Has anyone read "Larry Niven, James P. Hogan
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God, I read a mess of Sci Fi.........Larry Niven (Lucifer's Hammer, Ringworld are the two that spring to mind) Orson Scott Card, Robert Heinlien, Isaac Asimov.............so many they are all run together now.
Me too. I generally liked all of Niven's books, with the exception of "Ringworld". For some reason those series never appealed to me? After Asimov, or perhaps equal to him, hard for me to say, I love Bradbury! "Martian Chronicles" being amongst my top twenty favourite books of all time.
I think I read all of them, but like Colpy said they all ran together along time ago. I stopped reading much science fiction when I found out reality was where the real wierd stuff is.
I think I read all of them, but like Colpy said they all ran together along time ago. I stopped reading much science fiction when I found out reality was where the real wierd stuff is. Frank Herbert
Robert Silverberg, Poul Anderson, John Brunner, John Wyndham, Fritz Leiber, Spider Robinson, Cyril Kornbluth, Ursula K. LeGuin, L. Sprague de Camp, Frederick Pohl, Judith Merrill... And those are just the names I can read on the spines of my books without getting out of my chair. Not a dud in the lot.
And then there's SF-Horror guy Robert Bloch, of whom it was said that he had the heart of a little boy, which he kept in a jar on his desk.
No, that was Samuel R. Delany. That's gotta be the most unreadable, impenetrable, boring piece of SF ever published.
I thought it was a master piece. What did John Brunner write? Are you sure he didn't write Dalhgren?
Read an article on a Sci-Fi convention years ago............some of the delegates wore badges that said "Has read ALL of Dalhgren"
I would have qualified.
Why? I'm not sure.
Ah yes, Stand on Zanzibar is indeed a master work, one of the best SF novels ever. I read it again about every 5 years and I always find something new in it, or something I'd forgotten that I want to remember.
That makes you unique among everybody I've ever met. I couldn't get past the first 100 pages in four tries, I had no idea what the story was or where it was going. I know a guy who took it as his only book on a 3 week vacation, vowing he'd get through it. He failed, and ended up throwing it into the Caribbean in exasperation. I have no idea how it turns out. It's horrible, unreadable, interminable, boring, frustrating....Colpy said:
uh...care to reveal the ending? ;-)
It was SO bad......I don't remember.........honestly. But I think the world gets eaten by a gaseous anomaly.
Oh yeah.....I read history textbooks and find them fascinating............I've been known to read the phone book when nothing else was available. It is a disease.
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Read a bit of Niven, a bit of Orson scott card... not much else from the greats though. My childhood was littered with Starwars novels 
so I'm just getting into the good stuff. But between the physics and math textbooks, there isn't much time for joyfull reading sadly.
so I'm just getting into the good stuff. But between the physics and math textbooks, there isn't much time for joyfull reading sadly.
John Brunner wrote: Double Double, The infinative of Go, The Long Result, The Whole Man, as well as Stand on Zanzibar and a few others. I enjoyed most of his stuff. Stand On Zanzibar is an excellent book.
God. You could be looking at my shelves, except for Judith Merrill........thanks, it's another name I can look for.
How about more low brow SCI FI ?
Did anybody like the Robot and Foundation series by Isaac Assimov ?
Did anybody like the Robot and Foundation series by Isaac Assimov ?