Best Scifi/Fantasy book/book series

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Which Scifi/Fantasy/ book/book series is the best?

  1. 2001 Series-Arthur C. Clarke

    5 vote(s)
    5.9%

  2. Enders Game Series-Orson Scott Card

    9 vote(s)
    10.6%

  3. Sword of Truth Series-Terry Goodkind

    4 vote(s)
    4.7%

  4. Lord of the Rings Series-JRR Tolkien

    23 vote(s)
    27.1%

  5. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Series-Doug Adams

    11 vote(s)
    12.9%

  6. Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe-C.S Lewis

    1 vote(s)
    1.2%

  7. Assorted Star Trek Novels

    3 vote(s)
    3.5%

  8. Assorted Star Wars Novels

    2 vote(s)
    2.4%

  9. Dune Series-Frank Herbert

    13 vote(s)
    15.3%

  10. Foundation-Isaac Asimov

    14 vote(s)
    16.5%
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  1. jim765

    jim765 Registered Member

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    Terry goodkind

    I love the SoT series by terry goodkind. he has another book coming out in febuary 2011. the series is 11 books long and is very in-depth. although i dont care much for the romance parts i like how lifelike the characters are.
     
    jim765, Oct 24, 2010
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  3. NMSquirrel

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    i love foundation series and robot series read them several times..
     
    NMSquirrel, Oct 24, 2010
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  5. AlexG

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    When Goodkind came out with Wizard's First Rule, I thought this was the debut of a great talent.

    Unfortunately, by volume 5, it was obvious that this was another interminable series, al la Wheel of Time.
     
    AlexG, Oct 25, 2010
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    adoucette, Oct 25, 2010
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  8. Fraggle Rocker

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    The Spellsinger series by Alan Dean Foster. An inept wizard-in-training in a parallel universe casts a spell to summon a real wizard, and instead he gets a law student from UCLA, who happens to have magic powers in that universe because he can play a guitar.

    It's pretty wacky, all the animals can talk and they have a civilization that more-or-less holds together without a lot of violence. But still there's a lot of evil to fight (that's why he's there after all) so he finally decides to get with the program and goes off to fight it with his trusty otter companion. He never ceases to amaze himself, and everyone around him, by discovering what unpredictable thing he can make happen by playing a hit from the 60s or 70s.

    Foster is at his best with humor, and this is his best.

    For best single book, I'd pick either his Midworld, which is much more serious--so serious that my English-major wife actually appreciated it--or Code of the Lifemaker by James P. Hogan, which is perhaps even more serious. Midworld is about a colony of humans that have been lost so long that they've mutated on a planet where all lifeforms influence each other. Code of the Lifemaker is about human explorers discovering a planet run by mechanical beings who build organic machinery. Each one thinks that the other is the leftover artifacts of a lost race of creatures like themselves.
     
    Fraggle Rocker, Nov 17, 2010
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  9. AlexG

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    The movie Avatar was a direct rip-off of Midworld, and the followup Flinx book.
     
    AlexG, Nov 18, 2010
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  10. Dywyddyr

    Dywyddyr Penguinaciously duckalicious. Valued Senior Member

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    Bah, Niven's Ringworld series, Niven & Pournelle's Mote in God's Eye series, Moorcock's Eternal Champion series, Wagner's (Karl Edward, not Richard!) Kane series, Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy (or his other series)...
    Katherine Kurtz's Deryni books, Mary Stewart's Merlin books...

    Best? Pfft, too many to pick an overall best.

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    Dywyddyr, Nov 18, 2010
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  11. Kennyc

    Kennyc Registered Senior Member

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    What about Thomas Covenant?
     
    Kennyc, Nov 18, 2010
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  12. Dywyddyr

    Dywyddyr Penguinaciously duckalicious. Valued Senior Member

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    Oops, yep, Stephen Donaldson as well.

    And Neal Stephenson. I loved The System of the World (which ties in with Crytonomicon) and his sort-of-series Snow Crash and The Diamond Age.
     
    Dywyddyr, Nov 18, 2010
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  13. AlexG

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    Hated him. He was the most unlikeable character I've ever read a series about.
     
    AlexG, Nov 18, 2010
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  14. Kennyc

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    Kept reading, huh?

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    Kennyc, Nov 18, 2010
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  15. AlexG

    AlexG Like nailing Jello to a tree Valued Senior Member

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    Of course.

    Hating a character is as good a reason to keep reading as liking him is.

    Indifference would have me putting the book down for good.

    Although I just haven't been able to get interested in the latest one.
     
    AlexG, Nov 18, 2010
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  16. NMSquirrel

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    series?

    riverworld was better in book..

    integral trees..(niven?)
    smoke ring(niven)
    battlefield earth(book 100% better than movie)

    would like to see foundation series as movie,(eventual they would have to include the robot series in that..)
     
    NMSquirrel, Nov 19, 2010
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  17. Dywyddyr

    Dywyddyr Penguinaciously duckalicious. Valued Senior Member

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    Series.
    Ringworld, Ringworld Throne, Ringworld Engineers, Ringworld's Children (and 3 prequels according to Wiki).
    Of course they are all a sub-set of his Known Space "series".

    Farmer?
    I think I read one of the books about 30-40 years ago.

    Read 'em. Didn't like them as much as Ringworld.

    Aaaargh! I managed two chapters before I gave up in disgust. Hubbard was a dreadful writer.
     
    Dywyddyr, Nov 19, 2010
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  18. psikeyhackr

    psikeyhackr Live Long and Suffer Valued Senior Member

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    I voted for Asimov's Foundation series because Bujold's Vorkosigan series wasn't in the list.

    http://www.lunch.com/reviews/d/User...ew_of_Vorkosigan_series_by_Lois_McMaster.html

    I wouldn't vote for any fantasy series. They should be separate polls.

    I considered voting for the Ender series but since the Foundation was already ahead I went with that. Science fiction has become to corrupted over the last 20 years or so. Stuff that ain't science fiction is called science fiction like Star Wars.

    psik
     
    psikeyhackr, Nov 19, 2010
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