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Iapetus, on 09 January 2011 - 10:38 PM, said:

Already read it. Might read the "Ramayana" again and I'm putting the "Mahabharata" on my Kindle, so I'll have that at least.

My suggestion isn't quite obscure science fiction, but it's very similar in a technological sense. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, which follows a collection of characters (in multiple view points) who are trying to uncover a device being installed in a v-2 rocket during WWII Germany. It's full of hidden meanings and symbolism and I often found myself having to research most of the history myself--especially during points of the novel in which I call bullshit on. There are some crazy theories in there.

It might be a little too heavy if you're just looking for a science fiction novel.

There was a lot of good stuff like that in Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon." Keeps switching between Alan Turing and a German defector hiding Nazi gold in a secret submarine in the Philippines and the hacker (circa-1997, mind you) closing in on it.

If you haven't read it already, read The Road. Seriously, really good.

DUDE. BACON MAN. I AM READING IT RIGHT FUCKING NOW! I finished World War Z yesterday morning, it was the next on my list!

oddguy, on 07 January 2011 - 06:35 PM, said:

In the film Idiocracy it was said:

Jerk, on 12 January 2011 - 10:52 AM, said:

FUCK YEEAAR
What did you think of World War Z? You know they're making a movie out of it.

This post has been edited by CaptainBaconMan: 12 January 2011 - 10:40 PM

Just like to point out, while pretending to be cool:

Sci Fi REPRESENT!

CaptainBaconMan, on 12 January 2011 - 10:38 AM, said:

I loved that book...

CaptainBaconMan, on 12 January 2011 - 10:39 PM, said:

They'd better do it justice or my penis will be going through an eyehole somewhere in Hollywood.

Cormac McCarthy is fantastic, but so far Blood Meridian is still better. I'm 60% done.

@ CLOUD: FUCKIN' RIGHT, MAN. I've been trying to compose the perfect sci-fi reading list.

Jerk, on 13 January 2011 - 02:17 AM, said:

Well, supposedly Brad Pitt has a confirmed role.

And hopefully, Mel Brooks might help in some capacity. But then again he's a comedy director, so. And not to mention Max might not be helping much with the movie.

Also, who totally read The Hardy Boys and Animorphs as a kid?

Fuck Nancy Drew, that shit was for STUPID GIRLS.

This post has been edited by CaptainBaconMan: 13 January 2011 - 03:23 PM

Animorphs and Goosebumps. You know, some of that stuff was pretty fucked up even compared to adult stuff. You didn't get through a single Animorphs without a disemboweling.

Dude, I remember reading through goosebumps books in less than an hour. Lol. They were always entertaining, but NONE of them were scary. EVER.

Hatchet, and Brian's Winter. Two of the best fucking books ever. I read those a lot in elementary school.

God, now I am remembering all the books I read for English class in high school.

Lol goosebumps. I always thought of some weird flavoured crisps (chips for you americans) we had over here in the UK. Never found the books appealing, they bored me.

Right, sci fi reading list, this is what I've current been through, stuff with an X next to it is stuff I recommend, 2 Xs for recommending something even more.

Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter - The Light of Other Days (X)

Peter F Hamilton - The Night's Dawn Trilogy (XX)
Peter F Hamilton - The Commonwealth Saga (XX)
Peter F Hamilton - The Void Trilogy (XX)
Peter F Hamilton - Fallen Dragon (XX) - This is fucking epic seriously.
Peter F Hamilton - Misspent Youth
Peter F Hamilton - Greg Mandel Series (X)
Peter F Hamilton - Essentially everything he has done is fucking amazing, fanboy I know, but... look into it. You WILL NOT regret it.

Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People (I think this technically counts)
Eoin Colfer - The Artemis Fowl series (These were damn good actually, bit kiddified though)
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell - The Edge Chronicles (Again, a bit kiddified, and not QUITE sci fi, borderline) (X)

Michael Crichton - Timeline (XX)
Michael Crichton - Prey

Stephen Baxter - Ark (XX)
Stephen Baxter - Most of his other works (I found many of his books rather too heavy, look at his stuff and pick what sounds good to you personally, he's great)

A few other things, but these were the ones which have always stood out to me, some ones I've read recently I cannot yet recommend as it depends on the rest of the books in the series they go with, which are not yet written!. Also, if I don't remember something, it probably wasn't brilliant, so it aint here.

Anyway yeah, enjoy that list of good stuff, rest of you need to post stuff up. For other genres too. I read mainly sci fi, always out for a bit of other genres if I like the sound of the plot

I read Timeline when it came out.

CJ Cheryth's Heavy Time and the rest are great, but hella confusing. (It's a whole world a la 'known space' but I didn't realize until I had read numerous books set in it)

Zombies vs Unicorns is purported to be good.

Read Diskworld. All of it. It's like H2G2 for fantasy, except that there's more of them.

His Dark Materials.

There's also an upcoming graphic novel that I'm really excited about. I've read a lot by the author. It's not really science fiction though. Something about cats in highschool

Hmm, science fiction?

For hard sci-fi, I liked Arthur C. Clarke (The Songs of Distant Earth, Childhood's End, The Light of Other Days, etc.).

For soft sci-fi, I liked Ursula Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Word for World is Forest, etc.).

Anybody else read the Sci-Fi books that C.S. Lewis wrote?

Ja. What'd you think of 'em?

Not what I was expecting. I think the first was the best out of them all.

Wholeheartedly agreed!

I want to read them. Sadly, I want to read Narnia first to make sense out of all the tidbits of the films and series that I have seen. ^_^

Having read all of Narnia, I actually find it quite overrated... the books seemed frightfully dull to me, despite all the machinations going on all the time.
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