Your Favorite Sci-Fi Book?

[Phillip Wingrove]

Just seen the movie and would like to read John Carter and the Princess of Mars.

[CMDRTED]

All the above also the prequels to mote in gods eye, the john christian falkenbergs merc sagas. The post frank herbert dune sagas were lukewarm until the last and that one trully sucked eggs. I'll never read his sons co authored books again.

[airdave]

Originally Posted by Phillip Wingrove

Just seen the movie and would like to read John Carter and the Princess of Mars.

I think this is a great film.
In my opinion it rivals many other space operas.
The effects were great, the story moved along at a good pace
and the characters were all interesting.

Disney really blew it with this one.
Not enough hype and advertising meant that nobody was ready...
no-one was excited for it (when it came out).

Instead the film's story and elements were just compared with other SciFi films.
I remember hearing comments like "star wars ripoff" and "already been done...", etc.
When in fact nobody was educated about one of the oldest SciFi series
to exist...predating Star Wars and the like by about 60 years?

[SCEtoAUX]

You can download the first five Mars books from Project Gutenberg. They are basically what the movie is based on.

Online Book Catalog - Overview - Project Gutenberg

There are a lot of othe Edgar Rice Burroughs books available too.

[bulldog drummond]

Mindstar Rising by Ian F Hamilton.

[ghshinn]

You can get virtually all of Burrough's works in several e-formats through MobileRead Forums:

MobileRead Forums

There are literally hundreds of books on the forum, including several classic si-fi authors.

Garland

[eagleclaw4935]

I always liked the Dune series

[richkat]

I just remembered "Gateway" by Frederik Pohl, Very cool book about the Heechee....Rich

[Ron Caudillo]

Originally Posted by airdave

I think this is a great film.
In my opinion it rivals many other space operas.
The effects were great, the story moved along at a good pace
and the characters were all interesting.

Disney really blew it with this one.
Not enough hype and advertising meant that nobody was ready...
no-one was excited for it (when it came out).

Instead the film's story and elements were just compared with other SciFi films.
I remember hearing comments like "star wars ripoff" and "already been done...", etc.
When in fact nobody was educated about one of the oldest SciFi series
to exist...predating Star Wars and the like by about 60 years?

I read the books a long time ago and was really impressed by them. I always wanted to see a movie made of them, and was really looking forward to seeing John Carter.

All in all, I enjoyed the movie. Hollywood always takes some liberties when going to a screenplay, but you just have to accept it. Once you get over that, you can get back to enjoying the movie.

Since the topic is your favorite Sci-Fi book, I have many. But the one I always remember is, "The Flying Sorcerers" by David Gerrold and Larry Niven. I really love a book with humor thrown in and this one has outright in-your-face and subtle within.

You won't be disappointed!

Best Regards,