5 Quintessential Science Fiction Books
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Published 2019-06-28
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All Comments (21)
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To everyone who keeps commenting Dune, I am not a fan 🤷♂️
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Fahrenheit 451 is the book to encourage people to write their own book. Bradbury literally thought it up without having written any other book and typed it on a coin operated typewriter at the public library. It's one of the most regarded books of the 20th century.
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I’m 64 so these are authors I read when I was younger & they’re books I’ve shared with my kids.
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I ended up reading Fahrenheit 451 back in 9th grade because my teacher was too cool for this world and mentioned a bunch of books that were banned from classrooms because he was convinced that all the kids that won't read the books we had to read would defiantly want to read the ones the school system saw as bad
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The Martian. Some once asked “what’s it about”. . . I answered. . . a Potato Farmer. . .
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-"The person who loves epic fantasy and classic sci-fi. I'm talking to you" - Hmm, that sounds like me The Foundation Trilogy - Yep, it was me all along
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy are five of the best science fiction books ever written. If you've read the series, you know that I wrote that correctly.
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The book I always recommend to people that don't read SF and is a deeply moving and personal story is "Flowers For Algernon" by Daniel Keyes.
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for character driven sci-fi I've gotta put in my two cents. HYPERION CANTOS!! Sci-fi with "modern fantasy" elements in character and world/universe building but in a more science-fantasy setting. It's up there with the Dune series for sci-fi "best of's" from what I can tell. It's quite character based, going into everyone's past and motivations in depth in Hyperion (book1). its a dope fiction epic, would reccomend.
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For those looking for the last one on the list here, the title is "The Past Through Tomorrow". (Not "Passage Through Tomorrow" as sleepy Daniel in the video said. Minor detail!)
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I enjoyed Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke when I first started getting into Sci-fi
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Overview of the 5, or 6, ehhh no, 5 book recommendations: 1:19 The Foundation Trilogy (Isaac Asimov) 2:58 Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein) / Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) 5:25 I, Robot (Isaac Asimov) 7:16 The Martian (Andy Weir) 8:47 The Past Through Tomorrow (Robert A. Heinlein) If I may add a suggestion myself which I enjoyed reading a lot and touches on many intriguing and fascinating Sci Fi concepts: Pushing Ice (Alastair Reynolds).
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"A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller, Jr. A challenging read but well worth it. Also, never apologize for an author's work. It's not our place to do so.
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When it comes to CSF anything by Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke and Heinlein will give you pretty much the best to offer.
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Ender's Game? I suppose it's not classic SciFi, but that's definitely the book that got me into the genre. I stayed for Asimov though :)
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Ah yes, stranger in a strange land, the book that starts on some amazing sci fi world building and then ends on a sex cult
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“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” is one of my favorite books as well as one of my favorite sci-fi books
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Dan simmon hyperion series is hands down the best sci fi.... his other great sci fi is illium definately worth reading also, its a sci fi mashed with the trojan war... very interesting.
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The best classic sci-fi is Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness. Big ideas? Yes. Intimate and personal? Yes. Beautifully written? Oh yes. Has it held up after 40 years? Yes.
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I read Foundation in Jr high and told a friend about how this trilogy was the best thing I'd ever read. He told me about another trilogy he had just read and was the best he had ever read. So we loaned each other our trilogies. I finished his over a weekend. When we returned the books he said Foundation was great, but he still thought his trilogy was the best he had read. I agreed. It was LOTR, and Foundation moved into #2 for me.
