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As a third nomination I say Lem Stanislaw - Solaris. It has been on my list for a long time.
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With my last nomination, an obvious choice and a goodie: Bradbury's Farenheit 451. The truncated blurb from Amazon, in case anyone needs it:
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07-21-2013, 07:19 PM | #33 |
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I will third Great North Road and Roadside Picnic.
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I nominate Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. A controversial film version is being released soon so it could be interesting to read and discuss the book now.
From Amazon: Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. Ender's Game is the winner of the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied. Availability: Amazon Canada Amazon UK Amazon US Barnes & Noble US Bookworld Australia |
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I second Fahrenheit 451.
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Will somebody please tell me what Steve Jobs had against scroll bars? Editing the first two posts of this thread on an iPad is murder!
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Third Farenheit 451.
ETA: None of the links for Great North Road are working for me. Expired searches? Yikes, some of these nominations are 800+ pages (Great North Road, Existence). Last edited by Synamon; 07-21-2013 at 09:19 PM. |
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I'll add your vote to the list. As for the links; they work fine on this end. Geographical restrictions on your end, perhaps?
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