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mizore:
--- Quote from: Micharus on December 09, 2009, 02:41:30 PM ---The Foundation Series, by Isaac Asimov.
Heavy duty sci-fi, with robots, space travel, revolutions, wars and so on. Something for everyone, but it does take some reading, be warned.
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<3 <3
The psychological predeterminacy factoring in this series is intriguing. It's been so long, think I'll reread them. :D
temuchin:
--- Quote from: mizore on November 01, 2009, 08:47:13 AM ---Anything in the series started by the man that structured the foundations of cyberpunk, and he also first used the terms "cyberspace" and "matrix." It irks me to no end that those charlatans --oops, I meant "creators"-- of The Matrix gave absolutely no credit to William Gibson. Without him, I often wonder if modern science fiction would have gone another route.
Trilogy to which I am referring:
1st book - Neuromancer
2nd book- Count Zero
3rd and final - Mona Lisa Overdrive
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give props to mizore. i am a HUGE cyberpunk fanatic- it is my favourite genre of sci-fi.
i enjoiy Neuromancer so much i re-read that novel every 2 years or so. sadly we have never
seen a good adaption of his novels to the silver screen but some
day hopefully we can. wait isn't the world supposed to end in 2012? they shall better hurry..
i hereby endorse Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. this book is epic peoples. epic....
my last cyberpunk read was Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan.
i just finished reading Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human which is featured in the first
4 episodes of Aoi Bungaku.
Micharus:
--- Quote from: mizore on December 19, 2009, 03:28:09 PM ---
--- Quote from: Micharus on December 09, 2009, 02:41:30 PM ---The Foundation Series, by Isaac Asimov.
Heavy duty sci-fi, with robots, space travel, revolutions, wars and so on. Something for everyone, but it does take some reading, be warned.
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<3 <3
The psychological predeterminacy factoring in this series is intriguing. It's been so long, think I'll reread them. :D
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Yes, it's quite a good series of books, although it involves some serious reading.
Another great read is "Positronic Man", also by Isaac Asimov. I reckon it would make an excellent anime movie.
lethe:
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes - About a Retarded man undergoing an intelligence boost surgery and his discoveries afterwards. i recently got it from http://www.truly-free.org/ so cant say if its a book or a short story article. there are also some asimov short story books you can find here.(i think its legal. not sure tho)
mentioned before but it never hurts to up it
Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb I dont know how many times i reread this. i especially recommend the 2nd book.
Even though i like it i must disagree with Wheel of Time. It started so great but got so entangled with loose ends, i hope they can pull it off in 12th book(s) or it will be such a shame. so read at your own risk :P
dk1022:
The sleeping beauty series! - Anne Rice
Such a great great great series!
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