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Ender's
Game by Orsen Scott Card
Ender's Game has been on many lists as the
best science fiction book of all time. I tend to agree. It's
a fast, crisp, read that suspends your disbelief, and the protagonist is
an incredibly precocious child that you can't help but love. It's
the characterization, and the other world that Card takes you to, that
makes this such a great book.
The
Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm talking about the original The Lost World
here, a science fiction classic. Yes, it's by the same author who
created Sherlock Holmes. This book has some great characters.
There are some incredibly hilarious insults thrown about by Professor Challenger,
the character who is in the middle of all the controversy. Reading
it today, I rate it an 8, but I'm sure it was a 10 in its day.
Congo
by Michael Crichton
Not Crichton's best but not his worst either.
The science and information is great. The characters and plot are
slightly weak. The movie made from this book was horrible!
Sphere
by Michael Crichton
Once again great science. It's a little slow to build
up but by the end is very hard to put down.
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