Thursday Thirteen
Mr. Book Stacks (my husband) is going to be doing a few guest reviews in the future of the books I got him for Christmas. Before he does that, though, I thought I would give you a taste of what the man I call Mr. Science Fiction likes for books.
1. Tunnel in the Sky, Glory Road & The Red Planet - Robert Heinlein
2. Dune, Dune Messiah & Children of Dune, Whipping Star & The Dosadi Experiment – Frank Herbert
3. Ringworld, The Ringworld Engineers, Ringworld Throne & Ringworld’s Children, The Integral Trees & The Smoke Ring – Larry Niven
4. The Well World series – Jack L. Chalker
5. Eon, Eternity, Forge of God, Anvil of Stars, Songs of Earth & Power – Greg Bear
6. The Uplift War series – David Brin
7. Schild’s Ladder – Greg Egan
8. The Riverworld series – Phillip Jose Farmer
9. Mission – Patrick Tilley
10. Up the Walls of the World – James Tiptree Jr.
11. The World of Null-A, The Pawns of Null, Null-A Three - A A.E. van Vogt.
12. The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov
13. Neverness – David Zindell
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January 4th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Great list! Ringworld, Dune, and the Foundation Series are all books I have in the pile to read asap. Really looking forward to them.
January 5th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
When reading Ringworld, take the time to try to envisage the place. It’s worth the effort & will help you appreciate what the characters go through trying to adjust.
then, once you get your head around Ringworld, read The Integral trees - it’s Ringworld without the ring!!! *grins*
The Heinlein books were the 1st SciFi I read - about age 6 & I haven’t stopped reading the genre since.
Eon, Eternity & Schild’s ladder are more books of huge concepts - if they weren’t so well written they’d be an impossible read. Eon was big enough that when Eternity came out I almost didn’t buy it - where could he possibly go with it after the incredible scenarios presented in Eon. But he achieves an even grander scope in the second.
I could go on about them all, & I have shelves full of the best scifi I’ve read (I only kept the ones that stood out for me in some way)
Thanks for the comment.
July 6th, 2008 at 6:32 am
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