Re:Science Fiction Book Club’s top 10
Problem with me and creating a top-10 list is I don’t know the name of half the Sci-Fi Ive read, so here’s a few stories and maybe you can tell me the titles =p
There’s a series about a future world ruled by giant fat guys living in tanks for thousands of years running the planets through a type of Internet who can apparantly see the future. Meanwhile on one of the uncontrolled planets a race of Indians(Native Americans) have mental powers and magic or something but are being invaded by some real sick puppy who has a harem of women under his control.
Kind of an old series, maybe 70s. I read it so long ago I forget most of it, but was a damn good series.
Then there was this Heinlein book called Portal in the Sky or something. Where these kids before graduation go on survival tests on other worlds randomly. Except in this case the guy ends up starting a new civilization after they are abandoned there.
That was a really good read, another great Heinlein story is about these kids growing up in what they think is a normal life, but slowly they realize their parents and the entire civilization are all aliens (one of the boys has a dog with a prehensile tail). When I first saw the Matrix I thought it was a ripoff of this (I was wrong obviously).
There’s a lot of great short-stories I like too, especially Stephen Kings “Langoliers”.
Then there’s another great short story (not King) about this guy going on a pilgramage away from his village, and over the course of the story you begin to realize things like ‘rivers of basalt’ are freeways, and everything the person is describing is what was human civilization, and the kicker at the end is he see’s a human statue and wonders why it has so few arms and legs compared to his 6 or something.
Wish I had a better memory or didn’t read so dang much so I could remember these titles.