vendredi 1 août 2014

The Best Science Fiction Books

By Annabelle Holman


Humans are yet to quit reading. For centuries, they are yet to substitute it. The best subject undoubtedly is science. With a large pool to choose from, a good book can be hard to find. The following set are the best science fiction books one can read.

Ringworld, written by Larry Niven, is a classic piece worth checking out. This story involves the puppeteers who had can only be killed using antimatter. A liquid that retains your youth for almost two hundred years and still be youth is some of the ideas that the current generation is looking to invent that are portrayed.

The Demolished Man should be in your shopping cart when heading to the bookstore. The story takes place in future and just as the words suggests the mind is destroyed to say the least. The ruling governments and law is not what it is. How can you commit crime when the next person knows for a fact what why you did. These were the peepers who could read the mind.

Gateway by Frederik Pohl was done in 2010. It analyses the extent to which humans in the future will be willing to go to make ends meet. The fact that life is a gift, only makes sense if you have the gift itself. In other terms, being rich is actually living. So, humans stumble upon interstellar ships left behind by Heechee. They hop on not knowing where these ships will take them. Though these ships are programmed on where to take them, many still go. Few come back rich while others perish.

Stand on Zanzibar written by John Brunner looks into the world of medicine and global dominance in the same. House, a leader in a global company in the move of acquiring an African nation, is set up with Hogan who is his spy. He however does not know this, the story unfolds till the end where Hogan loses his life after getting the game changing genetic engineering that shift the way things are run.

The other option is Timescape by Gregory Benford. This award winning book encompasses the need of taking care of our future by making the right decisions now. In his piece a group of 1998 scientists, being award of an impending future environmental calamity communicate with their 1962 counterparts in try to avert this. This book is dramatic and a thriller indeed.

The Tiger! Tiger! New rendition or version as Stars is my Destination, done by Alfred Beester is a piece that can challenge the current mechanism put in place to handle vagabonds. The main villain in this book has the ability to teleport from one locality to another without being apprehended. This make it hard to make an arrest and in turn the man can easily get away with everything.

Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson will shock you in how the US will end up being in fictional world as portrayed in this book. Who could ever have imagined the Pizza delivery guy could make things turn around for the worst more so affect the whole nation. He comes up with a virus that shapes the US as a cybercrime infested nation.




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