Hari Seldon
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Now is the perfect time for a Foundation read since Apple is dropping Season 1 in a couple of months.
Classic Sci Fi book recommendations?
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kurisu_1974
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Often overlooked is Island from Huxley, the utopian counterpart to Brave New World.
I also bought We by Yevgeny Zamyatin some time ago, should also be a good dystopian read but haven't gotten to it yet.
I also bought We by Yevgeny Zamyatin some time ago, should also be a good dystopian read but haven't gotten to it yet.
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macfoshizzle
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Pretty sure bet you can't go wrong with all of these.. There are so many good classic books, you just have to read on the premise and see what you want
Most HPL stuff is actually sci-fi since it is all about aliens or lost civilizations. While there is some "supernatural" in there it is more using arcane science to contact some type of space God or create a strange phenomenon rather than straight magic. A lot of those old pulp stories would be considered some type of sci-fi if they were written today as opposed to the urban fantasy stuff that they are usually conflated with.
kruis
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HPL is horror, not SF. His aim was always to install a deep sense of dread, not a sense of wonder. His protagonists went mad because they witnessed things no man was meant to see, and could never understand. HPL has a deeply ascientific view of the world, the complete opposite of what you'd find in classic SF.
GreenAlien
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Isaac Asimov - Lucky Starr
Perry Rhodan series, though I'm not sure how much has been translated to english..
Perry Rhodan series, though I'm not sure how much has been translated to english..
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Doesn't matter. An alien mind controlling you from pluto and taking your brain out via a scientific apparatus is science-fiction. Most of his creations aren't magical, they are technologically advanced (or were, before they fell into degeneracy).
His TONE is horror, but his methods are sci-fi. It's a broad genre. Peter Watts is kinda a modern HPL and uses science in a similar way (with obviously a more advanced understanding).
Alx
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Woah, I thought I had read everything SciFi from Asimov, never knew about Lucky Starr. Will look into that.
poppabk
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I'd check out some Michael Moorcock, you don't see his name mentioned much anymore, but he was a hugely influential fantasy/sci-fi writer (dunno if he created the multiverse concept for a body of fiction, but he really made it a cornerstone of his output). He tends to interweave fantasy and sci-fi elements so find one of the sci-fi heavy ones I guess.
Others have recommended Philip K Dick, but I would start with his short stories, he wasn't the best at writing novels, A Scanner Darkly is probably the most accessible of the ones I have read.
Others have recommended Philip K Dick, but I would start with his short stories, he wasn't the best at writing novels, A Scanner Darkly is probably the most accessible of the ones I have read.
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I gotta say, I actually liked Battlefield:Earth and the first 5 Mission Earth books or whatever that series was called before the psychoanalysis stuff got too crazy. Probably should do a reread since it's been 25-30 years.
Plies
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Awesome stuff! I appreciate any recommendation.Not so much a classic dearPlies but I feel like recommending it nonetheless..
Montauk Project - Wikipedia
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Fact or fiction. That's for you to decide.
If you're eyes light up when reading about top secret intelligence projects/experiments that relate to dimensional/time travel, origins of remote viewing and other esoteric stuff you should give this a try for sure...
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greencoder
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"I Will Fear No Evil" by Robert Heinlein - to understand what a pervert he was. The book is bad and not a classic, but the author is.
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