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Originally Posted by Sooby Carl Sagan's 'Contact' was a damn good read too. (...) Know of any other science-fact authors you recommend????? |
Talkin about Sagan, we mustn't forget "The Listeners" by James Gunn - a book in which we can see science overhelming fiction even more, a book not strictly about the contact but about the people who can make that, about their philsophy, beliefs, way of thinking, about their dreams and fears, a book which shows how would it look like if one day they saw red light and heard "beeeep" in SETI central... Great book, I recommend it!
"Childhood's End"? I haven't read many Clarke's novels, I liked short stories and first "Space Odyssey" (although, movie makes bigger impression - book is like many others science fiction novels), I don't remeber "Rama" (I read it too long ago), but from what I've read I must say that "Childhood's End" is the best! Even more - probably it's the best science fiction novel I've ever read! Why? Beacaus it has everything: goog plot, good ideas, good performance. Well, maybe it's not like romances or thrillers where you identify with heroes, you love with them and are scared with them, maybe Clarke is not the best author in case of using the language and holding a reader in tension. But he's good enough. And he is the best considering the idea. In "Childhood's End" we have a monumental story from first contact with aliens, through changes in people's life to the magnificent vision of one of probable mankind's futures... till it's very end. I've never felt so small and still so complete, so lost and so sure, so excited and so scared like when reading last chapters of that book.
MAGNIFICENT!
