There are many threads that discuss one’s favorite programming or technology or startup related books. I’d love to hear from the community what fiction books they enjoy!
Huh... tough call. If you use "number of times read" as a metric that approximates how much I enjoy a particular book, then my favorite is almost certainly one of:
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
- False Memory by Dean Koontz
I think a good case could be made for a handful of others also. Specifically:
The Mysterious Island - is this the one where they invent civilization from scratch after baloon incident ?
If yes then I loved it as a child (it was one of my first "serious" fiction books that I read and somehow I imagine that it sparked my intrest in technology)
I feel the same. Maybe 'it doesn't translate'. Or the translation was bad. Though the concepts were interesting enough to let me read them to the end. Left unsatisfied...
Dune, book 1. You can take away so much from this book. The Bene Gesserit's "Litany Against Fear" and its application makes the book worth reading, and that's just the tip of the iceberg! My favorite part of the book but involves reunion. friendship and loyalty. The audiobook version of Dune, book 1, is also excellent. It includes dramatic acting and ambient music.
Neil Gaiman's Sandman dramatic audiobook (part I) is so good. I feel so lucky that while looking up the link to the book that I just discovered Part II was published in 9/2021. Highly recommend: https://www.amazon.com/The-Sandman/dp/B086WQ7J62
Hard to pick a favourite so I’ll recommend the latest, which I thought was fabulous: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. It has also been turned into a limited miniseries that I am excited to watch. I enjoyed it so much I’ve just started another of her books, The Glass Hotel.
#1-4 are: Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, The Cyberiad, by Stanisław Lem, and The Aleph, by Jorge Luis Borges, and Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman. In no particular order.
> The reason you haven’t heard about it is because they passed on it in June. So it’s no longer an HBO Max project. It’s reverted to Paramount. And Kennedy/Marshall.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 135 ms ] thread- The Aubrey-Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
- Watchmen by various
- Star Trek: Doctor's Orders by Diane Duane
- The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
- Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
- Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean
- The Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils by James Lovegrove
- Contact by Carl Sagan
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Top 11? :-)
“We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Insane to think this book has been written in 1920.
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A Canticle for Leibowitz was one of them.
The Baroque Cycle trilogy
Anathem
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
- False Memory by Dean Koontz
I think a good case could be made for a handful of others also. Specifically:
- Nineteen Eighty Four by Orwell
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Foundation by Asimov
- The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
are all strong contenders as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Island
Red Storm Rising, by Tom Clancy
First Among Equals, by Jeffrey Archer
Neil Gaiman's Sandman dramatic audiobook (part I) is so good. I feel so lucky that while looking up the link to the book that I just discovered Part II was published in 9/2021. Highly recommend: https://www.amazon.com/The-Sandman/dp/B086WQ7J62
- Diaspora by Greg Egan
- Pushing Ice by Alastair Raynolds
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
- The Price of Nothing by R. Scott Baker
- Blindsight by Peter Watts
1. Adventures of Huckelberry Finn
2. Little, Big
3. Winter's Tale
4. Titus Groan
5. Gormenghast
6. Titus Alone
7. Dune
8. The manuscript found in saragossa
9. The Three Musketeers
10. A Scanner Darkly
11. The Man in the High Castle
12. Do Androids dream of Electronic Sheep
13. Ubik
14. Valis, basically almost every book by Phil Dick.
15. Life on the Mississippi.
16. The Garden of Forking Paths
17. Dhalgren
18. The Gods of Pegāna, basically all the fantasy work of Dunsany.
19. The Lathe of Heaven. Anything by LeGuin.
20. Their Eyes Were Watching God
21. The Master and Margarita
22. The Gulag Archipelago
I can't tell if you mean all of PKD not otherwise mentioned goes in that spot, or if VALIS is every PKD book. Or both.
The Princess Bride (even better than the movie)
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
A Fire Upon the Deep
An Instance of the Fingerpost
> The reason you haven’t heard about it is because they passed on it in June. So it’s no longer an HBO Max project. It’s reverted to Paramount. And Kennedy/Marshall.