The Greatest Science Fiction of All Time

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'm torn between The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, Silent Spring and An Inconvenient Truth.

 

[JohnnySavage]

The Void Trilogy by Peter Hamilton.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Nominations invalid without a vote...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Future Shock, Alvin Toffler

 

[JohnnySavage]

Unincorporated Man series by Dani Kollin is pretty good too

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The Population Bomb, Paul R. Ehrlich



Or


Asimov's Foundation

However, the latter is still not Heinlein...

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The Dorsai Series by Gordon R. Dickson

 

[BattlingSoul]

The Matrix Trilogy...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I have to agree with Zeb's vote...



I had to vote I nominate to keep the schtick going.

 

[oggbashan]

Older works that inspired later SF

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

H G Wells: War of the Worlds

Conan Doyle: Professor Challenger stories

 

[Lancecastor]

I can't imagine such a list without Douglas Adams.

 

[hashtag46]

I'm embarassed to admit that I never heard of any of those, 4est…

For me it's "When androids dream of electric sheep" just because I like "Blade runner" and I came across a fascinating review of the movie:
"What makes one human and what does it mean to be human?"

"Dark City" was in a similar line and was good too

 

[Lancecastor]

I think they made too big a deal out of him after he died. Good short stories though.

 

[Weird Harold]

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

 

[Typo Fu Master]

Subjective thread is subjective.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

H G Wells: War of the Worlds

Conan Doyle: Professor Challenger stories

Just as influential were the Arcot, Wade and and Morey novels of John Campbell.



I remember reading them because of Asimov.

 

[oggbashan]

Just as influential were the Arcot, Wade and and Morey novels of John Campbell.



I remember reading them because of Asimov.

E E (Doc) Smith Lensman space opera series influenced many people.

So did Edgar Rice Burroughs Martian, Moon and Pellucidar series.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Is the Space Opera over when the fat Venusian sings?

 

[Radiohead]

I'm embarassed to admit that I never heard of any of those, 4est…

For me it's "When androids dream of electric sheep" just because I like "Blade runner" and I came across a fascinating review of the movie:
"What makes one human and what does it mean to be human?"

"Dark City" was in a similar line and was good too

I knew there was taste somewhere.

 

[oggbashan]

Is the Space Opera over when the fat Venusian sings?

For E E (Doc) Smith it's when the goodies use two planets to squash the enemy's planet, followed by a mass attack of mental force by all the minds of 'civilisation' and the good guy gets the girl.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

*chuckle*


I missed that Night at the Opera...

 

[Radiohead]

Ray Bradbury... I know I've linked it before

Thank fuck, The Fire Balloons

 

[Comshaw]

The Forever War Joe Haldeman

Dune Frank Herbert

I Robot Issac Asimov
Short story:

Nightfall Issac Asimov


Comshaw

 

[CTFD]

I can't imagine such a list without Douglas Adams.

'It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.'

 

[Radiohead]

Given I just closed it, and then thought about it.

46 and 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tja6_h4lT6A