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I loved Footfall! Another good one by Niven & Pournelle is The Mote in God's Eye.
Also check out Orson Scott Card's Ender series starting with Ender's Game.
The synopsis of the Ender's series has just never appealed to me.Don't want to read or watch anything with teens trained as soldiers,teen warriors/ killers,and supposedly the future of the world depends on them,nor aliens that look like insects.
I agree with chuckmann in loving the Will Smith~ I Robot,or as I first mentioned I was an avid fan of the series"V",and Steven Spielberg's ~"Taken". Guess no one has the talent to write a sci-fi BOOK series,like one for television or a movie.
The ones I have decided to check out are~
The Taking (The Taking #1)by Kimberly Derting
Alienated by Melissa Landers
Invaded (An Alienated Novel) by Melissa Landers
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
The 5th Wave (The Fifth Wave #1)by Rick Yancey
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Invasion by Robin Cook
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The synopsis of the Ender's series has just never appealed to me.Don't want to read or watch anything with teens trained as soldiers,teen warriors/ killers,and supposedly the future of the world depends on them,nor aliens that look like insects.
Gee when I first read Ender's Game many, many years ago, it didn't have any synopsis and was highly recommended by several friends. I've read the whole series as did my son. We both enjoyed it tremendously. Maybe you would enjoy the Homecoming Saga series by Card.
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The ones I have decided to check out are~
The Taking (The Taking #1)by Kimberly Derting
Alienated by Melissa Landers
Invaded (An Alienated Novel) by Melissa Landers
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
The 5th Wave (The Fifth Wave #1)by Rick Yancey
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Invasion by Robin Cook
Anything by Isaac Asimov or Arthur C. Clarke are outstanding! Glad to see Mote made it onto your list. Enjoy your reads
Originally Posted by Deelighted
Anything by Isaac Asimov or Arthur C. Clarke are outstanding! Glad to see Mote made it onto your list. Enjoy your reads
Thank you,I know many,many enjoy the books by Orson Scott Card,they just don't even appeal to me,they are not my kind of sci-fi.
I think that Hollywood has failed miserably in bringing classic SciFi to the big screen. I blame this on Star Wars. Only the Will Smith I Robot passes muster, IMHO, in terms of classic SciFi.
Wow. I really couldn't possibly disagree more. I HATED the Will Smith I, Robot movie simply because it was so Hollywood. All special effects. No story.
But the movies have actually done a spectacularly good job of adapting sci fi to the big screen, sometimes even improving on it. I give you ...
BLADE RUNNER. Perhaps the greatest science fiction movie ever made. The novel on which it is based (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick) is actually quite horrible.
MINORITY REPORT. A great movie based on a lackluster story by Philip K. Dick.
TOTAL RECALL. A fun if rather ridiculous movie based on a really boring and at times incoherent story by Philip K. Dick. (Sensing a pattern here?)
2010. A really good adaptation of Clark's novel.
STARSHIP TROOPERS. Not only did it manage to be way better than the book, but it's a fantastic piece of social satire. Sociology professors ought to show this movie to every class.
The PLANET OF THE APES movies varied all over in quality, but even the worst of them were better than the novel.
THE IRON GIANT is a fantastic movie. I've never read the book.
JURASSIC PARK is way better than the book.
LOGAN'S RUN is great. Never read the book.
THE THING (both versions) is also great. Never read the original story.
THE TIME MACHINE from 1960 is a fantastic version of that classic story. THE WAR OF THE WORLDS ain't too shabby either.
The synopsis of the Ender's series has just never appealed to me.Don't want to read or watch anything with teens trained as soldiers,teen warriors/ killers,and supposedly the future of the world depends on them,nor aliens that look like insects.
Without massive spoilers, I can't tell you why this isn't quite right.
Please give it a try. I read Ender's Game with no pre-suppositions, no idea what it was about, no idea what changes Orson Scott Card would experience in his future. But EG is a great story, with a fairly mediocre movie that many of us waited decades for.
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