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What do you consider the most influential, important, or generally great science fiction novels? Whats your record for number of readings for single book?

Dune by Frank Herbert is one, I believe. It is said that were it not for this book, Star Wars would not have been inspired. And, all of H.G. Wells' works supposedly influenced science-fiction culture very greatly.

A Scanner Darkly.

>>672 I think PKD was the best practical cyberpunk writer.

Lots of stuff by Isaac Asimov, for sure. I really liked Foundation.

>>670 1984, without a doubt

>>673 Just read "the man in the high castle". Although the end was a bit weird, I loved the universe it depicted. An essential read for those loving K. Dick

I would definitely have to say Blindsight. I love the prose, the ideas, and the atmosphere, especially.

Lol so no ones going to say the sprawl trilogy?

>>1057 the sprawl trilogy was iconic for the cyberpunk subgenre and incredibly influential in that subgenre, if not all of scifi, but I think other books had more of an influence. But it's kind of an unfair judgment because you can just argue for any work there's another work that came before it and influenced more, so reasonably we should just look at the first science fiction novel.

i would argue Little Brother and Homeland because Cory Doctorow mentions so much real technology. I learned a lot from reading them the characters have teach great opsec and the whole story is something that can very much happen today.

>>1057 there were many influential scifi books that are super old and stuff like that let's see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells_bibliography >H. G. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels earned him the title (along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback) of "The Father of Science Fiction".[1] yeah that sums "influential" up nicely i think there's a great deal of newer or new-ish scifi books around that are really great and sooner or later i will make it my hobby to read them, so by all means, post some. i can't really recommend anything at this point since i know too few.

i just the moon is a harsh mistress (1966!) earlier this year, and while i initially had low exceptations, it really blew me away. a self-aware ai and a programmer as the main protagonists - good stuff! i also really like A Scanner Darkly and The Sirens of Titan, but they both make me a bit depressed.

>>680 i really like the alternative history setting with Nazi germany winning w2, but i found the main story quite weak tbh.

The Martian Chronicles Also; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s6WcaiwOyM

>>1156 IMO the plot is much more of a excuse to set the main theme of a Japanese/German dominated US. Plot was weak but the setting and everything else is great.

Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson I highly rec

Pump Six and Other Stories by Paulo Baccigalupi, especially the title story and "pocketful of dharma", which you can find here: http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/1597801348/1597801348___1.htm >>1902 Very good, but freaking long. I ground through by listening to the audiobook.

Victor Pelevins's S.N.U.F.F. hilarious and dunk book.