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[ArchAngel]

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Alright, right back at you: Favorite Sci-fi authors?

Any sci-fi must reads for me?

[Deepfreeze32]

Arthur C. Clarke: 2001: A Space Odyssey is pretty great, and I've heard good things about Rendezvous With Rama is awesome too.

Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, We Can Remember it For You Wholesale, and The Minority Report. Ring any bells? Maybe you'll know them as their film adaptations: Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report.

Isaac Asimov: Foundation; I, Robot. Two masterpieces. Great stuff.

William Gibson: Neuromancer. Probably the single biggest influence on the stylistic choices and themes of The Matrix, as well as the first real Cyberpunk novel.

Robert Heinlein: Starship Troopers, Stranger In A Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. All great stories.

Frank Herbert: Dune. Need I say more?

Neal Stephenson: I think you'll really like this guy. He's a guy who went to college to study computer science, and switched his major to geography so he could spend more time on the mainframes. I've not read a better fictionalization of computer-related themes. Recommended works: Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Anathem, REAMDE (Yes, misspelling intentional), and The Baroque Cycle. His novels often deal with computers, video games, theoretical physics, and mathematics. He's awesome.

Not quite Sci-Fi, but these are of course classics:

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. It's a classic for a reason, and that reason is that it presents an eerie prediction of a future where the people are pleasured into submission.

1984, by George Orwell. Because of course it would be on here.


Sadly, I've yet to read Hamilton, Niven, or several other authors yet.

[ArchAngel]

Arthur C. Clarke: 2001: A Space Odyssey is pretty great, and I've heard good things about Rendezvous With Rama is awesome too.

Totally on the list.

Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, We Can Remember it For You Wholesale, and The Minority Report. Ring any bells? Maybe you'll know them as their film adaptations: Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report.

Read both Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. Good stuff and pretty seminal works. And yeah, I liked all three of those movies

Isaac Asimov: Foundation; I, Robot. Two masterpieces. Great stuff.

Yes! I just picked up nearly all of the I, Robot series, so I'm planning on a Asimov marathon, starting from I, Robot, going into the Robot series, then into the Empire series, and then re-reading Foundation series.

William Gibson: Neuromancer. Probably the single biggest influence on the stylistic choices and themes of The Matrix, as well as the first real Cyberpunk novel.

Yeah, I need to.

Robert Heinlein: Starship Troopers, Stranger In A Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. All great stories.

You know what, I actually did read Heinlein before. Starship Troopers, way long back. Yeah, MUCH better than the movie. I'll keep the next two on my list.

Neal Stephenson: I think you'll really like this guy. He's a guy who went to college to study computer science, and switched his major to geography so he could spend more time on the mainframes. I've not read a better fictionalization of computer-related themes. Recommended works: Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Anathem, REAMDE (Yes, misspelling intentional), and The Baroque Cycle. His novels often deal with computers, video games, theoretical physics, and mathematics. He's awesome.

I have Snow Crash and the first of the Baroque cycle. I'm looking forward to it. I'll keep his others in mind.

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. It's a classic for a reason, and that reason is that it presents an eerie prediction of a future where the people are pleasured into submission.

1984, by George Orwell. Because of course it would be on here.

Yup. I remember doing a comparative essay on 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451 for English 1A. Looking back, it was pretty underwhelming and I had no literature sense. All three of those novels, though, have been largely influential on my current outlooks. Probably worth doing another comparative re-read of them.

Sadly, I've yet to read Hamilton, Niven, or several other authors yet.

I just picked up some Hamilton books, so, I'll probably get to him... eventually.

[Chozon1]

Pants are really just the worst?

[Deepfreeze32]

Especially jeans, but yes. Shorts are much nicer.

[Chozon1]

I feel the same way, but I'm afraid to admit it publicly. >_> Seems like if you disparage jeans around here, you just need to get ready to take it to the face.

Prune juice?

[Deepfreeze32]

It gets over a hundred outside here often. And since AC is expensive, it's often pretty hot at my office. But jeans are the "most casual" pants allowed. I feel like living anywhere where the temperature gets over 80 qualifies shorts as an equally valid work attire. Just sayin'

Prune juice: favorite drink of Worf, but something I've not tried. I prefer grapefruit juice myself.

[Chozon1]

I agree. Completely, 100%. Even now, when it's relatively cool outside, it's probably in the 90's in the stock room. I'm soggy when I go home for the night. Soggy.

Sleeveless shirts?

[Deepfreeze32]

I've never been a huge fan, I tend to just go with t-shirts. I can see the appeal, but when I go outside my skin burns way too easily. So every little coverage that doesn't end in me coming home soaked is good.

Speaking of coming home soaked...my parents don't seem to understand why that's such a big issue. "Well you can just change after work!" Well yeah, but I'd prefer to not have to, you know? XD

[Jorgmeisterwork]

Ever played the pc game Deep Fighter?

[Deepfreeze32]

No, but it looks interesting.

[Jorgmeisterwork]

Its really hard. It got me to smack the keyboard more than once (and twice). nothing is worse than the moment you know you have the honour of start over at the mission and have to spend another several mins in transport just to get to the point you missed, for the 9th time in a row.
Its like a mashup of wing Commander and tomb raider.

[Deepfreeze32]

Yeah, that would probably inspire a few ragequits in me. At least a few, at any rate.

[Chozon1]

Steak Escape is essentially heaven in a fast food form?

[Deepfreeze32]

I'm afraid I've never heard of this Steak Escape. My interest is piqued.