Your favorite Sci-Fi book (Mars, life)

[Sandhillian]

I loved the St. Camber series by Katherine Kurtz

[jtur88]

I'm not a sci-fi buff as such, but my effort to find good, readable books occasional turns up a literary gem that happens to be sci-fi. Matt Ruff's "Bad Monkeys" would fit this category.

One would also have to list Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Travelers Wife".

Thinking back to my high school days, when I read mostly sci-fi, the one that comes to mind is Heinlein's "Puppet Masters"

[jtur88]

Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" was pretty good.

[K-Luv]

Originally Posted by NightBazaar

I'd have to say my favorite would be The Hitchhiker's Guide series by Douglas Adams. Great humor.

Yes, most definitely a classic. Highly entertaining, funny, and some pretty deep social commentary that often times gets lost in humor.

I am not really a fan of Sci-Fi (yes, I do like the Star Wars and Star Trek film and television series, but can't really get into the books).

Two books that are at the top of my list would be:

Childhood's End and 2001: A Space Odyssey; both by Sir Author C. Clarke. Neither are really Sci-Fi (even though most people will say that 2001 is), but are am exploration of Mans' existence, and humanities search for the meaning of it all. They are powerful proof that an atheist can be highly spiritual.

Childhood's End - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[sterlinggirl]

Given the choice, I'll curl up with nearly any Heinlein, but especially "The past through tomorrow" and one one his later books titled "Friday".

[luvdavy]

Does he count? I would have to say The Stand was my all time favorite.
I just recently finished reading all seven books of his Dark Tower series.
I've read everything he ever wrote except that, because I thought it was a cowboy thing. It was anything but, and definately in the sci-fi/fantasy genre.
Jan

[etacarinae]

One of my faves is The Avatar. I forgot who the author is , it's been so long since I read it. I also like the Choose Your Own Adventure books. I know their intended for school age children;however , being that it has been at least 15 years since I read a good one , they bring back fond memories of being the school outcast/nerd wherever I attended school.

[Thomas R.]

Isaac Asimov and Cordwainer Smith are two of my favorite writers. Among the living I like Nancy Kress and Robert Reed. (He's not the Brady dad, but a writer from Nebraska)

Not sure what my favorite is in specific books. I really loved The End of Eternity by Asimov as a teen. Also The High Crusade by Poul Anderson. (Cordwainer Smith is better in short form, but The Planet Buyer was good.) Later I liked Beggars in Spain by Kress quite well, but the original novella is arguably better as the book falls apart a bit at the end. Most recently I liked Lord of Light by Zelazny.

[mensaguy]

Probably my favorite is not one book, but a series of books about the same characters. The Robert Heinlein books about the Howard Families, sometimes called the Lazarus Long books, just seem to have the best bunch of recurring characters I've ever read.

[Dockside]

Slan - A.E. Van Vogt

City - Clifford Simak

Dune - Frank Herbert

Neuromancer - William Gibson

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison

Tom Swift and His Diving Sea-Copter and every other Tom Swift I could get my hands on.