Monday, August 4, 2014

The Best Science Fiction Books

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.

The best in town is Ringworld by Larry Niven. He analyses the sociology between humans and the puppeteers who descend on earth involuntary. Helped by humans, they set off back to their planet but tag along a few humans who get the shock of their lifetime. This book reveals possibilities in science like remaining youthful by using a fluid and the immunity puppeteers had against matter.

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.

Thirdly, Gateway by Frederik Pohl will intrigue you. Released in 2010, this book looks into the greed that humans have for riches. Stray ships abandoned by aliens attract a number who board them. With programmed destinations, these locomotives take them to the Heechee planet. Many die in the process and some who got lucky not to be disfigured beyond recognition become the new Bill Gates, just like that.

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 by Gregory Benford involves the technological aspect of teleporting. The two sets of scientist; 1962 and 1998 have the huge role of safeguarding the future from huge environment catastrophe. The 1998 group being aware of the future, tell the 1962 group on how they can prevent this. The level of drama in the book will leave you at the edge of your seats.

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.

Lastly Snowcrash, this analyses how the internet can crumple down a whole nation. A good hacker can possibly hack his way to riches and in turn govern the society. The US is portrayed in ways you could not imagine. Till a pizza guy, a pro-hacker who is out to revenge, comes up with the Snowcrash virus which changes the game. The Neal Stephenson, piece will give you a hint on how the internet could in future fictionally turn into a nasty place to be.




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