I read all of these, most well before you were born, and have them in my library. Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke still are the Big Three, though there are many other greats. Never forget, Starship Troopers is as truly great as the Verhoeven movie is terrible.

"Rendezvous With Rama" is one of my all time favorite novels, one I happily re-read every now and again and it never loses it's appeal. The sequels, not so much. In fact the 3rd in the series I've only read thru once and will never touch, again. When Heinlein wrote "Starship Troopers" a popular sci-fi trope, at the time, was the misunderstood aliens. Heinlein was asking "how will humanity cope if we ever do encounter a truly alien species that is totally implacable, impossible to reason with and determined to enslave or destroy us?" I don't think I've ever read an Asimov novel that wasn't an excellent read and thought provoking (actually that's true of Heinlein, as well) but my favorite is, of course, the Foundation series. You really need to read the robot books first, though.

My own personal favourite Clarke novel is "The Fountains of Paradise".

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You cannot say Childhoods end was your favorit and because others have com since twisted used the source idea throw it in the bin AS CRAP?

The music starting scared me so bad....

This was amazing, thank you so much!

I have read and love all three. Clark was my first reads. Asimov is my favorite- if you have not read his Dr Urth mysteries you should, they’re great. Heinlein was great and I identified when much of his characters. Loved ‘Troopers’ . Thanks for the video.

Great. I liked everything about your video sir. I have 2 requests if you don't mind: 1. Could you please suggest some "anthropological Science Fiction" stories? 2. Could you please suggest some post-2000s "Social Science Fiction" stories?

Doc Smith!

He's an absolute favorite of mine. I prefer scifi to be weird. Any distant future would probably cause us extreme cultural shock. Plus, I feel.he's a better writer than Herbert which I'm not totally convinced borrowed from him.

For me Asimov. Then Clarke, at least his earlier works and 2001, 2010 etc. Then Heinlein. Theyre all great but thats the order they sit in my consciousness.

Thanks for sharing your list. Where do you rank the 'Takeshi Kovacs' and 'Expanse series' ?

The answer is yes to all 3

I love this book. A hidden masterpiece of science fiction and human psychology and evolution.

What the heck is Space Opera? None of the Sci Fi books I ever read ever had a fat lady singing at the end.

Why do you think the character of bill was important enough to name the book after him?

Annihilation and the whole Southern Reach trilogy are pretty horrifying for how few answers are ever offered

Honestly, Suneater Series should be on the list if the Red Rising is there.

The Roads Must Roll by Robert A. Heinlein The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft The Gernsback Continuum by William Gibson The Silver John stories by Manley Wade Wellman The People stories by Zenna Henderson

Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one who had to put down the book and google stuff every three sentence or so! 😅 It was confusing as hell, especially as english isn't my native language, but once you understood and got everyhing that was going on.. holy shit was this an amazing experience!

Just finished it this morning. I liked it. Definitely good and I liked the concepts and the world building which felt lived in and realistic as our future

31:00 dykernouts ? Dykrounauts ? My mind is making Diaper knots

You seem to be looking slightly off camera. Otherwise, really appreciated the review!

Cool shirt an good review ❤

Definitely Heinlein, read all , 3 most books

So cool Looking forward to more like this!

GB is my favorite author with Eon/Eternity being my favorite novel of all time! An underrated author. He had a unique style of taking scifi tropes and taking them to the next level, making the story epic. This was so in a lot of his novels. It seems Arthur C. Clarke was his biggest influence. Just like Gibson's Neuromancer has become the quintessential novel for Cyberpunk, GB's Blood Music has become the quintessential novel for the "Biopunk" subgenre. My favorites are Eon/Eternity (its one story arc so I recommend reading Eternity as well), Moving Mars, Forge of God, Anvil of Stars, and Blood Music. The following are good too: Slant, War Dogs, Darwin's Radio, Legacy, and Hull Zero Three. RIP GB!! I look forward to converging at the Final Mind!!

Thanks for the recommendations these all sound great!

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Enjoyed & Thank You !

I know love makes no sense. But Sophie and Emileo's almost love story was forced and unnecessary.

The City And The Stars is soooooo underrated.

Then there's the Simpson's spoof of the Bradbury book where Homer attempts to return to his reality by stomping on various insects in the distant past. Each time he returns to some horrendous alien version of his family, until the last time when all looks normal. Until Marge extends a butterfly-like proboscis to eat breakfast, at which point Homer declares, "Close enough" and the episode ends.

One of my favorites is Dinosaur Beach by Keith Laumer. I don't think there's a time travel story which spans a wider arc, and deals with, and in a sense resolves, many of the contradictions of time travel stories.

I generally like time travel books the best among the SF genres.

I read the book, now I want to watch the movie!

Can you do a review on KZbin centric Science Fiction authors, and narrators? Some favorites I've found are Authors - Gerald Kilby, Craig Falconer, PE Rowe, LARS - (SCI-FI ) , and Narrators - ASN Agro Squirrel Narrates, PE Rowe, and Bloody Bookmarker. .

I don't know what it was. I read Neuromancer a while back, it took a lot of effort for me, I had to research as I read, to make sure I was understanding it, but in the end, I thought the effort was worth it, and I really liked it... After I finished Neuromancer, I dived into Snowcrash, which had been recommended to me repeatedly in my life. I utterly hated Snowcrash, but read it to the end, thinking it had to get better with so many recommendations. Meh... no change. But I feel like I'm missing something.

I just found your channel and enjoy it immensely. I noticed you have not published in 6 months. Have you decided to retire from KZbin?

Thanks for the advice man. Gave me the confidence to finish this book out.

SCI FI is not fantasy, no magic and crap man. theo nly book i see is related is the Shit of fools. gg

This is so long so I'm watching it in parts but there's a ton of stuff to check out on this video

great questions for him -- and what a pleasure -- good work!

What about Andre Norton? I cut my teeth on all 4.

i think Heinlein is not so popular in my country. Just as unpopular as militarism and libertarian ideas. The others are known better.

I grew up on all these books. Why doesn't Hollywood use more of them? Such great ideas.

Before I clicked on this video I KNEW that 1984 was gonna be on this list!!

Awesome review. Read the book some years ago and it really made me think about its themes for a few evenings.. Will have to pick it up again this summer after seeing your review!

Just finished reading, very interesting premise. Can’t wait to start the next one.