My favorite Science Fiction novels. Used to be my favorite genre,
perhaps it still is, though I tend to read history when I get around to reading
books. I do still read Gardner Dozois's annual "The Year's Best
Science Fiction" short story anthologies.
| Eon |
Greg Bear |
In Arthur C.
Clarke's "Rendevous with Rama" a big hip enters the solar system
and nothing happens for three whole novels.
Bear's "Eon" starts with the same premise but jam packs
it with tons of high-concept and action. |
| The
Galactic Center saga |
Gregory Benford |
Mechs hunting
down humans, grand scope, |
| Diaspora |
Greg Egan |
Fleeing,
extrapolated to something grander |
| Red
Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
If we were to
colonize Mars right now, how would we do it? We send 100 people… |
| The Forge
of God |
Greg Bear |
fun end of the
world tale |
| Manifold
Time |
Stephen Baxter |
A guy gets to
watch the universe age all the way to civilizations trying to capture the
last energies prior to entropy death |
| The
Gateway/Heechee series |
Frederik Pohl |
Gateway is fun
and Heechee Rendezvous is idea-packed |
| End of Exile |
Ben Bova |
I loved this
in junior high, probably not appriate for anybody beyond junior high |
| Hyperion |
Dan Simmons |
long long
long, but creates some enduring images and asks (and answers) the question
"If God were to ask us right now to sacrifice our son as he did
Abraham, do we do it?" |
| Dune |
Frank Herbert |
I remember not
being able to put this down while at the Academy (not a good time to have
a five-day distraction) |
| A Canticle
for Leibowitz |
Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
1961 Hugo
Winner |
| The Mote in
God's Eye |
Niven/Pournville |
seemed kind of
date when I re-read it recently.. |
| The
Foundation Series |
Aasimov |
|
| Startide
Rising |
David Brin |
fun |
| Ender's
Game |
Orson Scott Card |
didn't get
into the series, though |
| The Wheel
of Time Series |
Robert Jordan |
Fantasy, which
I don't generally read or like. But
these very long books were like Lord of the Ring with women (which LOTR
needed) |
| Doomsday
Book |
Connie Willis |
|
| Sphere |
Michael Creighton |
Loved the
book, movie not so much. |
| Dragon's
Egg |
Robert Forward |
life on a
neutron Star |
