Sci-Fi Reading List

[st1_Emrys]

This is me sci-fi list for all ye sci-fi lovers who as of yet are the sci-fi illiterate...

Science Fiction Books to Read:

Isaac Asimov
-Foundation Trilogy (and other books that go alongside it)
--Foundation
--Foundation and Empire
--Second Foundation
--Forward the Foundation
--Prelude to Foundation
--Foundation's Edge
--Foundation and Earth
-Robot books
--Caves of Steel
--The Naked Sun
--Robots of Dawn
--Robots and Empire
-I, Robot

Gordon Dickson
-The Childe Cycle
--Dorsai
--Tactics of Mistake
--Spirit of the Dorsai
--Lost Dorsai
--Soldier, Ask Not
--Necromancer
--The Final Encyclpedia
--The Chantry Guild
--Other
--Young Bleys

Douglas Adams (most of you have probably read these)
-The Hitchhiker's guide "trilogy"
--The Hitchkiker's Guide to the Galaxy
--The Restaurant at the end of the Universe
--Life, The Universe, and Everything
--So long, and Thanks for all the Fish
--Mostly Harmless

Roger Zelazny (A bit well...vulgar--contains cussing-- but very good)
-The First Chronicles of Amber
--Nine Princes in Amber
--The Guns of Avalon
--Sign of the Unicorn
--The Hand of Oberon
--The Courts of Chaos
-The Second Chronicles of Amber
--Trumps of Doom
--Blood of Amber
--Sign of Chaos
--Knight of Shadows
--Prince of Chaos


Alan Dean Foster
-Flinx/Pip books
-- For Love of Mother-Not
-- The Tar-Aiym Krang
-- Orphan Star
-- The End of the Matter
-- Flinx in Flux
-- Bloodhype

Orson Scott Card
-Ender Quartet
-- Ender's game
-- Speaker for the Dead
-- Xenophobia
-- Children of the Mind
-Ender's Shadow (Bean) series
-- Ender's Shadow
-- Shadow of the Hegemon
-- Shadow Puppets
-- Shadow of the Giant

Frank Herbert
-The Dune Series
-- Dune
-- Dune Messiah
-- Children of Dune
--Warning past this point I found that it became a bit tedious and not as good as the rest--
-- God Emperor of Dune
-- Heretics of Dune
-- Chapterhouse Dune

H.G. Wells
--The War of the Worlds
--The Invisible Man
--The Time Machine

Jules Verne
--Around the World in 80 Days
--Journey to the Center of the Earth
--20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Ray Bradbury
--Farenheit 451

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
-The Lost World

More to come eventually probably...

[Kirke]

What about Salmon of Doubt? The book that Adams never quite finished but was published anyway?

And discluding H. G. Wells/Jules Verne/Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? The Lost World/Journey to the Center of the Earth/The Time Machine/The Crystal Egg?!?!?!

What about Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom? The White Plague, the Pandora series, the Dune series!!!

What about Dan Simmons' Hyperion series?

I haven't read half the books on your list but I think some of the ones I mentioned are worth bein' on it!

Also C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy!

[Alameth of the Iron Fist]

I must say, your lists are quite thorough. I shall keep them for refferal.

[st1_Emrys]

I know cleric... that was just a quick construction... notice I said more to come when I had time. You have indeed listed some excellent books (not to mention 2001: A Space Odyssee... oops) hehe.... Also if you haven't read it the Salmon of doubt is primarily biographical, therefore not qualifying as true sci-fi imo... it was actually named for a phrase in a work that was in progress when Adams passed away a year or so ago (to the consternation of science fiction humorist lovers everywhere). Oh yes, and what in the world by Doyle do you classify as science fiction?? I have read just about everything he ever wrote and not a page of it was sci-fi.

[Kirke]

The Lost World!!! Just like I said in my post! It's entirely sci fi!

[st1_Emrys]

maybe I should leave it off just to frustrate you... oh fine, there ya go.

[Kirke]

Mwahahaha, but, see, I could add "Confessions of a Heiress" by Paris Hilton to your list if I wanted to, so you ph34r to make me angry!!! j/k

[st1_Emrys]

whatever.... btw if u can add to it neways I don't really care, go ahead, it saves me the work of doing it ;D.

[Alameth of the Iron Fist]

CHATSPEAK! st1, (and everyone!) please refrain from using that stuff...it REALLY doesn't take that much longer to type, and it's a heck of a lot easier to decipher.

[Kirke]

Emrys, here's the proper way to do it:

What ever, my lords and ladies....by the way, if it pleases you to add to it, I care not! Proceed! It saves me the time, effort, and sheer agony of typing! ;D.

[st1_Emrys]

abtisignominia said:

Mwahahaha, but, see, I could add "Confessions of a Heiress" by Paris Hilton to your list if I wanted to, so you ph34r to make me angry!!! j/k

erm... ?ph34r? , ?j/k?... yeah I think mine was more easily decipherible... (yes I know what j/k is I'm just making a point that its been used previously...)

suggestion- if you really care (and based on other stuff i've read here it must be new policy *cough*)...in the inappropriate word section add common chat things (btw, jk, imo, etc.) and put the appropriate replacement (so that for example if someone says "btw", it shows up as "by the way"; or if someone says "j/k" it replaces it with "just kidding")

[Alameth of the Iron Fist]

Don't sass the admin! "ph34r" is more leet than chatspeak. j/k and btw and imo and such acronyms are acceptable. I was more referring to your use of "u" and "neway". "you" takes only two extra letters, and "neway" takes only one. Consider yourself reprimanded.

But I never thought of that solution. Truly you have a dizzying intellect. Perhaps I will put it into effect. Perhaps. Or perhaps I shall just make you work for your bread.

[st1_Emrys]

Me gusta comieda. No deseo comer ahora... La maestra de espanol en mi escuela es la esposa de el diablo. No me gusta espanol que es necessario. hahaha.... acronyms are chatspeak. "btw"and "j/k" originated from IM therefore they are chatspeak. So specifically you don't really care about chatspeak, but it is required that the chatspeak significantly alter the amount of typing involved. is that the general guideline? for example is lmbo considered chatspeak? or other similar things?

[Kirke]

Actually they originated from e-mails and early forums...before the invention of IM, you know, those old electronic bulletin boards? Or so I read...

[st1_Emrys]

i did not say invented, i said originated. The initial usage may not have occurred within IM, the widespread usage of those particular acronyms and such things began with the invention of IM. Most people do not make use of such acronyms within email, but they are used in IM. This widespread generalization has made such words known as "chatspeak" or other such things. Most likely the use of "neway" or "u" also were "invented" on a similar board or forum, but they are still classified as "chatspeak" or "Internet slang"

[Alameth of the Iron Fist]

Forget where it originated, just don't use it! I'll outlaw it all, if I have to. Then again, I could just banish you for a while....
BE WARNED!

[st1_Emrys]

sorry, sorry... (argumentativishness is forgivable in the context)
(btw to finish our IM convo...)

OlorinNPG [6:34 P.M.]: oodbyegay
OlorinNPG [6:34 P.M.]: hahaha
cecilia TFK [6:35 P.M.]: strange child
OlorinNPG [6:35 P.M.]: its pig-latin
OlorinNPG [6:35 P.M.]: !
cecilia TFK [6:35 P.M.]: I know!
cecilia TFK [6:35 P.M.]: shut up!

...you missed this part:
OlorinNPG [6:35 P.M.]: <retreats into his corner and curls into fetal position>