From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 10:32:17 +0000 From: Eris Discordia To: fernanbolando@mailc.net, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <596CF3F8D968D3268870A0B8@[192.168.1.2]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Very Off-Topic: Anybody here reads Sci-Fi? :) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 572561fe-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 At last, something I can claim expertise in--you actually see the "sci-fi" expertise showing on my feeble attempts at technicality ;-) You should definitely try anything by Stanislaw Lem. Reading him in the original Polish would be awesome but somewhat far-fetched. Then there are the German translations in terms of quality and diversity. And lowest on the ladder are the English translations. Try Solaris, Fiasco, and The Invincible. Then you can go for Cyberiad, His Master's Voice, Imaginary Magnitude, and Hospital of Transfiguration. If you are become a studious fan you may eventually end up reading Memoirs Found in a Bathtub. To fill the short breathing intervals between reading these works you could try any of Ijon Tichy's adventures. Then there's Philip K. Dick. One of his short stories was recommended (by which the film Blade Runner was inspired). You can try the collection of essays and stories titled The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick for a first taste. Larry Niven's The Jigsaw Men should provide good shock value and probably get you reading his other works. There are the Great Three, of course. Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert A. Heinlein. Anything they wrote is worth a read. Sometimes a number of reads. Clarke particularly interests me. Try the short story The Nine Billion Names of God. The series of Odyssey novels are very readable--2001 is a magnum opus of Clarke, and of science fiction. No science fiction (or fantasy) book recommendation will be complete without a mention of Ray Bradbury. Try The Illustrated Man, and The Martian Chronicles. Fahrenheit 451 you have already heard of surely. There's a lot more to recommend but let's let it pass. --On Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:29 PM +0800 Fernan Bolando wrote: > Hi all > > I am not sure if anybody here reads Sci-Fi novels. Any recommendations? > > > -- > http://www.fernski.com >