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syncretic  ·  4347 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your top 5 books?

I'm a huge sci-fi/fantasy fan, especially post-apocalyptic fiction.

1. Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling

2. Dune by Frank Herbert

3. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

4. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

5. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card





b_b  ·  4347 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Post-apocalyptic sci fi and no Philip K. Dick? An outrage! I'm not really that well informed on sci fi, but I love me some Dick. Er...Well, you know what I mean. I think The Man in the High Castle is a masterpiece.

syncretic  ·  4347 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dick is definitely on my reading list.

JakobVirgil  ·  4347 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I love that book and Dick in general. I think his best books are "Martian Time Slip", "confessions of a crap artist" and "Valis".

user-inactivated  ·  4346 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Try To There Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer. Really the entire Riverworld series is great.

That said, how was Speaker of the Dead? I read Ender's Game and never got around to the sequels.

syncretic  ·  4346 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I liked the sequels more than Ender's Game, actually. In Speaker for the Dead, he is an adult, and traveling through time in hyperspace, from planet to planet, performing rights for the dead. Very good read, and an entirely different book than Ender's Game. In fact, I think the series keeps getting better as it progresses. Xenocide, the 3rd book in the series, is another of my sci-fi favorites.

akkartik  ·  4335 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As a contradictory sample point, I loved Ender's Game and Speaker and the Ender's Shadow series, but couldn't get through 5 chapters of Xenocide or the next sequel.

Captain_Ozone  ·  4347 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm also really interested in sci-fi ever since reading Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury. I've wanted to read Isaac Asimov and more sci-fi for some time but have never gotten around to it.