Friday, August 8, 2014

The Best Science Fiction Books

By Annabelle Holman


Reading is an art yet to be chained. Humans, even in the presence of computers and other devices, still use it. The most intriguing subject being science. Below are the best science fiction books that have made this art a long lasting trait of this race and have been outstanding all along in the market.

Top on the list is Ringworld, a Larry Niven works. In this book, luck is a genetic trait that is controllable. This storyline begins on earth and ends up in the world of the puppeteers. These creatures are indestructible by matter and humans have to devise other ways to beat them. The book looks into the aspect of war between planets and the chances the human race has to survive.

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.

Frederik Pohl and his book the Gateway, will get you reflect on your hunger for wealth. Fast forward, the main character and a couple of other people stumble on ships that are left behind by Heechee. They mend them and set up to the visitors planets in search of wealth. Little did they know the battle ahead is tough and one to be rich you will have to lose your life or if you are tough enough make it alive.

John Brunner written, Stand on Zanzibar is the biotechnological to keep you going. This piece involves House and Hogan who are roommates. Hogan head a medical corporation that wants an African country on the other hand Hogan is his spy under cover. Hogan in the end discovers a genetic engineering mechanism which changes the global stand point in medical field.

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.

Alfred Beester wrote the book Tiger! Tiger! In the 1950s. Little did he know a reprint in 2011 under, The Stars is my Destination, was going to catapult the content value if this piece to huge heights. In the original piece, he assesses a character who uses teleporting as the perfect tool to evade arrest in time of problem. This shakes the world and in turn poises danger to everyone.

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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