jueves, julio 28, 2011

100 libros Scifi


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Rank Author/Editor Title Year
1 Orson Scott Card Ender's Game [S1] 1985
2 Frank Herbert Dune [S1] 1965
3 Isaac Asimov Foundation [S1-3] 1951
4 Douglas Adams Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy [S1] 1979
5 George Orwell 1984 1949
6 Robert A Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land 1961
7 Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 1954
8 Arthur C Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
9 Isaac Asimov [C] I, Robot 1950
10 Robert A Heinlein Starship Troopers 1959
11 Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968
12 William Gibson Neuromancer 1984
13 Larry Niven Ringworld 1970
14 Arthur C Clarke Rendezvous With Rama 1973
15 Dan Simmons Hyperion [S1] 1989
16 H G Wells The Time Machine 1895
17 Aldous Huxley Brave New World 1932
18 Arthur C Clarke Childhood's End 1954
19 Robert A Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress 1966
20 H G Wells The War of the Worlds 1898
21 Joe Haldeman The Forever War 1974
22 Ray Bradbury [C] The Martian Chronicles 1950
23 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five 1969
24 Neal Stephenson Snow Crash 1992
25 Niven & Pournelle The Mote in God's Eye 1975
26 Ursula K Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness 1969
27 Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead [S2] 1986
28 Michael Crichton Jurassic Park 1990
29 Philip K Dick The Man in the High Castle 1962
30 Isaac Asimov The Caves of Steel 1954
31 Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination 1956
32 Roger Zelazny Lord of Light 1967
33 Frederik Pohl Gateway 1977
34 Stanislaw Lem Solaris 1961
35 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1870
36 Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle In Time 1962
37 Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain 1969
38 Carl Sagan Contact 1985
39 Isaac Asimov The Gods Themselves 1972
40 Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle 1963
41 Philip K Dick UBIK 1969
42 Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep 1991
43 Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon 1999
44 John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids 1951
45 Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange 1962
46 Robert A Heinlein Time Enough For Love 1973
47 Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars [S1] 1992
48 Walter M Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz 1959
49 Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 1966
50 Isaac Asimov The End Of Eternity 1955
51 Mary Shelley Frankenstein 1818
52 L Ron Hubbard Battlefield Earth 1982
53 Jules Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864
54 Ursula K Le Guin The Dispossessed 1974
55 Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age 1995
56 Iain M Banks Player Of Games [S2] 1988
57 Peter F Hamilton The Reality Dysfunction [S1] 1996
58 David Brin Startide Rising [S2] 1983
59 Orson Scott Card Ender's Shadow [S1] 1999
60 Philip Jose Farmer To Your Scattered Bodies Go 1971
61 Greg Bear Eon 1985
62 Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan 1959
63 Niven & Pournelle Lucifer's Hammer 1977
64 Philip K Dick A Scanner Darkly 1977
65 Arthur C Clarke The City and the Stars 1956
66 Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale 1985
67 Alfred Bester The Demolished Man 1953
68 Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat [S1] 1961
69 Michael Crichton Sphere 1987
70 Gene Wolfe The Shadow of the Torturer [S1] 1980
71 Robert A Heinlein The Door Into Summer 1956
72 Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space [S1] 2000
73 Robert A Heinlein Citizen Of the Galaxy 1957
74 Philip K Dick The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch 1964
75 Dan Simmons Ilium 2003
76 H G Wells The Invisible Man 1897
77 Connie Willis Doomsday Book 1992
78 Robert A Heinlein The Puppet Masters 1951
79 Robert A Heinlein Have Space-Suit - Will Travel 1958
80 Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars [S1] 1912
81 C S Lewis Out of the Silent Planet [S1] 1938
82 Ursula K Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven 1971
83 Iain M Banks Use of Weapons [S3] 1990
84 John Wyndham The Chrysalids 1955
85 Richard Morgan Altered Carbon [S1] 2002
86 Edwin A Abbott Flatland 1884
87 Clifford Simak Way Station 1963
88 John Scalzi Old Man's War 2005
89 Cormac McCarthy The Road 2006
90 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Roadside Picnic 1972
91 Philip K Dick VALIS 1981
92 Stanislaw Lem [C] The Cyberiad 1974
93 Julian May The Many-Colored Land [S1] 1981
94 John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar 1969
95 David Brin The Postman 1985
96 Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World 1912
97 Arthur C Clarke The Fountains of Paradise 1979
98 James Blish [C] Cities in Flight 1955
99 Greg Bear The Forge of God 1987
100 David Brin The Uplift War [S3] 1987

Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card
Supersmart child-warriors are used by the military to battle an invasion of buglike aliens. That's the setup of Ender's Game; the meat of the story comes from the struggle of one of these extraordinary children (named Ender) to keep a grip on his humanity even as he's being turned into the perfect killing machine. (Photo: nihonjoe via Wikipedia) Card sets up a lot of questions about morality, war, and man's purpose in Ender's Game; in the sequel, Speaker for the Dead, these questions get a payoff as the grown-up Ender finds himself in a position to save a new sentient species or allow it to be destroyed. Proof that interesting philosophical questions can be asked (and even answered) in the form of a purely entertaining story. Links: Ender's Game | More by Orson Scott Card

Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
It takes guts to snatch the format of The Canterbury Tales and use it to crank out epic science fiction, but the extraordinarily talented Dan Simmons (who also writes bang-up horror and action novels) is just the guy to do it. (Photo: Dan Simmons) Over the course of these two novels, Simmons creates a galaxy-wide human civilization that's pitted against a mysterious enemy. Hyperion uses the overlapping stories of a clutch of pilgrims to paint the picture of this future civilization; Fall of Hyperion describes its downfall, as seen through the eye of a clone of the great Romantic poet John Keats. Great storytelling, great action, great plotting; not just a couple of the best science fiction novels ever, but two of the best adventure novels in a long time, period. Links: Hyperion | The Fall of Hyperion | More by Dan Simmons


Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
The perfect book for anyone who thinks that science fiction can't be literary and/or adventurous in form. Miéville's genre-buster of a novel is not unlike what you would get if you spliced together the genes of Charles Dickens and horror master H.P. Lovecraft and raised the resulting creature on the writings of Orwell, Huxley, and Philip K. Dick (the fellow who wrote the story that was the basis of the movie Blade Runner). (Photo: Andrew M Butler, via Flickr) It's difficult to describe the novel, except to say that it involves mad scientists, interspecies romance, vampiric moth creatures, Tammany Hall-like urban politics, the value systems of alien species, interdimensional spiders, and a rip-roaring final action scene that takes place on the rooftops of a city you really can't imagine. All written by someone who uses the English language like Yo-Yo Ma uses a cello. Fabulous writing, regardless of genre. Links: Perdido Street Station | More by China Mieville


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With HBO’s Game of Thrones hitting screens this weekend, we started to think what other big fantasy and science fiction books should also be translated to the screen. And it wasn’t hard to come up with at least ten different series for this list. From space epics, hard science, to Lord of the Rings-style fantasy; there’s something on here for almost everyone.

Ender’s Game




Despite your personal feelings towards Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game is an undeniable sci-fi masterpiece that deserves to be seen on the big screen. The movie has been in and out of development hell for years, but it’s one that definitely needs to be made. Even those who have read the book and know they “twist” would still love to see Ender’s story turned into a movie; as long as it’s handled well.

Kim Stanely Robinson’s Mars Trilogy



A few years ago the SciFi Channel announced that it was working on a miniseries of Red Mars. It never materialized. The book is the first part of a trilogy, consisting also of Green Mars and Blue Mars, that tells the story of the terraforming of Mars over many generations of families. The books are “hard sci-fi”, which means they’re written from the scientific point of view and grounded more in realism, but it’s an epic story and one that would translate well to the screen.

The Wheel of Time



We have Lord of the Rings, and we’re now going to see A Song of Ice and Fire on HBO; it’s time for Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time to be adapted. Due to its length, a miniseries would probably work out better; so maybe Showtime will step to the plate to compete against HBO?

Foundation



Issac Asimov’s Foundation has also been in development hell for years. At one point, Will Smith was going to star in it to complete his trifecta of classic sci-fi novels. As the Foundation books are mostly made up of smaller stories, it would fit a movie well; if someone could just get it off the ground once and for all.

Ringworld



The only risk with brining Larry Niven’s Ringworld to the screen now is that there is a generation of kids who grew up on Halo and would probably see it as a rip off, despite it actually being the other way around. It’s an epic science fiction adventure, and its scope is perfect for a big screen adaptation.

Temeraire



The good news is that Peter Jackson has the rights to do this series and wants to make it into a miniseries. The bad news is that Peter Jackson has the rights to the series and is kind of tied up for the next few years in Middle-Earth. The Temeraire series is an alternate history fantasy set during the Napoleonic Wars where each nation has an air force – of dragons. It’s as awesome as it sounds.

The Legend of Drizzt



We had two really bad Dungeons & Dragons movies, one in theaters and a direct-to-video sequel that actually wasn’t as bad as the original. It’s time someone makes a good one and RA Salvatore’s The Legend of Drizzt is the perfect series to pull from. Drizzt is a hugely popular character, and his adventures would appeal to the Lord of the Rings audience. Do it.

Dragonlance



Dragonlance is another series that deserves a good screen representation. Every bit as good as, and in some ways better than, the Drizzt books; the series saw a crappy animated version a few years ago and should be given the chance as live action.

The Death Gate Cycle



The Death Gate Cycle is a seven-book series from the authors and creators of Dragonlance. The first four books each take place on unique worlds with a central character meeting new people in each one. In the last three books, characters from the first four worlds start to interact. It’s a great series that would probably work best as a mini-series.

The Man-Kzin Wars



The Wing Commander movie was crap. Time to try again, only this time Larry Niven’s The Man-Kzin Wars should be adapted. It has a much more epic scale than Wing Commander, but the basic premise of mankind fighting a war in space against a race of cats is similar.