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| 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. |
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| Psy-T |
| quote: | 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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| 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.
:) |
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| Psy-T |
| quote: | 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.
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well, Dune :p
don't recommend the sequels, but do recommend the prequels. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Psy-T
well, Dune :p
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 :p |
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| Psy-T |
| quote: | 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 :p |
the prequels were :p |
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| Armitage |
| I'm a huge William Gibson fanboy. Spook Country was his best in a long time in my opinion. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| 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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| PETRAN |
| quote: | 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 :wtf: (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 ed-up (lol). Has anyone read "VALIS"? They say its his masterpiece, i want to read it someday |
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| denys envy |
| last year I read Dead's Head by David Gunn. Was full of awesome also. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
is there any series written recently that anyone would recommend?
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I'll say the same thing I always say in these threads: Ian M Banks.
| quote: | 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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| denys envy |
| Also, if you want something "original", check out the 'Mistborn' trilogyby Sanderson. Another good, fresh writer. 'Elantris' was also great by him. |
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