Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Jan 17, 2020 10:18:58 GMT -5
That take place here on Earth.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jan 17, 2020 10:36:46 GMT -5
That take place here on Earth. Well f***, there goes my usual suggestions of Hyperion, the Uplift Saga, Dune, and Rendezvous with Rama. |
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Jan 17, 2020 11:21:58 GMT -5
The Time Machine
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Majority of Michael Crichton books are sci-fi but based on earth:
The Andromeda Strain
Jurassic Park
Prey
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Post by BorneAgain on Jan 17, 2020 11:23:59 GMT -5
Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka is a genuinely stand out nuclear war story, interesting to me because its set after a limited nuclear exchange. America is devastated, but it hasn't quite turned into a post-apocalyptic hellscape either and its form of being a first person research article with survivor interviews and governmental reports gives it a much more novel approach than most books of its type.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2020 11:26:45 GMT -5
1984
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jan 17, 2020 11:34:39 GMT -5
The Time Machine Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Majority of Michael Crichton books are sci-fi but based on earth: The Andromeda Strain Jurassic Park Prey For a little while anyway. Bypasses must be built after all. |
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 17, 2020 11:42:02 GMT -5
Sphere is a good short read. Hits quite a few interesting sci fi tropes.
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Fundertaker
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Post by Fundertaker on Jan 17, 2020 11:45:56 GMT -5
The Neuromancer trilogy, if you wanna know where most cyberpunk stuff got its queues from.
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Post by Simon on Jan 17, 2020 12:14:20 GMT -5
Seveneves (2015) by Neal Stephenson. Very hard sci-fi. Earth faces an imminent disaster (the moon has shattered into seven pieces and the resulting assault of bolide impacts will soon render Earth uninhabitable for thousands of years) and the effort to evacuate as many people to the ISS as possible and ensure continuity of civilization over a timeline of millennia. Surprisingly very suspenseful, good attention to character, and not pretentious.
Also, I'm (obviously) a Gurren Lagann guy and I'm convinced Stephenson gave our fandom a shoutout towards the end, LOL.
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Dr. T is an alien
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jan 17, 2020 13:00:33 GMT -5
The whole "on Earth" part makes my suggestion of the HeeChee Saga (which starts with the novel "Gateway") invalid. I mean, some parts of the books take part on Earth but the majority does not.
"Recovery", the first novel in the Max Moss series, was pretty good though it stretches the term "Sci-fi". Basically, imagine if in the Clint Eastwood movie "Firefox" if Eastwood's character was shot down by the Soviets in his futuristic jet over East Germany, American agents manage to grab the neurohelmet and computer from the downed jet before the Soviets get to the crash site, and basically spent about 2/3 of the book trying to outrun/outmaneuver/outsmart the Soviets and East Germans in order to get the secret technology out of the country. I think it was a missed opportunity that it was never made into a movie before the Cold War thawed.
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Post by Heeltown, USA on Jan 17, 2020 13:51:07 GMT -5
Well the most obvious that comes to mind is the masterpiece “Stranger in a Strange Land” by Heinlein
Its more politically rooted, but is nothing short of outstanding.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Jan 17, 2020 14:42:39 GMT -5
Childhood’s End, Brave New World, The Road.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 17, 2020 15:19:22 GMT -5
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
I have no Mouth and I Must Scream
A Boy and His Dog
A Scanner Darkly
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Jan 18, 2020 0:53:14 GMT -5
Well the most obvious that comes to mind is the masterpiece “Stranger in a Strange Land” by Heinlein Its more politically rooted, but is nothing short of outstanding. Heinlein is definitely your best bet with the setting limitation. If you're willing to stretch that to the moon, there's still way more Heinlein you can enjoy. |
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 18, 2020 1:46:01 GMT -5
I liked Footprints of Thunder.
Can’t recall who wrote it but it’s a fun story.
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Post by Cyno on Jan 18, 2020 1:54:46 GMT -5
Snow Crash
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jan 18, 2020 1:59:13 GMT -5
Footfall
About a war with invaders from Alpha Centauri and their super weapon. Its excellent. The book does a great job in making the alien species unique and interesting
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Post by Larryhausen on Jan 18, 2020 2:50:45 GMT -5
Caves of Steel by Asimov.
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Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Jan 18, 2020 5:38:33 GMT -5
Thanks, some tempting choices here.
My own personal favorite is the Harry Turtledove alien invasion during WW2 novels.
Sidney Sheldon's one attempt at science fiction, the Doomstay Conspiracy is a great guilty pleasure of mine.
The Toomyknockers is good, alongside Strangers by Dean Koontz.
Saucer by Stephen Coonts, are the sequels earthbound?
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Post by bibboid on Jan 18, 2020 17:44:45 GMT -5
Footfall About a war with invaders from Alpha Centauri and their super weapon. Its excellent. The book does a great job in making the alien species unique and interesting I love this book. Especially the description of how it felt in the human ship. "God was knocking and he wanted in BAD." Fahrenheit 451 is a classic by Ray Bradbury Cyborg by Martin Caiden is the story that the tv series The Six Million Dollar Man was based on. It is a touch dated but still fun. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham is about humans (most of whom have gone blind) fighting for survival against sentient, carnivorous plant life. Out of the Deeps is another story by John Wyndham where humans must fight back against strange creatures that emerge out of the oceans. |
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