I read Dune as a kid and it has to be one of my favorite books of all time. But the question asks for your favorite SERIES, and i can't say that i liked Dune more than all the Hitchhiker books put together.
Poll: Best sci-fi book series ever
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Your wrong about those two. So you deserve to get slapped 5 times with all of Prattchets work and Douglas Adams work.LimaBravo said:How could I forget
Joe Haldemans Forever War & Peace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Haldeman
Alan Dean Fosters Commonwealth (Humanx (8 books) and Pip and Flux (14 books)) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dean_Foster
It was really a back handed slap at how HHGTTG is one of my most hated fanboism's its a comedy like Red Dwarf its not actually science fiction. Fiction that is based on scientific alteration or specualtion is science fiction. Jokes about towels is humouroliveira8 said:Im the same with Pratchett hes not funny IMHO.
Also did you read HHGTTG? How more Sci-fi does it get? Theres plenty of speculation of science. And by the way. Sci-Fi is not only speculation of existing science. 1984 is sci-fi and so is H.P. Lovecraft. Both have nothing to do with tradicional Sci-Fi but they are by definition Sci-Fi novels.
Anghrist said:
Wow ..... Someone else thinks the same as me, although I am only on the second book
The Night's Dawn Trilogy really should be in that poll
Denied! You are here sentenced to death for saying bad of God Douglas Noel Adams and Aspiring God Terence David John Pratchett!LimaBravo said:
Also Douglas Adams was quite the technologist, much more than Orson Scott Card or Frank Herbert.(just mentioned those two cause they on the list.)
Have to go with Foundation. But only the original trilogy, I didn't like the other books as much.
I tried to read Dune, but couldn't get into it.
Never read hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, but would like to.
Also, why is Clarke's 2001 series on the list, or is it only a trilogy?
I tried to read Dune, but couldn't get into it.
Never read hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, but would like to.
Also, why is Clarke's 2001 series on the list, or is it only a trilogy?
He is a literature God.Piorn said:
Ever heard e-mail? Or the internet? Yes you did. You know who use them before they were popular? Adams.LimaBravo said:
Also this beats traveling space and time with your mind:
The Infinite Improbability Drive is a fictional faster-than-light drive. The most prominent usage of the drive is in the starship Heart of Gold. It is based on a particular perception of quantum theory: a subatomic particle is most likely to be in a particular place, such as near the nucleus of an atom, but there is also a small probability of it being found very far from its point of origin (for example close to a distant star). Thus, a body could travel from place to place without passing through the intervening space (or hyperspace, for that matter), if you had sufficient control of probability.
The Heart of Gold was the prototype ship for infinitely improbable travel. The principle is that as its drive reaches infinite improbability, the ship passes simultaneously through every conceivable and inconceivable point in every conceivable and inconceivable universe (in other words, when one activates the Infinite Improbability Drive, the ship is literally everywhere at once). It is then possible to decide at which point you actually want to be when improbability levels decrease.
It makes more sense than traveling to places with your mind. Adams was a technologist person and tried to make everything in his Universe no matter how stupid it was, to make sense.
