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Good scifi novels?
7 years ago
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A certain genre has been growing on me lately: paperbacks from around the 70's with the scifi cover art, you know the kind. Even if it's newer, something in this spirit.
Things in this genre I have read and enjoyed include Ender's Game, The Mote in God's Eye, Mindswap, CS Lewis' space trilogy... and now I'm getting self-conscious because I grew up receiving the message from my school that your worth as a person was directly proportional to how many books you read and I am way behind. :P
Things I am looking for:
ALIENS. Lots and lots of aliens. Any kind at all, though there are some obvious bonus points for silly, friendly, multilimbed, or otherwise interesting aliens.
Things I am NOT looking for:
Super perfect scientific accuracy.
Nightmare-inducing stuff.
Also this leans more toward the obscure. I'm not opposed to the popular stuff such as Star Wars, but I'm a tougher sell there. For proof, I'm a walking catalog of multilimbed media and I learned just last week that Solo had a four-armed character... from a lady at church.
Anyway, recommend me stuff!
Things in this genre I have read and enjoyed include Ender's Game, The Mote in God's Eye, Mindswap, CS Lewis' space trilogy... and now I'm getting self-conscious because I grew up receiving the message from my school that your worth as a person was directly proportional to how many books you read and I am way behind. :P
Things I am looking for:
ALIENS. Lots and lots of aliens. Any kind at all, though there are some obvious bonus points for silly, friendly, multilimbed, or otherwise interesting aliens.
Things I am NOT looking for:
Super perfect scientific accuracy.
Nightmare-inducing stuff.
Also this leans more toward the obscure. I'm not opposed to the popular stuff such as Star Wars, but I'm a tougher sell there. For proof, I'm a walking catalog of multilimbed media and I learned just last week that Solo had a four-armed character... from a lady at church.
Anyway, recommend me stuff!
If it's not retro enough tho, he's also done some weird sapient dolphin themed stuff in the 80s, called the Uplift saga. It's so long and and has so many aliens he had to write a guide to rememberring them.
Helliconia is an interesting setting
And if you haven't read the Dune series - highly acclaimed.
I would also recommend Herbert's Jesus Incident series - after the first book - lots of very unique and interesting aliens.
I'll take a look at those!
It's a bit hit and miss which chapters the aliens appear in, but I found them worth reading.
I don't read a lot.