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Oooo! Add in Robert L. Forward to that list - "Dragon's Egg" and "Flight of the Dragonfly" / "Rocheworld" are well worth a read.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Oooo indeed. On my list too! 
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Too many to count. I have about 500 songs my ten top favourite songs, same with books.
Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham (plus all his other books)
Nightfall - Isaac Asimov (Ok everything by Asimov)
Dune - Frank Herbert
Martian Cornicles - Ray Bradbury.
Riverworld - Philip Jose Farmer
Anything by Larry Niven.
Everything by Terry Pratchett (not strictly sci-fi though)
Loved Brave New World (& the old movie + new TV series).
Then there's Arthur C. Clarke, Harry Harrison, Eric Frank Russel, Robert Sheckley to name a few.
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How could I forget Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars & Gold Coast books.
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yes, yes, yes.
The Mars trilogy is excellent...
I'd rather be phishing!
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Because it's annoying what people are doing to Dr. Seuss books now.
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PC gone mad!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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The mind has the best special effects with no budget!
2001, Rama, I Robot, The Expanse, Seveneves, Neuromancer...More probably!
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Rama was weird, I need to read it again to have a better opinion of it.
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- Just about anything by Frank Herbert. For Dune, I'd stop at God Emperor of Dune.
- Nathan Lowell's Ismael Wang books - he's an 18 year old thrust into an interstellar merchant fleet of solar clippers.
- The entire Robots to Empire and Foundation series by Asimov
- Heinlein's future history series
- Stainless Steel Rat series
- Brave New World
- Starship Mage series by Glynn Stewart. They won't win awards but they're fast, fun romps through the future.
I'm sure there are others but these are off the top of my head.
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obermd wrote: Just about anything by Frank Herbert. For Dune, I'd stop at God Emperor of Dune.
Agreed. I've read a few of the in-universe books by his son Brian and Mark Anderson. They weren't bad, just there was a bit too strong a whiff of capitalizing on his dad's talent.
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Probably...
The Foundation series (the original 3 books, a bit less for the other prequels and sequels).
Dune (the original 3 books, obviously, and a bit less for the other prequels and sequels)
The Lost Fleet (Jack Campbell)
And I know, unpopular and controversial because of the Author and what he stand for (will remain nameless and no link provided), but they are fun and entertaining....
Battlefield Earth (the movie was horribly bad) and Mission Earth.
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 I never realized this was the same person (the book author and the controversial one). I am speechless.
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Maximilien wrote: Battlefield Earth
The book I enjoyed, the film stands out as one of the absolute worst ever.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Too true. I was really looking forward to the movie.
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Maximilien wrote: Battlefield Earth
I am ashamed to admit I read the whole damned thing, thereby wasting a couple of weeks in my reading life. At that time I always finished a book, even when it was awful. I could have been reading something more entertaining, like used toilet paper.
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Having +/- 1200 of them it is very hard to choose ( I know, I am an addict ) but I did enjoy the Foundation series, the Dune series, The dragons of Pern and many others. Special mention though for Douglas Adam's and Terry pratchett's stuff. After all it is very hard to beat 42 and the idea of a discworld.
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1200 as hard cover ? And the mansion that goes with it ?
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Nope, all of them are paperbacks so I don't need a mansion. Its amazing what you can do with a custom home built bookcase. Mind you, it does take an entire wall though. 
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I've got around 2,000 now, and that's after heavily winnowing my book collection over the last 20 years. When we moved into our previous house, the moving company added a surcharge for the 250+ boxes of books my wife and I had between us.
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Special effects are now robust enough for Pern.
Anne refused to sell the rights?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I think I'd like to see Pern done as a limited series on Netflix or one of the other streaming services. There are enough characters and story arcs to be worth a couple of 10-episode seasons.
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