Let’s do the ten best scifi/fantasy series (can’t go with 5)

[Rick Inman]

Ray Bradbury: The Martian Cronicles

Larry Nevin: Ringworld Series

Isaac Asimov: Foundation Series

Joe Haldeman: Forever War Series

Isaac Asimov: Robot series

Arthur C. Clark: Rama series

Frederik Pohl: Gateway series

C.S. Lewis: Silent Planet Trilogy

 

[H2Andy]

you guys are all GEEKS!! GEEKS!

of course, i was a history geek myself ... never got into SF or fantasy

(how many 15 year olds you know can name all the carriers that took part in the battle of Midway, US and Japanese?)

 

[justleesa]

(how many 15 year olds you know can name all the carriers that took part in the battle of Midway, US and Japanese?)

Maybe my Hubby ....

 

[Vie]

I can't think of ten... So, in no particular order (Dune is definitely number one)...

Dune.

Warhammer 40,000 (unfortunately most of the books are crap...).

Tolkien, definitely.

His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman).

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Forever War/Forever Free (Haldeman).

Gundam (I 'm not too impressed with the newer stuff though).

 

[Thalassamania]

you guys are all GEEKS!! GEEKS!

of course, i was a history geek myself ... never got into SF or fantasy

(how many 15 year olds you know can name all the carriers that took part in the battle of Midway, US and Japanese?)

None that we let live.

 

[H2Andy]

lol too true on the Japanese side ... they lost the Kaga, Akagi, Sōryū, and Hiryū ... that is, every single carrier they brought into the battle

(note the nifty punctuation things)

the US lost the Yorktown (the other two American carriers were the Enterprise and the Hornet)

it's what one would call a butt kicking

 

[Thalassamania]

I didn't mean the carriers, I meant the 15 year olds who knew all the names.

 

[H2Andy]

dude, a diss

and i missed it

it's too early

 

[Thalassamania]

Well I guess the Diss missed. Welcome to morning.

 

[Wayward Son]

Arthur C. Clarke - anything ever written by him. Particularly the Robot series

Asimov did "I, Robot" & the rest of the robot series. Clark was a diver, too & wrote some non fiction about diving.

Clark, Asimov, Heinlein, Card, Pournelle, there have been a lot of great scifi/fantasy writers.

I'd add Rowling as the Potter books are good in the fantasy group. She bogged down some in the 4th, but 5 & 6 got really good.

In TV series I rank Babylon 5 as some of the best scifi writing to make it to broadcast.