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06-23-2013, 04:48 AM
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I can't help but think of a J.G.Ballard book, he writes about global disaster. Just not zombies.
Anyway....
Who are the serious sci fi buffs out there? Ya know, Heinlien, Herbert, Piers Anthony, Simak, Le Guin, Aldiss, Dick, Asimov, Clarke the great Olaf Stapledon, his ODD JOHN a must read.
So what are the 10 greatest sci fi books ever written? While Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is considered by some to be the first sci fi novel, it's actually sucks. Dracula (non sci fi) by Bram Stoker a far better read.
While I like sci fi and have thousands of books I do prefer authors Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.P.Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert E. Howard to the sci fi legends.
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Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Science_fiction) novel by the British (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/United_Kingdom) author Olaf Stapledon (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon). The novel explores the theme of the Übermensch (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch) (superman) in the character of John Wainwright, whose supernormal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the utopian (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Utopia) colony founded by John and other superhumans.
The novel resonates with the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche) and the work of English writer J. D. Beresford (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/J._D._Beresford), with an allusion to Beresford's superhuman child character of Victor Stott in The Hampdenshire Wonder (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/The_Hampdenshire_Wonder) (1911). As the devoted narrator remarks, John does not feel obliged to observe the restricted morality of Homo sapiens (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Homo_sapiens). Stapledon's recurrent vision of cosmic angst (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Angst) – that the universe may be indifferent to intelligence, no matter how spiritually refined – also gives the story added depth. Later explorations of the theme of the superhuman and of the incompatibility of the normal with the supernormal occurs in the works of Stanisław Lem (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem), Frank Herbert (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Frank_Herbert), Wilmar Shiras (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Wilmar_Shiras), Robert Heinlein (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Robert_Heinlein) and Vernor Vinge (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Vernor_Vinge), among others.
The book is mentioned by Julian May (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Julian_May) in Intervention, part of the Galactic Milieu Series (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Galactic_Milieu_Series). It is also responsible for coining the term "Homo superior (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Homo_superior)" [1] (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/#cite_note-1)[2] (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/#cite_note-2)
I can't help but think of a J.G.Ballard book, he writes about global disaster. Just not zombies.
Anyway....
Who are the serious sci fi buffs out there? Ya know, Heinlien, Herbert, Piers Anthony, Simak, Le Guin, Aldiss, Dick, Asimov, Clarke the great Olaf Stapledon, his ODD JOHN a must read.
So what are the 10 greatest sci fi books ever written? While Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is considered by some to be the first sci fi novel, it's actually sucks. Dracula (non sci fi) by Bram Stoker a far better read.
While I like sci fi and have thousands of books I do prefer authors Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.P.Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert E. Howard to the sci fi legends.
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Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Science_fiction) novel by the British (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/United_Kingdom) author Olaf Stapledon (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon). The novel explores the theme of the Übermensch (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch) (superman) in the character of John Wainwright, whose supernormal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the utopian (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Utopia) colony founded by John and other superhumans.
The novel resonates with the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche) and the work of English writer J. D. Beresford (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/J._D._Beresford), with an allusion to Beresford's superhuman child character of Victor Stott in The Hampdenshire Wonder (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/The_Hampdenshire_Wonder) (1911). As the devoted narrator remarks, John does not feel obliged to observe the restricted morality of Homo sapiens (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Homo_sapiens). Stapledon's recurrent vision of cosmic angst (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Angst) – that the universe may be indifferent to intelligence, no matter how spiritually refined – also gives the story added depth. Later explorations of the theme of the superhuman and of the incompatibility of the normal with the supernormal occurs in the works of Stanisław Lem (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem), Frank Herbert (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Frank_Herbert), Wilmar Shiras (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Wilmar_Shiras), Robert Heinlein (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Robert_Heinlein) and Vernor Vinge (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Vernor_Vinge), among others.
The book is mentioned by Julian May (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Julian_May) in Intervention, part of the Galactic Milieu Series (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Galactic_Milieu_Series). It is also responsible for coining the term "Homo superior (http://www.spurstalk.com/wiki/Homo_superior)" [1] (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/#cite_note-1)[2] (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/#cite_note-2)