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Bester, Alfred
The Demolished Man
The Stars My Destination
Brunner, John
The Shockwave Rider
Evaluation: Flarking good. Plot synopsis: Hmmmm......without
giving it
all away, it deals with a very good hacker in the days
when computers
didn't really exist.....Most everything is done by telephone
line. Basically,
it carries the 70's idealistic tone throughout it, on
the subject of freedom
of information. - The Exiled
Card, Orson Scott
Ender's Game
One of the best SciFi books around. The ending is so
incredible, you'll
realize that you knew it all along. And it sucks you
in. The second and
third of the Ender series are good too, but not quite
as good as the first
one... -
eloquence
Farmer, Philip Jose
The Riverworld Series
The first book is called To Your Scattered Bodies
Go. It is very atypical
science fiction, and the plot involves roughly every
person who ever lived
being ressurrected at once along the banks of a huge
river. Farmer
includes both historical figures (Sir Richard Francis
Burton, Alice Liddel-
Hargreaves, Hermann Goering, Cyrano de Bergerac), as
well as fictional.
Lots of good action, as well as socio-political commentary.
- JeanCroix
Gibson, William
Count Zero
Idoru
Mona Lisa Overdrive
Neuromancer
Heinlein, Robert
Stranger in a Strange Land
It was one of the first SF books I ever read, and it's
good. It's hard SF, yet
accessible to people like me who have a fuzzy grasp of
technology beyond
turning a computer on, word processing ,and using the
net. Also, Jubal and
Michael Valentine Smith are some of my favorite people
of all time, and I
think *everyone* should make their acquaintance. -
rufus
Time Enough For Love
About a man whose natural life-span is thousands of years.
Much Heinleinian
wisdom here. ;) - JeanCroix
Herbert, Frank
Dune
Simmons, Dan
Hyperion
Stephenson, Neal
Snow Crash
A feasible portrait of the future of America, made up
of franchulates
and high-tech toys. Goes by really fast and is quite
witty at the same
time. Also has an wonderful section in the middle drawing
all of these
analogies between Sumerian languages and modern computer
viruses.
- eloquence
The Diamond Age: A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Williams, Tad
Otherland
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