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Tuesday 5 August 2014

Best Science Fiction Books To Read

By Annabelle Holman


Probably you love reading. Conversely, you cannot seem to get the right book for you to quench your love for science. The following best science fiction books will give you the field to choose. Ranging from classic pieces, these pieces will feed your appetite.

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 is a captivating piece which will leave your imagining what if the prepositions in it were a reality. The state where the mind is able to pick up the intentions of the person next to you. The peepers as they are referred to in the book shape the society and how people behave. This led to a 70 year drought of calculated death cases. This switched the levels of crime to more sophisticated levels as you could not lie to a police officer.

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.

Done by John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, houses two characters. House and Hogan. Hogan is in the forefront of a conglomerate that is poised to take over a country in Africa. The company he leads is called general technics and also deals with genetic engineering products. Hogan on other hand is his spy and takes a geek personality to conceal his true intention. In the end he dies but after successfully getting the solution to genetic engineering.

Timescape, a proud piece by Gregory Benford is an award winning book. This book involves the idea of teleporting to the future and making the necessary measures to correct a current mistake from causing a calamity in future. Gregory in this book involves drama and science to high level that will keep you going and going. A group of scientists from 1998 and 1962 are all that stood at the center of the future of the human race.

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.

The Snowcrash virus created by a pizza guy in the Snowcrash novel was all it took to solve the hacking menace. This piece by Neal Stephenson, leads us to the future where the nation is in a state of helplessness as a result of cybercrimes that even the government cannot handle. As a result, many people are affected and the pizza guy is one. He sets out on a revenge mission. Just like the bulb invention process, he came with the whopping tool which is Snowcrash.




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