Scifi "must reads"

[pokemonfan13]

Yea, I know I haven't been here in ages, but I'm looking for epic scifi books to read and where better to turn than here?!

So give me authors/titles and I'll do a list. =3

In the club meetings I always remember people referencing these neat sounding books that I haven't read and now I wanna read them.

[NatsFan]

One great book I'm reading now that isn't as widely known as others is "Red Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's about the colonization and subsequent terraforming of Mars, and it has a much more personal perspective than most SciFi books I've read.

[thesomethingcool]

The "required reading list" from the old website.
1. Bimbos of the Death Sun
Despite the title, this book is not about bimbos, or death suns. It does have death. People get confused when I try to tell them about the guy in the book who writes a book with the same title as the book, so I'll just leave it with saying that it's a good, non-lewd book.
2. Flight of the Dragonfly, RPA Rocheworld
I(Logan), personally, have serious trouble trying to force myself to read this book, so I need several other club members to read it for me. Why is this? Because I spent an entire weekend working out the math to describe and prove possible the major point of this book, thinking that after months of searching I had finally come up with an original idea- only to discover that this book already exists! Robert Forward telepathically stole my idea from the future, I say!
By The Way, the math in question will be the subject of a meeting at some point.
3. 2001: A Space Oddyssey & all the sequels
If you have to ask, you are in more need of reading this than most.
4. Against the Fall of Night or The City and the Stars
If you have to ask, you are in more need of reading this than most.
5. Rama & all the sequels
If you have to ask, you are in more need of reading this than most.
6. Cradle
Actually, scratch these last four. Just read everything by Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
7. Dune, sequels optional
If you have to ask, you are in more need of reading this than most.
8. The Jesus Incident
It's just plain awesome Herbert. Crazy aliens, unfathomable superior intelligence, the whole bit.

Personal recommendations: the foundation series (Isaac Asimov); ender's game (Orson Scott Card), and 1 or 2 of the sequels; and A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter Miller)

[extradimensionalcephalopod]

Allow me to suggest our own Vault. We've got quite a few good stand-alone works, and three series (one of which is technically a really long stand-alone work). This means that we've officially got enough content for an Archive Binge! Contact BobTheFerret to log in.

If series are okay to suggest, I also recommend Discworld.

[herrdoktor]

i'd recommend Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter. fun collection of scifi shorts (though it gets a bit silly near the end).