Comments on: 32 Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read

By: WoodGas1

WoodGas1 — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:50:28 +0000

I read all but three, including Atlas Shrugged, which I found to be too tedious to finish and divorced from reason. Divorced from reality is OK, science fiction, but without reason, it's just fiction.

By: Harvey Pookah

Harvey Pookah — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:10:42 +0000

Fascinating, isn't it? For some reason, anyone who doesn't bow to the Randian cult is “sheeple” to those who do. The issue really is clear: whatever merits “Atlas Shrugged” might have (few, to my mind), it's simply not a science fiction novel. What little “science” is in the book is dimwitted, pure wishful thinking. And it's not really important to the book in any case.

By: Harvey Pookah

Harvey Pookah — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:08:41 +0000

No, simply ignored. It's just not important, save in the minds of “objectivists” and other cult followers.

By: JLops

JLops — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 06:47:51 +0000

Just to add a couple:
Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut
Venus on the Half Shell – Kilgore Trout (P.J.F.)

By: stephenl123

stephenl123 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:08:45 +0000

Well, Animal Farm doesn't involve imagined future scientific or technological advances or major social or environmental changes, nor is there any space or time travel or life on other planets. It is an allegory about the 20th century.

By: Withamdragons

Withamdragons — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:40:45 +0000

I would have to say that my favorite book in this list is Ender's Game. The series is spectacular, and the Shadow books were genius.

The books I would add to this list are the Otherland Novels by Tad Williams. He tends to be a fantasy novelist however his leap into sci fi was flawless with these four books. Also the Homecomming Saga By O.S.C.

By: suildur

suildur — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:54:13 +0000

Okay, thanks for writing a list like that, however, this list is not a total sci-fi list. First of all, there are some books which cannot be called a sci-fi but politic novel (not just Animal Farm, I can also add Fahrenheit 451 to this type, because there is no sci-fi content other than the novel's timeline being in the future. A sci-fi novel must have scientific content projected in the future. Also, and more important than the first reason, there is no Stanislaw Lem on this list.

By: Surixurient

Surixurient — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:20:47 +0000

It should be burned right?

By: iBorg

iBorg — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:47:13 +0000

Science Fiction: Fiction
based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major
SOCIAL or ENVIRONMENTAL changes, frequently portraying space or time
travel and life on other planets.
I have not read Animal Farm, yet, but I think Dystopian fiction is more of a sub-genre of science fiction.

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