Scifi books I would recommend

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Shahid Ashrif

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Posted: 9 years ago

Here's a brief list of some of the scifi books I would recommend.

Arthur C. Clarke
Rendezvous With Rama
The City And The Stars
2001: Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey Two
3001: The Final Odyssey

Neal Asher
The Departure (Owner Trilogy 1)
Zero Point (Owner Trilogy 2)
Jupiter War: The Owner series: Book Three (Owner Trilogy 3)
Brass Man
The Technician
Polity Agent

Alastair Reynolds
Revelation Space
The Prefect
Pushing Ice
Terminal World

Jack McDevitt
Deepsix (Academy - Book 2)
Chindi (Academy - Book 3)
Omega (Academy - Book 4)
Eternity Road
Infinity Beach

Patrick Tilley
Fade Out

Peter F Hamilton
The Reality Dysfunction: (The Night's Dawn trilogy)
Mindstar Rising

Ian Banks
Excession
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata

Isaac Asimov
The Robots of Dawn
Robots and Empire

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Shahid Ashrif

@Deepthought

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Posted: 9 years ago

Originally posted by: yoorari
Thank you so much for your recommendation...i would love to read all these books

If you live anywhere in Europe or the US, they should be readily available from your local library. Most libraries also have a library catalogue where you can search for books you're interested in. Book requests are either free or have a nominal charge only. So lack of money should not be an excuse to delay reading a good book!

Also remember, reading a wide variety of books/genres, aids writing your own stories.

Good luck.

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-Nymeria-

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Posted: 9 years ago

For some reason, I keep avoiding sci-fi, but a lot of people have been bugging me to read Asimov.

Thanks for your suggestions 😊

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Shahid Ashrif

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Posted: 9 years ago

Originally posted by: Nickel8
For some reason, I keep avoiding sci-fi, but a lot of people have been bugging me to read Asimov.
Thanks for your suggestions 😊

While Asimov had good ideas/plot lines, stylistically his writing isn't the best. He gave up writing scifi many years before his death to concentrate on writing science based (non-fiction) books. His classic Foundations & Empire series and the Robot series are worth looking into. I would suggest you read Arthur C Clarke. He was writing Star Trek style fiction back in the late 1940s! He will blow your mind with his Rendezvous with Rama series.

You'll find all the books I've listed as intriguing. A good science fiction story is characterised by the dilemnas/issues it raises. It should not be just human beings and aliens in a futuristic setting. Science fiction writers have raised issues of overpopulation, nuclear war, imbalance of the sexes, the societal impact of new technologies long before these (potential) problem came to the consciousness of the general public.Asimov in his book Bicentennual Man, raised the ethical issue of whether or not intelligent robots have rights. This was done long before in Star Trek the matter of whether or not Data was a independent individual in his own right.

In conclusion don't underestimate scifi. Read a half dozen or so of the books listed above and then decide whether or not you like the genre.