5 classic sci-fi must reads

Hi everyone,

So here are my top 5 sci-fi classics are simply MUST reads for every sci-fi fan. Love to get your thoughts on these.

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DELPHINE DESCENDS
After her family is killed and her homeworld occupied, young Kathreen Martin is sent to the distant world of Furoris for re-education. She will live the rest of her life as a serf – to be bought and sold as a commodity of the Imperial Network.

When her only chance of escape is ruined, a chance mistaken identity offers her a new life as the orphaned daughter of a First-Citizen Senator and heiress to a vast fortune.

She vows to claw her way into power to sit among the worlds’ elite. Then, with her own hands, she will reap bloody vengeance on them all.

But to beat them, she must play their game. And she must play it better than them all.

BLACK MILK
Prometheus has the chance to bring his wife back from the dead, but doing so will mean the destruction of Earth.

Spanning time, planets and dimensions, Black Milk draws to a climactic point in a post-apocalyptic future, where humanity, stranded with no planet to call home, fights to survive against a post-human digital entity that pursues them through the depths of space.

Five lives separated by aeons are inextricably linked by Prometheus’s actions:

Ystil.3 is an AI unit sent back in time from the distant future to investigate Prometheus’s discovery...

The mysterious Lydia has devoted her life to finding a planet that the last remaining humans can call home…

Tom Jones (he’s a HUGE fan!) is an AI trapped inside a digital subspace, lost and desperate to find his way back to his beloved in real-time…
Dr Norma Stanwyck is a neuroscientist from 24th Century Earth whose personal choices ripple throughout time...

Prometheus must learn the necessity of death or the entire universe will be swallowed by his grief.
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[marjoriedonnett]

I've read them all, but Dune is my favorite. I read it as a young woman, and along with its sequels, it became my "Other World." Frank Herbert was a great world-builder. Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K. Dick are also two of my favorites. Other books I have always cherished in the science fiction genre are The Martian Chronicles and Rendezvous with Rama.

[mrtimezone]

1984 it's easily my favorite book. If you haven't read it in years or you were forced to in high school I would recommend that you try it now as an adult, you may be pleasantly surprised.

[lurge]

Thank you, I plan on reading all of these books. I have already started reading a stranger in a strange land and I am thoroughly enjoying it.

[warrenbruhn]

The first half of Stranger in a Strange land is my favorite half of a sci-fi novel that I've ever read. Book changed a lot when the author came back to it years later to write the second half.

[Arkapravo]

Never knew the 'The Tempest' and 'The Brave New World' connection! Thanks for that.

[billbutler]

A very nice basic start collection of wonderful classics for those youngsters who really need to see the beginnings. Ought to wet their appetites for an expanded list, too many greats to list. As I have enjoyed all these and much much more since I discovered Science Fiction, and later Fantasy - Dragons of Pern, Lord of the Rings, and again, so much more, I have always been a master fan of the stories, the plots, the wonderfully different worlds and concepts I was exposed to in my reading. But I must say, I discovered Heinlein early on, ( 1961, 9 yrs. old, public libraries, school libraries, the Boys' Club libraries, and his stories all taught me from childhood through college and still in my re-readings how to be honest, moral, flexible with problems, resourceful, and so on. I consider R. A. Heinlein to be a great teacher and my Mentor.,

[asdf]

Greg Bear deserves a mention with his Eon novels. More of a 1980s feel than 70s or earlier, but there are some mind-blowing concepts and reveals in there.

[Buckeystown]

Read them all before 1970. My copy of 2001 was signed by Clarke when he visited the satellite Lab I worked at in the late 70's. He gave a nice talk on renting scuba equipment from a place near his home in Sri Lanka.

[sventhemoose]

All classics, great list. My #1 (by far) SF book is Solaris by Stanislaw Lem.

[fusionfan]

I would add either of The Demolished Man or The Stars My Destination (sometimes known as Tiger Tiger) by Alfred Bester.

[saraspangler]

I’ve read these all a long time ago, I may have to read them again. I also love the Foundation series by Asimov.

[irfanb]

If you like the Bene Gesserit in the first Dune book, you will love them in book five and six.

[kingtigerbooks]

Happiness is ignoring the world because you are busy defending the earth in your starship.
These are my must-reads:
- Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance
- Dreams and Shadows by C Cargill
- Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson

[Puddin_Tame]

A respectable list. Thanks for posting.

[JamesSmith-hrcn]

I like how your books are clearly well read!

[hattorihansen]

Excellent choice of classics.
Let me throw in the epic The Mote in God's Eye by Niven/Pournelle and the imaginative Inverted World by Christopher Priest.

[nedelchohristoskov]

I just found out about the channel.
I gree with many things as well as I disagreed with others...
But when you said that reading about the Dreming Androinds and watching the movie about the replicants is something vastly diffirent I can say: I totally agree.
And I Love both of them.

[BookInvasion]

Bravo! Very solid picks and great commentary

[johnmullen]

Read all of them. Great analysis. Believe the movie “destination moon” based on Heinlin’s “spaceship Galileo” should be mentioned.

[michaeljdauben]

It's hard to argue with any of your choices. Five great examples of classic SF that has influenced the genre.