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Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*
Posted By: dirkgently <sevenisdarker@gmail.com>	Date: 6/23/08 7:34 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT* (Evil Otto) : 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... I'm going to add some comments on what I've read out of this list, as well as add anything that I can think of to the bottom of it. : Dune - Frank Herbert : Neuromancer - William Gibson : Excession - Iain M. Banks As well as Use Of Weapons and Consider Phlebas. Look to Windward is very good and The Player of Games contains a particularly unstable AI : Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C Clarke Read the entire series. I'd tell you why, but it'd ruin the big surprises later on in the story. Suffice it to say it connects very well with Halo. : Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson I find the only thing wrong with this book is that it ends in typical Stephenson fashion, it ends without an ending. The world is saved, the good guys live, suddenly, bam, back cover of the book. Epilogue my ass. : Startide Rising - David Brin : Blood Music - Greg Bear : Tripods Trilogy - John Christopher : The Planets series from Ben Bova : Area 51 series : Hitchhikers Guide series I'm pretty sure the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy is mandatory reading for geeks. : Holistic Detective Agency - Dirk Gently *Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency READ THAT ONE ^ Ditto it's sequel, The Long Dark Tea Time Of The Soul : Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlien Possibly the greatest military sci fi tale ever told. Involves orbitally fired drop pods and ships, planet destroying bombs and humanity's struggle to survive. : I Am Legend – Richard Matheson (a little more horror perhaps) : A Sound Of Thunder – Ray Bradbury (very short, but I love the idea) They made a movie about it with Ed Burns. SEE IT. It has Dinosaurs! : Contact (the book) – Carl Sagan : Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Crichton I'm a big PKD fan. A lot of his stuff has been made into movies, usually poorly (Minority Report, Paycheck, Total Recall (Originally called We Can Remember It For You Whole Sale). And some stuff that was pretty good, A Scanner Darkly, and of course, the unforgettable Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, made into a film as Blade Runner. : 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 I'm a few pages in on this book. It's... interesting. : Neuromancer, William Gibson : Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges : The Man in the High Castle and Ubik, PK Dick Ubik I have read, the Man In The High Castle I have not. It's got nothing particularly Halo relevant that i can think off the top of my head : 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 Read everything this man has written. Seriously. : Brave New World - Aldus Huxley : A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess A great novel (And movie). Get one with the slang dictionary in the back. : Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein : The black company series Also, I'd like to recommend: Larry Niven - Ringworld Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle - The Mote In God's Eye and The Gripping Hand. Larry Niven's N-Space. It's a compilation of stuff and features interesting little bits from the man himself. Wonderful all around Philip K Dick: We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, and get some collections of his short stuff. Everything he writes is just wonderful. Ian M. Banks: Against A Dark Background, Consider Phlebas, Look To Windward, Excession, Use of Weapons, Player Of Games Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee - Rendezvous With Rama, Rama II, Garden Of Rama, Rama Revealed. That's about all I can think off the top of my head. Watchout with the Rama series though; the really interesting explanation about what Rama is and what it's doing does not happen until later on in the series. Garden, I think. But when you'll read it, you'll just totally understand. It's awash with detail, throughout the series, so fans of the HSP will appreciate it.

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Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	SinisterSamurai	6/23/08 2:23 p.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	elessar787	6/23/08 3:14 p.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	Evil Otto	6/23/08 3:45 p.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	Evil Otto	6/23/08 4:00 p.m.
Thank you, Sir.	SinisterSamurai	6/23/08 4:31 p.m.
Re: Thank you, Sir.	Ma1agate	6/23/08 4:58 p.m.
Re: Thank you, Sir.	Louis Wu	6/23/08 8:00 p.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	Sonkway	6/23/08 5:00 p.m.
Doesn't have to be sci-fi, though.	SinisterSamurai	6/23/08 5:53 p.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	mnemesis	6/23/08 5:52 p.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	Evil Otto	6/23/08 6:10 p.m.
I'll check that one next.	SinisterSamurai	6/23/08 6:24 p.m.
Re: I'll check that one next.	Evil Otto	6/23/08 6:52 p.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	dirkgently	6/23/08 7:34 p.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	Louis Wu	6/23/08 8:03 p.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	6/23/08 9:08 p.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	dirkgently	6/24/08 1:48 a.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	mnemesis	6/24/08 10:00 a.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	ACEfanatic02	6/23/08 8:35 p.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	Narcogen	6/23/08 11:19 p.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	dirkgently	6/24/08 2:28 a.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	Narcogen	6/24/08 9:09 a.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	dirkgently	6/24/08 10:37 a.m.
Re: Bungie General Recommended Reading? *Semi OT*	Peptuck	6/24/08 12:37 a.m.
Re: Consider yourselves shamed.	gspawn	6/24/08 11:42 a.m.
Re: Consider yourselves shamed.	Louis Wu	6/24/08 11:45 a.m.
Re: Consider yourselves shamed.	mnemesis	6/24/08 12:05 p.m.