In Response To: Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT* (Evil Otto)
: You really should check out the old news story on B.net then.
Meh, that was a very brief compilation now that I look at it. Here is a more complete list that I saved from an internal discussion for my own wishlist. I haven't read half of these. Sorry if there are some not suitable for younger readers, I haven't read half of these...
Dune - Frank Herbert
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Excession - Iain M. Banks
Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C Clarke
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Startide Rising - David Brin
Blood Music - Greg Bear
Tripods Trilogy - John Christopher
The Planets series from Ben Bova
Area 51 series
Hitchhikers Guide series
Holistic Detective Agency - Dirk Gently
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlien
I Am Legend – Richard Matheson (a little more horror perhaps)
A Sound Of Thunder – Ray Bradbury (very short, but I love the idea)
Contact (the book) – Carl Sagan
Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Crichton
Kim Stanley Robinson: Mars Trilogy
Alistair Reynolds: Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap, Revelation Space
James P. Hogan: Giants Trilogy
Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age
John Steakley: Armor
Joe Haldeman: The Forever War
Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land, Time Enough for Love, Friday
Greg Bear: Forge of God, Anvil of Stars, Slant
Isaac Asimov: Foundation Series
Arthur C. Clarke: 2001 Series
“Against a Dark Background” and “The Algebraist” by Iain M. Banks.
Isaac Asimov
Jack L. Chalker – Twilight at the Well of Souls series
Christopher Rowley sci-fi novels – “The War for Eternity”, “The Black Ship”
“Hyperion” and “Fall of Hyperion”, by Dan Simmons
Anne McCaffrey’s The Planet Pirates series (Sassinak in particular).
Dragonriders of Pern stuff
Dennis Danvers - Circuit of Heaven and End of Days (Great books)
Neal Stephenson – Cryptonomicon,
Anything by (Roger) Zelazny
Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
The Man in the High Castle and Ubik, PK Dick
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Kindred, Octavia Butler
Oryx and Crake by Margret Atwood
The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach
“The 3 Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch” “Man in the High Castle”. Philip K Dick
William Gibson (Neuromancer and Virtual Light trilogies)
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Isaac Asimov - Foundation
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Brave New World - Aldus Huxley
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
The black company series
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