What are some of your favorite science fiction books?

Nick Dear's Frankenstein is an amazing adaptation. It's a stage play, but there's a recorded version of the NT production starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller - they alternated playing the Creature and Frankenstein to emphasise their connection. Rather than having the Creature narrate his story to Frankenstein, the first half of the play follows the Creature on his journey to find Frankenstein. It also gives a larger role to Elizabeth and the blind old man, de Lacey.

That sounds wonderful!

edited 7th Aug '14 9:30:33 PM by WarriorEowyn

I like Jumper and the sequels by Steven Gould. Teleportation! People with powers that use them to do massive amounts of good! references to A Little Princess!

Got me into SF as a preteen girl:

Isaac Asimov, full stop. The Foundation novels basically made me a SF geekette. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card. Loved the original quartet, couldn't even finish the shadow series which didn't start until I was much older. Can't tell whether it's my taste which changed or the content. I remember first encountering it in the abbreviated novella form in an anthology.

Later:

C.J. Cherryh, Cyteen. I've been a huge Cherryh fangirl ever since, seeking out all her stuff. For some reason I loved fiction that made protagonists really emotionally hurt. This? Does that spectacularly well, so be careful if you're sensitive. I'm... really serious about that. Also, blends personal problems and planetary or interplanetary political intrigue incredibly well, like most of her works, and I like the use in this case of a psychology-based high technology conceit. Master manipulators and all that, to eleven. Within the last year or two, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin) and Kindred (Octavia E. Butler) earn a mention. Also, I have been reading through the Vorkosigan Saga (Lois Mc Master Bujold), not entirely chronologically at first but by what I could get my hands on quickly at the library, and I am blown away. And not just because I may have a thing for short, relatively weak, but super-smart protagonists. (Hey, I love the Dresden Files too, and Harry Dresden is huge, powerful, and not overly smart, ok?)

Love for some female SF writers, Yo!

I never watched Revolution, so I don't know how they handled the actual cause of the fall, but the Emberverse novels (Dies The Fire and its sequels) were straight-up Fantasy from the get-go, once you find out the cause in the second trilogy. It's not a full redemption, but it's a damn sight better than trying to Bullshit some scientific cause.

Gordon R. Dickson wrote some great scifi, including Space Paw. It's the inspiration for my dad and me joking about the right to arm bears. His Childe Cycle series quickly falls into Sci-Fantasy instead, but it's not bad work.

Le Guin and Butler are excellent. Le Guin in particular I would say is one of my favourite authors ever. I have read some Cherryh (Downbelow Station) and thought it was quite good though I haven't picked up anything else as of yet.

If you're in for a laugh, a lot of Robert Asprin's work is a riot. Like the Phule's Company books.

Definitely Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, along with Isaac Asimov's Robot and Foundation series.

For a more humorous, yet sophisticated piece of work, I'd recommend Lem's The Star Diaries.