Favorite SETI themed SciFi novel

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Rick B Send message Joined: 6 Mar 01 Posts: 299 Credit: 1,532,791 RAC: 0	Message 895862 - Posted: 17 May 2009, 11:16:15 UTC - in response to Message 895857. Last modified: 17 May 2009, 11:17:38 UTC Michael Chrichton's Timeline. The book was better than the movie, as is usually the case, but I also have to mention Michael Crichton's Sphere where IMO the movie was as good as the book. Edit: Ok maybe not Seti themed but good sci fi reads all the same Rick ************************** ID: 895862 ·

1mp0Â£173 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0	Message 896636 - Posted: 18 May 2009, 20:41:32 UTC - in response to Message 894014. Would you accept 'Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy' by Douglas Adams in this list? It should be. ID: 896636 ·

Carlos Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 31658 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157	Message 896880 - Posted: 19 May 2009, 7:01:24 UTC - in response to Message 896636. Would you accept 'Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy' by Douglas Adams in this list? It should be. No it should not be accepted. However, Life, the Universe and Everything is a must. Just be careful of falling whales. ID: 896880 ·

KWSN Ekky Ekky Ekky Send message Joined: 25 May 99 Posts: 944 Credit: 52,956,491 RAC: 67	Message 896904 - Posted: 19 May 2009, 9:42:40 UTC Last modified: 19 May 2009, 9:43:24 UTC Arthur C. Clarke: Sentinel (I know it's really a short story but, by golly, it spawned a few novels!) ID: 896904 ·

HAL Send message Joined: 28 Mar 03 Posts: 704 Credit: 870,617 RAC: 0	Message 896986 - Posted: 19 May 2009, 15:25:28 UTC Sometimes I wish I'd have been around when we had the War of the Worlds scare. I might have been able to get rid of a few snooty neighbors and got away with it! Classic WU= 7,237 Classic Hours= 42,079 ID: 896986 ·

Aristoteles Doukas Send message Joined: 11 Apr 08 Posts: 1091 Credit: 2,140,913 RAC: 0	Message 897837 - Posted: 21 May 2009, 18:50:09 UTC - in response to Message 895857. Last modified: 21 May 2009, 18:51:20 UTC I liked Robert L. Forwards book where an astronaught crash lands, on a moon I think it was, and some inch high aliens find him and he brings their science forward thousands of years as he communicates his ideas to them. I can't remember which book it was out of these three though... Dragon's Egg, Flight Of The Dragonfly or Star Quake. dragon eggÃ‚Â´s is wonderful, but it isnÃ‚Â´t the book you meant. even there are about half inch aliens, quite contrary, they teach humans, of course. ID: 897837 ·

Aristoteles Doukas Send message Joined: 11 Apr 08 Posts: 1091 Credit: 2,140,913 RAC: 0	Message 900478 - Posted: 28 May 2009, 13:24:48 UTC Larry Niven: Green marauder ID: 900478 ·

Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0	Message 900481 - Posted: 28 May 2009, 13:31:51 UTC - in response to Message 896986. Sometimes I wish I'd have been around when we had the War of the Worlds scare. I might have been able to get rid of a few snooty neighbors and got away with it! . . . mi mum & dad owned some of the Properties that Well's referred to in that novel [in New Jersey - that is] and that particular area is definetly 'Martian' from all that i have experienced there [when i was younger] ;) BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . ID: 900481 ·

Aristoteles Doukas Send message Joined: 11 Apr 08 Posts: 1091 Credit: 2,140,913 RAC: 0	Message 903916 - Posted: 5 Jun 2009, 10:46:59 UTC "Mazes" by Ursula K. LeGuin ID: 903916 ·

1mp0Â£173 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0	Message 904563 - Posted: 6 Jun 2009, 22:50:48 UTC - in response to Message 896880. Last modified: 6 Jun 2009, 22:51:45 UTC Would you accept 'Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy' by Douglas Adams in this list? It should be. No it should not be accepted. However, Life, the Universe and Everything is a must. Just be careful of falling whales. The falling whale was in the first book. The reason the Bowl of Petunias said "Oh, no, not again" was in a later book. Not sure if that was in "Restaurant at the end of the Universe" or in "Life, The Universe and Everything." ID: 904563 ·

1mp0Â£173 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0	Message 905410 - Posted: 9 Jun 2009, 4:02:11 UTC "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke ID: 905410 ·

1mp0Â£173 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0	Message 906040 - Posted: 11 Jun 2009, 1:51:31 UTC - in response to Message 905412. "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "2010: Odyssey Two", Also by Arthur C. Clarke There's also "2061: Odyssey Three" and "3001: The Final Odyssey" which I've not read, yet, Maybe one day soon though. I picked "Childhood's End" because mankind is actually in contact with the aliens, while 2001 is more in contact with artifacts left behind. If I was to pick a "best work" it could be "The City and the Stars" and/or "Against the fall of Night" which is broadly the same story, written more or less twice. ID: 906040 ·

tullio Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1	Message 906656 - Posted: 12 Jun 2009, 13:57:11 UTC Last modified: 12 Jun 2009, 13:57:53 UTC "Star Maker", by Olaf Stapledon, cited by Freeman J.Dyson in "Disturbing the Universe", which is not a novel but treats also the theme of extraterrestrial life. Tullio ID: 906656 ·

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