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Without a doubt, Ender's Game. It's everything I want a story to be.
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Harry Potter. Its filled with alot of interesting plots and has mysteries of all kinds.
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One book... hmmm, that's hard because my all time favorite science fiction book is a four part series. Written by Dan Simmons 1. Hyperion 2. The Fall of Hyperion 3. Endymion 4. The Rise of Endymion Why do I like them? Incredible, fantastic, amazing.. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhHHHhhh! These books were awesome. They enthrall you through every word. Not one is wasted. The story has everything: A pilgramage, a love story, history, technology, religion, space ships, androids, time travel, chases, a monster, a hero, death and birth. It's a space opera. Just read them.
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...there are lots....but I guess I will say Gunslinger-Stephen King...very good book
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Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov Stranger in a Strange Land
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Frank Herbet's Dune, anyone? classical...
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OH, for me it's A Song of Ice and Fire. Eternal book, really! It's great, you should read it, if you haven't.
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The Number of the Beast: by Robert A. Heinlein Great book!!!!!!!
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Tunnel in the Sky: Robert Heinlein Why? Because I think we all could identify with the struggles and pressures of high school in the book, but then it turns to life and death and those struggles get more intense. Fantastic book, even though it is an older sci-fi book now. I also liked Rocketship Galileo and Red Planet by Heinlein as well. Great writer. The best sci-fi writer ever in my opinion.
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The Elric saga by Michael Moorcock.
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A Wrinkle In Time It's one of only a few sci-fi books I've ever read, but that one was worth reading twice when I was a teen.
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Out of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis. It takes a rather different view, showing how the beings on another world -- the planet Mars -- are actually good, non-fallen beings, whereas Earth is the planet that has been "quarantined" by the vastness and distances of space, keeping evil mankind away from the pure, angelic beings of Mars and other worlds. The very actions of the humans (two men, who abduct the man Ransom) prove the point of the evil of mankind.
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I have several. Some are David Brin's Earth, James Hogan's Minerva stories and Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series. The MInerva series have an excellent surprise ending.
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I love the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov.
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I'm not big into sci-fi; no reason, just not. However I think the late Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is pretty cool. Easy to read, plenty of believable improbability and ROTFL funny.
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I am having trouble picking just one, so here are some of my favourites - The Sirens of Titan, or Galapagos, by Kurt Vonnegut. (Vonnegut is a wonderful writer, I'd read a shopping list by him!) Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein(sp?) (This book has remained with me since I first read it many years ago) Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. (one of the first sci-fi books I ever read. Fabulous) The Day of The Triffids, by John Wyndham. (caught my imagination when I was a kid)
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Although it did not get good reviews, I really liked Robin Cook's "Abduction". I usually read steamy romance novels, so it was a nice change.
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The bible. Especially the chapter...Revelations. Read it you'll know why!
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Eon by Greg Bear.....great imagination and attention to detail....
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Ringworld by Larry Niven because it's a challenge to wrap your mind around. The sequel, Ringworld Engineers was very good as well.
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Replay by Ken Grimwood. It has the most innovative plot I've ever encountered.
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"The Mote in God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. IMHO the greatest hard-science SF book written so far.
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Okay, I'll go with Time out of Joint by Philip K Dick.
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"The Midwich Cuckoos" by John Wyndham. Some of the best opening paragraphs in any book I've read. The entire novel is intelligent, scary, realistic in its plot progression. And what a kickass title!
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I tend to go more with authors and series more than specific books: Piers Anthony Rings of Ice God Of Tarot series Chthon series Of Man and Manta series Cluster series Bio of a Space Tyrant series Mode series Anne McCaffery The Ship Who Sang (series) Doona Series Pern series (all of them - Yes, there's a lot of fantasy, too, but...) Larry Niven Ringworld series Man-Kzin Wars series Moties series Lucifer's Hammer (Fantastic book!) Neutron Star Jose Phillip-Farmer River World series (lots of fantasy, but...) L Ron Hubbard Mission Earth series Oh, and Anthony's and McCaffery's fantasy series, too.
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The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
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Dune
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It may not be high literature, but I've reread "Ender's Game" several times.
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"nSpace" by Dovin Melhee completely out of the box sci-fi. http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/nspace/7534554
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"Earth Abides" by George Stewart.
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The Foundation Series by Asimov. In the first volume, all of it is still fresh. Here we meet Hari Seldon for the first time, get slightly acquainted with his mathematical science of psychohistory, and learn what he's done to keep the decline of the Galactic Empire from leading humanity into 30,000 years of barbarism. He can't avert the decline, but he's got a way to reduce the period of barbarism to a mere millennium. The books are heavier on the abstract than the personal analysis quagmired in character development.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy It makes so much sense.
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Alfred Bester's "The Demolished Man." Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" and "The Golden Apples of the Sun."
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Harry Potter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's awsome
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Star Wolf. It captivated me like no other SciFi book. Ever heard of it?
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