into the series.
Elizabeth Moon's best work is the Fantasy The Deed of Paksenarrion. Her SciFi series was to involved with Aunts, Horses and Aristocrats.
Final Blackout is an interesting book. Hubbard wrote it before he founded his religion (allegedly on a bet ...). It's about an apocalyptic WWII - written just before WWII. As to the Battlefield Earth series ... I'm not sure if he actually wrote any of that or not.
Drake writes a good shoot'em up and the Bolo books are classics. They aren't really coherent wholes though but collections of individual stories and novels. Drake has written some coherent series but they're more Fantasy than SciFi.
Donaldson's Gap Cycle is very good.
Bunch and Weber have written some good but not great stuff.
Saberhagen's Berzerker series is great though it is more a series of separate novels on the same theme than a coherent whole. The difference between Drake's Hammer books and Saberhagen's Berzerker's is that Saberhagen's works tended to be more complete novels while Drake had a lot of short story collections.
Asmimov's Foundation series is the best. Nothing but Dune even comes close but here individual taste plays a part. I simply liked the Foundation Milieu better than that of Dune.
Niven's Man/Kzin wars are good but much of it consists of books consisting of collections of stories he was the Editor of rather than the author. But he's got some good guest authors in there. Drake for one.
Niven & Pournelle's Janissaries Trilogy is the best "Wouldn't it be cool to go back in time with an Armored Division!!!" type book (though they've really only got about a Company and no tanks).
*sigh*
I'm sure I've left out some deserving series here and failed to castigate some over rated books but there's only so many I can remember.
*shrug*
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Another Liberthas
Caldari
Galactic Rangers
Amarr Builders Consortium
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Posted - 2008.07.04 18:04:00 -
[46]
David Weber's Honor Harrington series is pretty awesome.
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Etchyboy
Minmatar
Firman AB
101010 Alliance
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Posted - 2008.07.04 20:16:00 -
[47]
Originally by: Slade Trillgon
I agree with Dune being on top.
But one of the classic sci-fi authors is Isaac Asimov. His first book of the Foundation Series - Foundation is a classic.
Slade
His Foundation series were awesome. I also liked his stories about a robot called Norby. An for the life of me I can recall the other series. It was about a cop in the future.
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Etchyboy
Minmatar
Firman AB
101010 Alliance
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Posted - 2008.07.04 20:37:00 -
[48]
Ahh just remembered after looking over Wiki.... His Robot series were awesome...
The Caves of Steel (1954), ISBN 0-553-29340-0 (first Elijah Baley SF-crime novel)
The Naked Sun (1957), ISBN 0-553-29339-7 (second Elijah Baley SF-crime novel)
The Robots of Dawn (1983), ISBN 0-553-29949-2 (third Elijah Baley SF-crime novel)
Robots and Empire (1985) (sequel to the Elijah Baley trilogy)
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Talon Aidian
Skill Level Six
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Posted - 2008.07.06 15:20:00 -
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Edited by: Talon Aidian on 06/07/2008 15:26:07
Edited by: Talon Aidian on 06/07/2008 15:25:23
Edited by: Talon Aidian on 06/07/2008 15:24:33
Edited by: Talon Aidian on 06/07/2008 15:23:31
Here are a few that come to mind for my favorites:
C.J. Cherryh's Merchanter series ( -THE- series for any EVE merchant player, possibly for all EVE players )
Tad William's Otherland series ( cyber-conspiracy )
W. Michael Gear's Spider series ( A no-holds-barred sci fi war series - not for kids )
Gene Wolfe's Torturer series ( sort of a fantasy/sci fi combo )
Anne McCaffrey's Planet Pirates series ( another part of the Ship universe )
And, if you can find a copy, Thieves of Light by Michael Hudson is a well-written story on the lines of The Last Starfighter. Although it was written for the Photon series, it was unique in it's realistic attitude towards war (for instance, the main character can't relate to the things he's being told because he has seen so much made-up war on TV). And, yes, Michael Hudson is a pen-name for another noted Sci Fi author (I don't have the name handy, tho).
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Kusha'an
Gallente
RuffRyders
Axiom Empire
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Posted - 2008.07.08 14:07:00 -
[50]
Originally by: Slade Trillgon
Someone has said Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. I can say that I thoroughly enjoyed the first 500 plus pages. When I got to this point I thought he could end this book in less then 25 pages but I still had close to another 500 pages and was like WTF else is he going to do with this story. It has been 10 years since I tried to read the book and at some point in time I will finish the book, but that is likely to be far in the future. I still have the page marked in a 1st printing of this book.
Adendum: The movie was not horrible, but it did not even hold a match flame to what I read of the book.
Slade
That's tragic. Battlefield Earth has one of the most amazing endings of any sci fi book out there. Do yourself a favor and finish it. I've personally read the book four times.
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Sothis Antares
PBA Corporation
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Posted - 2008.07.08 14:29:00 -
[51]
Originally by: Kusha'an
That's tragic. Battlefield Earth has one of the most amazing endings of any sci fi book out there. Do yourself a favor and finish it. I've personally read the book four times.
i must admit i haven't read the book. but the movie was horrible imho 
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Saihung
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Posted - 2008.07.08 14:45:00 -
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Rama
Rama II
Garden of Rama
Rama Revealed
Arthur C. Clarke
(If you dont like "hard" sci-fi, this is not for you...likely)
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The Foundation series (like 6 or 7 books...plus numerous other "appearances" in other series.)
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Enders Game + all sequels
I love these threads, I am always looking to that next book, and these "share" threads are always a source of unexpected treasures.
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Harley Dare
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Posted - 2008.07.08 19:51:00 -
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Armor
by Jon Steakley.
Superb book.
(i've read about every other book listed here and enjoyed the majority but if you really love a laugh out loud and cry with pride storyline you'll love this book)
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NetMage
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Posted - 2008.07.13 06:26:00 -
[54]
Originally by: Harley Dare
Armor
by Jon Steakley.
Superb book.
(i've read about every other book listed here and enjoyed the majority but if you really love a laugh out loud and cry with pride storyline you'll love this book)
+1 (or actually, + a whole lot)
Definitely a much better Starship Troopers
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Tauscha Vald'or
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Posted - 2008.07.13 07:32:00 -
[55]
Edited by: Tauscha Vald''or on 13/07/2008 07:36:41
Originally by: Kazuo Ishiguro
Arthur C. Clarke, the Rama series.
Only the ones that the horrid little atrocious man Gentry Lee kept his grubby fingers off of.
Originally by: Ruhige Schmerz
Voice of the Whirlwind, Walter Jon Williams.
One of my personal favorites, along with Hardwired.
In a similar vein, Daniel Keys Moran's Tales of Continuing Time. Emerald Eyes, The Long Run and the Last Dancer. Three books I return to again and again.
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Reycks Armunicus
The Scope
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Posted - 2008.07.13 12:36:00 -
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I can recommend Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, and Robert Forward. Generally good sci-fi with a minimum of all that technobabble hyperspatial horseshit.
Also Robert Asprin wrote some funny ones about a character called 'Phule.'
Moon wasn't that great, although she had a decent story.
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Technomagez
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Posted - 2008.07.13 21:19:00 -
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Di.ck
Well, generall anything by Philip K., his books were taken as model for Bladerunner, Minority Report, Impostor and Total Recall.
Also The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is really great. No serious Science-Fiction though.
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Jernau Riggs
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Posted - 2008.07.13 23:31:00 -
[58]
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
More steam punk than Sci-Fi but maybe one of the best book ever written and was voted best sci-fi of the year on the year it was released i believe
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DesertFox1940
Caldari
Atomic Reaction
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Posted - 2008.07.14 06:30:00 -
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Now im not saying its one of the best but i thought the book Songs Of Distant Earth By Arthur C. Clark*same man behind 2001 Space Odyssey and 2010 Space Odyssey II, i recommended all 3 but the 2000 series is kind of confusing to me
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CCP Lingorm
C C P
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Posted - 2008.07.14 10:45:00 -
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Edited by: CCP Lingorm on 14/07/2008 10:46:32
Some good series :
Deathstalker Cycle by Simon R. Green
Saga of the Exiles by Julian May
Shadow Warrior by Chris Brunch
Multiverse by David Weber
The Ender Saga by Orson Scott Card
Dune by Frank Herbet
Cassandra Kresnov Novels by Joel Shepherd
The Paratwa Trilogy by Christopher Hinz (Warning this series contains adult themes and some seriously weird stuff)
Individual Books
Jerusalem Fire by R M Meleuh
Strength and Honour by R M Meluch
The Parafaith War by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
In Fury Born by David Weber
CCP Lingorm
CCP Quality Assurance
QA Engineering Team Leader
Originally by: Lord Fitz
Eve is to WoW as Wow is to an 8 player game of Unreal Tournament.
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