Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:41 am
What are some good easy to read sci-fi type books?
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:01 am
Starship Troopers
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:09 am
Get some compilation of short stories, not much to remember and you can just read one each day.
Get a POST-APOCALYPTIC BOOK!!! Nothing is better than that. Check Post-Apocalyptic Media, it's got a long list. I'd tell you some good ones but I don't know much in english, but got some
good ones in french!
Check this great zombie story, there's a preview, ordered the book off Amazon and finished it in a day, was too good for a zombie story, kicked ass. Way too much. Just check the reviews on Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, it just kicks ass.
I've read a translated book of Orson Scott Card, was very good.
Get a POST-APOCALYPTIC BOOK!!! Nothing is better than that. Check Post-Apocalyptic Media, it's got a long list. I'd tell you some good ones but I don't know much in english, but got some
good ones in french!Check this great zombie story, there's a preview, ordered the book off Amazon and finished it in a day, was too
good for a zombie story, kicked ass. Way too much. Just check the reviews on Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, it just kicks ass.I've read a translated book of Orson Scott Card, was very good.
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:23 am
Woah... that guy's got a cool fucking name.S4ur0n27 wrote:Fantasy-wise I'd recommend Guy Gavriel Kay
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:00 am
Just stick to fantasy if you want an easy to read sci-fi novel.POOPERSCOOPER wrote:What are some good easy to read sci-fi type books?
No matter how easy the text is to read, some of the ideas in the books are pretty deep.
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:36 pm
2001, the book maybe?
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:13 am
Because I'm currently 80% done this book, I'm inclined to agree.Naked_Lunch wrote:Starship Troopers
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:14 am
Malleus Maleficarum - Good book thus far.
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:01 am
Ideas dont generally get me too confused its mostly how they right them.Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote:Just stick to fantasy if you want an easy to read sci-fi novel.POOPERSCOOPER wrote:What are some good easy to read sci-fi type books?
No matter how easy the text is to read, some of the ideas in the books are pretty deep.
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:46 am
Read Snow Crash by Neal Stephanson. It's got Sumeria pizza and swordz 
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:52 am
But does it have Samurai Pizza Catz?
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:30 pm
Anyone read Beevor's Berlin or Stalingrad? Oppinions. I liked the colorful descriptions of total war.
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:27 pm
And that, is why I intend to attain cellular non existence once I'm sufficiently bored of this life. Can't molest what isn't there. No. Whilst some might consider cremation sufficient, I know better. Even as slight as such a potentiality is, some things are best not gambled upon.Nicolai wrote:Someone already beat you to it.
(Well, kinda, anyway)
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:51 pm
Totally.
Anyway, if you liked the Starship Troopers movie, check out Armor.
Anyway, if you liked the Starship Troopers movie, check out Armor.
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:07 pm
Hey i know this was 2 pages ago but whats wrong with David Eddings
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:40 pm
Finished Stalingrad a couple months ago, excellent book. It's fucking pathetic how so many brave lives were lost on both sides because of the egos/ineptitude/military ignorance of Stalin & Hitler and their chickenshit cronies. You can't not sypathise with the men on both sides - fucking dark, tragic page in human history. I read both volumes of the Gulag Archipeligo prior to that, if it wasn't so funny, you'd open a vein reading it.vx trauma wrote:Anyone read Beerovs Berlin or Stalingrad? Oppinions. I liked the colorful descriptions of total war.
Currently reading Frank Herbert's Dosadi Experiment, good shit. As a long time Dune fan, I must say, stay away from those abominable Dune prequels frm his son, and read his non-Dune shit. It's deep man.
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:59 pm
Are they better than the Dune sequels?
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:41 pm
Total winners! Both will cheer you guaranteed not matter how gloomy things might seem! Read them and rejoice!! 
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:36 pm
Yeah, rejoice that you weren't alive in Russia in the 1930s.
Those 2 douchebags writing them now seriously need to hire some fucking editors. They're so bad it's funny. They're are so shamelessly and transparently cashing in.
I just finished the Dosadi Experiment last night. Personally I like his Dune books better, maybe just because that universe was so well developed, while this was a quick 350 pager. But his style and philosophy are all over it. Covers a lot of the same thematic ground.S4ur0n27 wrote:Are they better than the Dune sequels?
Those 2 douchebags writing them now seriously need to hire some fucking editors. They're so bad it's funny. They're are so shamelessly and transparently cashing in.
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:57 pm
I wouldn't consider them anywhere near the same.Nicolai wrote:Totally.
Anyway, if you liked the Starship Troopers movie, check out Armor.
Armor by John Stakley is a great book though.
EDIT: Dune is a horriblely boring book. I wouldn't read the goddamn sequels because the original book was such a fucking nap inducer.