What's the best sci-fi book you have read?

all the Three-Body Problem's trilogy
has some cringe parts but it really changed my way of seeing the future

he wrote the time machine, the island of dr moreau, the invisible man, and the war of the worlds all in the period 1895-1898
what a fucking boss

Neuromancer/first two books of the Hyperion saga/Do Androids.../Roadside picnic/Solaris.
I couldn't choose, but probabily I'd say the latter

Scifi is generally unreadable garbage but "do androids dream of electric sheep" was pretty rad

>A fire upon the deep
This one, Armor, and Hyperion are probably my favorites so far.

The Many Coloured Land
by: Julian May

>The whole Saga of the Pliocene Exile is great.

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2001 a Space Odessy.

Book of the New Sun.
Honorable mention to Lord of Light.

Tunnel in the Sky.

Star Maker

Seconding Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and Neuromancer, definitely some of my favorite sci-fi, although they are fairly pulpy. But, it's sci-fi, so that's kind of the point.
If you want a real mind trip, try PKD's Ubik.

the dispossessed

My problem with The Dispossessed was that Le Guin spends dozens/hundreds of pages describing this large scale anarchist society which requires a fairly large amount of good faith to take seriously as a political 'reality' (given anarchism's real-world track record), and then she completely negates it with a 1-dimensional caricature of Soviet/'state' socialism straight out of McCarthy propaganda. I mostly don't mind reading lit that is totally hostile to my political beliefs if I think it's good, but her description of Thu completely destroyed the good faith that had been sustaining her vision up until that point. My very cursory research didn't seem to indicate that Thu got treated with any nuance later on either, though perhaps I'm wrong.

Ubik was pretty great. The narrative is a "mind screw", but the narration and the dialogue flowed very nicely

If you consider it sci-fi, BotNS. Also one of my favorite books in general

>Ubik
I would love for a hottie like Pat to come into my life and hit the remix button.

I really need to finish this series. What is it with non-english writers and sci-fi?

Neuromancer gets better the more you read it. Gibson's writing is disorienting at first but once you get the swing of things you enjoy it. Definitely flawed but a good read nonetheless

Book: Permutation City
Manga: 2001 Nights
Movie: Her

End of Eternity is a good one

>Book: Permutation City
This

possibly the only time I've seen this posted here, based

Die Haarteppichknüpfer / The Carpet Makers

For me it's either Dune, or Ender's Game.

Dune is to science fiction what the Lord of the Rings is to fantasy. It's an amazing accomplishment. Ender's Game, on the other hand, has deeper philosophical underpinning, and it's really quite remarkable how much it manages to pack into what is really quite a short novel (also, I'm pretty sure it gets blacklisted from a lot of syllabuses because its author is somewhat homophobic).

The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter.
Post-cyberpunk and criminally unknown.

Childhood's end or foundation

That's a tough one, but I guess I would have to say either The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem or Dragon's Egg by Robert L Forward

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This.

ringworld

This is up there for me

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Only good post ITT, the rest of you are underage faggots with your Dicks and Gibsons and what-have-you.

I really liked Ender's Game and even Speaker for the Dead for most part, but I think I gave up on the series after the third book. It happened couple of years back so I don't remember exactly why, but there was something about Ender's brother coming back to life from his mind and it bothered me with it's convolutedness so I just kind of stopped reading it. Also, the series has like 20 books which really discouraged me from reading it after it lost it's charm in Children of the Mind.

does A Canticle for Leibowitz count as sci-fi?
if so, A Canticle for Leibowitz.

>I would love for a hottie like Pat to come into my life and hit the remix button.
I'm pretty sure the remix button in that one was getting fondled by some demented child

Permutation City - explores the evolution of the human mind freed from biologucal contraints

Blindsight - questions the value of consciousness, challenges anthropecentrism on every level

Accelerando - what happens to those that are left behind by the singularity?

The Three Body Problem - answers the Fermi paradox with cosmic horror

The Diamond Age - explores the sociocultural changes wrought by nanotechnology

Neuromancer - actually an enjoyable read

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Douglas Adams - So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish

not the most traditional Sci-Fi books per se, but the entire Hitchhiker Series is amazing, and the fourth one is my favorite.

They have a very particular brand of amazement at connections or discoveries for me, that is very close to the feeling I get when some calculations work out, or I find about a new amazing discovery.

And the "So Long" does so the most I think, in addition to telling the only love story I've ever read and actually cared about.

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>Accelerando

Reading this atm, pretty good so far. Just got to the 2nd part

>Three Body Problem - answers the Fermi paradox with cosmic horror

SHIT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
Chills.

Ubik is wonderful.

Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future

how is Dan Simmons lads

many great books are listed in this thread, so I'll say The Stars my Destination
it was one of those hard to put down books for me

Classic:
>Solaris

New:
>Sea of Rust

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I want to read a Arthur C Clarke Yea Forums. Which one is a good starter? Childhood's End?

Do androids dream had the most impact on me when I first read it and is probably the best PKD novel I’ve read. The island of Dr Moreau is really good too.

Hyperion was pretty fucking cool and Sol had a hard life.
The Fall of Hyperion was pretty fucking disappointing (for me).
Haven't read any Endymion stuff.
I really liked The Terror.

That's all I've read of him.