View Poll Results: Please vote for the Sci-Fi novel you would like to read by March 31st.

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  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

    0 0%

  • Oryx and Crake

    3 23.08%

  • The Left Hand of Darkness

    3 23.08%

  • Ringworld

    1 7.69%

  • The Drowned World

    1 7.69%

  • Riddley Walker

    0 0%

  • Hard to Be a God

    2 15.38%

  • The Algebraist

    2 15.38%

  • Solaris

    0 0%

  • Starship Troopers

    1 7.69%
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Thread: Science Fiction / April '11 Poll

  1. 02-03-2011, 06:04 PM #1
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    Science Fiction / April '11 Poll

    Please nominate the "science fiction" novel you would like to read in April in this thread.

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    - Only those members with 50+ posts can nominate.

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    - Only the first 10 nominations will be included in the poll.


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  2. 02-03-2011, 06:12 PM #2
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    Sci Fi..... I can't decide. I'm looking forward to this one.
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  3. 02-03-2011, 06:30 PM #3
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    I will be willing to read just about anything in sci-fi.

    I'll nominate a classic. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.
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  4. 02-03-2011, 07:39 PM #4
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    Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
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  5. 02-03-2011, 07:49 PM #5
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    Another classic, but not as old as MM's nom.

    The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
    "If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
    - Margaret Atwood
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  6. 02-03-2011, 07:53 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by OrphanPip View Post
    Another classic, but not as old as MM's nom.

    The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
    Read that not too long ago, could give it a reread. One of the most interesting sci-fi reads I've experienced.
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  7. 02-04-2011, 05:59 AM #7
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    Ok, I'll Nominate Ringworld by Larry Niven,

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  8. 02-04-2011, 07:15 AM #8
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    The Drowned World (J. G. Ballard)
    "He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
    - CRIME AND PUNISHMENT     (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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  9. 02-04-2011, 09:34 AM #9
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    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
    "...You are not wrong, who deem
    That my days have been a dream;
    Yet if hope has flown away
    In a night, or in a day,
    In a vision, or in none,
    Is it therefore the less gone?..." E. A. Poe
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  10. 02-04-2011, 01:11 PM #10
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    Any of those will do. I've read Ringworld - great book.
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  11. 02-04-2011, 01:28 PM #11
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    Hm, you can strike mine; just realised it was read last year.
    "...You are not wrong, who deem
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  12. 02-04-2011, 05:34 PM #12
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    Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
    'Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.' - Groucho Marx
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  13. 02-04-2011, 06:21 PM #13
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    Quote Originally Posted by Paulclem View Post
    Any of those will do.
    Agreed.
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  14. 02-06-2011, 01:38 PM #14
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    I'll nominate "Hard to Be a God " by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the fathers of Soviet SF.
    Last edited by Taliesin; 02-06-2011 at 01:48 PM.
    If you believe even a half of this post, you are severely mistaken.
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  15. 02-06-2011, 05:31 PM #15
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    I nominate The Algebraist by Iain M Banks.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004...rror.iainbanks

    Good book. Still got it, so it must be!
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