Re: [9fans] Very Off-Topic: Anybody here reads Sci-Fi? :)

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"Electric Sheep" by John Scalzi is a very humorous play on Dick's wonderful
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". Anathem is good, but Snow Crash &
Diamond Age equally as good, & have faster pacing. "The Hostile Takeover
Trilogy", everything written by William Gibson, "The Electric Church",
Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, The original Dune series, most of Cory Doctrow's
stuff (Little Brother was a stretch, but most everything else was good;
"Down & Out in the magic kingdom" is a good start). If you like Hard Sci Fi,
the "Hard SciFi renaissance" is a great collection of works, including
Arthur C. Clarke, and it's heavy on Science, which is pretty neat.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:39 AM, yy <yiyu.jgl@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/12/3 Fernan Bolando <fernanbolando@mailc.net>:
> > Hi all
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> > I am not sure if anybody here reads Sci-Fi novels. Any recommendations?
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> > http://www.fernski.com
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> I'm not a big fan of sci-fi, but "Do Androids Dream of Electric
> Sheep?" is worth a read.
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> - yiyus || JGL .
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