I need to read more sci-fi, a co-worker is a walking encyclopedia of the stuff but I always forget to ask for reccomendations.

I really like Childhoods End.

If you have ever watched/read Akira or Evangelion, they both have a lot of inspiration off of this book.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Semi-archy?

should correct myself first: autocracy rather than monarchy would be the correct name based on the information given.

but anyways, here's a handy list:

* Anarchy
* Aristocracy
* Authoritarianism
* Autocracy
* Communist state
* Corporatocracy
* Demarchy
* Democracy
** Direct
** Representative
* Despotism
* Dictatorship
** Military
* Feudalism
* Kritocracy
* Logocracy
* Meritocracy
* Minarchism/Night Watchman
* Monarchy
** Absolute
** Constitutional
* Noocracy
* Ochlocracy/Mobocracy
* Oligarchy
* Plutocracy
* Republic:
** Capitalist
** Constitutional
** Parliamentary
* Socialist state
* Sociocracy
* Technocracy
* Theocracy
* Theodemocracy
* Timocracy
* Totalitarianism
* Chiefdom

lifted from wiki.

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'the amtrak wars' - patrick tilley.

probably the best ive read. post-apocalyptic US.

i dont like much (written) scifi, but im wondering whether the stuff i read as a kid was published too long ago and i didnt appreciate it.

is there any series written recently that anyone would recommend?

-it cant go on for 20 books.
-it cant focus too much on the technology
-good people have to die
-a form of magic in the world would be nice.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN 'the amtrak wars' - patrick tilley. probably the best ive read. post-apocalyptic US. i dont like much (written) scifi, but im wondering whether the stuff i read as a kid was published too long ago and i didnt appreciate it. is there any series written recently that anyone would recommend? -it cant go on for 20 books. -it cant focus too much on the technology -good people have to die -a form of magic in the world would be nice.

well, Dune
don't recommend the sequels, but do recommend the prequels.

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Originally posted by Psy-T well, Dune don't recommend the sequels, but do recommend the prequels.

haha, ive read dune at least the first book. but like, ages ago. iron maiden wrote a song about the atreides, ha.

and dune wasn't written recently

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN haha, ive read dune at least the first book. but like, ages ago. iron maiden wrote a song about the atreides, ha. and dune wasn't written recently

the prequels were

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I'm a huge William Gibson fanboy. Spook Country was his best in a long time in my opinion.

I read 'The Dosadi Experiment', also by Frank Herbert and I really enjoyed it. There's another 1 or 2 books in that series I think, but they didn't get very good reviews. I may still read them, just to get the full scope of the story.

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby I need to read more sci-fi, a co-worker is a walking encyclopedia of the stuff but I always forget to ask for reccomendations. I really like Childhoods End. If you have ever watched/read Akira or Evangelion, they both have a lot of inspiration off of this book.

Yeah, that was a good book by Arthur Clarke. I would say that "Independence Day" was also a kind of neo-b-movie version of that book (well substituting sophistication with...massive lasers...)




Isn't Philip K. Dick ,like ,the master of sci-fi? I haven't read much from him, but i love that guy, his plots are usually so fucked-up (lol). Has anyone read "VALIS"? They say its his masterpiece, i want to read it someday

last year I read Dead's Head by David Gunn. Was full of awesome also.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN is there any series written recently that anyone would recommend?

I'll say the same thing I always say in these threads: Ian M Banks.

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Originally posted by PETRAN Isn't Philip K. Dick ,like ,the master of sci-fi?

Alongside Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke I can't think of any bigger. Apart from HG Wells and Jules Vernes, obviously.

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