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Message 71223 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 15:32:18 UTC

i'd choose Heinlein and Asimov...


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Message 71224 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 15:33:35 UTC

for me it's S. Lem and D. Adams
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Message 71225 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 15:35:33 UTC - in response to Message 71224.  

> for me it's S. Lem and D. Adams
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I've read Solaris a couple of years ago and liked it. but i have to admit that's all i read of him (Stanislaw Lem).

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Message 71234 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 16:15:36 UTC

Adams, Assimov, Vonnegut, and Bradbury.
I've read all of the HHGTTG, but very little of anyone else's works
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Message 71238 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 16:18:37 UTC - in response to Message 71234.  

> Adams, Assimov, Vonnegut, and Bradbury.
> I've read all of the HHGTTG, but very little of anyone else's works
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what would you reccomend from Adams?



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Message 71245 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 16:34:21 UTC

Saint John the Devine

His journey to the stars sold more copies than all of Arthur C. Clarke's books combined but he never once received a Hugo.

Chapter 12 was awesome!
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Message 71248 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 16:37:09 UTC - in response to Message 71238.  

> what would you reccomend from Adams?

of course all 6 books of his trilogy "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

And his non-fiction book "Last Chance to See" (with Mark Carwardine) is great as well.
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Message 71250 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 16:40:24 UTC

have you ever read Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land"?

if so what do you think of it?

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Message 71255 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 17:03:45 UTC - in response to Message 71238.  

I'd actually recommend the first three books, but the first book ("The Hitchhiker's Guide") is the most important (and thematic) one.
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Message 71262 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 17:35:26 UTC - in response to Message 71255.  

> I'd actually recommend the first three books, but the first book ("The
> Hitchhiker's Guide") is the most important (and thematic) one.
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I'll try to find them over here, if not i can allways some online bookstore.

can you let me know the titles of those first three?

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Message 71266 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 17:43:07 UTC - in response to Message 71262.  
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> can you let me know the titles of those first three?
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1. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
3. Life, the Universe and Everything

And NA is right about the first three, it's just so nice to write 'trilogy of 6 books':-)
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Message 71268 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 17:48:07 UTC

Lately i've read some of R.Silverberg's Majipoor chronicles and Jack Vance Alastor trilogy.

but those are more fantasy books then sci-fi...

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Message 71280 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 18:19:21 UTC

The first pages of the Guide are here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0345391802/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-3562058-8909741#reader-link
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Message 71282 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 18:22:14 UTC - in response to Message 71280.  


Thanks for the link. i'll take a look, as soon as i get home... :)

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Message 71390 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 21:09:57 UTC

Philip Dick....

William Gibson....
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Message 71403 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 21:27:48 UTC

Frank Herbert - The Dune series.

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Message 71407 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 21:29:19 UTC

Philip K. Dick

i read "The penultimate truth" and "Ubik" great author

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Message 71442 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 22:39:42 UTC

Now some of his work was barely readable or worse, but I really enjoyed L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth. I spent a weekend and a couple of nights after work reading the 1064 pages or whatever. There were some parts where I felt that I was Johnny Goodboy Tyler, and the rest of the book that I was just there with him.
The movie left way too much out.

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Message 71462 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 23:05:00 UTC
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Arthur C. Clark, Frank Herbert, Asimov, among others.

The worst has got to be that looney Lafayette Hubbard.
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Message 71472 - Posted: 18 Jan 2005, 23:27:54 UTC

do you remember E.E. 'Doc' Smith and the Lesnmen series?

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