Favourite Novels Of All Time?

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, August 3, 2026 04:34
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CHRISISALL

Sunday, May 11, 2014 10:05 AM

For me:
#1 is The Forever War- Joe Haldeman (hands down THE most amazing book I ever did read, and to this day I cannot conjure a reason as to HOW this ain't been made into a movie yet!)
Then (in no particular order):
Firestarter- Steven King
Moonraker, On Her Majesty's Secret Service- Ian Fleming
The Spy Who Loved Me- Christopher Wood
Bid Time Return, I Am Legend, Hell House- Richard Matheson

So literary peeps, list yours if you will.

AURAPTOR

Sunday, May 11, 2014 10:28 AM

RWED ?

Really?

Talk Story, sure. But here ?

CHRISISALL

Sunday, May 11, 2014 10:52 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
RWED ?
Really?
Talk Story, sure. But here ?

SO, novels are not a real world subject, eh? They don't exist in or have bearing on it? Okay, fine. Report me, I expect to hear the chomp of boots any time now.

So, like I asked, anyone want to list their very fine reads here?

CHRISISALL

Sunday, May 11, 2014 11:15 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Dune- Frank Herbet

I've had that particular book recommended to me more times than I have fingers or toes, yet I've never gotten around to it.
Might have to see to that...

AURAPTOR

Sunday, May 11, 2014 5:26 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
RWED ?
Really?
Talk Story, sure. But here ?
SO, novels are not a real world subject, eh? They don't exist in or have bearing on it? Okay, fine. Report me, I expect to hear the chomp of boots any time now.

So, like I asked, anyone want to list their very fine reads here?

Oh, I assure you. The proper authorities WILL be notified.

( as soon as I figure out just who that is, of course )

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Sunday, May 11, 2014 8:10 PM

Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Persuasion - Jane Austin
Lord of the Rings - Tolkein
Cloud Street - Tim Winton
Dune - Frank Herbert

WHOZIT

Sunday, May 11, 2014 9:45 PM

Sue Grafton's Alphabet murders.

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Sunday, May 11, 2014 9:51 PM

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Smiley's People; and The Night Manager, by John LeCarre

Dune

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

A Canticle For Leibowitz, by Walter Miller

The Witches of Karres by James Schmitz

most anything by Robert Heinlein

most of Joseph Wambaugh

most of David Drake

CHRISISALL

Monday, May 12, 2014 3:59 AM

And the #1 winner for most recommended is... DUNE!
That sinks it. My next book purchase. Thanks.

JONGSSTRAW

Monday, May 12, 2014 8:23 AM

I got your Dune right here pal!

CHRISISALL

Monday, May 12, 2014 8:24 AM

Go play in the sand.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Monday, May 12, 2014 10:44 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
I got your Dune right here pal!

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That adaption was wrong on so many levels.

This is a much better version
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142032/

DBELL101

Monday, May 12, 2014 3:37 PM

Hi. I don't post often, but I've lurked around this site for over a decade.
To answer your question in no particular order:

Dune
A Fire Upon the Deep
Star Ship Troopers
Almost anything by Lois MacMaster-Bujold
Winter of the World
The Boat of a Million Years
The Stand
The Honor Harrington series (I don't like Webbers characterizations but GOD can
he do a space battle.)

Those are all that come to me now. Soon as I log off I'll probably think of
another half dozen.

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 6:06 AM

If I get to use a one-book trilogy, it's The Deed of Paksenarrian. Have several copies, one's a loaner.
That trilogy published in the 80's kicked off another 2 book prequel set, and recently the Paladin Legacy has followed. The final contracted book of the 10 book world is released May 27th.
By Elizabeth Moon.

Also Red Phoenix by Larry Bond. After he helped Clancy write Hunt for Red October, he did this one.

FREMDFIRMA

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 8:12 AM

The Culture.

Which'd be what a society was if I designed it.

Quote:
"You might call them soft, because they’re very reluctant to kill, and they might agree with you, but they’re soft the way the ocean is soft, and, well; ask any sea captain how harmless and puny the ocean can be."
- Cheradenine Zakalwe

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheCulture?from=Main.
TheCulture

Of course, that said, I am quite fond of the GCU "Grey Area" (aka Meatfucker) and the VFP "Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints".

But mostly SC, primarily SC....

Quote:
Zakalwe: I thought the rules were meant to be the same for everybody.
Diziet Sma: They are. But in Special Circumstances we deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws — the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else in the universe — break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons, there exist... special circumstances. That's us. That's our territory; our domain.
Zakalwe: To some people, that might sound like just a good excuse for bad behaviour.
Diziet Sma: And perhaps they would be right. Maybe that is all it is. But if nothing else, at least we need an excuse; think how many people need none at all.

-Frem

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 2:31 PM

Oh jeah, Ian M Banks. Inversions. Not exactly the most Culturesque of his novels, but my favourite.

Also enjoyed Use of Weapons

MAL4PREZ

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 6:49 PM

Game of Thrones

The Hyperion/Endymion series by Dan Simmons. I really like this one. In fact, it may be time to read them again...

Pride and Prejudice (Really, any Jane Austen but this is my favorite)

I enjoyed Dune, but not an all-time fave for me. I agree about the TV series being better than the movie, even with the sad lack of Sting. I just wish they'd made the TV series 2 episodes rather than 3. The third part was too drawn out. And maybe take it easy with all the colored lighting. Still, good series.

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KPO

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 11:23 PM

Welcome DBell :-)

Classics: Jane Eyre, Pride & Prejudice
Also
Foundation - Asimov
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

It's not personal. It's just war.

M52NICKERSON

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 11:26 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
I got your Dune right here pal!

Fade...beautiful Fade!

I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.

WISHIMAY

Thursday, May 15, 2014 12:47 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by kpo:

Classics: Jane Eyre, Pride & Prejudice

Wow, thought I was the only one here who liked that, it's why I didn't post!
Awesome!

Anything of that sort I am all over it. Little Dorrit on PBS was sooo good! Tess of the D'urbervilles, Great Expectations, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Wuthering Heights, The Old Curiosity Shop... Sometimes just listening to them speak makes me happy

I would also say the book 1984 was one of the ones that really struck me.
Last of the Dogmen was a movie, but it was one of my favorite stories of all time too, and I wish it had been a book. If books and movies became outlawed like in Fahrenheit 451, Jayne Eyre and Last of the Dogmen would be the ones I would commit to memory..

As a kid I liked 20,000 leagues under the sea, Swiss Family Robinson, and a book by Lynn Hall called Tin Can Tucker about a girl in foster care that runs when she's 16 and all she has of her history is a rodeo belt buckle and she eventually gets adopted by a couple of rodeo clowns. Also, the Misty of Chincoteague series and many of the Judy Blume books.

Add Firefly, X-files, The Unit, and Sherlock to that list and you've got about everything I've ever liked. Which leads me to the next thread title

KPO

Thursday, May 15, 2014 2:57 AM

Quote:
Anything of that sort I am all over it. Little Dorrit on PBS was sooo good! Tess of the D'urbervilles, Great Expectations, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Wuthering Heights, The Old Curiosity Shop...

North and South and Bleak House are also very good. I rewatch these (and Pride and Prejudice) almost as often as I rewatch Firefly. Haven't seen a great adaption of Jane Eyre yet though :-(

It's not personal. It's just war.

OONJERAH

Friday, May 16, 2014 3:22 PM

Harrison Ford, Ridley Scott, Blade Runner 2.

Can they do it justice?

... oooOO}{OOooo ...

SHINYGOODGUY

Monday, May 19, 2014 12:22 PM

Ulysses - James Joyce
A Separate Reality - Carlos Castaneda
The Teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man - James Joyce

SGG

KANEMAN

Monday, May 19, 2014 12:30 PM

American Gods...
Shadow of the wind...

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Monday, May 19, 2014 1:01 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Ulysses - James Joyce
A Separate Reality - Carlos Castaneda
The Teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man - James Joyce

SGG

Awesome list. I forgot about Carlos Castaneda whom I return to periodically.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, May 19, 2014 11:13 PM

Disregard this post. Hyperlinks don't work right here....

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, May 19, 2014 11:50 PM

Sorry, you'll have to look them up yourself since this website is broken when it comes to hyperlinking wikipedia....

1. 1984 ~ George Orwell
2. Brave New World ~ Aldous Huxley
3 or 4. Jesus on Mars ~ Phillip Jose Farmer
3 or 4. Animal Farm ~ George Orwell
4 or 5. To Your Scattered Bodies Go ~ Phillip Jose Farmer
4 or 5. The Great Explosion ~ Eric Frank Russel
5. 100 Years of Solitude ~ Gabriel García Márquez

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:30 PM

I'm not into the whole school taught curriculum, but I did really like and even relate to Great Expectations.

Even (and possibly espeically) if you don't care for me, you shouldn't discount the last on my list.....

100 Years of Solitude ~ Gabriel García Márquez

It's likely been 10 years since I read that story.

I know, on the surface, that by name it might sound like something "right up 6ix's alley".

I assure you that it's not. It's not Sci-Fi. It's not government conspiracy theory.

It seems to be far too interesting to be "absolute truth" but it's likely a lot of truth mixed in with ancedotes.

Most everyone over 30 in the US that has access to the internet and posts here already grew up with local government controling things if not state or fedral government.

This was a story of a few generations of a village, possibly only in our wildest fantasies today, that managed to live a life of "solitude" from the rest of the world on their own merit.

It's not that they had to fight. If memory serves, at least 50 of those hundred years were spent without anyone even knowing their Name.....

All I can say is the more you might dislike me, the more you might be interested in this one.

I might even have to re-evalute my rankings, considering I've grown up.

1984 and Brave New World no longer have any hold on me.

It was just a knee-jerk reaction to list them on top......

Seriously....

Please.

Somebody here read 100 Years of Solitude and tell others about how awesome it is.

I'm a little less than credible round here these days.... :(

Do Right, Be Right. :)

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, January 14, 2024 12:38 AM

Forever War in this thread, if only they read it before Afghanistan

SIGNYM

Sunday, January 14, 2024 3:16 AM

Wow, been a long time since I had time to read anything. In the scifi category (top down ranking):

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle

Left Hand of Darkness and short stories by Ursula
Le Guin

The first book of the Rissa trilogy, Young Rissa, FM Busby

Stranger in a Strange Land, and Podkayne of Mars by Robert Heinlein

Dune, Frank Herbert

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BRENDA

Sunday, January 14, 2024 3:26 AM

Dune

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, May 23, 2024 6:59 PM

Can you class the Bible as a fictional novel, but it might have some true events or historical place names inside?

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, May 24, 2024 5:03 PM

Not my favorite but Watch Mojo

Top 10 Greatest Novels of All Time

ANONYMOUSE

Friday, May 24, 2024 6:12 PM

I have several. To say I'm an avid reader is like saying cats love catnip (aside)(mine, rest her soul, went doolally when I got her a catnip mouse. Not for Tigger the typical chilling out, oh no. With her it was business as usual: she ended up running madly around my flat and up and down the stairs for an hour, and the one time I tried to stroke her to calm her down she went for me! I hid that damn toy and never ever got it out again!).(/aside)

Anyway.

Altered Carbon, a dynamite debut butchered by Netflix.

Old Man's War, which if it's ever made for TV as it should be, hopefully it won't be treated the same.

Guards! Guards! - a brilliant take on the SF trope of guards who seem to get slaughtered for no reason.

On Basilisk Station - should definitely be TV! Nimitz and other treecats would be a doddle with CGI. The main problem there is finding an actress who's 6'+ and young-looking - and who can cut through battle steel with just her voice, not even raising it. Hmm. Gal Gadot, digitally de-aged, with camera trickery and/or CGI to accentuate her 5'10"?

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide - sorry, Americans, but although some bits were good and very Douglas, the movie was not what we diehard fans had hoped for. You cannot Americanise British humour. Plus Zaphod should've been done properly with CGI - a two-headed three-armed guy? Again, a doddle! (Loved the POV Gun, though, a great creation from Douglas). The Guide got me through my 'O' Levels with the most sage piece of advice: DON'T PANIC.

One I really really wish they'd adapt for TV is Have Spacesuit, Will Travel. Somehow that one struck such a chord I borrowed it from the library for 10 weeks straight.

- damn my post-stroke memory, I forgot Glory Road!

"People tend to confuse the words 'new' and 'improved'."

- Phil Coulson, Level 7 S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent

Windows 11, anyone?

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, June 15, 2024 12:51 AM

Collectors - There are people who buy books for their bindings or Cover or quality Look

Tragic Truth About Beautiful Books

Everything you need to know to read “The Canterbury Tales” - Iseult Gillespie

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, June 17, 2024 5:09 PM

If there is a positive about 'Covid' and Corona lockdowns is that it got people back into reading again

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, June 17, 2024 5:27 PM

Not my pick but some vids that review books

You could say scifi has been around a while with Frankenstein, Jules Verne was noted for his attention to detail and scientific accuracy, maybe even to the time of Greeks talking about clockwork machines but more fantasy where the line between myth and fact was blurred, H. G. Wells one of science fiction's most important authors begis the Aline Invasion, before the political questions of Cyberpunk there was 'We' by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, one of the first dystopian novels the true story of the Scientific Revolution enters books as science advances and the Age of Enlightenment, new discovers in math, computers, biology, chemistry and astronomy.
Then For a while it was all Philip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Artur C Clark, John Brunner, Herbert's Dune books, Robert A. Heinlein, Jack Finney, Wilson Tucker, Joe Haldeman, Larry Niven and from behind the Iron Curtain the Russian and Polish ideas and movies, Stanislaw Lem, as people went overseas they got inspired William Gibson's first novel, Neuromancer, helped popularize cyberpunk and the word "cyberspace".

in the 80s and 90s it opened up to Japan cultural exports

and of course you now have the Visual Comicbook medium or Graphic Novel accepted

Lazarus by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark

‘The Three-Body Problem’ by Liu Cixin

'Top 10 Sci-fi Books of All Time'

The Paper Menagerie Review and reading Ken Liu and Ted Chiang

Book Review: Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

DARK MATTER BY BLAKE CROUCH

However culturally since Akira, Japan video games, SKorean movies there has been a cultural change an explosion of material from the Far East including Chinese would would have been considered closed but now an opening of material coming from China's mainland.

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, June 17, 2024 5:30 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:

Harrison Ford, Ridley Scott, Blade Runner 2.

Can they do it justice?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856101/

8/10

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blade_runner_2049

88% twice audience and critics

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/blade-runner-2049/

81 % or 8.3 / 10

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, August 24, 2024 9:00 PM

more takes on scifi modern online opinions

Iain M Banks’ The Culture

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10 Modern SciFi Reads I Can't Stop Talking About

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5 Best Sci-Fi Books From Recent Years - The Medical Futurist

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Adam Savage's Top 5 Science Fiction Books

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5 Philosophical Sci-Fi Books You Need to Read

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Top 10 Mind-Blowing Sci-Fi Books. My Must Read Titles!

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, November 4, 2024 7:14 PM

the Misfit unusual motley crew topic

J. S. Morin's Black Ocean

Redshirts John Scalzi
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250781215/redshirts

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22733729-the-long-way-to-a-small-a
ngry-planet

Sci Fi Book Recommendations
First Contact with Aliens to Read

BookswithEmilyFox

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, November 24, 2024 6:40 PM

Nebula, Hugo, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association something changed in the past decades

as 'The West' possibly fails in the culture war in recent years there has been a slow shift to Asia

The West still has books, the Inspiration for 'The Expanse', Ready Player One Ernest Cline, The Giver, Beggars in Spain, the very long Pandora’s Star by Peter F. Hamilton, The Windup Girl, Altered Carbon Richard K Morgan, Enders Game Orson Scott Card, The Atlantis Gene...but people mostly go back to the classics Dune by Frank Herbert, Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell, Ringworld Larry Niven, Frankstein, Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut, War of the Worlds, Hyperion Dan Simmons, Dracula, Heinlein's Space Marines and Starship Troopers, Neuromancer William Gibson, The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham, The Forever War Joe Haldeman, Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C Clarke, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Man in the High Castle Philip K Dick, The Ship Who Sang Anne McCaffrey.

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, December 12, 2024 11:11 PM

Crawling to the Finish Line

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, March 1, 2025 5:00 PM

The 25 Best and Most Anticipated Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2025
https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/g63634064/best-sci-fi-fantasy
-books-2025/

The best new science fiction books of February 2025
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2466471-the-best-new-science-fict
ion-books-of-february-2025/

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, March 22, 2025 3:46 PM

thousands of years ago stories were collected from ancient Greece

a weird world where AI tells you about history

Aesop's Fable: The Weasel And The Chickens

politics...TRUE BELIEVER BY ERIC HOFFER

real humans with real online reviews

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Yukio Mishima

DUNE Actor Confirms His Return For Denis Villeneuve's DUNE: MESSIAH - SPOILERS
https://sffgazette.com/sci_fi/dune/dune-actor-confirms-his-return-for-
denis-villeneuves-dune-messiah---spoilers-a8772

Author of Dune: Frank Herbert

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, April 4, 2025 4:24 AM

The 20 best sci-fi movies and TV shows based on books
https://www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/the_20_best_sci_fi_m
ovies_and_tv_shows_based_on_books/s1__41863250

10 Sci-Fi Book Series That Are Perfect From Start to Finish
https://collider.com/sci-fi-book-series-perfect/

The 15 Best Modern Sci-Fi Authors Who Are Writing Today
https://whatnerd.com/best-modern-science-fiction-authors/

Scifi 2000s Books
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/scifi-2000s

a lot of talk about 'Human Reach' series

https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/7514/

,
https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/179391-are-there-any-books-
like-the-martian-that-anyone-would-recommend/
,

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/series/the-human-reach
,
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12279784-through-struggle-the-star
s
,

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/440003/the-human-reach-an-hard-s
ci-fi-series-by-john-lumpkin

,
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3295982/scifi-books-covering-hf4all-t
heme
,

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/forums/art-music.9/

,
https://www.physicsforums.com/forums/general-discussion.14/
,

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/fbh-reads-the-human-reach-nove
ls.269090/
,

https://aliensoup.com/threads/the-human-reach-series-by-john-lumpkin.6
300/

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, August 2, 2025 6:10 PM

scifi is in such a void, the crappy horror movie writer made the list

The best new science fiction books of August 2025
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2490605-the-best-new-science-fict
ion-books-of-august-2025/

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 10:09 PM

Nobody knows him?

Explain "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson
https://forums.sf-fandom.com/thread-37671.html

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, August 29, 2025 3:24 PM

Alberta trying to be Trumpist America again?

yeah its a dumb book but...ban the books....but religions are cool... the Quran or Koran with all its jihadi pedo terror shit insane is ok?

'The Handmaid's Tale' among books to be removed from Edmonton Public Schools

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, September 13, 2025 6:15 PM

I'd say Stephen King should be ashamed of himself, but what's the point?

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1966446502399660312#m

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, September 14, 2025 11:18 PM

and the short stories?

Online Fandom Pulse

Thoon said, “Kill him! But don’t shoot him in the head! I want his brain!”
https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/serial-sunday-superluminary-the-lor
ds

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, October 9, 2025 5:26 PM

László Krasznahorkai, Whose Novels Have Been Adapted by Hungarian Auteur Béla Tarr, Wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Krasznahorkai is known for his difficult and demanding novels, often labeled postmodern, which explore dystopian and melancholic themes.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/nobel-prize-literatur
e-2025-winner-laszlo-krasznahorkai-1236393802/

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:

The Forever War- Joe Haldeman

Book Review: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
https://sfreads.substack.com/p/book-review-the-forever-war-by-joe

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, October 11, 2025 10:27 PM

What are the most challenged and banned books? Erie County Public Library names them

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/most-challenged-banned-books-erie-
091208074.html

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 4:02 PM

The Mars Trilogy +The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson

A Fire Upon the Deep

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 10:43 PM

What Sci-Fi Author William Gibson Thought About The Matrix

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/sci-fi-author-will
iam-gibson-194500544.html

The poetics of Neuromancer

BRENDA

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 4:24 AM

Prince and the Pauper

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, January 6, 2026 7:48 AM

Altered Carbon: 5 Biggest Book To Show Changes

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, January 6, 2026 11:04 AM

I read a book in one of my college English classes called "One Thousand Years of Solitude".

A lot of the details and any of the names besides, I believe, Horatio, escape me now, but the general "feeling" of the story has always stayed with me.

A story about change, and of modernization of the world, and how a culture could have lived 1000 years without changing much, only to see it all change on them in the blink of an eye once they were discovered by the "real" world, and absorbed by it.

A romanization of what was, and a resignation to the homogenetic destiny of what will be after the last person alive to remember the Old Ways passes on after the young were all lured in by the promises of the outside world. (It's like HP Lovecraft, but without fish people, elder gods, and frequent references to other human beings as blood sacks... but in some way, it's somehow just as equally horrifying on an existential level. At least to me it was...)

I wanted to look up the writer's name because I didn't want to get it wrong. Gabriel García Márquez. Looks as though he hails from Columbia. If he wasn't writing from his own perspective and life, he certainly has (had?) a very high level of empathy to listen to the tales he was told by his elders who had and to be able to weave the tale he told in that book.

I found it quite an enthralling read at the time I was assigned it, which is saying a lot because it was college homework and I had a lot of partying to do. This book was BIG and it had no problems keeping me out of trouble for a about a week to 10 nights.

Without reading it again and without even a brush up on the details, I would recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet.

Looks like Netflix may have made a show about it if you can't stomach reading a book. But I'd probably be equally strong in my argument against watching watching that vs. reading this book. Why watch some committee approved, white college liberal version of this when you can read the book that the Dude from Columbia wrote for you?

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