Fav sci fi author?

[Playmaker03]

Just curious to everyone's. Mines by far Stephen Baxter, although A.C Clarke is of course up there.

[Playmaker03]

Oh.. and fav sci fi novel aswell.

[ecoli]

Douglas Adams/Hitchhicker's

Robert Heinlein/ Stranger in a Strange land

Michael Chrieton/The Andromeda strain

[[Tycho?]]

Larry Niven- Ringworld/Ringworld Engineers

Wiliam Gibson- Neuromancer

Frank Herbert- Dune

Orson Scott Card- Ender's Game

 

Those are my favorite books (in no particular order). Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke was also good, but it just doesn't strike the same chord as these other books. I actually just finished Rama 2, and found it to be horribly dissapointing.

[ecoli]

']Larry Niven- Ringworld/Ringworld Engineers

Wiliam Gibson- Neuromancer

Frank Herbert- Dune

Orson Scott Card- Ender's Game

 

 

Was DUne good. I have it, but I've never got around to reading it. Is it worth it?

[Al Caponeoni]

Douglas Adams.

Arthur C. Clarke.

 

And Dune was alright. . . well, actually, it was great. But it is still overrated, in my opinion.

[JaKiri]

Iain M Banks.

[J'Dona]

Robert A. Heinlein, for my favourite novel (Stranger in a Strange Land) and my favourite short story (The Long Watch).

[Tesseract]

Arthur C. Clarke and 2001:A space odyssey, Dune was good too.

[bloodhound]

isac asimov... classic stuff.

 

I wanted to get hold of the andromeda strain but can't get it anywhere. i guess i have to buy it.

[ecoli]

I found my copy in a used book store. It's in pretty good condition too. Unfortunately some parts are a tad unbelievable, but on the whole a good read.

[Playmaker03]

Thanks guys, ill check some of those out.

[bloodhound]

i can't remember what book i read by michael crichton.... it was something about an alien virus which ate humans from inside out turning them into rubbish.... it basically happens is a ship, where they are performing experiments, but due to the lack of gravity, strange form of things leak into the sthip.....

[Lance]

Dan Simmons - Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, Rise of Endymion

[Babbler]

I haven't realy alot of science fiction (or much fiction, in any case), but I liked The Chrysalids by John Wyndham and Nemesis (although juging by the comments on Amazon, it not that popluar...) by Issac Asmiov. I didn't finish Dune or I, Robot maybe I read it some time.

[husmusen]

For classic stuff I'd have to go with Asimov, inparticular the

'foundation' sieries and Bicentennial man(the book that is).

[Tetrahedrite]

Yeah...the chrysalids is good, but my favourite is stranger in a strange land, closely followed by hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

[brave_new_world]

Isaac Asimov- Foundation Series

David Brin-Earth

Orson Scott Card-Ender's Game

Iain M. Banks- Player of Games

Frank Herbert-Dune

[USMA German]

Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein

 

The best!

 

Fischhaber

Go Army

Branch: EN

[-Demosthenes-]

isac asimov... classic stuff.

Only the greatest sci fi author ever. And Orson Scott Card.

 

Foundation, Robot, Empire, and Enders series.