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Larry Niven: Book the Ringworld
Larry Niven: Lucifer's hammer
Harry Harrison: The Stainless Steel Rat Books
Van Vogt: The Zero-A Books
Asimov: Foundation trilogy, not those later parts
Jack Vance: Chai
Jack Vance: The Devil Princes

There is so much good SF out there, I could talk about it for hours, but over a cup of tea with honey
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Morits Well, Moris, I read Olaf Stapledon's First and Last Men for this month's reading challenge, and am now working on Last Men in London.
So apparently we're just waiting for you there. Smiley of your choice.

Furthermore: fantasy started to supplant sf in the early 1980s. I didn't like that, not then, and still not now, but it is a reality. Effect: You will always find more fantasy fans than sci-fi fans on any forum. If there's a forum with only sf enthusiasts, it's just a forum with little activity.
In other words: do you want to talk about sf with us, no problem at all. I'm pretty much alone there with my sf preferences.
By the way: most people know it (you notice that when you throw titles and authors into the discussions), but apparently they are not read much anymore.
I think it's partly the fault of the sci-fi world itself: they eventually started talking about the Golden Age and authors from that era (1940s and 1950s), and that made the newcomers a bit over the top. background squat. Those golden age writers are good, but... that eventually led to books by Jack Vance, written in the 1990s, where starship captains unfolded the "great star map book to plot the route", no : that was not meant metaphorically to describe actions on a computer screen.
Ultimately, I think that led to sf becoming something for an older generation (ie old farts), which I think has accelerated the displacement of sf by fantasy.
In the nearest bookstore here you will find only one really lively section anymore, and they are English-language YA books, either rom-coms or ... fantasy. Regularly there are chicks from 15 to 25 years old.
Case proven.
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I couldn't get it off...stuck...
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What do you mean?
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Terrible, not to get through, no story in it...
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Whoa, you meant Stapledon?
I can understand that. They are books in which you have to bite, like a pit bull, and not let go. It takes a while to get interesting.
I've posted a review of it here. I also talked about it on Ezzulia, but the one on my own blog is a bit better done.
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And here's the thread on Ezzulia/ http://ezzulia.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=217&t=15226
By the way, did you know that the name of the forum Ezzulia was inspired by a character in a Tardi comic strip, The Enclosed Land, and that character only appears once in the entire book?
Not many people know that. It's a well-kept secret (but apparently not a good enough one).
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I also like to share some SF favorites (besides Morits' list):

POHL, Frederik - The Heechee Sage
CARD, Orson Scott - ENDER Saga
MAY, Julian - The Multicolored Land / Land of Seers / The Galactic Order
HARRISON, Harry - Agony
HERBERT, Frank - Books by DUIN
ZELAZNY, Roger - AMBER Books
HEINLEIN, Robert A. - Stranger in a Strange Land
OUELETTE, Pierre - Deus Ex Machina
NIVEN, Larry - Stories of Known Space (including the Ringworld)
HARRISON, Harry - World Cycle
SIMMONS, Dan - Hyperion / Endymion
WYNDHAM, John - The Triffids Are Coming
WHITE, James - Hospital Among the Stars
STURGEON, Theodore - More than human
MCCAFFREY, Anne - The Singing Ship
FARMER, Philip José - Adventure on alien planets
STERPHENSON, Neal - The Babel Virus
DICK, Philip K. - various titles
BRADBRY, Ray - various titles
the hard SF of Greg Bear and David Brin
the techno-punk of William Gibson
and don't forget Peter F. Hamilton...

What Morits says: there is so much...
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Sturgeon: more than human, an insanely beautiful book, amazing, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts...

Another old one:
James Blish: Cities traversing the universe, a very new subject. A kind of impenetrable sphere is developed, every major city is provided with such a sphere and detaches itself from the earth and then the rest...
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Greg Bear: don't read Masters of Mars, extremely boring book, three quarters of the book is about a journey from Mars to Earth (that wasn't interesting 50 years ago)...I haven't even read the last quarter, so annoying

Well read, the Eon Books and Music of the Blood...and the Books of God's Forge
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We're pretty much on the same page, Morits ;-)
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Boekenbytes
I see, nice.
I'm not a fan of Fantasy like Tanith Lee, although I think Leiber's Swords books are fantastic again...
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Theodore Sturgeon - More than human, highly recommended, beautiful.
Also a very good Eric Frank Russell - The Great Exodus
And of course all the Jack Vance books, I'm a huge fan of, evident by my name here at LastDodo.
One of his first books was Tschai, the mad planet, I think I read it three times.
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That is full of classic authors: Asimov, Leiber, Sturgeon, Simak, Demon Knight...
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Heinlein: lost among the stars
Aldiss: nonstop
Van Vogt: The Gunsmiths Series

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@PeterMotte
I assume it must be Damon Knight ;-)

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In the nearest bookstore here you will find only one really lively section anymore, and they are English-language YA books, either rom-coms or ... fantasy. Regularly there are chicks from 15 to 25 years old.

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This, I think, represents the real cause of science fiction's decline. Science fiction has always been especially popular with men. Women usually read more than men, but nowadays the number of reading hours among (young) men has become even smaller. They are mainly gaming or streaming movies and TV series. That is why there is no longer any money to be made by writing (science fiction) books for the target group of men. Well with writing fantasy, which is very popular among women.

The Harry Potter phenomenon and the revival of Tolkien's works have certainly played a role in the increased popularization of fantasy. In addition, it is now socially more accepted that you read children's and youth books as an adult.

Fantasy ... brrrr, I also hate science fiction. Exception is one of my favorite books: Slaughterhouse five or the childrens crusade by Kurt Vonnegut, which contains science fiction passages, which I can accept.
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You can also lose your Egg here General Collecting
/LastDodo cafe
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You can also lose your Egg here General Collecting
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No, thank you. Then your story gets lost among the stories about beer, football and other sports. At least here it is exclusively about books.
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Uh... Right. :)
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John Varley: The Gaian Trilogy
Arthur Clarke: Rama series, unfortunately mostly English
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Peter Motte Wrote But to chat with each other about reading itself, LastDodo is not the right place, thought so for chatting a cafe is the place not true ?? Personally, I think that Books are not all there to read (I own about 5000) but also to share the content and give a tip if you find something worthwhile, but everyone has their own opinion, now go read a Havankje by the fireplace or maybe the Walking Tricolor by F.de Sinclair with a glass of Red Wine ;-)
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And me with a John Connolly, 1 from the Charlie Parker series. I think it's magical....
PeterMotte thanks for your tips and you can see that it will work anyway, the gray readers have already been awakened a bit ( Smiley ...)
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Then the color rinse did not help



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baronselderie-58 "Personally I think Books are not just there to read (own about 5000) but also share the content and give a Tip if you find something worthwhile ,"
And that's why a forum like Ezzulia seems more appropriate to me.
I think some here don't go there because they're just not the type for it: we've had a lot of lists here over the last few days, but few arguments or giving the content
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